The New York Times published a story Friday detailing the harsh, occasionally demeaning manner in which 2020 presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar has treated her staff. There are a lot of disturbing details in the report, including accounts of Klobuc…
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Where the 2020 presidential candidates stand on marijuana legalization
If there’s one thing that united Democrats and Republicans in the Reagan era (besides their unfortunate fixation with perms), it was their near universal hatred of weed. Everybody was a cop back then. Walter Mondale, the Democratic candidate for president in 1984, called for another “War on Drugs” — all drugsRonald Reagan, for his part, believed that marijuana was “probably the most dangerous drug in the United States.”
Fast forward to the 2020 election, when politicians have largely done an about-face, at least when it comes to weed. Politicians aren’t just campaigning for medical marijuana, they’re advocating for recreational marijuana to be legalized: explicitly, vocally, and on their campaign pages. Read more…
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Brand Twitter, please stay away from the 2020 election
Brands are coming for the 2020 national election, whether you like it or not.
Don’t believe me? Take a look at how brand Twitter has evolved in the past few years. We started off 2017 with MoonPie, a graham cracker marshmallow dessert, telling absurd…
President Trump has some thoughts on Oprah running for president, and they’re almost coherent!
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Oprah may be running for president in 2020 — and, uh, even the Trumps are getting on board.
Last night, Ivanka Trump retweeted Oprah’s now-famous Golden Globes speech with enthusiasm and included the anti-sexual harassment #TimesUp hashtag (with no mention, of course, of her father’s accusers). Then on Tuesday, Trump expressed his own qualified enthusiasm for a potential Oprah run.
“Yeah, I’ll beat Oprah,” Trump told a room full of reporters. “Oprah would be a lot of fun. I know her very well. You know I did one of her last shows, she had Donald Trump as before politics, her last week and she had Donald Trump and my family. I like Oprah. I don’t think she’s going to run.” Read more…
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