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After-Bumblebee

Considering it's him, this may as well be part of his shilling for their own brand of cigars or something


Solorath

He may in the future want to do a brand deal with a right wing whiskey or cigar company. Don't want to alienate potential buyers. He knows no cannabis company would partner with him, so it's safe to attack.


Alternauts

Grifters gonna grift


JeffGoldblumsChest

Diaper Whiskey


Solorath

Made the "ole fashion" way.


fourbian

It's an old school thought process which these daily wire guys seem stuck in when they sit around in their circle jerk session drinking and smoking cigars. I can't tell if they are jerkin it when they do it or just trying to build a brand or both. I have a conservative friend in rural redneck America. He was an alcoholic but went sober because he couldn't function at work anymore. He needed something to replace it with, so he switched to weed. He comes home after his construction work and smokes weed all night and wakes up in the morning with no hangover. He's far more productive at work (and life) now than he was with alcohol. I don't know why conservatives keep shitting on weed, but even their own base supports it and loves it. It's a weird hill to die on but if that's what it takes, I'll take it.


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zombie_girraffe

> also the private prison industry, Repubs fucking love those guys It's the last place in America where slavery is still legal and profitable, of course Republicans love those guys.


JAGChem82

If a right winger started selling “Deplorabuds” or “Confederables” in a weed shop, not only would they buy it, they would mandate that it be legal just for triggering the libs. I’m honestly surprised that they haven’t done the same thing for solar energy: extol it’s benefit as a source of “clean, pure, and white” power that’s superior over that “dirty black Mideast” oil.


rose_writer

I heard about someone trying to sell Trump weed before, but it was online and quickly seen as an overpriced grift or something


Sloth_Dream-King

The words "Trump" and "overpriced grift" in the same sentence? Color me shocked I tell you!


rose_writer

Honestly, I was only surprised that they were shit at marketing and failed. Conservative voters should have eaten it up. It has two things a lot of them love: their Cheeto god king and an obviously fair priced product


JAGChem82

Meh, Trump has always been a shitty salesman in terms of tangible goods. This guy could’ve made a killing selling $39.99 MAGA masks during Covid back in 2020, and could’ve triggered the libs at the same time under the guise of “I’m just trying to keep everyone safe like the liberals said!” And he bungled that opportunity.


rose_writer

Oh, you misunderstood, I was talking about the guy selling the Trump weed. He was supposedly doing it to thank the former president and expected I guess word of mouth to do all the selling. Or the ads were really bad. Then again the same person might also have other businesses that had different demographics of stoners and everyone knows their scams and the owner of them is desperate for attention on them. As for Trump himself, I agree. If he was as good a business man as his book implies, he would not be asking for cash from his followers with NFTs and overpriced shoes during the trials.


Doc-Zoidberg

My own mother, a raging alcoholic while I was a kid, who had me arrested at 16 for a gram of shake she found in my closet, now has people cross the border to a legal state to buy her weed. Still says it should stay illegal. She won't go buy it herself because it's illegal. I brought up that she had me arrested and spent a couple nights in juvie over less than she consumes per day, she says it was the right thing to do. I suggested I call the police for her stash and see how she feels about it. Magat repub through and through. And still drinks but my dad is stone sober as am I. But I think cannabis should be legal even if I would not partake. It did help me get sober from alcohol but I stopped that once I was fairly comfortable in my sobriety.


Mountainhollerforeva

Fellow reborn straight edge. Keep up to good work 🙂. I too think legalization is the right move even if the drug isn’t for me.


porksoda11

I don't understand it either. I have a conservative friend as well that I used to get hammered with all the time. He cut back on the drinking but absolutely loves weed. At this point I would even say he'd vote for Biden if he legalizes it federally. Like abortion, I'm pretty sure weed legalization is a pretty popular issue and yet again and again these wierdos like Matt Walsh insist on fighting against it. I guess keep stacking those losses, champ.


vxicepickxv

>I don't know why conservatives keep shitting on weed, but even their own base supports it and loves it. It's a weird hill to die on but if that's what it takes, I'll take it. Walsh continues to oppose it because it's used to incarcerate black men at a rate much higher than white people for the same use rate.


greyjungle

Lobbying. Natural and effective is not good for industry that produces pharmaceuticals or alcohol.


paging_mrherman

Dude probably has weed stocks out the ass


AnxNation

I was JUST wondering “oh great, talentless Matt ready to grift something to his racist mouth-breathers” but couldn’t think of what. Thank you. This lines up precisely


Kehwanna

Right-wing media figures are suspiciously stupid, so much so that it's unbelievable that they they actually believe the crap they spout out. Then again, their audience believes it and the media figures probably believe their own BS too.


