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News. Sources. GMM Facebook. 2022 GMM. Ballotpedia: marijuana and minimum wage. Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage. Vote for many Democratic US Senate candidates that support ending the filibuster. [25][26]. This news feed may have long lapses. 4 July 2022. Record corporate profits and record inflation. Corporations are taking advantage of us. 6 May 2022: Germanys health minister Karl Lauterbach confirms on twitter the starting of the process of Legalisation of Cannabis in Germany. [38][39]. They also want a new start in #drugpolicy in general! #DontPunish
Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin could save abortion rights but ... they won't.
2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Germany. 2022 map of many cities with Global Marijuana March events on May 7, etc.. [40][41]. 22 Apr 2022: New Jersey gets high on its own supply as legal weed sales begin. [42].
Multi-city 420 lists
18 Apr 2022: Legalizing marijuana lowers demand for prescription drugs, study finds. "The reductions in drug utilization that we find could lead to significant cost savings for state Medicaid programs." 30 Mar 2022: Bill to legalize medical marijuana in Kentucky appears dead. "The measure won approval in the House, but the [Republican] Senate hasn’t brought it up for a vote. Advocates like Julie Cantwell say they’re furious. She says her son used to have 100 small seizures every day. Now, with help from out-of-state medical marijuana, she says he’s been seizure-free for 29 months. ... Support for medical marijuana is widespread in the commonwealth. A poll from the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky says nine in ten adults support legalization." 26 Mar 2022: Mitch McConnell’s Confederate Flag Photo Resurfaces as He Announces He Will Oppose Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation. [45][46] [47][48]. The Republican roots of the racist drug war go all the way back to President Nixon. See: Race, ethnicity, and drug war.
25 Mar 2022: Native Americans Are Operating New York State’s First Legal Cannabis Dispensaries. 16 Mar 2022: Delaware. Cannabis legalization backers question ‘suspicious’ amendments before bill fell short in house vote. [49]. Republicans actually lost this vote. But their anti-democracy rule killed the bill: "The three-fifths vote is required on legislation that raises revenues."
4 Mar 2022: Upstate New York’s Cayuga Nation expands its legal marijuana business. Several of the state’s Indian nations sell cannabis. 25 Feb 2022: Louisville family held at gunpoint during botched SWAT marijuana raid settles lawsuit for $460K. Some of these cops were later involved in the Breonna Taylor killing.
9 Feb 2022: Ohio. Proposal to legalize marijuana faces yet another roadblock in Senate Republican leader.
Today: Google News search: Republicans refuse to get vaccinated. The Covid pandemic would be over by now in the US if not for the lies of the Republican echo chamber. Unvaccinated Republicans are dying in droves.
19 Dec 2021: Straight out of Inwood: ‘Legacy’ New York City pot dealers going legit — ‘We got that good work. The best of the best.’ 13 Dec 2021: Free Speech Under Attack in Czech Cannabis Crackdown. [62][63][64].
Nov 2021: 40 under 40 Outstanding BIPOC leaders in Drug Policy - SSDP. BIPOC stands for "Black, Indigenous, and People of Color". SSDP = Students for Sensible Drug Policy.
20 Nov: Oregon raid seizes an epic amount of illegal marijuana. 500,000 pounds. [70][71].
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Henrik Vanger: "Isn't it interesting how fascists always steal the word 'freedom'?" Real democracy is ranked-choice voting (instant-runoff). Remove Presidential veto power. 2022 Global Cannabis March and 420 map. Event links: 2022 talk. & Main talk. US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. This news feed may have long lapses. Full site / Mobile. To Top or End. News & 2022 GMM & Categories.
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Share links: Republicanstates - States. See: History of US Republican war on cannabis. And: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration. And: Vote for cannabis. And: Maps of USA showing violence and oppression.
Republican states have illegal recreational cannabis, lower state minimum wages, higher state incarceration rates, higher average indebtedness, and increasing increasing voter suppression. [73]. Most Republican leaders oppose winding down the drug war as in Portugal. They oppose single-payer, improved, expanded Medicare-For-All. And expanded Medicaid. They cost LESS, and get better results; such as higher average lifespans. Anti-vaxxers died in record numbers in the US Republican south. See: Map of COVID-19 death rates by US state. See: Map of percent vaccinated by US state.
US Republican states. Maps[]
Note the low minimum wages in the Republican south:
19 Mar 2022: The South’s health care system is crumbling under Covid-19. Enter Tennessee.
See Wikipedia: List of state parties of the Republican Party (United States).
See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. And: Cannabis war. Part of Republican war on poor. And: US Taliban Republicans. Their cannabis war. And: NRA drug war. US National Rifle Association. And: Happy alternatives to US Republican-led poverty, mass incarceration, food insecurity, debt, ill health, intense concentration of wealth, endless wars. And: USA. The state of the nation.
