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Originally posted by parabellum:
That's enough. Mind your manners.

Just for clarification, that response was to Biden's comments not sdy's.

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Originally posted by shovelhead:

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Cut the gas taxes asshole.

In Washington State we pay .49 a gallon in state taxes. The roads suck and it takes me 1 hour to drive 20 miles home after work.

We have you beat. In Michigan of course we pay the Federal fuel tax, a state assessed fuel tax and wait for it, a state sales tax of 6% on top of it. So in effect we are paying state sales tax on sales tax.

Your damn roads any more fixed than mine in Wayne county?

Did anyone else notice Bidet’s eyes yesterday while he was speaking? They just looked absolutely lifeless, even more so than usual. The man is failing fast. His Marxist handlers are likely celebrating his demise, as he’s been their useful idiot, their empty husk to implement their destruction of our nation. Not to mention, Lady Macbeth, Jill, pushing this whole charade just to become first lady after sitting second chair to Moochelle for 8 years.

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Originally posted by BMR:
Did anyone else notice Bidet’s eyes yesterday while he was speaking? They just looked absolutely lifeless, even more so than usual. The man is failing fast.

Dementia, Alzheimer’s and Eyesight: Symptoms
Short answer: The brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia often have difficulty processing what their eyes see, leading to confusion and anxiety.

https://www.hebrewseniorlife.o...ymptoms-and-how-help

^^^Wow, very telling information in that link.

The Wall Street Journal’s article yesterday was headlined, “Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine From Cigarettes.” The Journal grudgingly admits that smoking rates have been “declining for years,” with a small pandemic bump, and that the regulatory changes could take years to implement.

Morons. Do they think people won't bring them in across our wide open southern border?

The rule would apply to all cigarettes sold in the United States, including imports of traditional cigarettes. However, multinational tobacco companies would still be allowed to sell full-nicotine cigarettes in other countries.

"Because tobacco-related harms primarily result from addiction to products that repeatedly expose users to toxins, FDA would take this action to reduce addictiveness to certain tobacco products, thus giving addicted users a greater ability to quit," FDA said.

https://www.advisory.com/daily...06/22/fda-cigarettes

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Originally posted by muzzleloader:

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Originally posted by shovelhead:

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Cut the gas taxes asshole.

In Washington State we pay .49 a gallon in state taxes. The roads suck and it takes me 1 hour to drive 20 miles home after work.

We have you beat. In Michigan of course we pay the Federal fuel tax, a state assessed fuel tax and wait for it, a state sales tax of 6% on top of it. So in effect we are paying state sales tax on sales tax.

Your damn roads any more fixed than mine in Wayne county?

I recently was on Eight Mile between Haggerty and Northville. Obviously somebody carpet bombed it.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
The Wall Street Journal’s article yesterday was headlined, “Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine From Cigarettes.” The Journal grudgingly admits that smoking rates have been “declining for years,” with a small pandemic bump, and that the regulatory changes could take years to implement.

Morons. Do they think people won't bring them in across our wide open southern border?

The rule would apply to all cigarettes sold in the United States, including imports of traditional cigarettes. However, multinational tobacco companies would still be allowed to sell full-nicotine cigarettes in other countries.

"Because tobacco-related harms primarily result from addiction to products that repeatedly expose users to toxins, FDA would take this action to reduce addictiveness to certain tobacco products, thus giving addicted users a greater ability to quit," FDA said.

https://www.advisory.com/daily...06/22/fda-cigarettes

As usual, nobody in the administration thought this out.

The administration is worried about reducing the amount of addictive nicotine in cigarets. Smokers will probably just smoke more, to get the same nicotine buzz.

Meanwhile, alot of states are legalising MJ, or de-criminalising drug use. Like that makes any sense at all.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
“Biden Administration Targets Removal of Most Nicotine From Cigarettes.”

I saw this yesterday and am still trying to figure out the point. It ain't the nicotine that kills you.

And Ironbutt raises a good point. They are making legal substances illegal and illegal drugs legal. Makes about as much sense as a football bat.

And Republicans aren't different enough:

Tucker Carlson savages Republican politicians’ disrespect for Americans

Tucker Carlson’s puckishness is a bit brittle lately. Rather than having fun poking at political foibles while still making interesting points, he often seems genuinely angry lately. I can’t blame him because I’m angry, too, at what Biden and his cohorts have done to America. What makes me even angrier is that congressional Republicans and many Republican governors seem happy to go along with this. Sure, they’ll sometimes make the right noises (Lindsey Graham’s a master at this) but, at the end of the day, they side with Democrats—and last night Tucker lit up the Republicans for their disconnect with the American people.

Tucker opened his monologue by pointing out that the American people have come to despise Biden and his policies. Despite the media’s covering for Biden, people have noticed raging inflation, a recession, lawlessness, broken borders, a tenderness for Ukraine denied to America, cultivated race hatred, efforts to disarm law-abiding citizens, and the arrogance of the LGBTQ+++ crowd—and they don’t like any of it. It turns out that mean tweets aren’t so bad when compared to a government that’s hostile to its own citizens.

The Democrats’ intentional mismanagement is so extreme that the party is losing Hispanics and blacks in droves. In theory, this should be a golden age for Republicans. It’s not though, and that’s the fault of the Republican political class, few of whom seem to embrace conservativism or Americans. Rather, as Tucker exposes in his hard-hitting monologue, their principles are aligned with Biden and his Democrat politicians and media flaks and they share the Democrat political class’s disdain for Americans.