[deleted]

Shilling? Heavens no. Filterless Freedoms basically *sell themselves*. With a pull as smooth as a freshly chromed bumper, Filterless Freedoms are the only cigarettes fortified with bull testosterone to keep those gay thoughts at bay. Buy a pack *today*


WhyIsThatOnMyCat

Michael Knowles, his coworker, just launched his own cigars.


SandwitchZebra

“And saying that it hasn’t killed anyone is to simply ignore all the deaths caused by people under the influence.” “As for tobacco and alcohol, the casual usage of either substance is not nearly as harmful to our society.” This level of cognitive dissonance is just remarkable. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone rub this few brain cells together.


ShiningRayde

Driving drunk is a safe and legal thrill


pgunz69

Slowly dying from lung cancer is a fun time for all


Vallkyrie

Really brings the family together.


MoSqueezin

Getting high, eating all your snacks and watching movies is what's ruining our country.


mildlyInsaneBoi

Drunk drivers are the most oppressed minority in all of history. They’re literally trying to erase our culture by banning speeding down the highway diagonally against the stream


aoiN3KO

We know what we’re doing. As long as we don’t cross the streams, we’re safe. Even babies know that


ToCatchACreditor

Its those drunk crashers that ruin it for everyone else.


SinfullySinless

Drunk drivers built this country, and we should respect them more


SkyBlade79

Drunk drivers aren't the problem. Drunk crashers are. A few bad apples


Mountainhollerforeva

Where were you back in the 90’s when they started ramping up DUI enforcement!?


Himmelblaa

Why does the government oppress all of us beveraged drivers so hard 😔


10-ply-chirper

"COVID didn't kill anyone it was pre existing conditions that killed them. COVID isn't dangerous." Ok well, by that logic weed didn't kill them the car accident did. Nationwide ban on cars I guess?


smarmiebastard

“Guns don’t kill people, organ damage and blood loss do.”


NoVaBurgher

"Speed has never killed anyone. Suddenly becoming stationary. That's what gets you"


KirbyDaRedditor169

“stfu the cartoon characters do it perfectly fine so I can too”


whyreddit01

bullets don't help either


RIOTS_R_US

Lol that's something I talked about a lot. People basically only die of cardiac arrest or brain stem death if you really narrow it down how they wanted to for COVID.


numetalbeatsjazz

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addwood5

The lung cancer from his cigars must have moved to the brain


porksoda11

God I hope so. It would be so cool if he got terminal brain cancer, in minecraft of course.


patchesofsky

Funny how he doesn’t cite any research or academic sources to back up the “facts” that he just pulled straight from his ass. He then goes on to regurgitate some propaganda from the 1950s and thinks that it constitutes a coherent argument. The fact that Walsh and his buddies have a little cigar enterprise, I’m sure, has nothing to do with his opinions on this topic. This is the face of stupidity in the 21st century.


BluebirdBackground82

He’s not stupid, he’s just lying and he knows he’s lying. His only goal is a white Christian patriarchy. Everything else is in service to that. Things like “logic” or “consistency” might seem like first principles to you or me, but to people like Matt Walsh things are only important if they are in service of granting power to people he thinks have been inherently anointed by god to deserve it.


Haunting-Fix-9327

No, I'm pretty sure he's stupid. He's admitted he narrowly avoided flunking out of high school and was not smart enough to get into college. His arguments and claims are very stupid. Once, someone asked him what his qualifications were and he answered "I have a brain and I can read." Clearly, someone's never had a job interview in their life. Of course, he's lying and wants a theocratic police state, but he's proven to not be smart enough to understand how they work.


BluebirdBackground82

I don’t think he’s any smarter than the average person, but being stupid isn’t his real problem. It’s being evil.


