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fohat.digs:
I will start with this one that I ran across recently:

"In his interview with Don Lemon, Musk claims to have used ketamine at least on a monthly basis, perhaps more. He claims his ketamine was prescribed by a “real doctor” and that he typically takes micro-doses of the drug, which would be about 0.1 to 0.2 mg ketamine/kg body weight if administered intravenously, roughly  a 10 mg dose; this would be about 10-20% of the dose required for human anesthesia.  Musk has admitted to trying larger doses occasionally.

We have no reliable information about the frequency, dosage, or route of administration associated with Musk’s actual ketamine use. Tolerance to ketamine builds quickly, and repeat users tend to progress towards higher doses over time.

Ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, was originally synthesized in the 1960s. Even today it is used to immobilize animals in veterinary medicine, and in human anesthesia, where it has the significant benefit of not being a respiratory depressant like most other anesthetics. Ketamines are structurally and functionally related to phencyclidine (PCP or “angel dust”). Both drugs act in the brain as blockers at the NMDA type of glutamate receptor, which is an obligatory participant of many molecular processes critical for learning and memory.

This receptor blockade is activity-dependent, which means that the particular NMDA receptors being used by the brain at the time of ketamine exposure are blocked preferentially over the inactive ones. The main difference between the street drug PCP and the pharmaceutical ketamine is that PCP interacts more strongly with the receptor, so the effects last much longer, and side effects develop faster.

The negative effects of acute ketamine use are also borne out in the streets or in clubs, where unknown doses and formulations of ketamine are taken by various routes of administration. The negative effects of high-dose ketamine are well established. If one wishes his brain to function optimally, the K-hole is not be a good place to visit frequently. While it is difficult to overdose fatally on ketamine, the cases of Matthew Perry and others illustrate how this can occur in some circumstances.

Perhaps worse are the chronic effects of dissociative anesthetic use. In animal models and in humans, ketamine unequivocally causes damage to the brain, kidneys, and urinary tract and it negatively affects thinking processes. Ketamine literally reduces the amount of brain gray matter, leading to outward neurological symptoms, such as slurred speech. Such changes can occur even in people using sub-anesthetic doses chronically. With repeated ketamine use, some of the changes to the body can become irreversible."

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/18/tech/elon-musk-ketamine-use-don-lemon-interview/index.html

chyros:
Honestly brain damage would explain a lot. I genuinely feel like he's trying to make the earth uninhabitable so he can colonise mars. There are multiple Bond villains with essentially the same idea.

noisyturtle:
A drug addicted non-American billionaire who has zero government experience and was not elected in any way, is dismantling and controlling the American government.

I cannot even comprehend how this is being allowed to happen. It seems both extremely treasonous, illegal, and openly corrupt. This is not how checks and balances work.
What sort of precedent does it set that if you ignore laws, rules, and regulations people allow you to get away with it?

I can only assume some agency somewhere is just getting their cards in order before dropping the hammer. No one can catch wind of the investigation until it is 100% ready to go and will 100% be carried through with. It is the only thing that makes any sense, other than accepting my country and government has given up and is allowing a foreign private power to take control of the United States. Only thing that makes any sense, because what is happening is pure science fiction.

tp4tissue:
You guys spend 0 time around old rich people to think that he's uniquely "like that".

They're ALL like this. Tp4 can confidently say 95+%, regardless of affiliation. The only political party in America is the Business Party.

What you're witnessing is a Shuffling of WHO gets fat on Tax embezzlement.

Nothing else has changed. <This> in itself is the scariest thing of all,  NO climate action, NO eat 100% veggies, NOTHING is being done about Anything that matters. 

All these guys are heavily medicated.


Our last and only hope was Bernie.   

fohat.digs:

--- Quote from: noisyturtle on Sat, 15 February 2025, 19:48:46 ---
this is being allowed to happen.

treasonous

not how checks and balances work.

some agency somewhere


--- End quote ---

(1) it is being encouraged to happen

(2) "treason" is a very specific definition of a crime by an American to assist an enemy during war time

(3) checks and balances are rendered irrelevant when the entireity of our government is under a single iron hand

(4) see above. there are no longer any agencies that answer to a superior authority not under the control of MAGA

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