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Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Come on, man.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

Everybody saw this coming.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

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  2. 2.

    Jerzy Russian

    I love his laser eyes that appear from time to time.

    I think I suggested this earlier, but you should get him a buddy named Adam so that you can have pets named Adam and Steve. They can hang out and do drugs together.

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    Doug R

    On a related note, 11 days until legal weed in Canada. We live about two hours away from our province’s FIRST government cannabis store.

  6. 6.

    B.B.A.

    @Doug R: Note that Canadians who purchase Canada-legal weed may be barred for life from entering the US (CBP agents are fascists, our immigration/visa/etc. laws are terrible, film at eleven)

    This is not really a downside, but yknow you may have some reason to come here someday.

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    sigyn

    Yes, we did need this; still have that annoying eye-twitch happening though.

    Did Steve drool a lot and pass out next to it like my Festus used to do?

  10. 10.

    Amir Khalid

    @Roger Moore:
    I googled “negative effects of catnip on cats” and found this. Catnip is indeed a harmless and amusing diversion if a cat likes it. (My own Bianca doesn’t seem to care for it.) The only risk is that too much eaten at one go can cause a little vomiting and diarrhoea, and a cat can get tired of it if given it too frequently.

  13. 13.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    I was going to show this to my 15-year-old son, but then I realized I might well have to explain what a blunt is. The kidz these dayz are all about vaping. Steve is old school.

  14. 14.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    Also, am I the only one who thinks sustained federal harassment of every aspect of legal cannabis – buyers, sellers, local government officials who administer the laws, doctors who prescribe – is coming hard for blue states? It would certainly fit in with the pattern of deliberate, illogical, expensive cruelty. I couldn’t care less personally about using the stuff, but I wholeheartedly support legalization.

  15. 15.

    Mnemosyne

    We can’t give catnip to Keaton because it makes him paranoid. He becomes convinced that the black helicopters are coming for him and he needs to hide. The girls are semi-indifferent to the whole thing.

  16. 16.

    Martin

    @Doug R: At work (university) yesterday there were two 18-foot trucks from the local dispensary (name prominently emblazoned on them) unloading at one of our research buildings. Not sure exactly what was in the boxes, but there was a mountain of them. Quite a change from just a few years ago.

  19. 19.

    Martin

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Well, they’re coming hard for the blue states in every other way, why not. I’m hoping that when Baud is elected in 2020 that he enacts a federal ban NASCAR and country music. I’m willing to go all the way to banning pickup trucks and hotdish.

  22. 22.

    Doug R

    @B.B.A.: Always found it hilarious when Rap acts would get busted at the border coming in to do a Vancouver show.
    It’s Vancouver, FFS, Tommy Chong’s home town.

  23. 23.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mnemosyne: He’s only paranoid if the black helicopters are NOT coming for him, he’s probably well advised to hide with Trump.

    We’re having a problem here in CA with legal weed, dogs out for walks are picking up folks used pot and eating it. We’re getting stoned dogs here.

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    Chetan Murthy

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    Also, am I the only one who thinks sustained federal harassment of every aspect of legal cannabis – buyers, sellers, local government officials who administer the laws, doctors who prescribe – is coming hard for blue states?

    You’re not alone. And I sure wonder when our state&local government will start pushing back. FFS. FFS. Again, like you, as someone who doesn’t use. As in (just to be -legally- completely clear): 1990 [a brownie in Amsterdam] and 1994 [two tokes, neither of which I could hold in, no surprise]. I’d surely like to learn what MJ has to offer, but was hoping to do it legally.

    It might be something to get 10k people together to smoke blunts in the Federal Building in downtown SF, get EVERY GODDAMN ADA on record doing nothing about it.

    But hey, who am I kidding? Rape is legal if you went to the right goddamn schools, what the fuck does smoking a blunt mean?

  25. 25.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Martin: Hey now. I have a pickup truck. With a badly faded but still operational “Republicans for Voldemort” sticker, because San Francisco.

  27. 27.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Amir Khalid: That stinks. The left button on my desktop mouse just died, which is crippling. What are the mice trying to tell us?

