UrsineApathy

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[–] UrsineApathy@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Not really though. Executive orders can easily be tied up and overturned in court. If Congress isn't willing to sign legislation to reschedule it, there will absolutely be enough opposition to overturn any blanket order. He essentially did sign an executive order for this, but it was to order the HHS review and do it the slow way.

[–] UrsineApathy@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago (9 children)

He recommended the HHS (overarching org of the FDA) reevaluate the schedule status of it back in October '22. The HHS took like a year to do their thing and then made a recommendation to the DEA to change it to schedule III. The rest of the time from them until now was the DEA also doing their own internal review.

I feel like if the timing was political, they would have pushed this news out to late summer closer to the election. That's not even considering the fact that a simple majority in Congress could have done the same damn thing without any of this beurocracy.

[–] UrsineApathy@hexbear.net 57 points 1 year ago

The moment this picture showed up online my girlfriend said the exact same thing. It took less than 48 hours for this to turn out to be proven true.

[–] UrsineApathy@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

His career fizzled out in the early 2010's when the network died, but he tried to make another go at being a personality again in the last few years. It's possible you could have heard about him then because he always toed the line for what's acceptable edgy gamer humor and had a tendency to be talked about. Either way, he's not relevant anymore and clearly an out of touch asshole. You're not missing anything.

[–] UrsineApathy@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He was a host on a bunch of video game themed talk shows on the G4TV channel back in the late 2000's if that rings any bells.

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