Missing the Point

Welcome back to camp. This is going to be a short post, because we’re traveling this week. Headed back to Washington, to pack up, sell our house and move to a friendlier climate. Washington is becoming more California every day, the latest bill that looks like it might pass will require you to apply for a license to buy a gun. This is on top of the 10-day waiting period, and the next step will be a license to buy ammunition and a needs test. Oh this will inevitably be overturned by SCOTUS, but that takes years, and the damage done will be irreparable.

Anyway, booze is in the slide out pantry next to the fridge, dinner is burgers on the grill, so name your choice of cheese and condiments, and prepare to receive. As always, please notice the cup at the tip jar qhere we restock the bar. And once again, thanks to the current contributors to the ‘keep the author lubricated’ fund. It’s what keeps me doing this.

I saw something yesterday that I thought would make an absolutely fantastic jumping off point for a post. If you’re a writer, and you have an idea, DUDE, WRITE IT DOWN IMEDIATELY. I know this, damn it. Yet in the heat of the moment, I didn’t bother, because, of course I’ll remember it!

Nope. Complete vacuum. Hit the spouse up, who as those of you that know me in real life know, is my walking talking memory, as well as my dictionary. Nope. Nothing, nada.

So I’m going to go to something I had on the back burner meaning to bring up on a slow news week.

The Seattle Times, constantly on the look out for something to rag about coming from the Trump camp, and ever vigilant for an opportunity to draw all the wrong conclusions and completely miss the point, has done it again.

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So, what they are on about, is (quoting from the article) “A lot of people have expressed this concern after an executive order from the White House announced the creation of a “Make America Healthy Again” Commission, headed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Trump’s order included a directive to “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of” drugs including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs. Kennedy has characterized SSRIs, a class of drugs often used to treat depression and anxiety, as highly addictive, potentially dangerous and overprescribed.”

Now, I’m going to repeat this last sentence, just to make sure you hear it: “A class of drugs often used to treat depression and anxiety, (believed by RFK to be) Highly addictive, potentially dangerous, and overprescribed.”

Again, RFK wants to “Assess the prevalence of and threat posed by these drugs.

He’s not talking about a ban, at least not yet. He’s saying “Hey, guys, pump the brakes for a second, and lets look at this, evaluate it, and see if we maybe have another Fentanyl type issue here!” because obviously, if we do, that’s a problem!

So, what is the brilliant minds at the Seattle Slimes arguing as a reason that RFK is a bad man?

In their own words, “According to survey data from market research firm Nielsen, 33% of women 18 to 35 in the Seattle market area — a projected 205,000 young women — used medication to combat depression or anxiety in the past 12 months.”

They even have this way cool graphic:

They go on to say:

The surveys were conducted from August 2023 to August 2024. The Seattle market area includes most of Western Washington and has an adult population of about 4.5 million. Nielsen surveyed nearly 3,900 people in the Seattle market for the new data release.

Among the 50 largest market areas, Seattle had the seventh-highest share of young women who used medication for depression or anxiety. Salt Lake City was No. 1, at 41%, followed by Kansas City, Mo., at 37% and Boston at 36%.

The lowest numbers were in markets located in the Sun Belt, such as San Antonio, Dallas and Los Angeles, where the rate of use for these drugs among young women was between 10% and 15%.

Demographics almost certainly play a role here. Research has shown a significantly higher use of antidepressants among white people than among Black, Asian or Hispanic people. This is true for men and women, but the gap is even more pronounced among women.

Well, they see this as a good argument for why we should not study, ban, or even look at the use or overuse of this type of drug!!!

First off, let’s look at the bit about how White folks, and especially White women, and most especially, in leftist enclaves are the biggest users of this poison (there, I said it.)

I think everyone can and will agree that women are, by training, and ability more empathetic, and more willing to go along to get along, than men. (if you want to challenge this, go for it, I will fucking drown you in studies that say just that, dating from the dawn of psychoanalysis, to last month.)

So, what happens when the more empathetic, go along to get along, people are told repeatedly (for going on four decades now in left-leaning cities) that their people, and they themselves, are the root of all evil that has ever happened in the world? That every bad thing, every discrimination, every slavery, every pogrom or genocide in the history of man, can be laid at the door of their ancestors, and that the sins of the fathers most assuredly pass on to the sons and daughters? Do you think that they might be just a little depressed and anxious? Maybe just a tiny bit?

Guys are more likely to rebel, (on the whole, there are of course soybois, and tough girlz that are outside center of the bell curve, but we’re talking populations here, not individuals, so I don’t want or need to hear about “my kid who’s so badass” I have one too, but they’re the outliers.) So you see less use of this stuff with them. Combine that with; guys are less likely to see the doc, and on the whole more likely to self-medicate than to seek prescription relief, and we have our smoking gun, I believe.

When all of those considerations are laid on top of a medical industry that has been taught “Don’t diagnose, DOSE!” You have a problem. Then there’s the fact that big pharma pays doctors to proscribe their medicines. https://www.theklg.com/blog/2023/07/are-doctors-getting-commissions-for-prescribing-drugs/

The idea that because so many people are using this drug we shouldn’t examine it, well, I just can’t find words for how stupid that idea is.

Leftist mass media at it’s best folks.

SAL hit a couple out of the park, that I recommend for your perusal: is-uae-edging-back-into-the-yemen? And /japan-gets-cgx-right The second one in particular, I recommend you send to everyone you might know that has anything to do with military procurement. We’re running out of time here.

QOTD "When I'm censured I'm singing Freebird." —Congressman Tim Burchett referencing the Democrats singing "We Shall Overcome" on the House floor after Al Green was censured.

Yours in Service,

William Lehman