Healthcare is a Scam

That nurse appears to have been making around $14k/hr for the HMO where she works. I can corroborate the insane charges for medical services myself. My most recent spine doctor billed insurance $250 for a fabric and velcro back brace which Amazon replaced for me with a better quality model a few months later for $45.

Of course the math ($700 / 3secs x 60 = hourly rate) is alot more complicated than that, but the point remains. Look at any doctor bill. It’s a total scam.

Can you afford to get sick?

Eighteen months later, the anesthesiologist from my lumbar surgery keeps sending me bills after I referred them to the VA and also gave VA their information myself. They should be paying me for what they put me through! Francie’s Covid test last year set me back $250. It’s just ridiculous.

Big Fucking Surprise

Billy Butthead Barr as expected, came out with a book. Hope it sells well, because this slimy Trump cocksucker is going to have a little trouble finding work in the lawyering business.

“We realized from the beginning it was just bullshit,” Barr told Karl.

Then why’d you do it? Why did you compromise your integrity, the Law, and ultimately the Country itself for that miserable piece ‘o shit?

We realized from the beginning you are a deceitful son-of-a-bitch.

Portland Cops Have a Hissy Fit

Seems even the Portland Police themselves realize they have a big problem. I just love how headlines across the country plaster “Portland Police Resign” all across the media horizon. This was no resignation, en mass or otherwise. It’s a bunch of disgruntled cops unhappy about the additional duty they volunteered for.

Time to start looking for new work if you don’t like the job. Too bad the city is no longer supporting your racist, authoritarian attitudes. Like I been saying multiple times over the past couple years: The police can just go fuck themselves.

Havin’ fun yet, mutherfuckers?

Southern Baptists Evaluate Hell

You know it must be a gang of fuck-ass fairy tale charlatans, when the most important things they have to do are rail against abortion and their own leader’s criminal behavior.

“Separately, the convention approved its most absolutist statement yet in opposition to abortion, a resolution calling for its immediate banning without exception and calling it a “crime against humanity that must be punished equally under the law.”

Gotta be more careful with the ass fuckin’ buddy.

Anybody remember how these cocksuckers split with the sane people in their church up North over abolition? These mutherfuckers can go straight to Hell right along with the Catholics and ALL science-rejecting, bible thumping assholes the world over.

Don’t Forget to Turn Off the Lights

Somebody left that gaslight turned on in DC. Apparently Trump supporters remaining in government continue attempting to whitewash his treasonous depravity. How the devout cannot feel grievously insulted is beyond me. How the authorities can get away with publishing a re-framed account of an obvious, video-graphed event like this is beyond the pale. Are the unemployment statistics preventing another crop of firings from within our subverted government?

Is it real? Or just a figment of your gaslit imagination?

I can’t remember when the Park Police started flying Blackhawks, so we’re gonna need a little clarification on that. The previous administration was thoroughly imbued with criminal sedition.

Voting Plan for the Disenfranchised?

It’s hard to say where the country is headed at this point, but if a Chinese plot to thin the herd with SARScoV2 was the plan, it appears to have failed to get nearly enough aged Repuglicans in this country.

“Collectively, these initiatives are transforming several states into political systems that no longer meet the minimum conditions for free and fair elections.”

…and give the repugs something to think about in prison.

Can’t shoot ’em anymore, might as well at least block the vote.

Civil Rights activists are blocked by National Guardsmen brandishing bayonets while trying to stage a protest on Beale Street in Memphis, Tenn., in 1968.

Olbermann vs. Texas

And the rest of the GOP zombie mob.

Fuck the GOP, Trump supporters and all things Repuglican.

Stumbled across this draft from sometime last year. No idea who/where it came from, so don’t hit me with the plagiarism label because I never finished synthesizing this cut ‘n paste idea. Seems more apt now than when I started putting it together:

You correctly capture the intensity of hatred, but you completely and absolutely miss the mark as to why the respective parties make those statements.

