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Rand Paul called out the racism of the drug war — and told Jeb Bush to check his privilege
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| September 16, 2015
| Dara Lind
Posted on 09/16/2015 8:45:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Paul can’t end his drug obsession.
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posted on
09/16/2015 8:47:59 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Probably because blacks are far more likely to get caught with drugs while committing other crimes, from traffic violations to felonies. Whites are more likely to just use drugs at home and not otherwise be criminals.
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posted on
09/16/2015 8:54:19 PM PDT
by
Hugin
("First thing--get yourself a fire"arm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man Standing.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Might have been Paul’s finest moment. Other than that, he was pretty weak, even bad.
Overall no one scored a knockout, but Paul, Bush and Kasich were in my opinion, the biggest losers.
Christy, Huckelby and Rubio actually did pretty well.
My top four stayed the same, though I was a little disappointed the Cruz was not as assertive as I would have liked.
Fiorina probably had the best night with Carson second.
Trump was Trump and will probably remain out front with Carson nipping at his heals.
Biggest loser of the night in my mind was FOX NEW. Tapper, Bash and Hewett made the Fox crew look like partisan hacks.
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posted on
09/16/2015 8:56:06 PM PDT
by
Tupelo
(Trump is no Reagan, But by God, he is a fighter.)
To: A CA Guy
Leaving aside my personal feeling about the drug war, those statistics are not fine grained enough.
They should show percentages by offense. Ie what are the pot smoking percentages, then what are the incarceration rates for possession without intent to distribute?
What are the rates of admitted distributors, and what are the rates of incarceration for distributing?
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posted on
09/16/2015 8:56:42 PM PDT
by
laxcoach
(Government is greedy. Taxpayers who want their own money are not greedy.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/16/2015 8:56:47 PM PDT
by
Nifster
(I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
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posted on
09/16/2015 8:58:12 PM PDT
by
Jim Robinson
(Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
To: laxcoach
Don’t do the stuff and there are two benefits.
#1. You help stop destabilizing Mexico and empowering drug cartels.
#2. There is a more stabil and employable population of people without the drugs.
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posted on
09/16/2015 9:04:02 PM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.rr)
To: A CA Guy
Welcome to the Whitehouse Hillary ... Grrrrr
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posted on
09/16/2015 9:10:08 PM PDT
by
DJlaysitup
(...oh well...)
To: DJlaysitup
“Welcome to the Whitehouse Hillary ... Grrrrr”
That’s ridiculous; she’s going to lose her butt in this election.
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posted on
09/16/2015 9:17:37 PM PDT
by
flaglady47
(TRUMP ROCKS)
To: A CA Guy
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posted on
09/16/2015 9:30:39 PM PDT
by
MrEdd
(Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
To: flaglady47
I agree. Sanders will wipe the floor with her. His folksy BS can be cutting. And she doesn’t like to be cut.
And who is going to call the socialist a mysogenist. (Sp?)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
The war on drugs is fake.
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posted on
09/16/2015 10:03:43 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Trump: Bull in a RINO Shoppe)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
"In the current circumstances, kids who had privilege like you do don't go to jail, but the poor kids in our inner cities go to jail. I don't think that's fair. And I think we need to acknowledge it."
Jeb could have disproved Rand's statement by pointing out his own privileged daughter did jail time for drugs, but he didn't.
It may have slipped Jeb's mind.
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posted on
09/16/2015 10:14:13 PM PDT
by
CaptainK
(...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
In the current circumstances, kids who had privilege like you do don't go to jail, but the poor kids in our inner cities go to jail. I don't think that's fair.Is paul saying we should jail white kids at the same rate as black kids? Yeah, that'll really win over his beheadable millenial followers.
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posted on
09/16/2015 10:18:40 PM PDT
by
Vision Thing
("Community Organizer" is a shorter way of saying "Commie Unity Organizer".)
To: DJlaysitup
The likelihood of that event is so low as to be negligible.
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posted on
09/16/2015 11:20:50 PM PDT
by
dadgum
(Overjoyed to be the Pariah.)
To: A CA Guy
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posted on
09/17/2015 1:09:19 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.rr)
To: A CA Guy
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posted on
09/17/2015 1:09:58 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.rr)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
>> kids who had privilege like you do don’t go to jail
To mean White kids... which aren’t perpetrating the disproportionate volume of crime.
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posted on
09/17/2015 1:38:52 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
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