Snoop Dogg, Ayn Rand, & Amnesty for Immigrant Marijuana
Libertarian columnist Ron Hart recounts his travels:
On this trip to L.A., I sensed that there is a growing, but still closeted, group of entertainers who will confess to being libertarian after a drink or two. They tell you this with faces that say, "Please, I beg of you, just don't tell Clive Davis, Harvey Weinstein or Stephen Spielberg."
None other than Snoop Dogg, whose lyrics might expose him as a free-market capitalist, famously said that he had his "mind on my money and my money on my mind" (Ayn Rand would be proud of him). Snoop is leading the change for celebs.
Furthering the evolution of thought by Snoop Dogg, he boldly came out and said he backed libertarian Ron Paul for president. Snoop agrees with Ron Paul on a broad range of positions, from the legalization of pot to making marijuana legal. He also likes Paul's immigration policy in that if a bail of pot washes up an U.S. shore from Mexico, it is immediately granted asylum.
It may not be raining libertarianism in the entertainment business, but thank Snoop Dogg for drizzle.
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Ayn Rand was just like Snoop Diggity Ding Dong.
This is John Galt speaking.
We puffin' on Cubans so it might get dangerous
But when it isn't, you can sit izzon bizzack
And let the Bizzow Wizzow ride the trizzack, ha ha
How you feelin'? I'm up to dealin', ridin' like a villan
Makin' a killin', thrillin' the crowd wit my new hairdo,
Outfits unused, fifty dollar socks, hundred-thousand dollar shoes
Man, I'm givin' blues to these sucka MC's
Who you be? You know who I be, young nigga
I'm Tha DoggFather
Why does snoop carry an umbrella?
Fo' drizzle.
Snoop agrees with Ron Paul on a broad range of positions, from the legalization of pot to making marijuana legal.
Quite the spectrum there.
Part of the joke, yo:
I think his point is just that. The really smart humor is with "It may not be raining libertarianism in the entertainment business, but thank Snoop Dogg for drizzle." This Hart guy is very good.
Alright, I'll go back to being a humorless curmudgeon (but you have to admit that shit isn't that funny).
I groaned at the drizzle wordplay (ugh), this guy has nothing on Punmaster Tim.
Skizzle don't nizzle his pizzle from drizzle.
I don't know about a "bail of pot", but what if a bale of pot washes ashore?
Not as valuable as square grouper, but I might, uh, help keep our beaches clean.
Too bad that CA does not have an open primary. They have 172 delegates. TX does have an open primary.
Well, I smoked the entire bale, and U.S. foreign policy *still* doesn't make sense.
What? A political party that wants to legalize the bud?
Sign me up! I'm, like, all political and shit now!
Listen up, y'all, 'cause I'm in demand
The others MCs suck, there's only Ayn Rand
I'm jiggy with it, and I ain't frigid, y'all
And all my philosophy is totally original
My rational principles allow me to explain:
And if you don't like it you're an antilife altruistic statist like Wesley Mouch and you probably like Emmanual Kant and fail to realize Aristotle's contribution to philosophy and listen to rock and roll music and never even attend my lectures so you may as well kill yourself and remove yourself from the gene pool, is all I'm sayin'
Tell us what you really think. We will not judge you. Judgement requires principles. We have none.
I feel like this thread warrants this
"None other than Snoop Dogg, whose lyrics might expose him as a free-market capitalist, famously said that he had his "mind on my money and my money on my mind""
Hollywood stars own up to the fact that they are fabtastically wealthy because of .....hmmmmm....greed? Desire for wealth??
NO, NO, NO, cause Hollywood people are the most caring, most sharing, bestest people there is....
So, hard work? Uh, no, cause hard work implies some control over one's own fate and Hollywood knows that good fortune is due (except in their own case where it is ONLY luck) to greed (and luck).
God? Hell no!
So, Hollywood people are just filthy stinking rich despite themselves, and their diligent efforts to be less rich (which they fail miserably at), and never, ever, ever, EVER think about arranging their finances to avoid taxes...
So they could never ever vote for a low tax regime...
As a former pimp, Snoop Dogg earned a more honest living than almost anyone in Congress.
Rapmaster ChisO is correct, ain't no pimps and hos like there are in DC. Funny column by this op-ed libertarian. The A-List line is classsic.
55 gizzle drizzle of lizzle.
And what are Penn Jillette and Drew Carey - chopped fois gras?
Penn Jillette isn't Hollywood. Vegas? Sure. Hollywood, no.
lol, that Snoop Dog dude really cracks me up sometimes. Wow.
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I think stories like this undermine public perceptions because it makes it seem that mere 'weed legalization' is a core, crucial position of all (l)(L)ibertarians.
I think a more relevant way to frame it would be "Ending The Drug War" = not simply,'letting people get high'. It almost belittles the drug war, focusing more on middle-class kids' desire to get high rather than on the millions of people who've suffered over decades of failed policy.
Maybe this is how you want to sell "libertarianism" in SoCal... but I think for the rest of the country, Snoopy Poopy Dog is not exactly a libertarian ideological role-model.
Only Hart could weave together Snoop D O Double G and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the same column!