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CPAC attendee warns of kids chugging pills at so-called ‘Skittles parties’

They probably aren’t a thing.

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Yesterday, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), where the brightest minds in conservatism join together, speakers spent the day warning that liberalism would result in the elimination of hamburgers.

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Today, the fear-mongering continued, with reporter Sara Carter, of Release the Memo fame, warning that kids are throwing Skittles parties.

Unfortunately, this is not a party where everyone gets served some delicious Skittles, as delightful as that would be, but another conservative bugaboo about the state of America today.

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“Our kids are having parties, they call them ‘Skittles parties,’” Carter said, “where they bring pills and put them into bowls and everybody picks a pill that they want and takes them. I mean, it’s kind of shocking when I heard about this, randomly taking pills.”

Kids do dumb things, and sure, it’s plausible that this has happened among a group of dumb friends, but the idea that swathes of American children are tossing all their pills in a bowl and guzzling random handfuls ranks up there with the mythological bracelet parties, where children supposedly wore color-coded bracelets that let their friends know what sex acts they were willing to perform.

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They’re urban legends that, regardless of how implausible they sound, are signposts with conservatives of how much this great nation has devolved.

Kids! Doing drugs! Indiscriminately!

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There are still two more days left of CPAC.

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