Decriminalizing drugs isn’t a new concept. Purist Libertarians have been calling for the legalization of drugs such as heroine, methamphetamine, and crack cocaine for years. But it has become very popular among radical progressives recently, not because of the promotion of individual freedom that Libertarians seek but because minorities are the most commonly arrested drug dealers as well as drug users. It’s criminal justice reform from the opposite end in which the crimes themselves are not reduced. They’re simply turned into non-crimes. Presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg wants this trend to go nationwide.
This is totally bonkers.
Pete Buttigieg: decriminalize all drugs, including heroin and methpic.twitter.com/f2NiFOCmy7
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) February 9, 2020
Seattle radio host Jason Rants was on Fox News with Tucker Carlson to discuss what he’s seen in his own city. Woke government officials are trying the kinder, gentler, illogical approach to reducing crime on the streets by hampering police and eliminating ordinances that once protect law-abiding citizens. An investigative report by KOMO last year, Seattle is Dying, drew some attention to the problem, but not nearly enough.
Pete Buttiegeg wants to decriminalize drugs. His idea won’t work. How do I know? I live in a city that’s trying the idea.
Read my latest for the @dcexaminer and then watch me discuss with Tucker Carson on FOX News below.
Read: https://t.co/7E2LJ5xymH pic.twitter.com/0GRAluz3bX
— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) February 14, 2020
Pete Buttigieg’s grand plan to decriminalize drugs failed miserably in Seattle
In Seattle and King County (the state’s most populous county), the city attorney and prosecutor decriminalized the “personal possession” amounts of illicit drugs. Much like Buttigieg, local officials believe jail time doesn’t treat addiction.
The policy has been met with national acclaim from liberal journalists in the New York Times and Washington Post, who portray the move as a win for social justice against the evil and failed war on drugs.
But the biggest problem with decriminalization is simply that it doesn’t work. In fact, it makes the problems worse. And despite the glowing reviews of the Seattle policy, it’s been an unmitigated disaster.
Democrats like Pete Buttigieg look to places like Seattle, New York City, and San Francisco as models for the country. But it doesn’t take a genius to realize this is ludicrous prima facie. Jason Rantz is absolutely correct. Decriminalizing all drugs is idiotic.
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
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