# Bush Campaign Advocates Drug Use for Disgruntled Workers
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 30, 2004, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610 "2004-07-30T17:05:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/21 "2004-07-31T12:50:47Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#):
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> Yeah, we don’t want the working class to know what we think of them.
C’mon. Are you telling YOU’VE never made such a remark in jest? No black humor amongst your co-workers and friends?
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/22 "2004-07-31T13:38:23Z")
Nope. What these people do when they hear something they’re not quite sure of is post threads to get the official leftist consensus:
Should we be offended by the term “jigger”?
Am I doing wrong when I separate colors from whites in the wash?
My son wants to join the Boys Scouts. How should I handle this?
Is it okay to watch something on the Fox network? (NB: NOT the Fox News network.)
I heard the n-word today. Am I going to die?
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### Author:  [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/23 "2004-07-31T13:45:02Z")
I think Bush is possibly the worst president in history and I’ll tap dance on the grave of his presidency when he’s out of office, but even I find this thread to be stupid.
The statement of one worker does not equal the thoughts of Bush on a subject.
- DESK
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/24 "2004-07-31T13:45:16Z")
> [@Liberal](#):
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> Nope. What these people do when they hear something they’re not quite sure of is post threads to get the official leftist consensus:
>
> Should we be offended by the term “jigger”?
>
> Am I doing wrong when I separate colors from whites in the wash?
>
> My son wants to join the Boys Scouts. How should I handle this?
>
> Is it okay to watch something on the Fox network? (NB: NOT the Fox News network.)
>
> I heard the n-word today. Am I going to die?
You know **Lib** , whenever someone else tries to put words in _your_ mouth, your hackles always rise up with righteous indignation. Perhaps you should review the Golden Rule again.
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### Author:  [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/25 "2004-07-31T13:46:44Z")
> [@Apos](#):
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> (the fact that it’s more enjoyable, with no other known side-effects, means that it’s even more evil?).
Yes, because feeling good is _ssssoooooooooooooo_ wrong.
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### Author:  [@Desmostylus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Desmostylus)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/26 "2004-07-31T14:13:52Z")
> [@Liberal](#):
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> Nope. What these people do when they hear something they’re not quite sure of is post threads to get the official leftist consensus:
>
> Should we be offended by the term “jigger”?
>
> Am I doing wrong when I separate colors from whites in the wash?
>
> My son wants to join the Boys Scouts. How should I handle this?
>
> Is it okay to watch something on the Fox network? (NB: NOT the Fox News network.)
>
> I heard the n-word today. Am I going to die?
And ones like these, too:
\*\*Libertarian is STILL an idiot.
Was that you, Libertarian?
Bemused question to Libertarian
Libertarian is a bully, a bully, bully
Libertarian philosophy and the Irag war
The Libertarian Thread
Libertarian: Newlywed Game Remark
Common, Real World Questions for Libertarian
Newsflash: Libertarian bombs Iraq
Another moment of your time, Libertarian (plus: musings on Libertopia)
A moment of your time please, Libertarian
For Libertarian
No vehicle inspections in Fla. - libertarian Utopia or primitive wasteland?
Are Libertarian and logic incompatible?
Libertarian, bend over…
Libertarian, a word please
For LIbertarian: the Giant Squids have arrived!
There IS no god. Just to be different than Libertarian
I am the very model of a modern Libertarian
Libertarian is a monster
MONSTER Libertarian vs GOOD GUY Libertarian \*\*
I guess the official leftist consensus is that **Liberal** is a fucking idiot. You’ll note that I didn’t have to resort to making up thread titles.
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/27 "2004-07-31T14:23:31Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#):
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> You know Lib, whenever someone else tries to put words in your mouth, your hackles always rise up with righteous indignation. Perhaps you should review the Golden Rule again.
Reminds me of another one:
Should I be offended when I’m the brunt of a joke?
> [@Desmostylus](#):
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> I guess the official leftist consensus is that Liberal is a fucking idiot. You’ll note that I didn’t have to resort to making up thread titles.
What a good boy you are! Here’s a dog biscuit. 😃
Personally, I liked TVeblen’s take in the first thread you noted:
“If this thread ever had a useful point, it’s been well and truly obscured by smoke, heat, smouldering, lots more smoke, possibly a few mirrors and plenty of smoke, but damned little in way of actual illumination.”
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### Author:  [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/28 "2004-07-31T14:29:27Z")
> [@Liberal](#):
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> Should I be offended when I’m the brunt of a joke?
Brunt? What brunt? You _are_ the joke, by your own hand, on a daily basis!
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### Author:  [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/29 "2004-07-31T14:39:06Z")
> [@Fear Itself](#):
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> Brunt? What brunt? You _are_ the joke, by your own hand, on a daily basis!
“Well, then. There 'tis.” — The Austrian Emperor
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### Author:  [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/30 "2004-07-31T19:21:12Z")
I think of it this way. If a friend of mine said it to me, I’d be fine and take it as a joke.
Since this was someone I don’t know who seems to be vastly unaware of what some people go through to find their crap jobs and then have to look through the want ads in the vain hopes of finding something less crappy, I say fuck off.
And I don’t need the leftist consensus to tell me when I should be pissed. I’m quite capable of figuring it out for myself 😉
Now can’t we all just settle down and agree that joke or not it was a really friggin stupid thing to say in a campaign center where a reporter could here?
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### Author:  [@capacitor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capacitor)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2004, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bush-campaign-advocates-drug-use-for-disgruntled-workers/257610/31 "2004-07-31T20:21:07Z")
From ‘Just Say No’ to ‘Just Say Blow’ in twenty years.
The Republicans indeed have come a long way, baby.
No wonder Nancy Reagan is tuning out of the festivities in New York.
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