The Sewer That Is The GOP: With All The White Supremacists, Conspiracy Nutters, And Other Malicious Whacko Subgroups, How Does It Get Fixed?

[Captain Wiggles]

Republicans commitment to opposing background checks has no bounds. 🤪

[China]

1 hour ago, Captain Wiggles said:

Republicans commitment to opposing background checks has no bounds. 🤪

 

Oh I don't know, I imagine they would be happy to have background checks as a requirement to vote.

[Cooked Crack]

 

[The Evil Genius]

I wonder how much in kickbacks Rhonda is getting.

 

 

 

[EmirOfShmo]

At CPAC, ‘illness’ and ‘death’ from COVID-19 are risks conservative attendees must assume: waiver

 

Laughing in the face of COVID-19 has been sport during pandemic-era stagings of the annual Conservative Political Action Conference and its regional offshoots.

"Thousands of patriots and not a damn mask in sight,” Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas beamed at CPAC Orlando in 2022. He cast vaccine and mask mandates as “a battle between power and liberty.”

Then-White House Acting Chief of Staff Mick Mulvaney in February 2020 depicted COVID-19 as a prosaic flu erroneously hyped by the media as something that "brings down the president"— then Donald Trump.

And in March 2020, CPAC leader Matt Schlapp told Fox News of the novel coronavirus: “[W]hat the CPAC experience has taught the whole country ... is that it's actually hard to get it."

But as CPAC’s flagship event returns in March to Maryland’s Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center just outside Washington, D.C. — the same hotel where a VIP attendee triggered one of the nation’s earliest COVID-19 scares — conference organizers are quietly expressing a level of COVID-19 trepidation attendees almost certainly won’t see on-stage.
"COVID-19 has been declared a worldwide pandemic by the World Health Organization,” reads the "WAIVER OF LIABILITY FOR COVID-19 IN ATTENDING CPAC EVENTS” posted on CPAC’s website.

Several sobering paragraphs follow: “COVID-19 is reported to be extremely contagious. The state of medical knowledge is evolving, but the virus is believed to spread from person-to-person contact and/or by contact with contaminated surfaces and objects, and even possibly in the air. … COVID-19 can cause serious and potentially life-threatening illness and even death”

 

https://www.rawstory.com/cpac-2023/

[Cooked Crack]

 

[China]

[BRAVEONAWARPATH]

 

Edited February 16, 2023 by BRAVEONAWARPATH

[Larry]

46 minutes ago, BRAVEONAWARPATH said:

 

"New laws, like those in Florida, limiting discussions on race and gender have led to confusion, fear, and book bans" exactly as they were intended to.  

[Cooked Crack]

Democrats taking another job away

[Bang]

How will these dogs pay their bills?
Creating welfare mutts!

 

Seriously, this is when i think it would be perfectly reasonable for the chairperson to walk over and bean that useless mother****er right upside the head with the gavel.
 

~Bam!

[CobraCommander]

Retrain the dogs to sniff out the guns prevalent in our children’s schools.

[Captain Wiggles]

I hear farms in upstate New York make great homes for dogs. 🤭

[Cooked Crack]

 

 

[The Evil Genius]

 

[Long n Left]

1 minute ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

Who is Brigitte Gabriel? And why can’t I sling her off a cliff?

[tshile]

If you haven’t spent any time on the topic of k9s and the legalization of marijuana, I recommend it. It’s interesting. 
 

And it is a big deal. Obviously it’s not as big as some other issues but it’s a big deal. Those dogs and trainers cost money and are not easily replaced in terms of timeline. 
 

Virginia managed to sell theirs to other states where it’s still illegal and I got a chuckle out of that method of dealing with it. 

1 hour ago, CobraCommander said:

Retrain the dogs to sniff out the guns prevalent in our children’s schools.

They can’t be retrained. That’s the problem 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

 

 

[CobraCommander]

28 minutes ago, tshile said:

If you haven’t spent any time on the topic of k9s and the legalization of marijuana, I recommend it. It’s interesting. 
 

And it is a big deal. Obviously it’s not as big as some other issues but it’s a big deal. Those dogs and trainers cost money and are not easily replaced in terms of timeline. 
 

Virginia managed to sell theirs to other states where it’s still illegal and I got a chuckle out of that method of dealing with it. 

They can’t be retrained. That’s the problem 

Why not? Who is saying they can’t be retrained? Also how long does a drug sniffing dog stay in service? It’s not like you trained it for 30 years of service. 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

20 minutes ago, CobraCommander said:

Why not? Who is saying they can’t be retrained? Also how long does a drug sniffing dog stay in service? It’s not like you trained it for 30 years of service. 

 

I haven't read even one sentence on the topic lol...but I'm confused as to what the issue is. On the surface it kinda sounds like "We need to keep marijuana illegal for the sake of those poor drug-sniffing dogs," which can't be right lol...

[Larry]

2 hours ago, The Evil Genius said:

 

 

Give me one good reason why people should be allowed to own AR-15s.  I can't think of ANY.  

 

(Waits patiently for "Because the Constitution says so!")  

[EmirOfShmo]

1 hour ago, tshile said:

If you haven’t spent any time on the topic of k9s and the legalization of marijuana, I recommend it. It’s interesting. 
 

And it is a big deal. Obviously it’s not as big as some other issues but it’s a big deal. Those dogs and trainers cost money and are not easily replaced in terms of timeline. 
 

Virginia managed to sell theirs to other states where it’s still illegal and I got a chuckle out of that method of dealing with it. 

They can’t be retrained. That’s the problem 

 

Not sure I understand why its such a big deal. They can be used to sniff out reefer in the elementary/middle/high schools. Or at the border.

How many we talking about here? What's the cost to retire-train-rehire these mutts? And the handlers can be retrained to work without their dogs. 

[tshile]

57 minutes ago, CobraCommander said:

Why not? Who is saying they can’t be retrained? Also how long does a drug sniffing dog stay in service? It’s not like you trained it for 30 years of service. 

The people who train the dogs, say they cannot be retrained. 

 

you can’t be in court allowing the defense to argue your reason for probable cause is bogus becsuse the dog was originally trained on marijuana. There’s different temperaments required for different jobs so simply retraining just doesn’t really work. 
 

I think 3-5 years but it would depend on the job. 

but they are trained with their handlers. You go to k9 school, you get your dog. That’s your dog. There’s a whole process there and you can’t just flip a switch and replace all your dogs. 
 

now they sold all the ones in my county almost immediately because that’s about all you can do with them, and even though the law wasn’t in effect yet there was zero reason to use those dogs anymore. Enforcement effectively stopped. But there was a backlog and shortage of K-9 units. 
 

im not trying to act like this is some insurmountable problem that cannot be overcome. I’m just pointing out it’s a real problem and it does need to be resolved as part of the process (but no I wouldn’t argue to stop the proves because of it that’s dumb)

 

Edited February 17, 2023 by tshile

[tshile]

Also I was trying to point out that I think the k9 stuff is really interesting and worth looking into if you never have before. I’m sure there’s documentaries on Netflix 

[TradeTheBeal!]

Gonna add “retraining pot-sniffing dogs” to the list of expertise.