So.. Now The Entire Constitution Is On The Table

Biden's been following a certain historical playbook. Useful idiots will be horrified when it finally dawns on them which side they've been on all along.

Well, both the right and the left have been the American Goebbels.

You are Fake News™

Aren't we all?

The controlled substances act was passed under Congress's authority under the Commerce Clause. In Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, he Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to “To regulate commerce..."

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That is Congressional authority for a law. Not a constitutional provision. There is no constitutional right to get high.

I was going for more the inverse, the right of the federal government to regulate commerce, and therefor to make substances illegal being no longer absolute....but OK, I can see your hang-up with it.

They can only regulate commerce across state borders

If that's the case ,then the controlled substance act is already void. I suspect the congress and senate covered that detail....

Now you are getting it. Why do you think they haven't shut down dispensaries in Colarado? Because the feds can't legally do that.

No, it's because the sheriff has more than any fed within the county he's elected in, and the sheriff is protecting them under state law.

More power..... somehow I missed typing that.

FDR screwed this country when he started tweaking the scope of the commerce clause in his effort to make the great depression last as long as he could.

Now it is used to justify micromanaging just about every facet of business. What FDR did also changed the meaning of the word "regulate". It used (and still does in some cases) mean to equalize. Now it means exert excessive controls over business. This is why, several years ago, the Feds came down hard on an Amish dairy farmer who lived near a state border. When it was found out that he had customers across state lines the Feds, nor absolutely no reason at all, came and shut the farm down. They took all of the cows and equipment and left the farmer with no means to earn a living.

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If this is true then why isn't anybody going after the press for their blatant lies, bias and failure to remain neutral?

Pffft. Because you get unpersoned if you do that.

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Thank you.

Not really, but I see what you are getting at.

Anyone heard of the chain gang genre of music? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjun2qQb3QY

White man or Democrats?

You’re assuming these were all innocent men you are depicting as “slaves”. Unfortunately for that argument, the 13th Amendment states “punishment for crime.. .. duly convicted.”

So I guess it goes without saying:

Don’t do the crime, if you can’t do the time.

And you're assuming they were all guilty of an actual crime. After slavery ended incarceration became a common way of getting free labor. Of course this was the time of lynchings and militias driving around in groups enforcing segregation and God knows what else. Back then a black person could get arrested for speaking out of turn or giving a white person back-lip.

You’re not wrong. But that is a different chapter and era in American history.

But again, that doesn’t make it “slavery” per the 13th. If mass incarceration of minorities is now considered “slavery”, then Joe Biden’s crime Bill makes him one hell of a slave owner.

Is mass incarceration considered slavery? Not sure. I don't know what kind of work inmates are doing. What I do know is that Obama tried to ban private prisons but Drumpf undid all of that. The system needs an overhaul. That's been obvious for years. As for that crime bill from - the late 90's was it? - apparently 60% of African-Americans supported the bill due to the crime explosion that happened when crack took over.

Here's another video of a chain gang at work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1O2X890tig

Doesn't it take 3/4 of the states to ratify or repeal an amendment to the Constitution? Sleepy Joe can talk all he wants, 2nd amendment is here to stay.

The thirteenth amendment doesn't actually abolish slavery. it's incredibly f**ked up.

That’s because the abolishment of slavery came with the Emancipation Proclamation. Along with the 13th, slaves no longer exist - in the United States that is.

You won’t see prisoners working for free in a Coca-Cola or Nike factory any time soon.

Slavery exists in the prisons of the US.

False; again - not all prison labor is “forced” labor. Therefore, no - “slavery” does not exist in all of our prisons.

If it did, someone tell Nike they can bring their manufacturing jobs to the US. I’d much rather we use condemned prisoners as slaves than Chinese children.

But they won’t. Know why? Because slavery doesn’t exist in the United States.

So why are prisoners payed mere cents an hour to do manufacturing work in US prisons?

*sigh* Please to read the 13th amendment in full. If you are having trouble understanding I can break it down. Again.

Exactly.

Have you heard of hard labor? It is temporary better condition slavery?

Neither has went anywhere as they both exsisted and exsists at the sasme time