Oh aha. RTFA indeed.
I like to think of the money he was wasting as blood money, and subconciously he had to burn it because he didnt really earn it.
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I think he’s a drunk, too.
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They don’t? I had no idea that politicians, and not popular referendums, are what’s driving legalization. Learn something every day.
I keep trying to write out rebuttals to the many problems in the op-ed but after a point it just seems like a pointless waste of time. He’s an out-of-touch has-been who should spend his waning years playing golf with Biden and reminiscing about the days when you could just yell “Crack!” and your enemies would crumble before your expanding empire.
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Bennett’s gambling wasn’t widely known at the time he was Drug Czar. But we did know that he was a heavy drinker and a nicotine addict, though for public image reasons he switched from smoking to substitutes (I forget if it was nicotine gum or patches), at least for a while, because he didn’t want to be as visibly obvious a hypocrite.
He’s also to blame for a lot of the spread of AIDS among heterosexuals in the US, because he kept the bans on needles and needle exchanges in place for political correctness reasons, even though that meant that the epidemic spread rapidly between the gay people who were the first major group here to be affected and intravenous drug users, many of whom were also prostitutes so AIDS spread even further to people who weren’t drug users.
The alcoholism and gambling addiction, and to some extent the nicotine addiction, are commonly associated with bipolar depression; alcohol is a traditional way people with that problem self-medicate, and gambling addiction is a typical symptom of mania. But Bennett wasn’t just doing the high-visibility political jobs and smarmy book-writing because of occasional bouts of unrealistic self-importance; he was also in it for the money, with the books on morality being a traditional way for conservative politicians to cash out.
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You guys make hypocrisy, myopia and racism delivered with vindictiveness seem like negative qualities.
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I remember that book - it seemed pretty Calvinist. The virtuous poor were supposed to starve themselves to death.
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Well, if they’re part of the elect (numbers differ on the sub-sect of Calvinism), then they had no choice or free will but to starve to death. That was their pre-destined lot in life, and anyone who tries to change it is a sinner who is working to thwart god’s perfectly cruel plan.
One of these day’s I’ll have to ask my Calvinist godparent what they think of Jonas Salk.
I can just picture it. It’s 4 AM. You walk in to the high-stakes slots area at Bellagio. There he is. He’s at the $500-a-pull White Wolf machine. His guaravera shirt is rumpled and the collar has a ring of sweat. He’s got one leg up and a cigarette, unlit, dangles from his mouth. His hand reaches up to press the PLAY MAX button; his body, however remains motionless, lifeless. His eyes might dart over the dials, but they too are dead. His blunted affect is occasionally interrupted by a fleeting grimace. Or a wince, when the dials, as they are programmed to, deliver a loss in the form of a tantalizing “near-win” that is every bit as much of a loss. His gnarled, twitching finger presses the PLAY MAX over and over and over again…
You grab him by the shoulders, spin him around, and say:
“Hey, buddy! How’s my grand, hypocritical moralizer doing this fine early, early morning! Up and at 'em! It’s time to depart his wonderland and get back to reminding Americans how depraved, corrupt and impure they are!”
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Citing Bill Kristol and Charles Krauthammer tells me he’s given up on the “credibility” angle entirely. He’d be hard-pressed to find another pair of assclowns as thoroughly and consistently wrong about literally everything as those two. If they said water is wet, the seas would be immediately obliged to turn into Ice-9 to maintain the cosmic balance.
It would be kind of funny and sad if they were roundly treated like the failed vat-grown gelatin monkey experiments in suits trying to pass themselves off as human that they are, but because there is no God they continue to be listened to as if they were real persons with souls and something inside their skulls besides a viscous noisome black rot.
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You ever get the feeling that marijuana is still illegal because people who smoke a lot don’t vote as often as they mean to? SssssP- oh shit. That was today?
–Drew Carey
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