Rick Draz

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The year is 1949.

The Nobel Prize in Medicine has just gone to the man who invented the lobotomy. Your doctor suggests one for your sister, who has not been herself since the baby came. It is the most celebrated advance in psychiatry of the age, and he is simply current. By the time the prize curdles into an embarrassment, close to twenty thousand Americans have had the operation, and proportionally more here in Britain.

The year is 1956.

Lay the baby down on his front, the doctor says. So does the most trusted childcare book ever written, the one on every new mother's shelf. On his back he might choke, the reasoning goes. Millions obey. The advice holds for nearly thirty years, long after the evidence has quietly turned, and a generation of cot deaths is counted before anyone thinks to roll the babies over.

The year is 1966.

A bestselling book informs your wife that menopause is a disease, that she is, in the author's word, a castrate, and that a small daily pill will keep her youthful and tolerable to live with. Her doctor agrees. The drug becomes one of the most prescribed in the country. Nobody mentions that the author sat on the payroll of the company that made it. That detail surfaces decades later, in the same year the landmark trial is halted early for raising rates of breast cancer, stroke and clots.

The year is 1979.

Your ulcer is caused by stress and sharp food, the doctor explains. Calm down, drink milk, take the antacid that happens to be the best-selling medicine on earth. Two Australians are about to prove that most ulcers are caused by a bacterium and cured by a fortnight of antibiotics. The profession laughs. One of them eventually drinks a beaker of the stuff to settle the matter. The establishment takes the better part of twenty years to stop laughing. The Nobel lands in 2005.

The year is 1985.

Butter is dangerous, the doctor says. Switch to margarine, it is modern, it is heart-healthy, the experts are united. The spread he nudges you toward is loaded with trans fats, which the next decade will identify as the genuinely dangerous one, and which will eventually be banned outright. The butter goes quietly back in the fridge. No correction is ever printed at the volume of the original warning.

The year is 1992.

There is a pyramid on the surgery wall, and the very same one in your grandchild's classroom. Bread, cereal, rice and pasta form the broad virtuous base, up to eleven servings a day. Fat is exiled to the tiny tip. The chart was reportedly held back a year while the relevant industries had their say. It is wrong at the bottom and wrong at the top.

Now it is today.

Your doctor has new guidelines, new studies, a fresh consensus, delivered with precisely the steady confidence of every guideline above. He believes it, and he has good reason to. So did every doctor in this thread. None of them were villains. Each was sincere, most were kind, and all were certain, reading from a map that somebody else had drawn and handed them. That is the part worth sitting with.

So when the man in the white coat tells you what to eat, what to fear, and what to swallow every morning for the rest of your life, you are allowed to ask. Who paid for the study. What the evidence says beneath the headline. What he was just as certain about thirty years ago, and where that advice sits now.

Then make up your own mind. Call it scepticism, or call it whatever your grandmother called it when she ignored the advert, kept the butter where it was, and lived to ninety-one.

It has outlasted every consensus on this list. It will outlast this one too.

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

@FitFusion__ Venus fly trap😝

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

Just heard gas prices are up 11 cents. I asked AI to graph gas prices over the last two years. Don't let the media panic you. Keep your perspective. Every little things gonna be all right.

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

@AnnCoulter I trust him more than you. He is in charge you are a tater. Commentator with sour grapes I might add. He is being measured and tough. You just happen to be more risk adverse and he more bold. His track record crushes your's.

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Are you seeing the pattern yet?

Trump shooter: Nonbinary
Minnesota School Shooter: Trans
Nashville Shooter: Trans
Colorado Springs shooter: Nonbinary
Aberdeen shooter: Trans
Denver school shooter: Trans
Iowa school shooter: Trans/genderfluid
Charie Kirk kiIIer: Did it on behalf of trans boyfriend
Tumbler Ridge School Shooter: Trans
Pawtucket, RI Shooter: Trans

Trans violence is an epidemic.

[Michael Shellenberger @shellenberger]

@AustinJustice Awful

[Paul Lambert @MeatSauce1]

At least we are seeing what Drake Maye would look like as a Viking behind our Oline

[Quantum Tech ⚛ @QuantumTech_X]

What if planets are sliced open, just to see what’s inside? Enjoy the view.

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

@GrowSmarter_x @UltimateFitnes_ 5051

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Jerry Nadler is one of the highest ranking Democrats in the House of Representatives and he is openly calling for people to shoot federal law enforcement.

This is despicable behavior from an elected official and I'm sure the leftwing media will cover it extensively.

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

😳 The teacher gave an assignment to her fifth grade class :

Get their parents to tell them a story with a moral at the end of it.
The next day, the kids came back and, one by one, began to tell their stories.

There were all the regular types of stuff: spilled milk and pennies saved.

But then the teacher realized that only Janie was left. ... "Janie, do you have a story to share?'

''Yes ma'am. My daddy told me a story about my Mommy. She was a Marine pilot in Desert Storm, and her plane got hit. She had to bail out over enemy territory, and all she had was a flask of whiskey, a pistol, and a survival knife. She drank the whiskey on the way down so the bottle wouldn't break, and then her parachute landed her right in the middle of 20 Iraqi troops.

She shot 15 of them with the pistol, until she ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife, till the blade broke, and then she killed the last Iraqi with her bare hands.

'Good Heavens,' said the horrified teacher. 'What did your Daddy tell you was the moral to this horrible story?