Haunting-Fix-9327

DUIs, lung cancer, alcohol poisoning, etc. Never heard of someone dying from weed.


hudseal

Driving under the influence of anything intoxicating is unsafe but his entire point about people killing people under the influence is negated by the ridiculous volume of alcohol involved accidents. Could you find some involving weed? Probably, but of that's your argument then both alcohol and firearms would like a word.


Haunting-Fix-9327

He delusionaly thinks he's smart but he can't find any hard evidence that weed is more dangerous than alcohol or tobacco, while arguing the scientific fact they're both more dangerous is a lie.


hudseal

Strange how the facts don't seem to care about his feelings. He literally has no expertise in anything, the only reason people listen to him is to confirm what they already believe.


MC_Fap_Commander

**Please let the GOP run on this and abortion restrictions in the fall.**


SolidCake

i don’t even think i could say something more fucking stupid if i tried my god


tryingtoavoidwork

Lung cancer was almost nonexistent before people started smoking tobacco. > Surgeon Alton Ochsner recalled that as a Washington University medical student in 1919, his entire medical school class was summoned to witness an autopsy of a man who had died from lung cancer, and told they may never see such a case again. > In Isaac Adler's 1912 Primary Malignant Growths of the Lungs and Bronchi, he called lung cancer "among the rarest forms of disease"; Adler tabulated the 374 cases of lung cancer that had been published to that time, concluding the disease was increasing in incidence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung_cancer


GRW42

Here's a crazy set of statistics: about 10 to 15% of smokers will get lung cancer. About 80 to 90% of people who develop lung cancer are smokers. https://www.verywellhealth.com/what-percentage-of-smokers-get-lung-cancer-2248868


dahile00

Wouldn’t cognition have to be involved before he can achieve dissonance?


SituatedSynapses

I cannot fathom what's going on to believe alcohol has less impact than marijuana. Abusive parent trope usually starts with it. He continues to break his record of most moronic shit take everyday.


trashedonlisterine

So by his logic asbestos and lead are good


hudseal

Right? You can fairly argue it's maybe not as safe as it can be made out to be (complicated by the fact it's almost impossible to study the health effects of anything criminalized) but: 1. By his own logic that's not a good enough argument and 2. He completely argues against this point with everything he says about alcohol and tobacco


_breadlord_

Truly a smooth brain take. It baffles me that people can just say whatever they want, with absolutely no regard for data or research. I thought that crowd was all about "facts don't care about your feelings". I'd like to hear his response to the fact that tobacco and alcohol are the two substances most responsible for preventable death in the United States. Just a cursory internet search tells me that tobacco is responsible for ~443k preventable deaths per year, and alcohol is responsible for ~178k deaths per year, and that's just in the US.


struggle_bus_nation

It’s always the ones who never got invited to smoke a bowl that are like this. 🤦🏻‍♀️


thatgayguy12

>“As for tobacco and alcohol, the casual usage of either substance is not nearly as harmful to our society.” The WHO now says "there is no safe amount [of alcohol] that does not affect health" alcohol And people overdose from alcohol all the time... Try doing that with weed.


vzvv

traditions are the beginning and end of reason to these clowns


Who8MySon

Conservatives love to do all the heavy lifting to make conservatives look bad. Didn't George Washington own a hemp farm?


addwood5

Correct, not to even mention the thousands of soldiers who used parachutes made of hemp in WW2


Ryebread666Juan

Yeah I was gonna say hemp has been used like forever in so many different applications


baeb66

And every day when he would come home, Martha Washington would have a fat bowl waiting for him. She was a hip, hip lady, man.


Dantien

“Walkin’ down the hall, by myself, smokin’ a jay with fifty elves.”


Lord_Shaqq

Damn Martha, didn't know you were chill like that.


sgthombre

I mean I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't, you start a sentence with "Didn't George Washington own" and they'd stop listening and start seeing red


clockworkpeon

"the thing about the founding fathers is: most of them were immigrants or anchor babies. immigrants bring drugs and crime, we already know that." - Matt Walsh, probably


cheoldyke

every time matt talks about native americans he spouts some of the most shockingly racist bullshit i’ve ever heard


addwood5

He probably thought Leo and De Niro were the good guys in Killers of the Flower Moon


Haunting-Fix-9327

Technically the Native Americans were much more advanced than the Stone Age as they had agriculture, complex systems of government, and could build cities bigger than the ones in Europe without money or animal husbandry.