Mostly in U.S. Republican states. |
Percent of adults with overdue debt in collections. By county. See map. |
See Wikipedia: Firearm death rates in the United States by state. See map. And CNN: States with weaker gun laws have higher rates of firearm related homicides and suicides, study finds. |
Wikipedia: List of U.S. states and territories by incarceration and correctional supervision rate. Map is for sentenced state prisoners only. No Federal or local jail inmates. See map. |
Republican minimum wages[]
Why do US Republican leaders hate Americans? Why won't they raise the US federal minimum wage above $7.25? 62% in US support a $15 federal minimum wage. Stop voting in Republicans if you don't want the low minimum wages found in Republican states.
7 Oct 2021: Reallocation effects of the minimum wage. "In January 2015, Germany introduced a uniform minimum wage of €8.50 [$10 an hour today]. ... boosted wages of low-wage workers, did not lower employment, and induced a reallocation toward more productive establishments." 11 Jan 2022: Minimum wage in Germany to be raised once again in 2022. |
US minimum wage peaked in 1968 in inflation-adjusted dollars. $13.16 in 2022 dollars. [74]. See chart. |
Lack of Medicaid expansion[]
Note the lack of Medicaid expansion in the Republican south:
Veto and filibuster must go[]
The filibuster and presidential veto should be short delays before 50% +1 votes.
11 Jan 2021: Mitch McConnell Told To 'Save The Damn Crocodile Tears' After Whining About Voting. "Seems @LeaderMcConnell is weak on the math skills. The Democratic half of the Senate represents 41,549,808 more Americans than the GOP half."
Over 50 years ago (on Dec 9, 1971) Republicandrug-warrior President Richard Nixon vetoed a comprehensive childcare bill. End veto power! And let's not forget Nixon's Forever Drug War:
Cannabis is safer.[]
See articles: Cannabis is safer.
And: History of US Republican war on cannabis, and their lies about its health effects.
Republicans: Broke, not woke[]
- Wake up! The US Republican Party wants to concentrate wealth at the top. So they want most people to be Broke, not Woke. Trickle-down economics.
US Republican states;[]
It's not just pot prohibition[]
See article: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps. It's also their low minimum wages, high Covid death rates, poor healthcare, high household debt, high gun death rates, high homicide rates, high incarceration rates, etc.. They are autocratic gerrymandered states that have long avoided federal oversight due to the Republican filibuster. See Wikipedia: Filibuster in the United States Senate.
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Portugal's drug decrim equals[]
50 drug overdose deaths yearly[]
Vs 100,000+ yearly US deaths[]
There were around 106,800 US drug overdose deaths in the year ending September 30, 2022. 293 per day. Only around 30 to 55 per year in Portugal, a country with universal healthcare, and where all drugs have been decriminalized since 2001. See: Youtube: Portugal’s Drug Laws: Decriminalisation in action. May 16, 2018 video from Australia's Special Broadcasting Service. No one has been arrested in Portugal for simple possession (under the limits) since 2001.
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Republican filibuster equals[]
- The evil history of the US Senate filibuster, or why the US no longer has simple majority rule. [75]. See Wikipedia: Filibuster. And Filibuster in the United States Senate. And Mandatory retirement.
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The forever drug war[]
History of US Republican war on cannabis.
Republican gerrymandering and filibustering will allow the cannabis war to go on forever. At least in US Republican states. The US Congress could legalize or deschedule adult-use cannabis at the federal level if the Republican filibuster was gone. So do not vote for US Senate candidates of either party that support the filibuster. [76]. USA. The state of the nation.
See Wikipedia: Gerrymandering.
Nixon's racist drug war[]
Republican President Richard Nixon (in office January 20, 1969 – August 9, 1974) initiated the militant racist tone of the forever drug war.
The Republican Party has used its Drug War as a 50+ year distraction. All to serve the rich. See: Republican President Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies. See Wikipedia: War on drugs. See Race, ethnicity, and drug war. See Wikipedia: Southern Strategy - Keeping poor whites and blacks fighting against each other, instead of the real enemy: rich Republican tax evaders. See Wikipedia: Nixon's Enemies List, of journalists, actors, union leaders, etc. who expose it all. A GOP playbook that has never ended, and played out yet again by billionaire Trump until he was dumped in 2020. |
This quote from Nixon aide John Ehrlichman (in 1994) is from an April 2016 Dan Baum article in Harper's Magazine: Legalize It All. How to win the war on drugs. Quote: "The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did."
See: CNN info. See article: Nixon's drug war against blacks and hippies.
US voter suppression[]
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20 Oct 2021: Senate Republicans use filibuster to again block sweeping voting rights bill.
