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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFree Dumb brings smoking back.
https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/wrongheaded-republican-rule-returns-smoking-us-capitol-rcna66643snip:
Among this months embarrassing Republican spectacles has been the sight of Rep. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, appearing on Tucker Carlsons 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
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Iris
(16,860 posts)1. Dinosaurs
Buns_of_Fire
(19,055 posts)3. Which, of course, brings this cartoon to mind...

Iris
(16,860 posts)12. Ha! Absolutely!
Jrose
(1,525 posts)2. Smoking dangers
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?
Diamond_Dog
(40,079 posts)4. May all those gleeful smokers in the House get what they deserve.
CrispyQ
(40,806 posts)5. Adults don't behave this way!
They are like the meanest, nastiest little shits on the playground. "I'm gonna be mean & nasty because I can!"
Maraya1969
(23,448 posts)6. Tuckums actually said this.
"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
central scrutinizer
(12,651 posts)8. There's one here
Initech
(107,964 posts)7. If they all want to get lung cancer and die, that's their prerogative.
central scrutinizer
(12,651 posts)9. They've got excellent health care
Paid for by us.
Mister Ed
(6,869 posts)10. Freedom to harm others.
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
Or the health of those around you.

Ive 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.
