"Tell black guys that she wants to take away their menthol cigarettes" is exactly the dumb racist shit I would expect from Elon Musk at the wheel.
I really don't think putting Elon in charge is gonna work out for Trump how he thinks it is.
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That really is an issue for black voters. I listened to a townhall on it and wow the black voters were mad and felt very targeted by any talk of it.
Yeah, kinda showing your own ignorance if you think this doesn't matter. I'm white, but grew up in Black neighborhoods and smoke monthol. It absolutely feels like racist targeting. Ban the cigarettes that almost exclusively black people smoke, but keep the cigarettes and chewing tobacco that white people use? Feels pretty fucking racist dude.
Well I get the idea to ban "flavors" and "enhancements". But you can't ban tobacco just like you can't ban alcohol. The townhall didn't get that, they said if you ban one you should ban the other. But making all tobacco illegal will just make a massive black market.
Hah black market
As if there wouldn't be a black market for menthols if they were the only product to be banned.
Compared to a black market for tobacco if tobacco was banned? That's several different orders of magnitude.
…Putin Elon in charge…
FTFY
To Musk free speech has always meant the freedom to lie for his own benefit. Trump is the same.
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