No Colorado Quality of Life for the Garden State!
Apparently all rightwing politicians are required to do stupid radio call in shows and Christie, valiant defender of stupid shit, weighed in on a caller who dared bring up reality.
A caller on New Jersey 101.5 radio pointed out to Christie that legalization seemed inevitable because of the revenue advantages for the state.
“You say it’s going to come down the road. You know it may come down the road when I’m gone,” Christie replied. “It’s not going to come while I’m here.”
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“For the people who are enamored with the idea with the income, the tax revenue from this, go to Colorado and see if you want to live there,” the governor opined. “See if you want to live in a major city in Colorado where there’s head shops popping up on every corner and people flying into your airport just to come and get high.”
“To me, it’s just not the quality of life we want to have here in the state of New Jersey and there’s no tax revenue that’s worth that.”
First of all, Christie is telling me he feels VERY secure in his position right now: ie: it is OK to alienate the hundreds of thousands of people in New Jersey awaiting reefer sanity, a la Colorado and Washington State. I am unsure why he feels so secure. He shouldn't. But that is republicans and reality. All bullshit, all the time. Damn the torpedoes.
Secondly, New Jersey more or less sucks, geographically, (I am sure it is just wonderful to live there.) while Colorado is just awesome (both states are cold, if you ask me).
Clearly, it WOULD suck to live in Colorado, hike killer mountains and smoke killer legal herb. Seriously, while there may be some very redeeming qualities to New Jersey, there's no way it can compete with a State like Colorado.
So, yeah, amazing brilliance shown by the politically-embroiled GOvernor of New Jersey.
ALL the Republicans are coming out on this "Let us alienate ourselves from MILLIONS of pot smokers who vote. Yeah, buddy, that's the ticket."
This is exactly what I have wanted the Democrats to do for ages: talk just a little bit about cannabis law reform and cause dipshits like Christie to come out frothing at the mouth with their reefer madness.
Republicans HAVE NO CHOICE.
They HAVE to keep regurgitating their stupid, stupid bullshit. They cannot help themselves. They HAVE to release these whoppingly stupid, spittle-flecked tirades and make it clear they STILL want Americans to be harassed by the police, arrested, fined, jailed, their property stolen under forfeiture laws, deported, whatever. As long as it is not intelligent, or proper, or reflect REALITY.
Christie is a goddamned piece of reefer-mad shit, in addition to a major political criminal.
I hope he goes to prison.