Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said while he's been focused on protecting kids from the proliferation of THC products, he’s also against adults buying them. trib.al/tbyNXao
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So the follow up is "when will we expect alcohol to be made illegal?"
may 29, 2025, 7:16 pm • 18 0 • view
Now do guns. 🙄
may 30, 2025, 1:25 pm • 2 0 • view
No. #imnotgoingtoelsalvador
may 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 0 0 • view
So JUST weapons to kill oneself, schoolkids and delivery drivers turning around in one's driveway then i guess.
may 30, 2025, 1:51 pm • 0 0 • view
Dan Patrick is denying vets the aid they ask him for.
may 30, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
So is Dan Patrick immediately going to start his crusade to get guns off shelves?
may 30, 2025, 11:49 am • 0 0 • view
Some clown made it seem normal to disrespect the media when they ask questions.
may 30, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Is this the same man who hired his mistress, moved her to Austin so he didn’t have drive far and his wife is in the state senate?
may 30, 2025, 9:10 pm • 0 0 • view
No that was the other asshat, Paxton
may 30, 2025, 10:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Lots of idiots get elected in TX. Sucks for the people that didn’t vote for them.
may 30, 2025, 1:22 pm • 2 0 • view
Like Axes, knives, chain saws, cars?
may 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
may 31, 2025, 12:11 am • 0 0 • view
"Reporter Bashing 101". This was the only course offered at Trump University. He graduated.
may 29, 2025, 6:52 pm • 7 0 • view
My tolerance wouldn't allow me to be disrespected like this.
may 30, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Hey Dan go fuck yourself.
may 30, 2025, 11:42 am • 0 0 • view
Dan Patrick always favors utter repression of his fellows so that he can enjoy privileges they do not.
may 30, 2025, 1:00 pm • 3 0 • view
That guy looks lika an evangelical pastor..........🤮
may 30, 2025, 4:01 am • 6 0 • view
I’m sorry, I guess ALL adults aren’t allowed to make their own choices now. Not just the women! If Dan Patrick were so concerned about adults he’d be banning driverless semi-trucks and compelling investment into San Antonio’s lack of public transport to prevent drunk driving!!!
may 30, 2025, 4:18 pm • 0 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 12:34 pm • 1 0 • view
Guns kill 1000 times more then THC ever will, that is a fact! I bet it's even a higher ratio then 1000 to 1!
may 30, 2025, 4:36 pm • 3 0 • view
These people are so fucking stupid, it's painful
may 30, 2025, 7:29 pm • 1 0 • view
Dan Patrick looks like Hank Hill, but is as dumb as Dale Gribble, and even Hank Hill himself would despise him.
may 30, 2025, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
Good: Guns, violence, revenge fantasies, alcohol, war, kicking down at the poors Bad: Weed, boobs, bodily autonomy Seems kinda backwards.
may 30, 2025, 3:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Uh.. zero deaths from THC - overdose or otherwise Meanwhile your abortion ban is a KILLER of women Fuck right off ass hole
may 30, 2025, 8:19 pm • 6 0 • view
Puritanical bullshit. He's fine with cigarettes, alcohol, and guns, but THC is a bridge too far apparently.
may 30, 2025, 2:28 pm • 46 1 • view
I figure the problem is people can grow their own. There's no profit to be made yet. Boehner left the Senate after being hard-line anti-pot, only to join the board of directors of a pot growing company. Always follow the money.
may 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 14 0 • view
Well said.
may 30, 2025, 6:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Gotta have something amecdotal to rile up the faithful. Litmus test.
may 30, 2025, 9:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone needs to say this out loud in this setting. Call these hypocrite bastards out to their face! “Oh no not some snacks that may have a relaxing effect…” Fucking joke
may 30, 2025, 3:23 pm • 8 0 • view
4,600 gun related deaths in Texas in 2023 Opiod and Fentanyl leading cause of drug related deaths So, what is the next political theater issue to save dying Texans? Apple seeds? Shoe laces? Beer bottle caps?
may 30, 2025, 2:48 pm • 10 0 • view
Dildos.
may 30, 2025, 2:56 pm • 5 0 • view
lol. And vibrators.. “to protect women”
may 30, 2025, 2:57 pm • 4 0 • view
Wait a minute, Isn’t Patrick the guy who said during Covid from his basement, that grandpas should be willing to die for the DOW! That Dan Patrick!
may 30, 2025, 10:52 am • 8 0 • view
I guess the THC lobby didn't throw enough money at this fraud the way the alcohol and gun lobbyists do.
may 30, 2025, 11:16 am • 28 0 • view
Where do his multiple indictments stand? Shouldn’t he be addressing those?