Republicans have disenfranchised black, brown, and poor white people via "The New Jim Crow"; the drug war and mass incarceration. See: Holy War on Drugs, Conservative-led global incarceration.
High US taxes on poor[]
The forever war on the poor. Republican filibuster says to Americans: "Heads we win, tails you lose." Democracy? What democracy?
When Democrats have the majority, the Republican minority uses the filibuster to block higher taxes on the rich, and to block lower taxes on the middle class and poor. When Republicans have the majority they use budget reconciliation to use their simple majority to lower taxes on the rich, and increase user fees, sales taxes, and other regressive taxation to increase taxes on the poor and middle class.
This is the whole purpose of the US Republican Party. To serve the rich. Period.
Minimum wage workers crushed while serving the Republican low-tax-paying rich:
And on US middle class[]
Trump signed tax law that gave 83% of benefits to the top 1%.
Chart below. 2017 Republican tax and individual mandate repeal bill. Yellow is for an average increase in cost for people in those groups. Higher costs hitting more people each year. Up to incomes of $75,000.
Republican tax bill hurts the poor more than originally thought, Congressional Budget Office finds. | "By 2019, Americans earning less than $30,000 a year would be worse off under the Senate bill, CBO found. By 2021, Americans earning $40,000 or less would be net losers, and by 2027, most people earning less than $75,000 a year would be worse off. On the flip side, millionaires and those earning $100,000 to $500,000 would be big beneficiaries". |
2 polls: Only 29% of Americans approve of Republican tax plan. 2. |
High wealth inequality[]
See Wikipedia: List of countries by wealth per adult. The average median wealth per adult for Canada ($151,248) is much higher than that of the USA ($93,271). [77]. Median wealth is exactly in the middle. 50% of adults have more, and 50% have less. Wealth is all assets (money, stocks, property, etc.) minus all debts.
Most US adults are poorer than most Canadian adults because of the massive US wealth inequality:
US middle-class wealth has collapsed. Chart: USA. 1989-2018. Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion. [78]. And: 5 Oct 2017: Nine Charts about Wealth Inequality in America (Updated). And: Just 8 men own same wealth as half the world. And see Wikipedia: Wealth in the United States.
11 Aug 2021: Billionaires worldwide gained $5.5 trillion during pandemic. [79]. Hunger. [80].
Republicans started wars that wasted $8 trillion [81] on ground wars (some based on Bush/CIA lies about weapons of mass destruction). Instead of paying higher minimum wages. As Canada does. See: Wikipedia: List of minimum wages by country.
High household debt[]
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US household debt at all time high. Chart below is from the quarterly PDF. Total Household Debt by Type. From 1st quarter 2003 through recent times:
- Click to enlarge. Timeline is by quarters. See Commons chart: commons: File:Total US household debt and its composition over time.png
High US medical debt[]
Return to top. See: Canadian single-payer universal healthcare versus US healthcare.
This doesn't happen in Canada, due to single-payer universal healthcare: US. 34 Devastating Stories About How People Are Still Crushed By Medical Debt. By Venessa Wong, Jan 17, 2019. BuzzFeed News.
High student loan debt[]
- Student Loan Debt by State. Map, table, and article.
- Student Loan Debt Statistics: 2022. U.S. student loan debt totals $1.75 trillion as of April 2022.
Public elementary and secondary school in the USA costs an average of $14,891 a year per student in taxes. The money spent between the ages of 16 to 18 could be set aside for 2 years of full-board-and-tuition college.
Look at Scotland: Adult at age 16. Scotland. What can I do at my age? And: Age of Legal Capacity (Scotland) Act 1991. And: Wikipedia: Education in Scotland: "In 2014, research by the Office for National Statistics found that Scotland was the most highly educated country in Europe". See: Wikipedia: Age of majority (by country). Wikipedia: Voting age.
Punitive bankruptcy law[]
- No Fresh Start: Will States Let Debt Collectors Push Families Into Poverty In The Wake of a Pandemic? US map with state-by-state grades on the fairness of bankruptcy laws. "NCLC surveys the exemption laws of the 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Sadly, not one jurisdiction’s laws meet basic standards so that debtors can continue to work productively to support themselves and their families."
- Model Family Financial Protection Act. Including fairer bankruptcy and debt laws.
- Debt in America: An Interactive Map. 29% of all adults. 24% of whites. 39% of people of color. See the map there, and below. See the astonishing percentages of adults with debt in collection. By county. Especially in the South. The Republican south has been greatly impoverished by low Republican minimum wages, lack of expanded Medicaid, unfair bankruptcy laws, massive evictions (past and upcoming). See Wikipedia: Republican states. And: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps.