"Stay away from Mommy when she's drunk." 🙄😳😜😈

[Overton @overton_news]

There’s a lot of noise out there about what happened in Minneapolis today.

But what @ScottJenningsKY just told the CNN panel cuts through ALL of it.

This isn’t about one incident. This is a dangerous pattern within modern society.

JENNINGS: “It strikes me that we are undergoing an epidemic of political vigilantism right now.”

“Why are people showing up in vehicles, in convoys, not just in Minneapolis, but all over the country in an effort to obstruct lawful federal law enforcement activities?”

“This is not an isolated incident. We’ve had hundreds of car rammings against ICE agents across the country.”

“According to DHS, this lady in this car today, along with other vehicles, had been tracking ICE agents around. Why are people believing that they can drive their car into a federal law enforcement situation, and that’s somehow appropriate?”

“I understand they don’t like the fact that these agents are enforcing existing immigration law… but that’s not how we change laws in this country.”

“If you don’t like the law, you talk to politicians. You don’t drive your car into the middle of a building or a law enforcement situation.”

“If I don’t like how much the IRS is charging me in taxes, I don’t drive my car into the Treasury Department. I call my congressman.”

“Political vigilantism is being encouraged by Democratic officials like Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, who earlier this year told people to, quote, ‘put your bodies on the line.’”

“And Governor Tim Walz has been calling these guys Gestapo all year.”

“What do you think happens when you radicalize a base of people like this?!”

[Phil Mickelson @PhilMickelson]

This is one of my favorite videos. Elon Musk is one of the smartest and most impactful human beings EVER. Let me ask you why is it that every time I send a check to AOC (government)it’s gone and I get told to send more. Every time I send a check to Elon, in a few years I get a check back for 15 X’s what I gave him?

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Valero is taking a $1 billion dollar loss just to get out of California by April 2026

The company will not comply with Gavin Newsom mandates and instead is willing to lose a billion dollars to leave

“When a company takes a billion dollar loss just to leave, you know something is seriously broken.”

“Valero just wrote off $1.1 billion. That is the cost they are taking to walk away from California rather than keep operating their Benicia refinery past April 2026.

— This facility processes 145,000 barrels of oil per day, representing 8.6% of California's entire gasoline production. 400 workers have lost their jobs.

200 contractors are The city of Benicia loses 17% of its entire budget, and California drivers, they are about to get hammered with the worst gas prices in American history.

University of California Davis economists calculate a 40 cents per gallon increase the moment Phillips 66 closes their Los Angeles refinery this December. Then another 81 cents when Valero shuts down four months later in April. That totals a $1.21 per gallon increase by August 2026, your 15 gallon fill-up jumps from $70 to at least $95.

The Stanford Energy Institute came up with even worse projections. They are showing potential spikes to $8 per gallon during supply disruptions.

UC Berkeley's Severin Borenstein, who has been tracking California energy markets for decades, warns these closures could create severe gasoline shortages with unprecedented price increases.

Here's the timeline that's about to wreck California's fuel supply: (shown)“

[Juanita Broaddrick @atensnut]

Yup!!

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

For my Minnesota friends that tell me it does not matter which side you take. Over and over and over again one side is committed to destruction. You just choose to believe the evil side. When does the "mark" have culpability for their choices. ALWAYS and eventually.

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

MN DHS Employees Spill the Tea on Gov. Tim Walz's 'Inveterate' Lying, Complicity in Somali Fraud – RedState https://t.co/7zXd0HaZAx

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

MN DHS Employees Spill the Tea on Gov. Tim Walz's 'Inveterate' Lying, Complicity in Somali Fraud – RedState https://t.co/7zXd0HaZAx

[Rick Draz @Dr_A_Z]

MN DHS Employees Spill the Tea on Gov. Tim Walz's 'Inveterate' Lying, Complicity in Somali Fraud – RedState https://t.co/7zXd0HaZAx

[Ann Bauer @annbauerwriter]

Why I left Minnesota:

The taxes, the fraud, the fraud, the fraud. The fact that every single conversation became political and having a centrist or questioning point of view meant being screamed at, shunned and alienated - everywhere. Neighborhood, coffeeshops, business meetings, yoga classes. The crime that everyone said wasn't happening. The high prices. The deterioration of once-great systems: public education, public libraries, public parks. The graft in every direction. The road rage. The corrupt elected officials. The frequent newsworthy murders born of all the division and hatred and politicking. The Marxist trans activism culture that squashed and exploited real living LGBT individuals, subsuming them into a dystopian cause. The dirty, ripped-up streets; government agencies that don't do their jobs; ridiculously insecure information systems at government and university levels that are constantly being hacked. The overpayment of social service dollars to buy votes. Oh, and the ballot harvesting which is definitely going on at more-than-Romanian-level rates. The superiority of the brahmin public sector set: the millionaires who work for state, city and university. The absolutely worthless and captured newspaper of record that has ignored some of the biggest stories in the nation (world?) because of their political ties. The fact that they took my home - which was beautiful and warm and civil - and made it into a proto-socialist experiment that oppresses everyone except the brahmins. Tim Walz. Keith Ellison. Ilhan Omar. The slavish Republicans who pretend to oppose them but really suck from the same trough. Property tax levies. Inoperable light rail that cost billions. January and February - dim, hard, and cold.