may 30, 2025, 11:47 am • 5 0 • view
Do they realize marijuana has been legal in multiple states for a while, and kids and adults aren't dying because of it? More people die from alcohol abuse than from marijuana.
may 30, 2025, 4:00 am • 12 0 • view
Here in Massachusetts pot is legal. We have 650 marijuana dispensaries. We also have many of the best colleges with the smartest students in the world.
may 30, 2025, 5:01 am • 6 0 • view
But of course not restrict guns which actually have been used to kill children.
may 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 4 0 • view
THC = Bad Guns = Great For fucks sake!
may 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 11 0 • view
Lt Dan is a POS poser from Maryland. No idea why real Texans keep voting for this douche.
jun 2, 2025, 1:07 am • 0 0 • view
Guns Danny boi Guns
may 30, 2025, 12:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Squares
may 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 0 0 • view
But he’s cool with all of those people buying all the guns they want! Even if they have mental health issues.
may 30, 2025, 6:14 pm • 11 0 • view
Dan Patrick should be held up against at a wall and shot
may 30, 2025, 4:03 am • 0 0 • view
He has zero problem with a ten-year-old girl, impregnated by her uncle, hemorrhaging to death in childbirth.
may 30, 2025, 2:55 pm • 38 0 • view
guns are killing kids and these old-fashioned control freaks want to take away drugs that help many?
may 30, 2025, 2:42 pm • 10 0 • view
What an ignorant prude! You could die from drinking a 5th of Tequila on an empty stomach. We don't need the state's protection.
may 30, 2025, 1:36 pm • 20 0 • view
Maga republicans lie
may 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 1 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 1:51 pm • 27 2 • view
Every argument they have is disingenuous.
may 30, 2025, 3:49 am • 1 0 • view
Next questions:. Sir, I would like to try eating those tonight, can I get that bag? Thank you.
may 30, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Ignorant AF. Guns, alcohol, and tobacco can ALL kill you, those edibles will not. Now, once they're illegal and people buy them from sketchy dealers that may have products laced with other drugs... THAT could kill you. 🤦🏻♂️
may 30, 2025, 3:43 am • 20 0 • view
Precisely. Legalize all drugs, but regulate them. People are going to get drugs no matter what, so may as well make it a transparent economy where safety is respected, and criminals don’t fund their enterprises.
may 30, 2025, 11:49 am • 2 0 • view
You know his surname is Goebels, right? His father was a Nazi.
jun 2, 2025, 1:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Wait until he hears about what else can be bought easily in Texas that actually kills a whole lot of people.
may 30, 2025, 1:32 pm • 19 0 • view
Except for guns.
may 30, 2025, 9:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The party of *freedom!* loves to tell you what's best for you.
may 30, 2025, 5:28 pm • 11 0 • view
All day long....
may 30, 2025, 7:39 pm • 2 0 • view
THC has improved my mental health. It allows my mind to stop racing and let me relax for a change. Buddy who stepped in front of a train probably had other issues and wasn’t some THC snacks that made him do it. I bet this guy wouldn’t allow dancing in his town either.
may 31, 2025, 12:11 am • 1 0 • view
Most punchable human being, ever.
may 30, 2025, 2:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Tobacco guns and alcohol get green light
may 30, 2025, 3:23 am • 0 0 • view
Big ole tough Texas, is a fucking nanny-state!! 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
may 30, 2025, 2:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Is he actually that ignorant or is that an act?
may 30, 2025, 3:25 am • 2 0 • view
Governor: Do you want to go home and eat a bag of this tonight?! Me: Yes. Yes I do.
may 30, 2025, 4:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck old white men, especially from dipshit Texas.
may 30, 2025, 4:08 am • 0 0 • view
First red flag is claiming they protect kids. Didn't see this outrage during the tidepod challenge.
may 30, 2025, 2:14 pm • 0 0 • view
But buying a gun off a shelf is fine. Crazy; absolutely crazy.
may 30, 2025, 6:15 am • 2 0 • view
Yet he would be fine with buying guns at drive thrus all over Texas. #fetish
may 30, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
Newsflash for that guy it’s still being bought an used in mass quantities in Texas it’s just not regulated for quality so kids an people could die from it being laced an there is no tax collected from it to help Texas that took 71 billion from federal government last year
may 30, 2025, 8:08 pm • 3 0 • view
So agree. I’m in Florida so same.
may 30, 2025, 11:26 pm • 1 0 • view
0 deaths per year from THC overdose 46,072 deaths in the USA from guns in 2023 www.dea.gov/factsheets/m... www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/.... Your abortion ban has killed more people than marijuana, dipshit!
may 30, 2025, 7:17 pm • 27 3 • view
178,000 alcohol related deaths in the USA each year.
