Why do Republicans hate sex and marijuana?

[Cyrano]

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There's an old saying that a Puritan is someone who sits up all night worrying that someone, somewhere is having a good time. That might fit Republicans if they weren't such hypocrites.

Let's face it. The Republican Party is a criminal enterprise that is interested in only control, power and attaining wealth. And as for sex and marijuana, it's okay as long as they are the ones smoking weed or screwing a yak.

But since they think they need to look "holier than thou" to the imbecile part of their base, they rail against the evils of screwing and puffing.

They're about to kick off a new "war on drugs" and marijuana is high on their list. I wonder how long it will be before they bring back chastity belts and start branding women with a scarlet A.

Republicans politicians are among the worst dicks in the world. And anyone who disagrees, just look at the tons of crap they're putting up with from their so-called president

[Dammit Jim]

1. They don't hate sex

Unless it's with their own wives, of course.

[democratisphere]

10. Sure. Just ask those two disciples of family values, drumpf and O'Lieilly.

[SticksnStones]

2. Because it keeps their mega churches rolling in the cashola?

Money. It's always about following the money with Repubs.

If more people have access to marijuana to treat their ills or relax their minds, well that cuts in pharmaceutical industry and could calm down the hate industry. And they do well with both.

[Fritz Walter]

9. Not to mention the for-profit prison industry

Is it a coincidence that these businesses throw so much money into Repukes' campaign coffers?

Meanwhile, destroying the lives of People of Color (AKA: those people) who get caught with weed.

[SticksnStones]

11. Yes...of course...the prison industry as well -

To understand repubs...follow the money~

[Guilded Lilly]

3. Hate sex and marijuana and women and non whites and...

Senior citizens and needy children and the environment and wildlife and education and democracy and the middle class and government checks and balances and non-Christian religions and healthcare for anyone (else) and law and open minds and compassionate hearts and...

[Cyrano]

4. Yep. I thought I'd just stick with sins of the flesh

The full list is far, far too long.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

5. They love sex & pot but especially booze. But Mencken comes to mind. And "Handmaid's Tale"

Puritanism: "the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy."
H. L. Mencken

They are also a bit like the elites in "A Handmaid's Tale"; forbidding pleasures to the great unwashed masses but indulging themselves.

I think Republicons often suppose that 'lesser people' than they (poor, perhaps people of color, lower middle class) are not as sophisticated as they and not as 'capable' of indulging without descending into decadence and slovenly decrepitude.

Hence porn consumption rates are highest in red states.

[Ligyron]

19. Nailed it dude.

" I think Republicons often suppose that 'lesser people' than they (poor, perhaps people of color, lower middle class) are not as sophisticated as they and not as 'capable' of indulging without descending into decadence and slovenly decrepitude.
"

[treestar]

25. You hear them argue that if you can't

afford children, don't have them. Then they argue against providing birth control - if you are too poor, don't have sex. They want it to be yet another privilege of wealth.

[JHan]

45. yup.

[PatsFan87]

6. They prefer their drug use and sex lives to be behind the scenes.

[democratisphere]

7. redumbliCONs are miserable evil bastards and they don't want anyone to have fun.

[randome]

18. This is the answer, imo.

Why does O'Reilly sexually harass women? Because he is fundamentally incapable of forming a relationship, even a one-night stand outside of paying for one. It's the same across the board, Hannity, Limbaugh and the others. When they rail against sex and women, they are simply advertising to the world that their own lives are miserable and that they feel like failures.

And they are too stupid to understand how much they embarrass themselves by this.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Stop looking for heroes. BE one.[/center][/font][hr]

[Bucky]

8. They don't hate sex. They just see it as a finite resource to be hoarded

You know, like oil or moral integrity

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Go into business for yourself

and in your spending, seek to minimize your spending and the profit you give
to Republican controlled businesses

Profit is what feeds them, and exploits you

[Cary]

13. Fascism is subversive

They hate just to hate.

[RKP5637]

28. Definitely! It's also the way their brains have developed as some studies have demonstrated. n/t

[Cary]

43. Authoritarian personalities

[HAB911]

14. The Theocracy will be televised

[WinkyDink]

15. Thread title needs "for others."

[lark]

16. Repugs don't hate either.

They use both to make $$ and push their evil agenda. Sex is used to control women because too many men are afraid of us or hate us and either way want us under their thumbs.

MJ is used to make $ for the private prison industry who pays their water carriers well and to keep brown people from voting. That's why Sessions is pushing to reinforce those laws, he wants more brown people in private prisons. They paid him to increase incarceration, and by damn, that's what he's going to do.

The thing is this makes for great ads for Dems.

[world wide wally]

30. "Control" is the key word in your explanation.

And control breeds hypocrisy as we see with Republicans every day.

[lark]

42. I totally agree.

It's not about sex or abortion or any of that, it's all about keeping control of "their women".