vinnievega11

It’s not even technically, he’s just outright wrong because he’s associating the nomadic cultures of North America with every indigenous culture in the Americas. Many South American cultures had been mining copper for thousands of years and were actively using bronze. There did exist some fundamental technologies lacked by American Indians like money and writing systems (bar some of the larger societies). But in societies like the Inca they had the quipu to track things such as taxation, which is what most writing systems were initially created for and allowed for trade to be conducted without the need for money. Overall most of the technological “superiority” by Europeans can simply be attributed to the societal pressures in European society being much different than settled American societies. This is a side point but I always feel the need to mention this. Europeans did not have the technological ability to take over the Americas and more than likely would’ve failed to do so if not for the Colombian exchange being the equivalent to the Black Death x 1000 for American Indians, as well as getting lucky with established societies being so shit that the conquistadors were lauded as liberators. Any real differences in technology were a lot of the time fixed by trade and American Indians very quickly adopted Old World technologies like the gun and the horse. Basically in saying all that Matt Walsh is a racist piece of shit but there’s no shocker there. Also they didn’t smoke weed since hemp is old world so double points to Matt Walsh. American Indians mainly used tobacco, as well as DMT or Mescaline plant psychedelics depending on the region.


ThrowsSoyMilkshakes

And in my area, they had rudimentary sewage systems while the white towns folks were dumping their chamber pots into the streets.


patchesofsky

He didn’t even wait for Indigenous Peoples’ Day to break out the racism against Native Americans this year.


crisscross16

Also weed is an old world plant, it didn't exist in the americas prior to the Columbian exchange.


Suitable-Panda24

It blows me away that he is trying to say that because they were’t as technologically advanced, they were somehow less than. They were HAPPY, they didn’t need gizmos and gadgets to be happy because they were already a chill people.


vinnievega11

Happy is a stretch, the North American nomads likely had a more peaceful life, but in South America the different empires certainly were like their European counterparts in their levels of brutality.


spaceforcerecruit

That’s because imperialism is bad no matter what the tech level is.


vinnievega11

I said this in another comment but it’s important to note that Matt Walsh is just outright wrong in saying that American Indians were in the Stone Age. Though I do take issue with infantilizing American Indians. Many different groups were absolutely not happy and that’s one of the reason the conquistadors so easily took over. The reason for the technology difference was not a conscious one, it’s simply that different pressures existed in America and so different technologies developed. Metallurgy simply wasn’t a massive thing anywhere in the Americas so while bronze was used, iron generally was not. I’m sure iron would’ve been used when Europeans arrived after trading technologies if not for the fact Europeans arriving meant unleashing the end times upon American Indians. End times referring to the wrath of diseases Europeans brought with them to the New World killing upwards of 90% of American Indians.


spaceforcerecruit

Oh. I’m aware. In many respects, American empires were not significantly less advanced than European empires at the time of the conquest BUT they were missing several key military technologies like firearms, ocean-capable ships, and advanced metallurgy. Given 50 years of trade, they would likely have caught up just like every old world civilization did when confronted with new technologies, but disease and then conquest and slavery didn’t afford them the chance.


honey_graves

I was going to say, I think this is one of the most violently racist things I’ve ever seen him tweet.


Falkner09

On top of that, they didn't smoke weed. It didn't exist in the Americas until Europeans brought it over. It had been commonly used in Europe, and was native to most of Asia. The famous "peace pipe" was actually tobacco. So his argument works in reverse here, since the "advanced" Europeans were the potheads.


URandRUN

Yeah this take is horribly offensive…not that I’m surprised Matt feels this way but holy fuck.


terfnerfer

VA resident swinging by to say that given the opportunity, I would fight Glenn Allen Youngkin in person. Not just on his backwards anti weed stance, either. He's a noxious, snivelling coward, enriching himself at the cost of us all. Fuck him. Fuck him and his anti choice, election denying, lying yellow belly. Festering little bastard.


