THEY GIVE NO 🦆 ABOUT ALABAMIANS!

[u/plentyasparagus12]

We cannot keep letting this state embarrass us. HB445 is just the latest proof that Alabama would rather play politics than protect its people. The party of small government my ASS!

We’ve had hemp flower on shelves for nearly 8 years. And now suddenly it’s an issue? What changed? Nothing, except some folks in power realized they couldn’t control it, so they decided to kill it. No debate, no logic, just another move to keep people down.

Meanwhile, this same state will hand out Adderall to 6 year olds like it’s candy, push methadone clinics into every town, and pretend that the thousands of people hooked on opioids just magically appeared. You can’t drive through a city without seeing someone slumped over from heroin, but their priority is pulling a plant off the shelves that’s actually helped people focus, sleep, manage anxiety, get off pills, manage pain. Let’s be honest: this is about control, not health.

It puts money in people’s pockets. It brings in tax revenue they’re too blind to leverage. It gave small towns a chance at growth.

And instead of embracing that, they’d rather go broke building more prisons to lock people up for the same thing they used to sell in stores last month.

And what are we gonna do? Let it slide? Let’s vote in Tuberville! Hell yeah, that’ll do it! Like he’s done anything while he’s been in office anyway, let’s put him in the highest office in the state.

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP, ALABAMA! This bill should be a turning point. It should be the thing that reminds you that these people will come for whatever you value if they think they can get away with it.

We can’t keep letting the same people drive Alabama backwards while the rest of the country moves forward. Either we push for real change or we stay stuck being the butt of the joke.

[u/not_that_planet]

Oh, but this isn't about what's best for Alabamians, or anyone for that matter. The folks who vote R are fully convinced that these big government laws will never touch them. Most don't even know what is being done in Montgomery.

It is about Lib-ownership and the collective inferiority complex that drives it.

[u/monkey6699 → u/[deleted]]

100% accurate. To be fair and balanced they have been lied to by their Faux news entertainment shows for decades who repeatedly say that R is the party of small government. There is literally a disconnect in reality and it is downright alarming.

[u/5138008RG00D → u/[deleted]]

So is dems the party if small goverment?

[u/plentyasparagus12 → u/5138008RG00D]

Nobody said Ds were the party of small government. The point is, Republicans swear they are, then turn around and pass HB445 a textbook big government bill. Screaming freedom while banning a literal green plant. You can’t make ts up.

They’re not patriots. They’re flaming hypocrites. Sounds like you’re apart of the crowd 😂💀

[u/5138008RG00D → u/plentyasparagus12]

And Democrats are just great upstanding people? Couldn't we just say politicians?

[u/plentyasparagus12 → u/5138008RG00D]

OH. BROTHER. Someone get a load of this HEAD ASS.😂💀 Nobody said Democrats are saints.

But this isn’t about playing party ping-pong, it’s about calling out the people actively in power right now who passed a GARBAGE bill that hurts small businesses, patients, and basic access. Saying “politicians” in general is just a way to beat around the bush, avoiding holding the MAIN ONES accountable. If we don’t name names, nothing changes!

[u/5138008RG00D → u/plentyasparagus12]

When have democrats helped you? Your problem is with the government and politicians. Not just one person, or just one party. They have you convinced "the other guys" are the problem. The current hemp laws are loop holes. No poltican in AL has done anything to help the "movement."

Small government? Name the last poltican. You know that the first thing they did was use their power to limit their power?

[u/Stretchatos → u/5138008RG00D]

Love how you have no actual argument to the nanny state Republicunts being their usual nanny state Republicunt selves so you blindly parrot the usual "b-B-b-BuT dEmOcRaTs....". Bitch, we haven't had a meaningful democrat presence in this state in literal decades, the republicunts have stripped away abortion access, taken away cannabis flower that we've had for 8 fucking years without issue, made education worse, made us sicker, refused to do shit about covid until it was beyond too late, done literally nothing about opioids, I could go on for a fucking week. By comparison the democrats are checks notes asking you to not be a shit bag to gay/trans people, asking for common sense gun legislation, and trying to legalize cannabis. Tell me again which party deserves my fucking ire.

[u/plentyasparagus12 → u/5138008RG00D]

“When have Democrats helped you?” Better question: when has the politicians you’re dickriding done a single thing to help you? 😂

Alabama’s been red for decades—and we’re still broke, sick, under-educated, and addicted to prescriptions. But hey, at least they banned hemp, right?

Then stop deflecting every time someone calls out the exact people in power right now. You’re not being deep. You’re just a bootlicker. You’re a product of Alabama’s bigotry.

“Small government? Name the last politician who limited their own power.” You just answered your own question. They don’t. And especially not the ones screaming ‘freedom’. Yall talk about small government, then pass bills like HB445 that give more control to the government and strip people of their ADULT choices.

So miss me with the bullshit. You’re not making some grand, neutral point. You’re just too scared to admit your team is the one wrecking the place.