She doesn’t have the job because she’s smart.

She has the job because she’s on their side.

“You have to vigorously argue on behalf of your client.”

And if the client is the United States of America, their lawyer is supposed to be arguing in favor of justice and the rule of law.

Goddamn fucking scum.

Poor man’s idea of a rich man,

Stupid man’s idea of a smart man,

Weak man’s idea of a strong man,

Coward’s idea of a brave man,

And a moronic voter’s idea of a President (or Vice-president in this case).

Nothing says you’re loved like having to order people to celebrate your birthday.

I managed to logic my parents out of one thing.

My parents actually asked me if it was possible that the vaccines contained 5G micro robots.

After taking a moment to maintain my composure and put on my “pretend I wasn’t asked a stupid question and answer seriously” face, I asked them to take out their phone.

When the phone was in their hand, I asked them to consider the fact that it must be charged every day to keep working, and that the vast majority of the size of the phone was taken up by the battery. Then I pointed out that a device small enough to be injected wouldn’t have enough power to still be on when it left the needle.

Luckily I didn’t have to go further than that.

I think that’s the only time I’ve had any success pounding logic into them. I think the problem is they can’t think of me as anything but a child, except where computers are concerned.

They paid for my computer science degree, and they know I’ve been working in IT for 32 years, and I answer all their computer questions. So, if the subject is computer-related, I’m their expert. Anything else and I’m just a deluded child.

I haven’t tried talking to my mom about the SSA COBOL AI rewrite yet. I’m not sure if she heard about it or if she did whether she understood enough to even be concerned enough to ask me.

Hopefully more people decide to run, rather than just hoping someone else saves them.

That’s how we get progressives.

Ah, but is a chicken egg a chicken egg because it came out of a chicken or because a chicken comes out of it?

That is the real question.

Maybe it likes the hose. Don’t kink shame!

It hides the problem

Seems to be working as intended

… Doubling every day…

I wonder how all the Cuban-Americans who voted for the orange clown are going to react when Cuban immigrants start getting deported back to Cuba.

I’m biased, because I work for a non-profit health system.

We have definitely been absorbing hospitals. There seem to be four major categories they fall into:

1. Hospitals that are doing well and fit very well with the system’s goals so they make a very positive addition to the system.

2. Hospitals that are surviving, but struggling and unable to compete against the for-profit bohemoths that are breathing down their neck.

3. Hospitals that have failed because they simply couldn’t compete and are leaving a community without any viable options for healthcare.

4. Hospitals that have failed because they were bought up by venture capitalists, assets sold off to benefit the VCs, and bankrupted when they couldn’t pay the debt that the VCs incurred for their purchase.

My employer is far from perfect, but there is no question that the single overriding mission is to provide healthcare. We are not a real estate mogul masquerading as a hospital system.

I couldn’t read the entire article, but the initial premise seems like something promoted by the for-profit healthcare industry to try to distract from their financial rape of their patients and communities.

As a US citizen, I really wish the official reaction was just:

Fuck off.

I’d argue that the last two months have been the culmination of the last ~50 years of US fascism.

I think you can dislike pedophiles and even want to see them punished, yet still recognize that some asshole doing it to get revenue from their YouTube channel is not the right solution.

Personally, I’m of the opinion that most crime is the result of either poverty or neurological flaws, and torture is not the best solution to either problem.

People need to be kept safe, and the criminal justice system is ostensibly the mechanism we’ve decided to use for that.

It seems odd to me that they refer to the number of children treated as “fewer than 10”.

Why can’t they say how many?

Are they going to say that somehow the liberals crowded the place so there was no one there to back her up?

To which I’d say, in that case the conservatives fascists were too unmotivated to counter them.

I just want to say that while scrolling by the thumbnail for this post, my brain guessed that the article was about chickens playing checkers using their eggs as game pieces.

That’s why I stopped to check on what it was about.

Brains are odd.

I don’t think most people get a direct, personal warning of the possibility of being arrested.

He isn’t going to pay them shit. He wants to make us pay them.