{"id":1536,"date":"2014-11-04T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2014\/11\/04\/more-weed-less-war\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:24:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:24:41","slug":"more-weed-less-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=1536","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;More Weed. Less War&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:11325,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/blogs\\\/itsallpolitics\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/23\\\/358118060\\\/outside-group-sends-blunt-message-in-n-c-senate-race&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20150512122652\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.npr.org\\\/blogs\\\/itsallpolitics\\\/2014\\\/10\\\/23\\\/358118060\\\/outside-group-sends-blunt-message-in-n-c-senate-race&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 03:46:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-19 03:46:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nAnd in the running for the most inane political ad of the year is this one from the American Future Fund. It popped up on me as I was playing one of those silly (but oh so addictive) Facebook games.<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83ei_QZ-LKU?rel=0\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nSupposedly these ads are paid for by &#8220;the evil Koch Brothers&#8221;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/blogs\/itsallpolitics\/2014\/10\/23\/358118060\/outside-group-sends-blunt-message-in-n-c-senate-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to NPR<\/a> &#8211; hardly an unbiased source &#8211; they funded these ads to siphon off votes from Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) in her race with Speaker Thom Tillis (R-Mecklenburg).<\/p>\n<p>Given how Hagan constantly appealed to low information voters and made the US Senate race seem more like a school board election, I&#8217;d say it is just desserts.<\/p>\n<p>Remember hipsters, &#8220;Get High, Get Haugh&#8221; has a better vibe than &#8220;Get High, Get Hagan&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And in the running for the most inane political ad of the year is this one from the American&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2444,2445],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2014-elections","tag-political-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10058,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions\/10058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}