Democrats didn’t go batshit absolutist simply because Republicans are the other team. This goes deeper than that. Trump is uniquely horrible, he’s verifiably done uniquely horrible things. I know you know this to be true.

There is some cadre of Republicans who are as tribal as you say… they’re against Democrats just because they aren’t Republicans. But they also say things like “Trump’s done bad things, but Hillary did worse, or she would have done worse things.”

When you ask them to explain “worse”, the responses you get point to things that simply aren’t real (qanon, “post-birth abortions”, or rank hypotheticals “we’ll become Venezuela”, or things that simply reveal an immature concept of “bad” (but her emails).

Tribalism exists, and it’s a factor, but it’s a big error to pretend it works the same way on both sides. It’s another big error to omit the fact that Trump supporters believe in a constructed false reality. They simply believe things that are made-up and imagined.

Having said that, I’ll contradict something I wrote above. Now, 3 years into the Trump presidency, many Democrats indeed have categorically written off Republicans. But it’s not, as you seem to think, because they’re Republicans. It’s because they’ve marched in lockstep to all the crazy, cruel, and delusional bullshit Trump has dished out over the past 4 years. They have proven themselves to be bad-faith governing partners because they are uninterested in governing society as a whole. They have shown themselves a pirate crew determined to loot wealth and power in the interest of preserving their own supremacy. This isn’t something I’d have said in the pre-Trump era, but it’s something they’ve demonstrated through complicity with the Trump crime racket.

Redfield Also Belongs in Prison

This religious fuckwit can claim the biggest fraud prize in the whole goddamned U.S. pandemic response. Egregious CDC failures in this ongoing travesty are unforgivable. They lay at the feet of a fool who sat on his fat ass while misguided minions threw one monkey wrench after another into the country’s healthcare system. Fuck you Redfield – eat shit and die.

There is NO place for religion ANYWHERE in government.

The Big Debate

ABC This Week pundits debated Trump’s control of the Republican party today. Funny how they don’t really seem to recognize exactly what they are debating. The only thing Trump controls is a large number of low information voters trained in racism, white supremacy and fascist dogma. The way in which that translates to GOP control is plainly obvious to un-biased observers: Fear. The politics of fear have taken hold in the good ‘ol USA in an unimaginably fundamental way: The voters are afraid of minorities and the politicians are afraid of the Orange Fuckwit!

Absolute power corrupts absolutely – proven true in American politics, for anyone with a smidgen of common sense. Apparently it also leads to tribal psychosis. We’ll see how grassroots anti-fascism efforts develop across the rest of the country over the next few years. The mutherfuckers around here know the score. Inquiries about my flag seem to have stopped after another one got run off in fear of my attitude a few weeks ago.

Fuck Trump, fuck the GOP and anyone who has anything to do with it.

It’s Gettin’ Weird Now

And sad – to see the former 9/11 hero mayor of NYC, searching for new depths near Rock Street and Bottom Avenue.

You can almost see the gears stop turning in Tucker’s head.

Did You Know We Have a Cyber Army?

There’s alot going on in government even they don’t know about. As the spy game morphed into the digital world over past decades, the U.S. allowed itself to be out-paced on the tech front for the 1st time ever. Paul Nakasone has addressed this problem.

I was a member of that team the lion’s share of my working life during times it seemed the higher up bean counting managers were lucky to remember their own email addresses, much less recognize cyber threats. It took some regrettable missteps, but I’m confident people like Nakasone leading from the front where all true leaders go, have things well in hand now.

It’s like somebody walked in and turned on the lights in the roach-infested Internet.

Drop the Gun!

Just saw/heard the Brown shooting bodycam snippet from VA. The cop was screaming “drop the gun!!” in an uncontrolled rage. There was no gun. There were no weapons of any kind at all, except for the cop’s service pistol and whatever else he was carrying.

This does not appear to require any further editorializing on my part.