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Writer Nate White on why the Brits dislike Trump

... After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I�� created?’ If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.

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Amazing - the statue cries human tears.

Ba dum tss!

Thank you, thank you, I will see myself out...

The annual cleaning process of the Ushiku Daibutsu location: Ushiku, Japan

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They will send their new CEO down to Trump the Hutt to kiss the ring and the slate will be wiped clean. The class of people profiting is the class who will rule from now on. UH is probably glad that this happened now and not earlier, when even just a minimum of accountability was still a thing.

“It seems like almost all of those people don’t have HIV,” said Jennifer Kates, HIV policy director at KFF, a health-research nonprofit. “If they did, that would be substandard care at a pretty severe level,” she said.

Ya’ll. United Health just got accused of $17 billion in medicare fraud.

Basically they made up diagnosis which are improbable or impossible, “forgot” to remove ones which had been cured, and overall allegedly stole billions from taxpayers.

The government pays insurers a base rate for each Medicare Advantage member. The insurers are entitled to extra money when their patients are diagnosed with certain conditions that are costly to treat.

… About 18,000 Medicare Advantage recipients had insurer-driven diagnoses of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, but weren’t receiving treatment for the virus from doctors, between 2018 and 2021, the data showed. Each HIV diagnosis generates about $3,000 a year in added payments to insurers.

… He said internal company data for 2022 showed a treatment rate for patients UnitedHealth diagnosed with HIV of more than triple what the Journal found. He said the pandemic disrupted care, lowering treatment rates during the period analyzed by the Journal, and that the analysis failed to account for patients who started treatments in future years.

The Medicare data, however, show UnitedHealth’s patients with insurer-driven HIV diagnoses were on the antiretrovirals at low rates even before the pandemic, and hardly any started the drugs in the years after UnitedHealth diagnosed them.

Source: https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/medicare-health-insurance-diagnosis-payments-b4d99a5d

I bet United Health really wishes it was a different week right now.

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Queen - DON'T STOP ME NOW (1978)

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When you have two options, it should be a nobrainer whether to vote for the side preventing that it gets even worse or to let the other side do its thing. It really isn't that complicated.

They made a choice. It is irrelevant why they made this choice, as the result is what matters. And they are responsible for the result. They will have to live with that and should be reminded of it whenever they pretend it wasn't their choice.

Great work you dipshits.

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Oh yes, the famous movie series where the German archeology professor saves valuable artifacts from the hands of US Americans in the 2020s. I think the name was... Bavaria Johannes?

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Four more years of that shit...

You fucking imbeciles. You idiotic tribe of morons. I hope the fallout will reach many of your own.

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"You shouldn't have done that! He was a good man."

Books.

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But... what about Roe vs. Wade was *not* middle ground?

Abortion is not simply about a birth.

Abortion bans are about removing women from controlling their own bodies and making their own decisions.

Abortion bans are about removing women from spaces so that men have less competition.

Abortion bans are about empowering misogynists, sexists, rapists, and abusers.

Men who want abortion bans pretend they are not connected with rape culture.

Men who want abortion bans pretend boys are not impressionable and learn misogyny.

Men write abortion laws, not women. Men legislate abortion laws, not women.

Men benefit from abortion laws, not women.

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That explains so much about the original Star Wars I liked and what modern Star Wars lacks. I'd really like to see prequels featuring the kid becoming this guy. Not some Marvel super villain. Just some really angry Space Rasputin constantly at the verge of getting violent.