Smoking is now allowed in the capitol. I'll never understand that. Nor will I understand this

[CatWoman]

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Link to tweet

[Mad_Machine76]

1. Return to

"Smoke-filled rooms?”

[doc03]

2. That will be coming to the US Congress next no doubt nt

[Walleye]

3. Maybe they will go down to the Capitol Commissary and turn on all the gas stove just for fun

[GoCubsGo]

16. The non-smokers should just produce their own gas.

Time for them to consume high-fiber diets full of beans and other flatus-causing foods. I'm I'm forced to smell your smoke, you get to smell my farts. Or, just get one of those personal fans, and blow their smoke right back at them.

[woodsprite]

4. It's the closest thing to "rolling coal" they

can do on an individual level.

[33taw]

5. I worry more about abortion rights. This is a distraction.

[cilla4progress]

6. Bankrupt

of everything!

[Glorfindel]

7. Only one response possible...

[Irish_Dem]

8. They want to roll back all progress made in the last 70 years, big and small.

[Srkdqltr]

9. For those who don't like the smoke Febreze puts out some nice fragrances

[Hekate]

18. Any non-smoker will tell you that doesn't work, & that nicotine smell & stain sinks in everywhere

[Srkdqltr]

20. That is not my point. Spray and small fans . Annoy them as they annoy.

[IcyPeas]

10. if they wanna pray they should go to a fugging church.

they get "high" doing this. it's like a rave for fundamentalists

[LudwigPastorius]

28. Those morons have evidently never read what the guy they're worshiping said about this.

“Be careful not to practice your righteousness in front of others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you."

[Bev54]

11. They will do anything to "own the libs" even if it kills them, and so it might.

I hope the staff all walk off the job, having to inhale their ugly smoke.

[live love laugh]

38. Especially if it kills us...

[NewHendoLib]

12. Republicans are simply on the wrong side of everything.

I suppose that's the point for them. Own the Dems.

[Cha]

13. People get Cancer not only from

smoking but from 2nd Hand Smoke!

[Hortensis]

14. :) 12% smoking leaves 88% to hate the smoke and the "gift" of the stink

in their noses, hair, clothes, Capitol...

2024, here we come.

[Bayard]

15. Besides carpet and drapes,

There is priceless art in the Capitol that will be harmed by smoke. Along with EVERYBODY's lungs.

How did this get to be okay?

[jmowreader]

19. The art is safe

They’re just going to take it all down and replace it with Jon McNaughton Trump prints anyway.

[ironflange]

25. Ah, yes, Jon McNaughton

The world's stupidest artist.

[liberal_mama]

17. Pretty soon, the repubs will just let people smoke everywhere again, like it was when I was a kid.

The tobacco lobby will love that.

[rurallib]

21. they will claim it is some kind of religious freedom thing.

[liberal_mama]

26. They will for sure! I watched a clip from the Tucker Carlson clip on Twitter and it went like this:

Congressman who likes to smoke on Capitol Hill: These dems are more concerned about me smoking than they are about inflation!

Tucker: What could be more American than some good old tobacco? The smell of tobacco is the smell of freedom! Tobacco is the most American of all pleasures.

Congressman: Nancy Pelosi wouldn't care if people were smoking meth and weed in the capitol, but she's all bothered by my cigar!

Meanwhile, the headline on the screen says, "GOP brings back smoke filled rooms on Capitol Hill"

I don't even know what to say. First they are fine with blowing deadly virus all over people, bringing guns in the capitol, and now smoking too!

I am really losing hope. I predict people will start defying smoking bans in bars/indoor areas like they defied the mask bans.

[GoodRaisin]

32. Sounds like the kind of stupid conversation you routinely hear on

Fox News. Imbeciles talking at each other, but saying nothing.

[Meowmee]

33. I remember

It was awful for asthmatics etc. I remember how much nicer it was and how happy I was when they banned smoking from public places.

I remember when they used to allow smoking on planes- how crazy can you get. People so addicted to something they cannot even go for a plane flight without it- they should just use a patch but yet they let them endanger and crash some planes.

[intheflow]

22. Biblically illiterate. Dude needs to read Matthew 6:1-7.

1 "Be careful not to do your `acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven. 2 "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 3 But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, 4 so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 5 "And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full. 6 But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you. 7 And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.

[judesedit]

23. They are truly ignorant and uncaring

They shouldn't be allowed around children

[moondust]

24. Meanwhile in Mexico...

Mexico has brought into force one of the world's strictest anti-tobacco laws by enacting a total ban on smoking in public places.
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It amounts to one of the most stringent anti-smoking laws in the world.
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Mexico tightens ban on smoking in public places

[LudwigPastorius]

27. "(We are) giving it to the Lord right here in the Capitol."

Excuse me?

[Initech]

29. The GOP has completely lost their fucking minds.

Like I'm seriously convinced at this point that if the government were to tell the MAGAs not to jump off a cliff, they'd be pushing and shoving each other to be the first in line to jump off said cliff.

[liberal_mama]

30. Tucker says Tobacco is the greatest American pleasure and Tobacco Smoke smells like Freedumb!

These people are out of their minds!

Link to tweet

[DFW]

31. If that had been on Colbert or SNL

I would have been more ready to believe it.

[liberal_mama]

39. You are right, this is actually like a Saturday Night Live skit

I guess this will be their new way to own the liberals. The guy Tucker is interviewing even brought a whole pocket full of cigars as a prop!

[Emile]

34. If they want to kill themselves off I don't have a problem with that,

it's the second hand smoke that pisses me off.

[msfiddlestix]

35. This is the TEXAS State Capitol. the word State should have been included.

[JuJuChen]

36. imagine believing in God and thinking this is how to do it.

[live love laugh]

37. Same concept as anti masking... the intent is to harm others.

[Emile]

40. Now days I don't know how anyone can afford to smoke! What are they now $5 a pack?