Anything other than guns.
In the ongoing effort to talk about anything except controlling guns in response to our country’s ongoing massacre problem, the public intellectuals of the American Right have descended to watch-out-for-the-hopheads levels that are beneath even those plumbed by Joe and Frank on the old Dragnet show, and those guys had a case where a hophead literally buried his head in the ground.
As usual, the primary sewage treatment plant for this stuff is the Fox News prime time lineup. Laura Ingraham blames legalized Mary Jane for seducing god-fearing young men into opening fire on schools and parades. From Vanity Fair:
“Why aren’t people in general not talking more about the pot-psychosis–violent-behavior connection?” Ingraham asked.
“What we find in studies [is that] it’s very clear that the use of the high-potency marijuana is strongly associated with the development of psychosis,” Kamer claimed. He added that his “colleagues in Colorado, where they’re sounding the alarm because that was one of the first states to legalize—it’s practically a daily occurrence that kids come into the emergency rooms in florid, cannabis-induced psychosis.”
Tucker Carlson is on the Killer Weed program, too, but also has joined Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene (R-Crazyville) in pinning the blame on SSRIs and similar drugs. Carlson also would like you to know that your mother and the other women in your life are probably to blame for why you’re standing on a rooftop with your AR-15, sizing up your targets. From Newsweek: "They are numbed by the endless psychotropic drugs that are handed out in every school in the country by crackpots posing as counselors," he went on "And of course, they are angry, they know that their lives will not be better than their parents', they will be worse. That is all but guaranteed, they know that. They are not that stupid," Carlson said.
"And yet the authorities in their lives, mostly women, never stop lecturing them about their so-called privilege.
'You're male, you are privileged.' Imagine that, try and imagine an unhealthier, unhappier life than that. So a lot of young men in America are going nuts.”
MTG has her own little video channel now to document whatever particular psychological episode she is going through at the moment. She’s banging away on SSRI’s.
“When are we going to have an honest conversation about drug abuse, mental illness, and SSRI’s… and deadly side effects. Are we really going to keep pretending? Or covering for Big Pharma? Because I’m absolutely done with the political plays on this bullshit.”
Annnnnd, we’re off.
“The guy made rap videos about school shootings or being killed in a hale of bullets by police and was ‘known to the police.’ The public deserves to know why! Release his records, school record, arrest, drugs and prescription drugs, hospitalizations, psychiatric. The public should not allow this to continue. People are not stupid. Is he in jail or rehab or a psychiatric center in this photo? That’s not his bedroom. 22 yrs old and 5’11 and 120 lbs is not normal or healthy. What drugs or psychiatric drugs or both does he use?”
The photo to which she is referring was a fake. Full speed ahead!
“Supposedly this is photoshopped. More reason to release his records. What’s wrong with him?”
Well, I’m just spitballing here but maybe it would have something to do with the fact that the guy was deeply troubled and still able to arm himself before a parade in Illinois as though he were humping the pig across the Central Highlands in 1967. These really are the mole people.