*This is going to be a rant. Profanity will appear.*
Over the weekend, a friend of mine had a step son lose his shit and go on a two day rampage. He has various mental issues. When he got out of prison this last time he was doing okay and on medication. At some point he went off his meds and shit hit the fan is a perfect description for Saturday.
Jeri (not his actual name), started using pot vaping cartridges right off the bat. Not out 72 hrs and he’s hitting the pot. Friday, he went to his ex-girlfriend’s trailer where she and her three kids lived. The third is Jeri’s son. Jeri was going to kill her, the older two girls, and possibly her new boyfriend. (This part of the story is personal to me because Friday marks ten years since I left an abusive relationship.) Jeri didn’t know where she lived, good thing.
This brings us to Saturday, Jeri and another guy robbed a local store, shot and killed a guy for his F150 Ford. Which was stupid because the guy gave up the truck. I am sure he had a way to track it so it could be recovered. The guy with him shot and injured the passenger. The two guys, high and intoxicated, went for a nice Saturday drive which ended with them crashing the truck of their victim. They crossed from Michigan to Ohio with the possible destination being Colorado where Jeri’s paternal grandmother lives. The grandmother who had been sending Jeri money. Unfortunately the pair of geniuses only made it to Toledo where they were caught later that night. The passenger was caught, no problem. He surrendered. I guess the road trip from hell had been enough for him by eight o’clock that night. Jeri was shot because he shot at the police. Jeri will recover to serve a life sentence plus his crime rampage in Ohio has to be dealt with.
The point of this story is this, all of this was preventable. Our mental health system is a joke. We have twice the number of mentally ill people than people who play golf yet we have more damn golf courses than we have hospitals for the mentally ill. What to fuck!!!! We give billions every year to countries rather they need or deserve it, but we can’t afford to help the mentally ill. Over the past year alone we’ve given millions to Ukraine which the citizens have received zero part of. The Military Industrial Complex has received billions, and Zelensky has received so much that his mother-in-law bought a multi million dollar villa in Egypt. Maui just had one of the worst fires ever in their history. The idiot puppet in chief compared the fire to one that almost consumed his home about fifteen years ago. The citizens of Maui are getting a LOAN of $700 per household which they must repay
Again, what the fuck!!!!
The only fix I can think of for this government is to scrape it and start over. Seriously! Let Russia bomb it back to the ocean. I don’t give a fuck.
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