The GOP keeps saying we don't need gun control, we need better mental health services.

This oughtta do the trick.

Doublethink is a process of indoctrination in which subjects are expected to simultaneously accept two conflicting beliefs as truth, often at odds with their own memory or sense of reality.[1] George Orwell coined the term doublethink as part of the fictional language of Newspeak in his 1949 dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink

Three sources said they believe total cuts to nonprofit groups, many providing street-level care to people experiencing addiction, homelessness and mental illness, could reach roughly $2 billion. NPR wasn't able to independently confirm the scale of the grant cancellation. The U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSHA) didn't respond to a request for clarification.


"Waking up to nearly $2 billion in grant cancellations means front-line providers are forced to cease overdose prevention, naloxone distribution, and peer recovery services immediately, leaving our communities defenseless against a raging crisis," Hampton said. "This cruelty will be measured in lives lost, as recovery centers shutter and the safety net we built is slashed overnight. We are witnessing the dismantling of our recovery infrastructure in real-time, and the administration will have blood on its hands for every preventable death that follows."

Regina LaBelle, a Georgetown University professor who served as acting head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Biden administration, said the SAMHSA grants pay for lifesaving services.

"From first responders to drug courts, continued federal funding quite literally save lives," LaBelle said. "The overdose epidemic has been declared a public health emergency and overdose deaths are decreasing. This is no time to pull critical funding."

My organization just lost a big drug court grant. The State of Alabama has lost millions upon millions due to this. It goes to show you that appeasing fascists never goes well. Alabama thought they'd be ok as a ruby red state. Nope!

which justifies kidnapping Maduro, but then cuts around 25% of the budget for fighting addiction and OD deaths in this country. Then there's dichotomy of conservative's constant refrain that "guns" aren't the problem, the real problem is "mental health", while their Dear Leader massively guts mental health treatment.

How much you want to bet we'll find that the grants to big blue cities were cut, but they were kept for cities with republican mayors and/or congressional reps, and treatment programs run by churches?

How the FUCK is fuckface getting away with just saying fuck you to Congress, I don't care how you allocated money, I'll spend it however I want in my quest to destroy my political enemies? Seriously, what the fucking FUCK?!?

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see through them. Just like educated people can. They want people to be ignorant and mentally ill like them.