• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlOP
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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

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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

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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.