jun 3, 2025, 4:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Freedom loving right wingers
may 30, 2025, 3:19 am • 4 0 • view
Nobody told them there texican GOPs they get to tax the ever loving shit out of it?
may 30, 2025, 3:47 pm • 0 0 • view
It’s the cartoonish hats for me…
may 30, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
The fuck is this, the 1950s??
may 30, 2025, 2:06 pm • 2 0 • view
I guess he’s never had a drink either. This is just pathetic. Thank Thor I’m Canadian. I’ll enjoy my legal THC and go to work refreshed the next day.
may 30, 2025, 6:50 pm • 1 0 • view
This guy is a fucking moron. The reporter should have said “sure, hand that to me right now and I’ll down the whole bag and I’ll see you tomorrow morning”. Using fear and ignorance to get your point across. Fucking moron!!! The worst that could happen is a tummy ache or you’d get really snacky 😂
may 30, 2025, 6:48 pm • 12 0 • view
So much for small government. Lol suck it up Texas.
may 30, 2025, 2:22 pm • 3 0 • view
Fair or not I judge entire states of voters by the people they elect to represent them. Do better, Texas. A lot better.
may 30, 2025, 2:24 pm • 0 0 • view
So are they gonna ban booze?
may 30, 2025, 7:03 pm • 14 0 • view
Those private prisons need more inmates $$$
may 29, 2025, 6:40 pm • 16 0 • view
This 💯💯
may 29, 2025, 6:42 pm • 4 0 • view
It guns? Fine.
may 30, 2025, 12:16 pm • 0 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 9:07 am • 0 0 • view
But guns are OK, right?
may 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 0 0 • view
Someone refresh my memory. What's the number one cause of death for American children?
may 30, 2025, 11:16 am • 19 0 • view
But kids being slaughtered by guns in their classrooms...that is not his problem.
may 30, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 10:46 am • 11 1 • view
may 30, 2025, 3:30 am • 11 3 • view
k now do cigarettes and guns
may 30, 2025, 3:13 am • 6 0 • view
Meanwhile alcohol is legal.
may 30, 2025, 8:16 pm • 3 0 • view
Someone wanna tell that numbnutz that this isn't the sixties...we already know the dangers of THC are not only minimal...but pale in comparison to those of alcohol. Who TF is this moron trying to convince?
may 30, 2025, 8:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Leave the nanny state Texans
may 30, 2025, 2:17 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s such an out of touch loser
may 30, 2025, 12:12 pm • 0 0 • view
cool, when you getting rid of tobacco
may 30, 2025, 3:12 am • 31 1 • view
Don't forget about booze.
may 30, 2025, 4:48 am • 0 0 • view
And guns?
may 30, 2025, 3:16 am • 29 0 • view
My gateway drug. If you believe there is such a thing.
may 30, 2025, 12:17 pm • 0 0 • view
Why are these men so emotional? Calm down. Jeez.
may 30, 2025, 4:02 am • 9 0 • view
Because it's a way to shut down the conversation. That was pure theatrics. This guy doesn't give a shit.
may 30, 2025, 4:06 am • 9 0 • view
I love how he shows his willful ignorance by stating that if you eat the thc gummies, you won't be here. People don't OD and die on cannabis, you pompous skidmark.
may 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 15 0 • view
Point a joint at his head and then point a gun at his head. See which one makes him flinch.
may 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Why is every Republican politician in Texas such an asshole? How do they keep getting elected?
may 30, 2025, 6:22 pm • 26 0 • view
Have you met any Texans?
may 30, 2025, 6:51 pm • 15 0 • view
Correct.
may 30, 2025, 7:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Uhm, excuse you! There’s a whole lot of Texans down here fighting for change. Don’t overlook us. The cities are blue. Texas historically has had more democratic governors than republicans. Republicans got in and gerrymandered the crap out of Texas.
may 30, 2025, 11:27 pm • 4 0 • view
My kids live in Texas. One in Houston, one in San Antonio. They are fighting to make Texas blue!
may 30, 2025, 11:49 pm • 5 0 • view
I’m in San Antonio. Right now we’re fighting to keep it blue. Abbott and the republicans have put a lot of money into their chosen endorsement for mayor. We’ve got to get out the vote.
may 30, 2025, 11:59 pm • 4 0 • view
Those two up there acting like Texas hasn't always been full of useless nut bags is hysterical to me.
may 31, 2025, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
The "good ol' boys club" stick together, financed by Tim Dunn & Farris Wilks.
may 30, 2025, 7:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick is breathtakingly out of touch. He looks incredibly stupid and makes Texans look stupid. Cannabis is legal in 39 states for medical use and 24 states for recreational use.
