Just some of the $30 million is going to crack pipes
Conservative figures have launched an online furor this week, claiming that the government planned to spend $30 million on pipes for smoking crack cocaine.
The heightened concern came months after the Department of Health and Human Services announced a federal grant for local programs that provide myriad "harm reduction" tools, or services that minimize the risks associated with drug use, including distributing drug paraphernalia such as clean needles. Republicans seized on "crack pipes," causing the phrase to trend on Twitter on Tuesday, the latest in continued resistance from the GOP against harm-reduction techniques at a time when people are dying of drug overdoses at record rates in the United States.
"It's really disappointing that Republicans are trying to win political points by putting lives at risk and creating misinformation about harm reduction," said Jamie Favaro, executive director of NEXT Distro, one of the groups that applied for the grants. If given the funds, NEXT Distro would spend funds to distribute the overdose-reversing drug naloxone and clean syringes in Georgia, Louisiana and Nevada.
In a first-of-its-kind federal grant to be distributed by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a branch of HHS, dozens of organizations across the country would be able to spend the money over three years on a preapproved list of resources, including referrals to treatment, infectious-disease testing kits, condoms, and vaccinations for hepatitis A and B. Also on the list: "safe smoking kits." Typically, such kits include a rubber mouthpiece to prevent cuts and burns, brass screens to filter contaminants and disinfectant wipes, according to Harm Reduction International.
So when they say "clean smoking kits" I am pretty sure those kits are not designed for use with loose tobacco. The article suggests that they are not using "glass" pipes (generally what we think of as crack pipes) but rather offering pipes with rubber mouthpieces and suggesting that as a matter of safety that people need "clean pipes".
But the main underlying issue is pretty much the same. Rather than try to provide the sort of support designed to move them out of the economic and social state they are in, the Biden Administration is simply looking to keep them as comfortable and dependent on the Government as they can.
The criticism stands in my mind.
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But the main underlying issue is pretty much the same. Rather than try to provide the sort of support designed to move them out of the economic and social state they are in, the Biden Administration is simply looking to keep them as comfortable and dependent on the Government as they can.
Yep.
Programs like this are never geared to help the addicted. They exist to line the pockets of the administrators and executive directors and associate directors and assistant directors...
...leftists all, swaddled in "grant" (read: taxpayer) money.
And the goal is never to cure the addicted or ultimately to fix the problem, because solving something implies that the program ends because the problem is solved. And we just can't have that.
Same with racism. Racism will always be with us because there are so many leftist asshats who make their living from racism. And THAT'S why it's "systemic."
The grift is systemic.
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The Kraken Comes to Wisconsin
Andy Kroll’s deep dive into Wisconsin’s insane politics in Rolling Stone (paywalled) begins with an anecdote about a fringy GOP state legislator named Timothy Ramthun:
At 5:01 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 2, Tim Ramthun was sitting in his living room with the TV on when his cellphone rang. He turned to his wife of four decades, Carolann. “Oh, the president’s calling,” he told her. She scoffed. “Hello, Mr. President,” Ramthun said to the caller. “This is Representative Ramthun. May I help you?” Carolann still didn’t believe him, until she heard the voice on the other end and almost fell out of her chair. She started recording a video of her husband, a junior member of the Wisconsin state Assembly, receiving praise from the 45th president of the United States.
Ramthun wasn’t surprised by Donald Trump’s call. A few weeks earlier, Trump had left a message on his work phone at the state Capitol at 6:30 in the morning. Trump had wanted to thank Ramthun for his continued efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, something Trump proceeded to do later that day in a written statement praising Ramthun for “putting forward a very powerful and very popular, because it’s true, resolution to decertify the 2020 Presidential Election in Wisconsin based on the recently found absolute proof of large scale voter fraud that took place.”
Now, with his wife recording the conversation, Ramthun listened as Trump asked what he could do to be helpful. He offered to endorse Ramthun, and Ramthun knew how powerful that endorsement could be running for reelection to the Assembly or seeking a higher office. Trump wasn’t the only conservative luminary to dangle an endorsement: Mike Lindell, the CEO of MyPillow and a leader of the growing election-fraud movement in America, had twice said he’d back Ramthun.
Ramthun told Trump he appreciated the pledge of support, but he wanted the former president to know that the fraud he believed he’d uncovered, and the conspiracy that tied it together, required all of his attention at the moment. First, he would pass his resolution to decertify the last presidential election, and then he would help other states follow his lead.
“If one state does this, I think others will follow,” he remembers telling Trump.
“You’re my kind of guy,” Trump replied.
This is Trump’s guy. Full wooly-Mike-Lindell-level crazy.
In a remarkable discovery, a customer who purchased a MyPillow duvet found it stuffed with classified documents from the desk of Donald J. Trump.
Carol Foyler, who lives in Akron, Ohio, said that, after she accidentally tore open the duvet, a trove of shredded documents came spilling out.
After she began taping together the documents, she found several relating to national defense, including an order from Trump to send a birthday cake to the North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un.
Foyler said that, once she finishes reconstituting the documents, she will send them to the National Archives in Washington for safekeeping.
“Obviously, it’s not ideal to find classified documents inside a random duvet, but so far I haven’t seen the nuclear codes,”yet she said.
Well, I'm glad I got at least one on-topic comment in before asylum alky troll squad asshole turned this thread to shit.
It takes a really big thinker like Charlie 'Three Wives' Sykes to go after someone for verbal gaffe.
Maybe he'd like to write a couple hundred thousand words on Slow Joe's verbal gaffes.
Tough guy Charlie. With Pierre Omyidar's nutsack on his chin.
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