  29. 29.

    Chetan Murthy

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    dogs out for walks are picking up folks used pot and eating it.

    Whoa. You’re joking, right? People gotta be pretty wealthy to drop smoke-able pot on the ground, no?

  31. 31.

    Eric U.

    we had a catnip plant in our backyard when I was a kid. The cats didn’t mess with it much, but occasionally you’d see one of them rolling drunkenly around the back yard.

  34. 34.

    MomSense

    Steve is a beauty. I really miss having a cat.

    Kid is really stressed out about flying with his guitar on Monday. He doesn’t want to check it but if he tries to get it on the flight and there isn’t room, United charges double and it gets dumped down the chute, etc.
    He’s got gigs in LA and wants to sound good. He doesn’t like to ask for help so he’s just spinning and stressing. There have to be places that rent guitars out there.

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    Roger Moore

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    Also, am I the only one who thinks sustained federal harassment of every aspect of legal cannabis – buyers, sellers, local government officials who administer the laws, doctors who prescribe – is coming hard for blue states?

    I think it’s something Jeff Sessions and his ilk really want to do, but that they’ll be blocked from doing by the people who look at polls. The big problem for them is that medical cannabis is just too popular to fight against. It’s now legal not just in solid blue states but a lot of purple and red ones, too. It’s also an issue where the strength of feeling also favors legalization. The prohibitionists don’t like medical cannabis, but they don’t hate it nearly as much as the patients who are taking it like it.

    FWIW, I think this is also going to make overturning Obergefell very hard. The bigots don’t hate gays nearly as much as gays (and their friends and family) want to protect their marriages. It’s one thing to fight to prevent gays from being allowed to marry; it’s quite a different thing to actually try to annul their existing, valid marriages.

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    There’s probably going to need to be some kind of public use crackdown because, really, people are acting like jerks. I don’t want to have to walk through a cloud of tobacco smoke OR pot smoke, thank you.

  39. 39.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Roger Moore: [I have no idea, so I’m really, REALLY asking here ….] and tobacoo either (a) doesn’t affect pets this way, or (b) pets don’t care to scarf up used cigs?

    Just curious.

  41. 41.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Roger Moore:

    I think it’s something Jeff Sessions and his ilk really want to do, but that they’ll be blocked from doing by the people who look at polls. The big problem for them is that medical cannabis is just too popular to fight against.

    I see your point, but that’s what I meant by “deliberate, illogical, expensive cruelty.” It would cost the administration – both money and political support – as well as the targets. And I do expect they’ll focus enforcement/harassment efforts on blue states and ignore Montana, Oklahoma, etc.

  45. 45.

    CaseyL

    @Roger Moore:

    My understanding is that legalization has really dropped the bottom out of the price.

    No way. There are no more nickel or dime bags.

    I don’t do pot anymore (it stopped being fun) but my impression is that it’s become very expensive in Washington state since legalization, because it’s so heavily regulated and taxed. OTOH, today’s pot is hybridized* to the point where it’s about 5 times stronger than the weed I smoked way back when, so things probably even out.

    *Hybridized, with specialty strains, no less. A relic of the medical marijuana era, when pot growers bred weed for very specific uses: for analgesia, for anti-nausea, for help sleeping. It’s quite a thing to overhear a Bud Tender explaining the various strains to customers!

    i think cracking down on state-legal pot might be about the only thing that shatters the GOP Kakistrocacy. Too many GOP voters like legal weed.

  46. 46.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @CaseyL:

    Too many GOP voters like legal weed.

    And they’re all sure the leopards will never eat their faces.

  47. 47.

    Chetan Murthy

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: wow, that’s very interesting. I wonder why? I mean … canis domesticus, homo sap, we’re not so different … and yet dogs don’t seem to have the same problems with tobacco that we do? I googled, and it seems that dogs can indeed get addicted to tobacco, but perhaps not as likely as us? Fascinating ….

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    Chetan Murthy

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    And they’re all sure the leopards will never eat their faces.