[ehrnst]

17. Drugs were equated with Black and Hispanic populations purposefully the by government

First - to give the bureau that enforced prohibition something to do after it was repealed, and secondly, to give institutional racism a justification.

Like so much of the post-Nixon drug war, Anslinger staged his campaign as a moral crusade against certain kinds of users: dissidents, the counterculture, and especially immigrants and blacks. According to Alexander Cockburn’s Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press, Anslinger’s “first major campaign was to criminalize the drug commonly known as hemp. But Anslinger renamed it ‘marijuana’ to associate it with Mexican laborers,” and claimed that the drug “can arouse in blacks and Hispanics a state of menacing fury or homicidal attack.” Anslinger “became the prime shaper of American attitudes to drug addiction.” And like later despisers of rock ‘n’ roll and hip-hop, Anslinger’s hatred of jazz motivated many of his targeted attacks.

“Marijuana is taken by… musicians,” he told Congress in 1937, “And I’m not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type.” Although the La Guardia Committee would refute almost everything Anslinger testified to about the effects of smoking pot, the damage was already done. (Anslinger’s prosecution of jazz musicians, particularly Louis Armstrong—paralleled that of another power-mad, paranoid bureaucrat, J. Edgar Hoover.)

Anslinger did not simply dislike jazz. He feared it. “It sounded,” he wrote, “like the jungles in the dead of night.” In jazz, “unbelievably ancient indecent rites of the East Indies are resurrected.” And the lives of jazz musicians “reek of filth.”

It's worth noting that while Judy Garland was told to "get help" by the authorities for her drug use, Billie Holiday was prosecuted, and prohibited from performing in any venue that served alcohol.

They only hate sex when it's a woman who is doing it for pleasure. The threat of unwanted pregnancy is a behavior modification tool, and allows them to monitor women's sexual activity.

If a woman is not at home with children, then there's a chance she will be competing with men in the workplace and community leadership. And we've seen how a woman (especially an older woman who doesn't seem to be cowed by the disapproval of men) is treated when she dares to think she's qualified to be president.

Having sex AND being in the public sphere is the privilege of men, not women. Men in the workplace and leadership are assumed to have a full time domestic to handle things there to make it possible for him to give his important work the priority it deserves.

[Cyrano]

21. There's a film called "Reerer Madness"

that's a horrible piece of propaganda made in 1938. It's, outrageous and laughable, but many people obviously took it seriously. The link below is to the entire film on Google. It's a bit over an hour, but good for a chuckle (or a puke) if you have an hous or so.

https://archive.org/details/reefer_madness_ipod

[notdarkyet]

22. Myrother and I saw it at a drive in in Tucson in the seventies. We smoked "reefer"

And laughed and laughed.

[RKP5637]

29. K&R!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Not Exactly Propaganda Cyrano

I've looked into the history of that movie and there is no connection to any governmental or policing agency. In fact, the whole thing is more a cynical attempt to financially capitalize on a growing hysteria about the drug. The producers of that film were essentially neutral on pot use, and didn't care whether the government approved or not.

By pretending to be way over the top anti-drug, they actually got away with showing people smoking it in an era where the Hayes people never would have allowed it.

So, while it ended up later being USED as propaganda, (although with laughably poor results), the movie makers did not intend that as it's use. They did it to make money.

[ProfessorPlum]

44. great post

[Trust Buster]

20. Because they had neither in high school and they are still bitter that the cool kids ignored them.

[The Wizard]

23. They're depressed

Misery loves company. Self loathing is mother's milk for Republicans.

[hatrack]

24. Because they can't get laid, and it just makes them cough

.

[SCVDem]

26. 4-20 is tomorrow!

I will not let them ruin the party!

I swear that they are kicking dogs to find the one who will bite back. Then it's martial law followed by an uncivil war.

We will prevail unless our military sides with an illegal government aided by Russia.

[notdarkyet]

38. My mm clinic always has a great

420 party.
Drawings, munchies. Looking forward to it. My big social event of the year.

[randr]

27. When the hippies celebrated sex, drugs, and rock n roll

the Repubs where left out and they have resented it ever since.

[RKP5637]

31. The Repubs were so square they couldn't fit through the door! n/t

[randr]

33. They were just so up tight that they brought everybody down

[RKP5637]

34. Yep, invite a couple to a fun time back then and the whole mood went down the drain. n/t

[randr]

36. Number one rule back in the day

Don't poop on the party

[RKP5637]

37. Yep!

[ghostsinthemachine]

32. Well, I know a LOT of Republicans who puff tuff

Or did, or sold pot or grew (grow) pot.

[randr]

35. There are at least two kinds of Republicans

Ones who imagine themselves intellectually superior due to their conservative philosophy and just plain old racists. Some racists like to get high.

[Lint Head]

39. Because they already have s stick up their butts and are

stoned on hate.

[mopinko]

40. projection. it's always projection w them.

[Orsino]

46. Republicans pretend to hate women, gays, drugs and sex.

They do this to distract us from their attempts to steal the Treasury and the Commons.