I don't often have the opportunity to do something like this, but I have to give credit where credit is due...

Trump Signs Executive Order To Reclassify Marijuana As Less Dangerous Drug

Now it's still unclear if this is going to change the banking rules about how money is handled which is generated from the legal sale (on a state by state basis) of marijuana.

And we also need to note that during the Biden administration, Biden tried to do the same thing but failed to get sufficient support from his own party. With that in mind, Trump may find himself in that same situation since it may take an act of Congress to actually get this done.

Disclaimer: My support for this reclassification has nothing to do with any personal situation on my part as I've never smoked (except for some possible second-hand smoke) nor ingested any marijuana ever in my life, nor do I expect to start, because of something like this.

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Smells of more socialism...

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Here's the link to the White House's retweet of Trump's original 'Truth Social' post:

Like no one ever thought that this sort of thing might happen...

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But it's been reported that Pam Bondi if going to try and take a third bite from that apple.

It's reported that they're looking for another prosecutor, perhaps from a different office, which they're going to assign the task of getting an indictment.

I really don't know what the intent is here other then just harassing James and causing her to spend money on her defense, since I can't see a judge allowing a case like this going forward, let alone finding a jury that would convict.

I think an indictment is the goal, not a conviction. It's all about shaming and intimidating.

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Trump has for literally years now loudly bragged over and over and over and over about "acing" the same simple cognitive test. Do you know anyone else who does that? Anyone? Buehler?

#4 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-12-05 02:10 PM

Well, I've taken the Montreal Cognitive Assessment multiple times, and while I won't brag that I've 'aced them', I did pass them, which is all that can be expected, if there's no problems.

Nine years ago I was given the Montreal Cognitive Assessment something like five times over a three-month period of time. This was when they replaced my aortic heart valve. I was given the test a week before the procedure, along with a physiological exam. Then the cognitive teat was repeated the day after my surgery and then the day I was discharged from the hospital. Both tests were again repeated at my 30-day and 90-day follow-up visits. But that was it, because they were making sure that the procedure, which necessitated halting the blood flow thru my heart for something like 45 seconds, which is how long it took to install the new heart valve (it was done using the so-called TAVR method), had not resulted in any mental or physiological impairments.

My situation was one of those where the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is used, to make sure that there was no brain damage after a surgical procedure, in my case, the replacement of my heart valve. The other time when the Montreal Cognitive Assessment is most often given is when a physician suspects that their patient might be suffering from some sort of mental issues, such as brain damage (from a stroke, a TIA or head trauma), or early-onset dementia or perhaps even Alzheimer's, a disease which runs in the Trump family. Trump lost his father, his sister, who had served as a federal judge, and his uncle, who had been a professor at MIT, all three to complications resulting from Alzheimer's. That's not a good track record and if I were on Trump's medical team, I would be conducting cognitive evaluations on a regular schedule.

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And I'll bet that Trump still thinks that Monsanto is an American-owned company.

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I don't care what Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said, there's something seriously wrong with Trump...

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We're not with family this year, as they're spread around the country (Northern California, Texas, Michigan, Washington and Oregon) however, we are going out for Thanksgiving dinner (my wife doesn't do big holiday meals anymore) with three of our friends, whose families are also not close by.

Besides, we saw most all of our family just over two weeks ago in Texas at our granddaughter's wedding. And while there was no turkey or cranberry sauce, we did have a barbecue of burgers and brats and corn-on-the-cob.

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This sounds just like when Nixon claimed that when the president does something, then it wasn't breaking the law.

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The question now is, were there other cases for which interim U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Lindsey Halligan was the lead prosecutor that are now at risk of also being thrown out of court?

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JFK was assassinated in Dallas 60 years ago today.

#12 | Posted by Corky at 2025-11-22 02:21 PM

Actually 62-years ago today...

I guess I was right about my comment with respect to 'conspiracy theories' that I made at the end of my opening entry in this thread...

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I see another multi-million dollar wrongful termination lawsuit in the future...

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