Oh yes, here we are again, the dreaded online ratio has come for Joe Biden.
For those who don’t know, a ratio refers to a response that garners more likes or reposts than the original post the response was issued to. Typically the response is from a smaller account to a larger account.
Roseanne Barr recently secured one of the most savage ratios I have seen on Elon Musk’s X social media platform.
Biden issued one of his ridiculous public relations posts in all the sterile, euphemistic glory you would expect from the regime. The kind of thing that says absolutely nothing yet takes the maximum amount of space and words to say.
In the post, he was referencing tackling the ongoing fentanyl crisis that has resulted as a byproduct of his open-border policies. Roseanne Barr responded with six simple words:
Close the fucking border then, dipshit.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) November 22, 2023
Earlier this year Fox News published this concerning report:
This amount of fentanyl, which does not include the amount seized at ports of entry, is more than enough lethal doses to kill the entire population of the United States.
ADVERTISEMENTWhile significantly more is caught at ports of entry – with over 22,000 lbs caught at the ports of entry at the southern border this fiscal year — the stat highlights the danger of fentanyl moving between the ports and potentially past overwhelmed agents in the field.
Economics professor Benjamin Hansen detailed and analyzed the growing fentanyl problem in this lengthy thread featuring a paper he co-authored.
The #opioid crisis continues to escalate in the US, currently claiming over 100k lives a year. We contribute to understanding the latest and most dangerous phase of the #epidemic, the rise of fentanyl. 2/8 pic.twitter.com/BaABnYSxwO
— Benjamin Hansen (@benconomics) November 28, 2023
This surge in overdoses in high-importing states is driven by #opioid overdose deaths. 4/8 pic.twitter.com/cHFQLlS6Tp
— Benjamin Hansen (@benconomics) November 28, 2023
We quantify imports/overdose elasticities using a continuous event study framework. We find more imports are associated with greater #overdoses since 2013. Moreover, this pattern only emerges for #opioids and is driven by #fentanyl. 6/8 pic.twitter.com/mpPZAP4vMm
— Benjamin Hansen (@benconomics) November 28, 2023
We welcome any comments on our work. You can find the full paper here. https://t.co/FFyfWt3wpn. 8/8
— Benjamin Hansen (@benconomics) November 28, 2023
BBC News publicized the findings of one Fentanyl distribution study:
“In 2018, around 80% of fentanyl overdoses happened east of the Mississippi river,” Chelsea Shover, an assistant professor at UCLA’s school of medicine and co-author of the study, told the BBC.
But in 2019, “fentanyl becomes part of the drug supply in the Western US, and suddenly this population that had been insulated from it is exposed, and death rates start to go up,” Prof Shover said.
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