There’s no distance between what Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer want, on the one hand, and what Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, and all the other extremely powerful RINOs want:

A monetary policy that gives the government more money to play with;
An open border providing cheap labor for the monied Democrats and Republicans and possible decades of votes;
A military-industrial complex that floods politicians with money as long as the politicians divert taxpayer money to Ukraine;
A total bow-down to the Critical Race Theorists, which the Democrats do because it gives them political power and the Republicans do because they’re milquetoasts who are embarrassed about America;
Same goes for the LGBTQ+++ tyranny that’s spreading across America; and, of course,
An endless spigot of Chinese money, never mind that accepting it means selling out their own country.

Pay special attention to the last minute or so of Tucker’s speech. It’s a warning I sincerely hope Republican politicians, from Mitch McConnell on down, heed lest America become ungovernable and the whole American experiment devolves into a welter of violence, blood, and famine.



https://www.americanthinker.co...t_for_americans.html

Good points in that article, chellim1. We see all this happening and for the most part the Republicans are doing nothing. A friend commented there's really one party now and the Democrat and Republican parties only exist to create an illusion of choice. Besides, divided people are easier to control.

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We see all this happening and for the most part the Republicans are doing nothing. A friend commented there's really one party now and the Democrat and Republican parties only exist to create an illusion of choice.

As Tucker says, "This level of disconnection from what voters actually want is dangerous, and it's destabilizing."

The disconnect between the upper-level Dems and Reps on one hand and the people on the other has been glaringly obvious to the people for years now. It's amazing to me that, as much as they hate Trump, they have yet to admit that his election was a giant raised middle finger directed at their being stunningly oblivious to the glaringly obvious.

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Originally posted by chellim1:
Morons. Do they think people won't bring them in across our wide open southern border?

Oh, it's weirder than that. We're taking action against "addictive substances" that will still be perfectly legal and available over the counter in the form of nicotine gum.

The scientific problem for people's health isn't the nicotine, it's all the other stuff in burning tobacco - none of which is addressed by this, ah, "initiative".

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It's amazing to me that, as much as they hate Trump, they have yet to admit that his election was a giant raised middle finger directed at their being stunningly oblivious to the glaringly obvious.

They won't ever admit it... but they know.
That's what the fencing around the capitol and the J6 hearings are all about. They know.

The administration is worried about reducing the amount of addictive nicotine in cigarets. Smokers will probably just smoke more, to get the same nicotine buzz.

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Past studies have indicated that. Somehow the administration is suggesting otherwise with some stupid study. People smoke twice as much and puff down to the filter. That is why low tar and low nicotine cigarettes were not successuful. It is just plain ignorant. They know nothing about addiction. Cut the heroin addict's fix. That's the ticket!

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
The administration is worried about reducing the amount of addictive nicotine in cigarets. Smokers will probably just smoke more, to get the same nicotine buzz.

^^^^^^^^^^^^
Past studies have indicated that. Somehow the administration is suggesting otherwise with some stupid study. People smoke twice as much and puff down to the filter. That is why low tar and low nicotine cigarettes were not successuful. It is just plain ignorant. They know nothing about addiction. Cut the heroin addict's fix. That's the ticket!

Incidentally, none of that stuff will affect cigars, pipes, chewing tobacco or snuff.

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The administration is worried about reducing the amount of addictive nicotine in cigarets. Smokers will probably just smoke more, to get the same nicotine buzz.

Or, the government could just leave people alone. That's the last thing they'll do, though.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:
The administration is worried about reducing the amount of addictive nicotine in cigarets. Smokers will probably just smoke more, to get the same nicotine buzz.

This is so true, one wonders if beleageured Big Tobacco is writing legislation.

A pathetic, venal houseplant of a man. Just a pitiful human being.

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‘YOU take YOUR seat’: Very specific cheat sheet reminds Biden how to act



President Biden on Thursday inadvertently held up a comically detailed cheat sheet prepared by his staff instructing the gaffe-prone leader of the free world to “take YOUR seat” and to limit his remarks to “2 minutes.”

A photographer snapped an image of the document when Biden held it up backward at a meeting with wind-industry executives, which he attended after skipping his administration’s morning meeting with oil companies about combatting record gas prices.

The prepared instructions for Biden — titled “Offshore Wind Drop-By Sequence of Events” — tell Biden to “enter the Roosevelt Room and say hello to participants.”

Then, the paper says, “YOU take YOUR seat.”

The typed-up note says that after reporters arrive, “YOU give brief comments (2 minutes).”

When reporters depart, “YOU ask Liz Shuler, President, AFL-CIO, a question” and then “YOU thank participants” and “YOU depart.”

Biden’s use of staff notes at events has been embarrassing before, such as last July, when an aide scrawled, “Sir, there is something on your chin.” Biden also held that note so it faced reporters and photographers.

Biden reportedly has bristled at staff attempting to control his message to the point that they even contradict his unexpected public utterances without checking with him.

Biden reportedly reminded staff that he’s president after they said he didn’t mean what he said in March when he called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be removed from power over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

“The so-called clean-up campaign, he has told advisers, undermines him and smothers the authenticity that fueled his rise. Worse, it feeds a Republican talking point that he’s not fully in command,” NBC News reported last month.

A day after Biden’s remark about Putin, White House Chief of Staff Ron Klain retweeted a message from CNN White House correspondent John Harwood that said Biden’s remark showed a “significant lapse in discipline.”

Republicans often accuse the 79-year-old president of being in mental decline. Former President Donald Trump claimed ahead of the 2020 election that Biden was cognitively “shot.”

https://nypost.com/2022/06/23/...campaign=android_nyp