Yep. Pandering to the puerile demands of morons instead of educating them is not a long-term solution. In fact, it’s exactly how we got here in the first place.
In my more generous moments, I wonder if this is the play. JD and his backers encourage Trump to double and triple down on stupid, destructive policies, and then swoop in to “save” us all with the 25th Amendment.
But then I remember that those guys are stupid fucking cowards. They have no grand plan. They’re bull-riding this bomb all the way down with the rest of the MAGA dipshits.
My brain immediately translates all of these hindsight excuses as “I voted for the lie, because I’m an easily-manipulated dumbass.”
That’s really what it all boils down to.
Ana: “College admission is too competitive and all the pressure to succeed is harming our children. We need a better way.”
Unaccredited School: “We’ll let you in if you score in the 99th percentile on a three-hour exam, pass a background check, and can prove three personal achievements that make you worthy.”
Ana: “That’s more like it!”
What a fucking clown.
I wonder whether that revenue (at least the part attributable to THC products) is offset by lost liquor sales.
It’s anecdotal, but I’ve heard a lot of people recently say that they’ve stopped or cut way back on drinking and replaced it with weed. It costs, what, maybe $5-10 to get high? A typical social drinker could easily drop 10x that on cocktails in a night.
Texas is so fucking stupid. I’ve been saying for years that the current legal regime was fucked up. Without regulation, it was relatively easy for kids to get their hands on shady, untested THC products.
The solution was obvious: legalize weed (or at least maintain legality of hemp-based products) and regulate the industry. You know, like sensible states do.
But Texans don’t do regulation because we value freedom and hate big government and all that jazz. So instead, we just straight-up ban the shit, blind to the glaring irony and deaf to the laughter of rational observers.