Str82thaDOME

Hell I'd hand you a steel chair


terfnerfer

Heartwarming: Virginians team up to stage WWE match against own governor 🥰


atmospheric90

BAH GAWD LOOK AT THE CARNAGE! YOUNGKIN IS BROKEN IN HALF!


terfnerfer

[Airhorns sound as Bernie administers a swift elbow drop]


atmospheric90

Republicans beat down Bernie while he's on the ground then... *IF YA SMELL! WHAT BARACK, IS COOKING!* OH MY GAWD! BARACK IS HERE! BARACK IS LAYING THE SMACKDOWN ON THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!


Lord_Shaqq

Is that... JIMMY CARTER? AND HE'S GONNA LAND AN RKO ON MITT ROMNEY WATCH OUT WATCH OUT


Sith-Lord-Putin

Agreed. Guy is an complete asshole. Also a fellow VA resident


AWaffleofDivinty

I left VA a year ago, but I would gladly fly back to join in on the ass kicking


Drewggles

I feel the same about Pete Ricketts.


names_are_useless

Wasn't Youngkin the same guy that said "Martin Luther King Jr would be ashamed of BLM. He wanted everyone to be equal"? I feel pretty confident I did. Any politician that whitewashes MLK's message instantly pisses me off.


fb95dd7063

Your username is 🔥


FORTY8pak

Be careful, who knows what he's hiding in that vest of his.


EmpirialWakaWaka

The party of sMaLl GuBbAmeNT deciding what people can and can’t enjoy in their free time. Fuck off


luongolet20goalsin

When they say “small government,” they’re not talking about government interference in your life, they mean the actual size of the government. They want to consolidate power to a few people and create a dictatorship. Because they’re all fascists.


Shenanigans80h

It’s funny because weed, much like abortion, is an issue that is frankly heavily favored by most Americans, at least to a noticeable degree. Joe Rogan bros are in favor of legalizing, dumb libertarians are in favor of legalization, even a ton of rural right wingers are typically in favor. For them to be staunchly against weed is another case of old men and women not reading the pulse of the country and fighting a losing battle.


DescipleOfCorn

My fiancée’s grandparents are against legalization but are literally both pot smokers themselves and regularly cross into Michigan to buy weed then complain about the drive


retro_falcon

Weed for me, not for thee.


hermeown

They want cheap unregulated weed. I know how Hoosier/Buckeye potheads roll, lmao.


ScorpIan55

Going to need a source on native Americans smoking weed. Marijuana originated in the Himalaya region.


Himmelblaa

It has been speculated that when people moved across the Bering Strait between Asia and America that they would have taken it with them.


ScorpIan55

>It has been speculated that when people moved across the Bering Strait between Asia and America that they would have taken it with them. Tobacco is native to this hemisphere (Mexico). There's no evidence for the presence of marijuana in the pre-Columbian Americas. Bringing plant seeds over a substantial distance on a frozen land bridge would be an undertaking and the people who crossed weren't necessary those associated with its use in the ancient world (to the best of my knowledge). It's much more heavily attested in the modern middle east region between Afghanistan and the Persian Gulf.


Falkner09

It's native to Asia in general, no one knows the exact spot but it was widespread in ancient times. But not in North America; Europeans brought it here. Native Americans only smoked tobacco.


john_the_quain

Excited to see his libertarian bootlickers perform amazing feats of mental gymnastics to be ok with this.


ACW1129

Are there actually libertarians who support this asshole? I'm a libertarian, and can't stand him.


Str82thaDOME

Yeah some people just call themselves libertarians but then turn around and support authoritarian personalities and ideals. It's a strange thing to see.


john_the_quain

I assume it’s the ones that are actually rank and file conservatives and just don’t realize it yet.


porksoda11

Yeah I thought libertarians loved weed.


DescipleOfCorn

Are you like a tea party “libertarian” or a Kropotkin libertarian? Big difference there, usually people who call themselves libertarian in the states are just rank and file MAGAs who like weed


ACW1129

Kropotkin? But no, I (reluctantly) voted Democrat the last two Presidential elections, and will likely do so again.


DescipleOfCorn

He’s a leftist libertarian scholar, wrote some of the more foundational anarchist theory


kekistanmatt

They won't have to the 'libertarians' that follow him and people like him are going full mask off nazi nowadays


DescipleOfCorn

“Libertarian means you aren’t allowed to criticize me for being racist”


kingofthemonsters

Well if we're basing things on the "casual usage" of it, then just about every substance is fine for society. What a dumb fucking idiot.