Poorly rated healthcare[]
- 6 Aug 2021: Stunning new report ranks US dead last in health care among richest countries—despite spending the most. "The U.S. also had the highest infant mortality rate and lowest life expectancy at age 60 compared with other countries. ... The poor performance is nothing new, as the U.S. has landed in last place in all seven studies the Commonwealth Fund has released since 2004."
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No universal healthcare[]
Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security all came from Democrats. You pay the taxes while healthier. Republicans prefer that you are broke. 50% in U.S. Fear Bankruptcy Due to Major Health Event. [82]. Google search: 26,000 Americans die each year from not having health insurance.
Note the lack of Medicaid expansion in the Republican south in the map below. See Wikipedia: Republican states. See: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps.
Single payer costs less[]
Wikipedia: List of countries by total health expenditure per capita. US spends more per person on healthcare but has a lower average life expectancy.
Covid death rates in GOP south[]
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Map. Note the high death rates in the Republican south. At the source you can hover your cursor over states to see stats: Map of cumulative COVID-19 death rates by US state. See also: Commons map. See: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps.
28 Aug 2021: Do face masks work? 49 scientific studies that explain why they do.
29 Aug 2021: CDC: An Unvaccinated Teacher Took Off Their Mask to Read Aloud. Half the Class Got COVID.
President Eisenhower. 1953:[]
His 91% top marginal tax rate[]
Equaled prosperity for more.[]
Eisenhower, an economically progressive Republican President, had a 91% top marginal income tax rate.. [83]. He participated in one of the greatest eras of economic prosperity-for-more in the US in the 1950s.
That era had lower overall taxes on the middle class.
There was a higher average effective tax rate on the top 1 percent of US households in the 1950s. It was 42% when totaling federal, state, and local taxes. In 2014 it was 36.4%. See chart below here or here. |
In the United States, the first progressive federal income tax was established by the Revenue Act of 1862. The act was signed into law by Republican president Lincoln. It replaced a flat tax. See Wikipedia: Progressive tax.
Overpopulation = Warming[]
Many Republican leaders oppose birth control and abortion rights. Overpopulation massively removes greenspace needed to remove carbon dioxide. See crowded beach below and link:
Global warming. Roswell tech[]
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Roswell UFO craft and alien body retrieval was real according to U.S. Army officer Walter Haut. He signed affidavits to that effect in 1993 and 2002. Released in 2007 after his death in 2005. Video made in 2000. Released in May 2021. Much of the technology has been back engineered, and its carbon-free energy could end global warming. See Stephen Greer video.
Articles about Haut:
17 Aug 2021: “My father saw the bodies”: chasing the truth about Roswell. By James Jennings. Archived here.
5 June 2022: Roswell officer's deathbed confession about theory of alien cover up. By Declan Carey. Archived here.
14 May 2021: Ex-Army officer ADMITS he saw ‘alien the size of a 10-year-old child’ after famous Roswell UFO crash in incredible video. By Emma Parry. Archived here. This article has a short excerpt of the video.
May 2021: Roswell Officer Speaks From the Grave: Video Released, Confesses that Alien was "the size of a 10 year old". By Anthony Bragalia. Archived here. From article (emphasis added): "This video clip is part of a memoir video / oral history over two hours in length that covers many personal and professional aspects of Haut's life. The video was taken at the Roswell Museum in 2000 with friends Dennis Balthaser and Wendy Connors."
30 June 2007: Roswell officer's amazing deathbed admission raises possibility that aliens DID visit. By Nick Pope. Archived here.
2002 and 1993 affidavits. Archived here. Scroll down for the affidavits.
US federal minimum wage[]
The drug war as stated higher up (Nixon's racist drug war) is a 50+ year distraction all to keep poor people poor, shrink the middle class, transfer wealth to the top, and to cut taxes on the rich.
The federal minimum wage would be $13.46 in 2022 dollars if its real value had remained at the 1968 level. Even more in 2023 dollars. See graph below.
Due to Republican filibusters (or their threat) in the US Senate the federal minimum wage of $7.25 an hour has not increased since July 24, 2009, a record-setting minimum wage freeze. Also, note the low minimum wages in the Republican south in the map below. See Wikipedia: Republican states. See: US Republican states. It's not just cannabis prohibition. Many maps.
- A $15 minimum wage would cost jobs, right? Probably not, economists say.
- There’s More Evidence That Raising the Minimum Wage Won’t Cost Jobs.
- The U.S. has one of the stingiest minimum wage policies of any wealthy nation. Washington Post.
- Wikipedia: List of countries by minimum wage.
- Wikipedia: Minimum wage in the United States.
- Wikipedia: List of US states by minimum wage.
- Wikipedia: List of European countries by minimum wage.
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