Originally published at: Trump’s Plans To Decimate Regulation Hang Over Supreme Court’s Vaping Arguments
Mondays’ oral arguments on the Food and Drug Administration’s rejection of a new flavored vape was, and felt like, a lame-duck exercise — a challenge against an agency regulation that may well evaporate as soon as President-elect Donald Trump takes power. “Frankly, we don’t know how FDA is going to approach it on remand,” Eric…
Imagine that your job consists of working out the details of offering milk-and-cookies-flavored vapes.
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I dunno. I’m coming down on the side of “why the fuck even bother”? Should we really spend even a single penny to protect people from their own behavior? But it does open up quite the legal opportunity. Because if SCOTUS rules that the FDA can’t regulate flavored vapes, then isn’t the next logical argument that the government can’t regulate cocaine or heroin, or pretty much anything? Those red states are just gonna love all them jobs tending the unregulated shitpiles that will open as a result. Can you smell the freedumb?
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Watching how the SC reacts to Trump will be interesting. The majority are conservative but know that Trump wants to gut their power to enhance his own. They may not want to collaborate in making themselves subservient to a king.
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Make America Gag Again
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I’m thinking a video of Deep Purple playing a lounge version of “Smoke On The Water” would seem oddly appropriate about now. Enjoy!!
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As well as the licensing details of offering Skittles-flavored vapes.
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7,12 dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA). That chemical is give off in tobacco smoke. It causes cancer and promotes tumor growth. Not good for humans of any age.
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Maybe I’m getting senile, but the headline on this article “Trump’s Plans To Decimate Regulation Hang Over Supreme Court’s Vaping Arguments” is one of the worst I’ve ever seen. After studying it awhile, I get what it’s trying to say, but you shouldn’t have to study a headline. It gave me a hangover.
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the ultra-conservative 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
Known to Americans as “the problem”.
Forget the Deep State, conservatives. Here’s your hive of radical activism. Lock it up!
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Singer is lounge, but keyboard player is inspired. I want to hear their version of War Pigs
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I’m sorry, but … anyone engaged in producing and selling any nicotine delivery system is a fucking drug dealer and should be treated like a fucking drug dealer. I can’t buy pot, but assholes can sell “milk and cookies” nicotine? Fuck that.
ETA Apologies for the anger.
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A remarkably cynical exercise in creating the appearance of a fair-minded court weighing actual evidence to make a public-spirited decision in accordance with a statute, as if craving the public response “Good old Court! I always knew they would do the right thing. They turn out to be legitimate after all”
— none of this will matter in The Future Guy’s admin, where they won’t even bother with the Court other than as a branding exercise: “Legitimated by the Court.”
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Oh, my. What a case. Is it schenfraude? excuse the spelling. Wonder if the Supreme’s have tumbled to the obvious problem. If Trump doesn’t like them, he could have them shot and perhaps that would be totally legal according to their own reasoning? or am I confused?
Kudos for the anger.
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I don’t have the slightest doubt that the Trump majority in SCOTUS will do everything it can to destroy our current government and the remains of the New Deal and grease the skids for our slide into autocracy. Their immunity for Trump is part of that.
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The Supremes may yet regret their
“Rule for the ages” in granting Trump
immunity. One can hope.
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He has bought himself a country. He’s co president. We did it to ourselves.1/3 of eligible voters didn’t vote. 
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This is supposed to be the start of a geopolitical realignment. WIth the disruption of supply and production chains during the pandemic and increased competition between China and the US, we’ll hear more about near-shoring, on-shoring and friend-shoring. It could mean profound changes in the US labor market are coming.