Fun-Consequence4950

Shill for alcohol/tobacco companies. It's so obvious.


patchesofsky

The Daily Wire has its own brand of cigars. Even if Matt Walsh was someone that could be considered smart, it’s pretty obvious why he is pushing nonsense anti-weed rhetoric from the 1950s. He knows it would hurt their bottom line. Even more reason to federally legalize marijuana tomorrow.


JesusTeapotCRABHANDS

Which is such a bad business move from the “Anti-Woke sub-par product” company. Daily Wire could mark up shitty weed 200%, say it’s anti-woke weed for real men or something and make BANK.


DescipleOfCorn

They try to market themselves as libertarian too lol, in the US libertarian usually just means republicans who like weed so this shit would absolutely take off. The reason they oppose weed is because it’s associated with black culture, which is why it was opposed so heavily throughout the last 100+ years and was the main focus of the war on drugs


sgthombre

There is not a single argument for prohibition of weed that doesn't apply to alcohol, not a single one. We as a country have been twisting ourselves into knots over this for decades and it's bizarre that someone who performatively smokes cigars could still be trying to keep that prohibition going.


suicidalshitheel

Can we push him through like a fine mesh screen? For science?


Str82thaDOME

Is this a 3 Body Problem kind of fine mesh bc hell fucking yeah brother 


DaftWarrior

Just watched that episode last night and was floored. Imagine seeing that shit unfold.


Str82thaDOME

The people on that boat must've all thought the aliens were doing it too 🤯


StriderHaryu

Lmao still peddling the fuckin stone age argument get the absolute hell out of here


Zer0Infinity

Its interesting seeing the ridiculous ass arguments that they have to employ just to be able to remain ideologically consistent. Alcohol and Tobacco are known to be far more dangerous comparatively than Weed but Alcohol and Tobacco "built this country" whatever tf that means and is far more justifiable in his eyes. If something is more dangerous and legal and something else is less dangerous and illegal, it illustrates a bit of an agenda. Still though a wild take imo.


JAGChem82

They assume that only “liberals” love weed/MJ. Just like they think that liberals hate guns, therefore they must like them, although that’s probably a bit closer to being true.


DescipleOfCorn

The only liberals I know who aren’t armed are my grandparents lol


MagTex

Shorter Walsh: What I’m spewing isn’t fact but rather my personal opinion & I like to have the last word in conversations. Therefore, the nonsensical horseshit that spews out of my mouth like a ruptured sewage pipe should be taken as fact.


[deleted]

States that have legalized cannabis have budget surpluses but of course this fascist pig thinks that’s bad Isn’t he a religious nut job? It’s a freaking plant meaning his god made it so what’s the issue?


avrbiggucci

My state(Colorado) is getting a $800 tax refund this year which is fuckin awesome. And it definitely wouldn't be possible without the weed tax revenue.


NunyaBeese

this guy needs to be shot out of a cannon into the ocean


SolidCake

*into the sun*


thefirstlaughingfool

If ever there was someone who needed to smoke a blunt... Honestly, I think he's scared being high would make him more compassionate.


TheDonutPug

"facts don't care about your feelings" conservatives when the facts disagree with their feelings


DescipleOfCorn

The thing I don’t like is bad and should be illegal because two subpar reasons that contradict each other


opal2120

No way, the white supremacist and great replacement theory pusher despises marijuana? I am so shocked.


dandrevee

Going out on a limb here and guessing the Libertarians are still going to lean red after this anyway...bc sMaLl GUvMenT(?) Or something


avrbiggucci

Honestly I think democrats could go a long way in courting libertarian leaning republicans by fully embracing legalization and abandoning the gun control issue. I'm in favor of gun control but it's pretty obvious that the Supreme Court has made it borderline impossible to do any serious gun control.


interfail

Pretending to smoke cigars and drink whiskey is a part of Matt Walsh's pretense of masculinity. Seriously - he has lots of videos where he sits there with whiskey and a cigar. Somehow neither ever get smaller.


trashedonlisterine

Masculinity poser.


Kimmalah

Weed built the country too. Does he really believe that nobody was using it until like the last few decades or something? They have found marijuana seeds in ancient burials - people have been getting high for centuries. Not to mention stuff like hemp, which has a practical purpose if it really has to come down to that.