may 30, 2025, 5:52 pm • 20 2 • view
Yeah. It is crazy talk!! These MFs are so damn ignorant 🤦♀️
may 30, 2025, 6:32 pm • 1 0 • view
Liberty be damned. Your freedom will be defined by us.
may 30, 2025, 1:18 pm • 2 0 • view
protecting the kids lol
may 30, 2025, 3:09 am • 5 0 • view
What if each gun sale comes with a THC product? Would he approve of it then?
may 30, 2025, 3:13 am • 13 0 • view
The BIGGEST killer of kids is Republican policies
may 30, 2025, 4:40 am • 1 0 • view
Texas- land of the tyrants who will control what you eat
may 30, 2025, 7:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Dumb ass texas
may 30, 2025, 5:51 pm • 0 0 • view
He needs some shoved up his arse. Would do him some good.
may 30, 2025, 1:20 pm • 2 0 • view
What the hell has Texas become?
may 31, 2025, 1:15 am • 1 0 • view
Dan’s foreskin is jutting out of his shirt collar.
may 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 0 0 • view
That clown lost me way back at “your grandma would be proud to die for our economy.”
may 30, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
THC gummies are the only substance that controls or dampens my tingling due to peripheral neuropathy. So, of course, my government will take it away. I hate my state. We are run by fucking idiots.
may 30, 2025, 3:19 am • 11 0 • view
It sure is a good thing that Alcohol has never killed anyone or ruined their lives!
may 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 6 0 • view
It's hard to tell whether he or Abbott is worse. They are both a POS.
may 30, 2025, 1:28 pm • 5 0 • view
Patrick and Paxton are evil af. I think Abbott is just a vessel.
may 30, 2025, 2:24 pm • 2 0 • view
‘Small government’ lovers again forcing big government onto adults! So, maybe adults shouldn’t join the military or swim or drive, these are dangerous. The GOP was never for small government, they just want to control everyone and everything we all do.
may 30, 2025, 1:55 pm • 2 0 • view
But, guns for everyone.
may 30, 2025, 10:29 pm • 2 0 • view
may 30, 2025, 2:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Except for booze cigarettes and guns you can buy them all day long
may 30, 2025, 8:19 pm • 7 0 • view
That's a typical Tuesday night for me 🤣🤣
may 30, 2025, 11:52 pm • 0 0 • view
What a loser
may 29, 2025, 6:40 pm • 7 0 • view
So, he's going to ban alcohol? Because if you're going to ban stuff that encourages people to do stupid things...
may 30, 2025, 4:49 pm • 17 0 • view
"We don't want anyone buying things off the shelf which could kill you". Except guns. Guns are ok. And tobacco. Oh and alcohol of course.
may 30, 2025, 6:45 am • 4 0 • view
Fuck this clown 🤡
may 30, 2025, 4:54 am • 0 0 • view
Come to Colorado, we'll take your green 💵.
may 30, 2025, 3:25 pm • 0 0 • view
Nah, NM is closer 😉
may 30, 2025, 3:42 pm • 0 0 • view
If he doesn’t want to eat it, can I?
may 30, 2025, 2:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Is that DF talking about guns??? Sounds like it.
may 30, 2025, 5:13 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck Dan Patrick
may 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Miserable weirdo.
may 30, 2025, 5:02 am • 0 0 • view
How many gun victims? How many alcohol victims? How many THC victims?
may 30, 2025, 3:10 am • 35 2 • view
0 from THC, literally 0!
may 30, 2025, 7:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Guess alcohol and tobacco are next
may 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 8 0 • view
THC doesn't have a big enough lobby, huh?
may 30, 2025, 3:19 am • 11 0 • view
Fuck these hypocritical assholes
may 30, 2025, 2:48 pm • 0 0 • view
he got that hairpiece off the shelf
may 30, 2025, 12:33 pm • 4 0 • view
Stuck to the floor wasn't it?
may 30, 2025, 3:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Wow look at all that freedom
may 30, 2025, 2:02 pm • 15 0 • view
Another flabby white guy yapping his gums.
may 30, 2025, 6:29 am • 2 0 • view
This is what happens when you have a theocracy for state govt... "Them darn kids moving their hips like that to that rock n roll devil's music! Next they'll be smoking the Devil's Lettuce..."
may 30, 2025, 3:55 am • 3 0 • view
He better take that up with Elon next time he’s in south Texas.
may 30, 2025, 2:43 pm • 1 0 • view
I don't do it so you can't either. Now put ten commandments in every classroom.
may 29, 2025, 7:38 pm • 5 0 • view
Do people ever drink alcohol, and hurt themselves? The Nanny state of Texas. 🙄
may 30, 2025, 10:36 pm • 0 0 • view
What a dingus
may 31, 2025, 3:52 pm • 0 0 • view