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kairos12

(12,843 posts)
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 01:22 PM Jan 2023

Free Dumb brings smoking back.

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/wrongheaded-republican-rule-returns-smoking-us-capitol-rcna66643

snip:
Among this month’s embarrassing Republican spectacles has been the sight of Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, appearing on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and touting the expansion of places where smoking is permitted in the U.S. Capitol as being “all about freedom.”

Smoke filled MAGA rooms. I just figured they would keep the smoke from their 6 January insurrection in jars and so they inhale Free Dumb.
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Free Dumb brings smoking back. (Original Post) kairos12 Jan 2023 OP
Dinosaurs Iris Jan 2023 #1
Which, of course, brings this cartoon to mind... Buns_of_Fire Jan 2023 #3
Ha! Absolutely! Iris Jan 2023 #12
Smoking dangers Jrose Jan 2023 #2
May all those gleeful smokers in the House get what they deserve. Diamond_Dog Jan 2023 #4
Adults don't behave this way! CrispyQ Jan 2023 #5
Tuckums actually said this. Maraya1969 Jan 2023 #6
There's one here central scrutinizer Jan 2023 #8
If they all want to get lung cancer and die, that's their prerogative. Initech Jan 2023 #7
They've got excellent health care central scrutinizer Jan 2023 #9
Freedom to harm others. Mister Ed Jan 2023 #10
Nothing says you're a man like blatantly not caring about your health Victor_c3 Jan 2023 #11

Jrose

(810 posts)
2. Smoking dangers
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 01:33 PM
Jan 2023

The maga-publican party is a growing danger to mental and physical health.
How many victims of secondhand smoke illnesses in Congress will be suing soon?

CrispyQ

(36,424 posts)
5. Adults don't behave this way!
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 01:50 PM
Jan 2023


They are like the meanest, nastiest little shits on the playground. "I'm gonna be mean & nasty because I can!"

Maraya1969

(22,462 posts)
6. Tuckums actually said this.
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 02:12 PM
Jan 2023

"Nicotine frees your mind, THD makes you compliant and passive." Tucker Carlson



Sounds like that old time cigarette commercials that told people how cigarettes make you feel calm

Mister Ed

(5,924 posts)
10. Freedom to harm others.
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 02:34 PM
Jan 2023

That's what right-wing freedumb is all about.

Perhaps soon we'll see efforts to legalize drunken driving. Cuz freedom!

Victor_c3

(3,557 posts)
11. Nothing says you're a man like blatantly not caring about your health
Thu Jan 26, 2023, 02:40 PM
Jan 2023

Or the health of those around you.



I’ve been telling my two daughters for years that if they would have been boys, I would have given them the manliest names I could think of - Marlboro Man and Joe Camel.

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