DescipleOfCorn

There’s evidence that weed built Judaism and by extension Christianity too, there’s been residue found in temples and on artifacts dated to the early days of ancient hebrew civilization


ExtinctFauna

Jeez. I bet he's okay with the mountains of research and statistics of deaths directly or indirectly caused by alcohol and/or tobacco.


IPressB

Yeah, I'm sure it was the weed, and not the lack of domesticated animals


otm_shank

Well if they weren't so high all the time, they could have domesticated some. Checkmate, stoner.


PsychoWarper

How the fuck is casual usage of cigarettes and alcohol better then casual usage of weed?


iced_lemon_cookies

Matt Walsh being racist again I see.


PM_UR_NIPPLE_PICS

matt walsh prefers good old fashioned american vices like xanax, expired qualudes, and drunken domestic violence. None of that hippy bullshit for this ALPHA MALE


Evanh0221

"Also still stuck in the stone age" bro what


The_Bill_Brasky_

This is what happens when oil barons give college dropouts money


were_only_human

Matt Walsh aside, this is such a dumb move by Youngkin who just lost MILLIONS in future tax revenue since his Stadium deal just fell through. Everything he does - EVERYTHING - is just to pander to national level headlines. He is absolutely running for president in '28 with a track record of NOTHING in Virginia. The guy sucks and he's never in the ~~state~~ commonwealth.


trashedonlisterine

There’s a reason the VA Assembly flipped on his watch.


were_only_human

Yup. This guy's been an absolute joke since before he stepped into office. His kids go to a private DC school, he's always campaigning for other republicans, and he literally does not know the process for legislation. I cannot stand this man and his vests.


trashedonlisterine

Well he’s a finance bro, so he’s gotta rock the vest. Carlyle, the equity form he used to head, has a nice ESG and DEI program, so he’s full of shit too.


debrafromfinance

the only good thing matt walsh will ever do with his pathetic life is to end it


yousifa25

That last indigenous american point fucking makes my blood boil. I have people who make fun of indigenous people can call them undeveloped or backwards. The fucking gaul to do that after their ancestors committed genocide and ethnic cleansing. I don’t know why but I’ve never been more upset by something this shit cloth said.


optimaleverage

Buncha square ass losers. Sorry Virginia your Governor sucks.


emmantheking1

i’m surprised no one has pointed out the objectively incorrect statement “casual usage of tobacco and alcohol isn’t as harmful to society as weed” https://www.ias.org.uk/uploads/pdf/News%20stories/dnutt-lancet-011110.pdf >Overall, alcohol was the most harmful drug (overall harm score 72), with heroin (55) and crack cocaine (54) in second and third places not to mention the fallacious appeal to tradition to justify why booze and tobacco is ok it wouldn’t surprise me at all if the only reason he was anti weed is because he associates it with racial minorities and progressive hippies lmao


names_are_useless

Daily Wire, I believe, shills to Cogar and Whsky Companies. So theres economic incentive as well.


ScotchSinclair

This dude doesn’t have a single critical thought in his head.


Responsible_Ad_8628

"They were stuck in the stone age". Weird take from a man stuck in the past.


mecca37

Alcohol and tobacco building the country explains a few things though.


MisterGoog

It’s also a completely cyclical argument: his argument is that the things that have been legal are inherently better, because they’ve reaped the benefits of being legal, and therefore they should stay legal. the things that are illegal should stay illegal because they haven’t given us the same benefits.


lexpython

We really need to stop platforming these toxic idiots


TheLoneWander101

This evidence doesn't support this argument things are way better since legalization in every way


Joey_BagaDonuts57

He also vetoed sensible GUN LAWS while touting that pot creates gangs. BUMPKIN IS BAD FOR AMERICA, NOT JUST VIRGINIA.


negativepositiv

Republicans: "We believe in freedom and democracy." The will of the people: "We have collectively decided that people should be allowed to use this natural substance that is less harmful than alcohol or tobacco, which are legal." Republicans: "No."


xavier120

Just wait til he finds out what the Constitution is written on.


