• @[email protected]OP
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    Those stories were his aides saying he was considering he might not run again. He never said it publicly.

    Here Harris is directly stating publicly she wants it legal federally. It’s not a new stance for her. As a senator in 2018 she co-sponsored legislation to make it legal federally

    • @TropicalDingdong
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      No. It was his words. His words he said. With his mouth.

          • TheLowestStone
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            The Associated Press reported that Biden said in October that he wouldn’t promise to serve just one term but that he wasn’t necessarily committed to running for another four years.

            “I feel good and all I can say is, watch me, you’ll see,” he told the AP at the time. “It doesn’t mean I would run a second term. I’m not going to make that judgment at this moment.”

            You should really read your sources.

          • @[email protected]
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            Nowhere in this article Biden says he will Serve only one term. He basically said that it’s an option - nothing more.

                  • @FrostyTheDoo
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                    There’s no quote from Biden (aka ‘his words’) in the article you linked saying he’ll be a 1 term president. That’s reality.

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        He never explicitly said he would be a one term president or necessarily saw himself as one. I looked back to double check again, and he only made cagey statements about seeing himself as the transition between generations. A two term president could still qualify for that. The more explicit one term stuff was from his aides saying he was considering that

        Should he have just been more direct, yes, but what he said was nothing as explicit as directly stating we need marijuana it to be legalized

        • @TropicalDingdong
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          and he only made cagey statements about seeing himself as the transition between generations

          What the fuck else do you think it means to “signal” something in politics?

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            However, unlike that Harris isn’t making a cagey statement here. She’s directly stating that marijuana should be federally legalized

            Really the title of this article shouldn’t be signals

            • @TropicalDingdong
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              Thats fair. This is more than a “signal”. What people attributed to Biden (you can dig through the articles of the day; it was very clearly taken as a signal he would remain a 1 term president) was a “signal” though, in the pure sense of it. Its a kind of political maneuver that could be a head fake, could be real, you can figure it out later.