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1. about 1 hour ago on Half Full

   Would you like fries with that?

2. about 1 hour ago on Garfield

   Not possible, Garfield would not waste fudge like that.

3. about 3 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   We’ve been over this before and it’s been so well debunked that there’s a paved road now.

   fascism = democrats

4. about 3 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   Also consider that a lot of the leftists jumped the twitter ship when it cracked down on the child exploitation rings that ran there, …

5. about 22 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   You mean Kennedy unless you would prefer the well debunked version.

6. about 22 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   Unfortunately I’m not.

7. about 23 hours ago on Michael Ramirez

   “The Truth About Deinstitutionalization” (Excerpt)

   In 1954, the FDA approved the use of the antipsychotic drug chlorpromazine—also known by its trade name, Thorazine—to treat mental illnesses like schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Its apparent ability to control psychosis—combined with a heavy marketing campaign that made it one of the first blockbuster drugs—helped promote the notion that mental illness could be cured with medication. Specialty inpatient psychiatric hospitals would no longer be needed because patients would no longer need the kind of intensive care they promised to provide.

   Almost a decade later, President John F. Kennedy signed the Mental Retardation Facilities and Community Health Centers Construction Act. (It turned out to be the last bill Kennedy would sign.) Under the 1963 law, he said, “custodial mental institutions” would be replaced by community mental-health centers, thus allowing patients to live—and get psychiatric care—in their communities.

   In 1965, the creation of Medicaid accelerated the shift from inpatient to outpatient care: One key part of the Medicaid legislation stipulated that the federal government would not pay for inpatient care in psychiatric hospitals. This further pushed states to move patients out of costly state facilities.

   In reality, though, few community mental-health centers were built, creating an extreme shortage of mental-health care. Thorazine, initially touted as a miracle drug, soon proved to have serious side effects. More critical was the growing recognition that the treatment of mental illness is complicated: Conditions like bipolar disorder and schizophrenia cannot be “cured” with a simple drug regimen the way an antibiotic can knock out an infection. And Medicaid, now the largest payer of mental-health-care services in the country, has severely limited the number of inpatients that hospitals and other facilities can serve. The dream of community-based care turned out to be largely a failure.

8. 1 day ago on Michael Ramirez

   Mental health issues are getting out of control.

   Just think, we didn’t have all these problems before we had medications to treat them with.

9. 1 day ago on Michael Ramirez

   So you’re admitting you don’t know how to use modern technology.

10. 2 days ago on Michael Ramirez

    You mean like how all the election fraud news is being suppressed?

    As in you can’t make up headlines like this:

    “Georgia election officials admit to there being fraud in 2020 election.”