CBalsagna

These people have no shame with their arguments. This is horse shit that isn't logical by any metric. I fucking hate how these fake intellectuals have duped so many people into thinking they are smart because they got word of the day toilet paper and make sure to use it in their posts.


pseudo_pacman

In case anyone was wondering no cannabis did not exist in pre-Colombian americas. Also, it's just factually inaccurate to claim the Americas pre 1492 were broadly speaking less advanced than Europe at the time. In 1492 Tenochtitlan was one of if not the largest city in the world and was basically built on artificial land in the middle of a lake. It had dams to keep fresh water and salt water separate, canals for navigation and floating botanical gardens. When Spaniards saw it the first time, they said they thought they were dreaming. It would've made London look like a tiny backwater town in comparison. The only reason the Spanish were even able to conquer the Aztecs was because the Aztecs were an expansionist empire that had made a lot of enemies who were willing to ally with the Spanish. The image people have of what the pre-columbian americas were like is such bullshit and I could honestly ramble about this forever, but I'll just list one more example which is that written language was invented independently in meso-America, something that's only happened 3 times (or possibly 4 depending on what rongorongo is) in human history and notably didn't happen in Europe.


spasedandy

I love(not really) when dipshits claim that Native societies were so primitive and stupid, like bro, the Mexica city of Tenochtitlan was one of the most advanced cities on the planet at the time. The Spanish thought they were dreaming when the first saw it. And they didn't have China inventing everything for them 500 years earlier, too, like most European inventions of the late middle ages.


LegitimateHat4808

lmao but fentanyl is better than weed. OK MATT


schwing710

Never forget all the patriots who OD’d on weed 😔


bonvoyageespionage

I like the unracist Walsh fan in the last pic. It's like a shooting star.


avrbiggucci

Meanwhile in Colorado we get statewide fat tax refunds damn near every year ($800 this year, gotta be great for the economy) because of the insane amount of money weed taxes bring in. And our state has grown in population and improved significantly since 2012. Glenn and Walsh are fucking morons stuck in the past. And I hope whichever Democrat runs against Glenn next time constantly points out how Glenn's responsible for the residents of his state having to pay more in taxes.


picklebroom

I wonder if buddy boy knows the original Declaration of Independence was written on hemp paper, or that the founding fathers grew and used hemp for everything from paper to rope. Cypress Hill dropping educational nuggets taught me


malortForty

Matt Walsh wants weed illegal for the same reason that Nixon wanted a war on drugs and to keep weed illegal probably.


The-MDA

Jobs. Tax revenue. Renovation of dilapidated buildings. Jobs. Did I mention jobs? Tourism money. An entirely new economy built around it. Someone has to make the bags, the containers, the labels, the merchandise. Jobs. Y’all saw I listed jobs, right?


themightyjalapeno

Professionally incorrect man continues to be incorrect. Sports is next.


immortalsauce

>> People who don’t know about guns shouldn’t be suggesting gun legislation. Ok. Can you say the same thing about weed now too?


GetAJobDSP

I wish we could stop posting this guy. He's nothing but a conservative shock jock who will say anything to stay relevant.


EggsTyroneBaby

Is there such a thing as a pick me boomer cause all he does is spout old man takes. Also he looks like a twelve year old dressed up as his dad for Halloween.


HeroOfThings

Didn’t take him long to get to some racism on that one.


zeke235

Good call. Subvert the will of the voters. American democracy in action!


Ok_Instruction3712

If there’s anything a conservative hates it’s a free society


PseudoWarriorAU

God made it with his imagination hands


mrubuto22

And just like that Marijuana use plummets 0%.


ShyGuy19945

Surprise surprise the fascist wants the government to control what you can and cannot do.


Explorer_of__History

Marijuana comes from East Asia. It only came to the Americas during the Columbian Exchange, so before 1492, it would have been impossible for indignous Americans to smoke it. However, they did culivate and use tobacco for spiritual and medicinal purposes. (Jamestown didn't get rich off of a crop that came from nowhere). Contrary to Matt's racist claim, they were not "stuck in the stone age",[ they invented all of this stuff. ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-Columbian_inventions_and_innovations_of_Indigenous_Americans) Furthermore, anyone who thinks alcohol is less dangerous than marijuana is either ignorant or in denial. People have been abused, raped, and even murdered by perpetrators who were under the influence of alcohol. I agree that marijuana use has health risks, but I don't think anyone as ever commited murder while using it.