Things I Would Pay Money to Watch
I would pay money to watch former Colorado congressman, anti-immigrant racist, and overall jerk Tom Tancredo smoke marijuana. And at least someone is going to have that chance.
I would pay money to watch former Colorado congressman, anti-immigrant racist, and overall jerk Tom Tancredo smoke marijuana. And at least someone is going to have that chance.
DocAmazing:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:10 pm
Only if you filled the bong with high-octane gasoline first.
Malacylpse:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:14 pm
I’d pay money for someone to sell him oregano.
Erik Loomis:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:17 pm
+1
commie atheist:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:17 pm
This was my immediate reaction.
Jim Lynch:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:20 pm
I’m such a vindictive asshole where clowns like Tancredo are concerned that I [almost] hoped he had contracted a cancer whose symptoms were alleviated by smoking grass.
MAJeff:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:26 pm
First timer? He’ll sit there and say, “Shouldn’t something be happening?”
howard:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:33 pm
just a couple of hours ago i was reading this in james wolcott’s blog:
In Larry L. King: A Writer’s Life in Letters, or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye (TCU Press), a funny, slambang excursion through a literary and magazine publishing world that is no more, we get a full, gonzo account of William Styron’s flipout at Harvard after too many drinks and an unwise inhalation of “Mexican boo smoke,” which found the author racing out into the freezing cold, seized with religious rapture (“like a Baptist fanatic”), claiming he could “see the other shore” and was “crossing over to the other side.”
we can but hope that tancredo will have the same reaction!
Jim Lynch:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:46 pm
With all due respect to Styron, fuck him if he put his behavior on that occasion down to smoking weed.
howard:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:54 pm
as a serious matter, sure: styron suffered from depression and alcoholism.
but that said, i wouldn’t be shocked if in a particular situation look that that someone smoking strong reefer with little experience on top of those two problems could have an atypical reaction.
but it’s exactly the reaction i want tancredo to have!
Uncle Ebeneezer:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:55 pm
+420
HP:
January 24th, 2013 at 8:56 pm
I dunno. I’ve known plenty of uptight, small-minded, conservative assholes who get high. AFAICT, weed just helps them achieve transcendent levels of smugness and entitlement.
It’s a short step from “Once I turn eighteen, I’m gonna get my own place and it’s going to have a kickass stereo and we’ll party we’ll party whenever we want to, and no parents are gonna tell me what to do!” to “Man, we totally ought to set up, like, our own country in Idaho or on a cruise ship or something, and we’ll be able to do whatever we want and we won’t have to pay any taxes or anything! It’ll be soooooooo sweet.”
(Personally, I’m in the “We should start our own bar!” camp, but then, I’ve never claimed in public that the ideal political system should be modeled on the ideal drinking establishment.)
Uncle Ebeneezer:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:01 pm
The only question remaining in my dream scenario is which Tancredo would be, the worker or the passerby?:
“We’re talking about loss of work and collisions, work-related industrial injuries. Somebody comes to work stoned, and they are working some heavy equipment or up on a high-rise — a window washer that’s stoned — not only could he [or she] injure himself, but some of his or her negligence could cause someone else to be injured.”
Linnaeus:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Tancredo was gonna ban immigrants, but he got high…
Jim Lynch:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:18 pm
As with Styron, HP, I doubt the grass has anything to do with the entitled smugness of the friends you cite.
Dano:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:29 pm
He may be a crazy racist whackadoodle, but he’s our crazy racist whackadoodle.
Best,
D
SanRafaelCA:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:31 pm
At the flagpole, behind the school.
SanRafaelCA:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:39 pm
This was mine
SanRafaelCA:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:41 pm
My condolences to the folks on ‘the other side.”
SanRafaelCA:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:42 pm
Book ‘em.
The Dark Avenger:
January 24th, 2013 at 9:51 pm
Well, it’s also noteworthy that he had ‘too many drinks’, and that mixing alcohol and weed, while not as potentially lethal as, say, cocaine and alcohol is probably not a good idea.
A friend of mine once quoted Norman Mailer about all the holes in his brain that he had after using grass heavily, and my response was that the grass allowed him to find the holes that were already there in the first place.
howard:
January 24th, 2013 at 10:16 pm
I believe it was armies of the night, and i believe he references the swiss-cheese twxture of his mind thanks to reefer, and iirc further, it was in a context of extracting promises from his kids not to smoke pot until age 21!
Charlie Sweatpants:
January 24th, 2013 at 10:36 pm
This was easily my favorite headline of the day, but forget Tancredo, he’s a has been anyway. We need to get weed legalized in Minnesota so we can see what Michele Bachmann is like stoned. I would pay good money for video of that.
S_noe:
January 24th, 2013 at 10:46 pm
I think your self-doubt on the details can be attributed to all that weed. :)
But, to the best of my recollection, you’ve got the facts right.
Uncle Ebeneezer:
January 24th, 2013 at 10:54 pm
I’m glad I wasn’t really into politics when I was in college. Libertarians would have totally ruined the fun of late night, stoner debates.
Stiv:
January 24th, 2013 at 10:56 pm
I wanna see him get gay married.
The Dark Avenger:
January 24th, 2013 at 10:56 pm
Or at least an audio recording.
The Dark Avenger:
January 24th, 2013 at 11:21 pm
Link
LosGatosCA:
January 25th, 2013 at 12:51 am
And then have it annulled because he was on meth at the time
LosGatosCA:
January 25th, 2013 at 12:54 am
A video of a 3 way with hubby and Rasputin, her debate coach.
DocAmazing:
January 25th, 2013 at 1:50 am
Now he’s in a Spanish-named state, and I know why…
speak truth's mom's pancake fumes:
January 25th, 2013 at 11:00 am
Not if there’s enough angel dust sprinkled on it he won’t. Which, if karma is real, there will be.
Pestilence:
January 26th, 2013 at 1:23 am
Have you seen her eyes? How can you think she’s not perpetually loaded on something?
Gary Farber:
January 27th, 2013 at 5:26 am
Alas, it’s not happening.