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haele

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16. His aunt had a frontal lobotomy.

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #4)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 08:53 PM

Aug 29

Im pretty sure he has an idea of what it was like back just with basic psych medications - Ritalin, Benzidine, Lithium, Depekote, ect...
Even those days were better than what he's careening towards.

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RFK Jr., without evidence, targets psychiatric meds in wake of Minneapolis mass shooting [View all] USS_Dauntless Aug 29 OP

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. I think I'll scream. Deuxcents Aug 29 #1

I fucking hate this man so much. USS_Dauntless Aug 29 #8

Yup, that will stop those pesky mass shooting, because it was those meds that made them do it. (sarcasm) lostincalifornia Aug 29 #2

So what now? FalloutShelter Aug 29 #3

No. USS_Dauntless Aug 29 #7

My mother was a student nurse after WWII, she watched priests do exorcisms on the psych ward Irish_Dem Aug 29 #10

Isn't there a huge range from anxiety to schizophrenia womanofthehills Aug 29 #20

Yes of course. Mood disorders are quite different from the psychotic disorders. Irish_Dem Saturday #23

Does RFK Jr know what it was like before psych meds? Irish_Dem Aug 29 #4

His aunt had a frontal lobotomy. haele Aug 29 #16

Yes at least there were psych hospitals back then. Irish_Dem Aug 29 #17

Cuz it couldn't be the guns. CincyDem Aug 29 #5

It's not the pills robert, it's the guns, look there first. Blues Heron Aug 29 #6

It could not possibly be the guns. Turbineguy Aug 29 #9

Stomach-turning, given the tragic role of gun violence in rfk jr's family. (nt) Paladin Aug 29 #11

I predict Kennedy will be impeached or forced to resign before Trump's term is over Fiendish Thingy Aug 29 #12

I hope the pharma industry tells him to pound sand. USS_Dauntless Aug 29 #15

I feel like he'll be the first one and that it will happen soon Iris Aug 29 #19

He hildegaard28 Saturday #22

Other countries have psychiatric meds, but they don't have the mass shootings. Mister Ed Aug 29 #13

Guns are the common denominator in all these mass murders and yet..what else can they blame for this mess Deuxcents Aug 29 #14

Talking like Tom Cruise and Scientology. no_hypocrisy Aug 29 #18

Let's send RFK on a vacation to Louisiana with free all-you-can-eat raw oysters Blue Owl Aug 29 #21