OT…has anyone else noticed that the GOP(Q) seems to be fighting within its ranks as much or more than fighting with Dems?
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Actually, the deconstruction of the centralized mental health system began back in the 60s when the civil rights movement addressed the issue of the rights of the mentally ill housed in institutions. In the 70s, medical research was developing better medication at the same time legislation passed to decentralize and move mental health facilities into communities. Carter had a lot of money allocated, but Reagan shot down a major portion of this funding and the mentally ill were put out into a system that was never going to be able to manage their care, into communities that absolutely did not want them. My father was a chaplain at the mental hospital outside our town starting in 1958…by the late 70s the hospital, which was able to house 1500 patients, was pretty much empty and the mentally ill, homeless and suffering, started to invade our comfortable world. My dad warned me, when I was in college in the 70s, that my generation was going to have to deal with crisis problems because there wasn’t a place for people who are considered the lowest caste in America.
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No, but that’s not a bad thing.
Fucking thugs.
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Karma…throw out crap, comes back in your face.
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Why doesn’t the fake blonde fake journalist just go to Fox already?
Well, it was cold last January.
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Perhaps someone who has been discovered to have used a burner phone for planning?
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Then they should have stayed home.
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But, but, but Caesar asked nicely.
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Do you mean when he spewed his word salad?
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For the record, Dana Bash will inevitably ask if the WH is politicizing DOJ.
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Nor do they press wild flowers.
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The FBI is now investigating that.
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Life was simpler, when ‘Genghis Stupid’ relied on Twitter.
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Key grips for porn have to live somewhere.
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Don’t forget St Ronnie closed the California state mental hospitals when he was governor in the name of freedom. Literally! Out in the street with little or no ability to take care of themselves. Gives a whole new meaning to the refrain in the old song ‘Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose’
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When people use the term “it could snowball”, it can allude to exponential increase (often from a relatively small beginning).
And, in the case of the Insurrection, I am prepared to count “danger to Team Trump” as what is increasing.
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I would not enjoy being a person of interest and in the cross-hairs of LEO and the DOJ. If I had a bit of bravado I would be doing a lot of bluster and boasting…
But that would not make my predicament any better.