    I know a “friend” in North Carolina who’s exactly like this. Her issue is abortion. And she sure as fuck thinks MJ should stay illegal. It’s a matter of self-care that I never talk to that fucker again. Life’s too GODDAMN short.

  50. 50.

    Amir Khalid

    @MomSense:
    Has your son considered bringing a cheaper guitar to gigs that require air travel, and keeping his favourite instruments at home? That way, damage inflicted by stupid/malicious baggage handlers won’t hurt as much.

  51. 51.

    Roger Moore

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Some pot smokers seem to think, since it’s pot and not tobacco they can be jerks.

    There are plenty of tobacco smokers who don’t care whether they’re being jerks or not; I figure just as many pot smokers are the same way.

  53. 53.

    frosty

    @MomSense: I’ve had one survive two flights on Southwest. They didn’t dump it down the chute but carried it out by hand.

    Alternative: take it to a music store and have them pack it in a box as if he’s shipping it and check the box. Should be survivable that way.

    I feel his pain.

  59. 59.

    frosty

    @MomSense: I made a helpful comment! My day is complete. Hope everything works out OK.

    ETA (edit!!!) get a box from a music store and pay UPS to pack it.

  60. 60.

    Roger Moore

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
    The thing is, though, that they’ve already tried some of that stuff and been rebuffed. The past few spending bills for the Justice Department have included language forbidding them from spending any money interfering with state medical cannabis laws, and those are spending bills that have passed with the Republicans controlling the House. When Sessions tried to go against recreational cannabis, Cory Gardner put his foot down and threatened to block any further appointments to the Justice Department, and Sessions backed down.

    The point here is that the prohibitionists are losing not just in the court of opinion in general but even within the Republican Party. Yes Sessions could decide to continue to be an asshole by going against public opinion and members of his own party, but I don’t think it’s likely.

  61. 61.

    Chetan Murthy

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I’ll agree with you on this. I spent a bunch of time in a “public-private” space in downtown SF, indoors obvs. A guy would smoke MJ with his vaporizer there (as well as a number of coffeeshops in the ‘hood). It was up to the other patrons to call the cops to get him pushed-out to the street. As if MJ is that much more benign than tobacco. Sigh.

  62. 62.

    Yutsano

    @Roger Moore: One of the genius points of the marijuana law (at least in Washington) is that local law enforcement is no longer obligated to assist DEA in marijuana investigations. And the feds don’t have the manpower to bust everyone. That’s really why federal drug arrests in states with legal weed are way down. I understand there are exceptions for true criminal enterprises, but chasing the little fish is mostly out of their capacity.

  63. 63.

    B.B.A.

    @Roger Moore: On the other hand, no Repub Congress will ever remove pot from Schedule I or otherwise exempt it from DEA authority. Until that happens dispensaries can’t have bank accounts or deduct their expenses on taxes. So it’ll still be in some level of legal pariahdom until the forces of good take back the government, even if Boehner stands to profit from it now.

  64. 64.

    PJ

    @MomSense: US airlines are required to allow musical instruments, including guitars, as carry-ons if they fit in the overhead compartment.

  65. 65.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @Roger Moore: I’m relieved to hear that. My ongoing fear is that the out-of-control assholes in this administration, especially including Sessions and Mango Mussolini themselves, will cheerfully harm themselves and any number of innocent bystanders or even supporters if by doing so they can also own the libs and hurt the weak, poor, or brown.

    Yeesh, I’ve gotten so paranoid.

  66. 66.

    MomSense

    @frosty:

    Reverb has a good how to video and article on how to pack a guitar.

    @PJ:

    He’s just worried he’ll show up and there won’t be room and he’ll have to send it down the chute.

  68. 68.

    smike

    @Chetan Murthy:
    I lived with a boxer (stepdad) for a few years and learned that she could be snoozing, motionless, for an hour but the moment you walked out the room she would scarf up any cigarette butt and alcoholic drink she could get to. It didn’t happen often during the time I knew her, but she never changed.

  72. 72.

    Mike in Oly

    @CaseyL I’m in WA and we are still amused and amazed by how cheap weed is nowadays. We pay so much less for such great quality product. Even with the high taxes it is still way cheaper than it was on the black market.

