Seriously, GOP, I know you won’t be guided by me but even your best friends, if any, would tell you: stick to simple, declarative sentences. Every time you try to get slick with metaphors, sarcasm or symbolic flights of fancy in legislation you trip over your tongue & look foolish.
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As to the merits of the actual bllt (not this goofball amendment) …I say if you are old enough to to serve in the military, and old enough to vote, you are old enough to voluntarily take your clothes off for others.
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Agreed. I’m not surprised by the responses to this, but this is the time we live in.
How can you not immediately see this for what it is? It was a way to draw attention to the fact that they are over-regulating (as he admitted). Republicans are notoriously hypocritical when it comes to there criticisms about regulations, but Democrats should be consistent too.
Say I’m 18. I’m legally old enough to be drafted to die for my country, vote in our elections, be presumptively considered an adult by the judicial system, etc.
But the over-protective mommy state says I can’t drink alcohol, can’t rent a car, now says I can’t be a stripper, and in New York they are even trying to raise the age of tobacco purchase to 21. Why not make the age 25? How about 30?
If your argument for being pro-choice is that you have the right to do what you want with your own body, then you turn around and say, oh, but sorry, the government knows better than you when it comes to stripping, prostitution, alcohol and tobacco - you are a hypocrite.
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There is a reason that every comedy has a staff of writers: they run the material by each other and get rid of the crap. This was an example of crap that should have been left in the writer’s room.
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So an effort to curb human trafficking is “over regulating everything.” Maybe the Trump delegate indicted on child pornography, explosives and gun charges can raise “over regulation” as a defense.
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Well your “mommy-state” nonsense aside, this is not about “mommy-state” anything. This is about conservative puritanical hypocrisy and bullshit.
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Actually, it’s just another example of conservative “humor.” These guys are a laugh a minute.
Well, in all fairness, Bobby Jindal did drop out of the presidential race and is no longer governor, so Louisiana had to do something to further embarrass itself and the nation. We are in competition with Texas, Mississippi and Alabama for worst legislators. Sounds like we are winning.
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But the problem with what you’re saying is that not all of these things are equivalent. Abortion, for instance, isn’t the same thing as purchasing a tobacco product, or selective service isn’t the same thing as alcohol consumption. Being pro-choice and believing that maybe a 16 year old girl shouldn’t be forced to bring a baby to term, while also believing that 18 years of age might be a little too young for a society to allow alcohol consumption doesn’t make one a hypocrite. Different ages are applied to certain regulations because each has its own unique ramifications, societal and psychological impacts.
In this instance (strippers), weight is a superficial trait. Age is a whole different issue, and it can be argued that at 18 a young mind isn’t fully developed enough to comprehend the long term impacts of what being in the sex industry might yield.
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This.
Just wait a minute here…don’t chubby chasers have rights, too?
This looks just like the guy that comes through my toll booth every Saturday, hands me a twenty and asks for all ones back.
What a cheap fucker!
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Is there any way I can get it to grope me… it has been a while?
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Onions?
actually lmao
ty for that
Couple this idea with a limit on fatheads in state government and you’ve got something.
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Oh, c’mon, if Louisiana officials can’t put those big life-sized Drew Brees fatheads on their office walls, what’ll they do?
Though… Brees does kinda look like he’s wearing high-heels there… and those are some nice gams… is he under 160 lbs?
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Exactly! And age limits, too.
… so he stopped twiddling his thumbs at his desk, and started wondering what else he could twiddle…
Republicans are for regulation. Democrats are for freedom.