HOLY SHIT! This new ad from a state senator in North Carolina is incredible!!!

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[MiHale]

1. Wow!

[Baitball Blogger]

2. This is how you get societal-induced PTSD in America.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[mountain grammy]

4. K&R

[NBachers]

5. That's worth watching twice. Here are links to Graig Meyer's ActBlue page, and his campaign page:

https://secure.actblue.com/entity/fundraisers/138413

https://www.graigmeyer.com/

I just assumed that Graig Meyer was the guy sent to jail in the video, but he's not. Check out his campaign's web page. The "About Graig" link is particularly impressive.

[RussellCattle]

6. The contrast between the holding cell and the first tee at the golf course is especially nice.

[Polybius]

7. I've been pulled over several times since I started driving

After the officer asked for my license, I've never immediately told "Have a good night, sir." The officer always ran my license. Was that white guy pulled over in the add a cop or something?

[Mr.Bill]

11. Same here, but on the other hand,

I've never been asked to step out of the car and I've never been asked "Is this your car?"

[Polybius]

15. Also true

Blacks are far more likely to get mistreated by the police. There was no need to exaggerate the ad on the white end of it. It's not like they pull us over and immediately say "Have a good night, sir" after seeing our race.

[uponit7771]

22. Look what's happening to TFG in the open, he's not even rich he's just a white male and the justice system couldn't be

... more contrasting.

Michelle Obama said "..if my husband had taken documents he'd be in someone's jail by now..."

[Polybius]

27. Well, he owns 78 million shares of Truth Social, valued at $36-something a share

That's not rich?

[DFW]

31. That depends on what those shares are worth once his become negotiable

If I understood right, he has an initial period during which he is not allowed to sell his shares. If that time has not yet expired, and the value of his stock goes down to zero, then his shares are worth no more than his word.

[uponit7771]

35. No, his shares aren't tradable because of restrictions and even if they were they'd tank the second he sells.

[intheflow]

25. Goodness, running the licenses could just have been edited out

for brevity. It’s the end result that matters, it doesn’t have to be literal to be true. Why are you making this about you?

[Polybius]

26. Because no cop sees a white guy and says "have a nice night, sir"

It's bs.

[intheflow]

28. Really?

You’ve been stopped for speeding or a tail light out or for no reason whatsoever and it lead to your arrest? Because I have never heard of this happening to a straight, unintoxicated white man. Your assumptions are bs.

[Polybius]

34. That's not what I said, but thanks anyway n/t

[markodochartaigh]

21. I worked intake in a very large jail as a registered nurse.

I have seen how people are treated by arresting officers. There are two things that most determine how you will be treated. 1) Were you rude to the officer or did you piss them off? 2) Are you wealthy? Not "I don't have to work" wealthy. "No one in my family has worked for generations" wealthy.

[AllaN01Bear]

8. war on drugs is a war on blacks and other minorities

[ancianita]

9. Great ad and good luck to him. I can see why he won his 2022 NC House seat at 67% to 33% over his rethug opponent.

All of NC's down ballot Dems need this kind of ad production, since the political betting on NC so far is holding for a Repub win -- hoping that changes over the next six months.

[barbtries]

10. yes. this is reality

in the so-called "post racist" world.
i live i n NC and hope like hell the democrats can get some kind of toe hold on to the legislature. republicans are ruining the state.

[Demovictory9]

12. Awesome..same with all laws

[Think. Again.]

13. That was a REALLY good ad....

....whoever designed that ad should be hired by the Democratic Party to oversee all campaign ads going forward from here.

[ms liberty]

14. That was really good. I'm going to share this.

I live in NC, but I'm in one of the tiniest, reddest county's in the multiverse.

[Jimvanhise]

16. BIG DIFFERENCES

Reminds me of a video from a few years ago where a white guy was walking down a street carrying an AR-15 and the police told him to drop the gun. Black people get shot by police if they are holding a gun, or anything which looks like a gun. A few years ago in Los Angeles a fired black cop went on a rampage killing police. Early one morning before sunrise, a car driving slowly near a police checkpoint was fired on 100 times by police. Luckily the two white women driving the car (they were delivering newspapers) weren't hurt as the cops never even tried to see who was driving the car. The city paid the women $4 million to avoid an embarrassing trial and two years later the L.A. police investigation of the incident claimed that the two police officers "made no serious errors." The end.

[Wonder Why]

17. Poor excuse to justify legalization. It's a great excuse to investigate police discrimination.

The fact that the law (like a lot of laws) is unjustly enforced is a great reason to clamp down on discriminatory police. The fact that minorities are pulled over for speeding more often, with worse police attitude and receiving more jail time or higher fines justify getting rid of the laws against speeding? No!

The justification for legalization of cannabis should be based on better benefits than dangers, not on who gets to go to jail.

[soldierant]

23. I take your point

but it's also true that some reforms have to come in baby steps. I'm thinking this may be, or be intended for, a baby step. And being posted 4/19, just in time for 4/20, it certainly is timely.

[patphil]

18. I always felt that if we can legalize and regulate alcohol then we can do the same with pot.

I understand it's easy to grow, but there are easy to use kits for making wine and beer at home, so there really isn't any argument there.
But the main thing is to treat anyone that gets pulled over for DUI or DWI the same.
Me, I'm a strong proponent for stay at home drinking...problem solved.

[et tu]

19. the point to me

is that there is a two tier judicial system- nuf said~

[Martin68]

33. The point is also that the fact that we have a two-tiered system is being placed front and center in the political

dialog, and exposed for what it is.

[GoodRaisin]

20. Good ad, needs to be aimed at mj decriminalization at the federal level.

Doesn’t help change anything in NC where the people are prisoners of the Republican legislature until our Republican gerrymandered maps get redrawn. It will get him votes though.

[momta]

24. Here's a link to the YouTube video of the ad

(We have our internet filter set up to block X/Twitter.)

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/tCITvxgV9Rw

[summer_in_TX]

30. GREAT ad.

I’d like to see it air in many other states.

[Martin68]

32. Excellent!