  75. 75.

    Repatriated

    @Yutsano: I’m half convinced that the misspellings are intentional, to divert internet searches by people who don’t know the correct spelling (and don’t trust Google’s suggested correction) to fake-news sites. I lack the Google-fu to prove it myself, though.

  76. 76.

    Yutsano

    @Chetan Murthy: Yeah…I really do think we’re at the something’s gotta give point. If the conservative minority tries to lock down too much harder…it will get bad. I’m certain this is what Uncle Vladdie wants but…we have to stop it.

    @Repatriated: I refuse to believe Dolt45 is that clever. He’s just sloppy.

  77. 77.

    Chetan Murthy

    @Yutsano: These MAGA Trumpenfelchers have no idea how bad it can get. How bad it WILL get, when our “exhobitant privilege” of currency, military, and otherwise hegemony is gone, and they actually have to make it on WHEAT and SOYBEAN exports. I mean …. WTF, Cletus, do you not know how good you have it NOW? Sheesh.

    Imbeciles, all of them.

  78. 78.

    Repatriated

    @Yutsano: Cleverness on his part is unnecessary. All it takes is for one of his minders … err, staff… to mess with his phone’s autocorrect so the desired mistakes come up as the preferred spelling, and laziness would do the rest.

  81. 81.

    m.j.

    I’ve seen this done with big cats like tigers. You might be able to find video.
    Anyway, they used a variety of herbs which leads me to believe it is exciting some olfactory response in the brain, but that’s just a guess.

  85. 85.

    Matt McIrvin

    They’re going to crack down hard on marijuana, and it will hurt them. Public opinion now is comparable to public opinion on same-sex marriage around the time of Obergefell. We’re past the point where it would be a pro-Republican wedge issue like, say, gay marriage in 2004.

  87. 87.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Sister Golden Bear: Yes, and consider how Prop. 8 worked out for anti-SSM forces: not well at all.

    At that point, support for same-sex marriage in California was running around fifty-fifty. That’s the case today only in about five or six states, which are all deep, deep red. (There is plurality opposition only in Alabama and Mississippi.) Now, the question is how firm that support would be in the face of it becoming a big partisan issue again, if the Fox News barkers decided to declare again that you couldn’t be for same-sex marriage and be a good Republican. I suspect there could be a drop, but it would not go well for the Republicans if they pushed on this.

    The difference today is the Supreme Court. They’re not elected officials and the court with Gorsuch and Kavanuagh would definitely not rule the way they did on Obergefell and Windsor. They might well overturn them, might even be sufficiently nuts to declare state legalization illegal.

    I suspect that if they throw it back to the states, there’s going to be a massive push to legalize SSM at the state level in the states where it didn’t happen already before Obergefell. And many would probably do it even in the face of a national ban, much as with cannabis.

  89. 89.

    Gvg

    @Chetan Murthy: tobacco is poisonous to pets and is used as an insecticide by organic gardeners sometimes. People really need to be more careful.
    Tobacco in water is really toxic. Lying ago I worked in a resteraunt. Once a year we cleaned the ceiling tiles from cigarette smoke, washing it off with bleach water. We were warned constantly by the owner manager pair to be careful and wear protective gear, don’t get in our eyes, etc. they were not especially safety conscious, but really enforced rules about that one with stories about why. I pick up butts when I see them and throw them away though I hate touching them. Florida going no public smacking years ago really improved things. I love it. I had earlier benefited by working for the state, no smoking in state buildings.

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    MagdaInBlack

    It’s a ridiculous prohibition. Blessedly, Illinois has medical cannabis. ( Personally, I consider the health benefits a side effect )
    No more “Dave aint here, man.”
    Rauner is not a fan. Pritzger is. We shall see where this goes.
    I think the cats out of the bag on this issue.

  91. 91.

    Josie

    @MomSense:

    My son uses a special hard guitar case, and we pack soft things like socks, t shirts, etc., around the instrument, so he can check it. So far we have been lucky. He actually has a guitar that he uses for travel so that he doesn’t have to take a chance on his favorite one.

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