My takeaway is a want to research non WiFi camera options.

If you watch the Bernie/AOC rally vids, that is what he’s trying to inspire. One vid has a nurse from the crowd talking about working 7 days a week, to live, and she frankly says the old people need to retire, calling out both Pelosi and Schumer. She’s right. Conservatives also attending.

Younger people need to compete with and oust the established Dems, like AOC did in her district, or we will never see a fresh approach.

That is logical. Well written.

I don’t get it. Why do they even care about protesting on campus? It’s what students do, and is protected by the first amendment. The entire over reaction feels like a spite move but even so, who is that emotionally invested in it to feel spiteful? I’m having a hard time wrapping my brain around the investment in this campaign. Rubio even spewed vitriolic rage on the topic. Again, it makes no sense.

The appropriate disagreement response, in Old America, would be: who cares? Maybe in tandem with an eye roll.

But, Hillary’s emails! Remember those?

Every GOP legislator is complicit. What do think is going to happen? Pretty soon DOGE will cut them.

I didn’t know much about Rubio prior. Now we know he’s a complete piece of shit that doesn’t believe in the Constitution.

Cluster B personality disorders, specifically Narcissistic types, aren’t keen on truth, they create their own “truth” and gaslight anyone who contradicts that personal “truth”. Allegedly.

Cluster B, both borderline and narcissistic types, fear exposure of who and what they really are at baseline. The difference is a borderline will turn that anger and madness inward, possibly to the point of self harm and suicide, while the narcissistic type will turn that anger and vitriol at the source of potential or real exposure of truth. Allegedly.

I didn’t state the context strongly enough with “his entire life”, allow me to expand on that. Biden is a career politician. Washington is his life. He’s more or less had one job within different roles, involving politics and navigating Washington.

As such, the inertia of all of that action, at his jobs held in Washington across the span of decades kept him on track as he waxes and wanes mentally. It’s why some people were probably quite honest when they said they didn’t see a problem in their conversations with him. That’s how waxing and waning works while in a familiar environment.

Screen slide to Trump. What is his inertia as he waxes and wanes outside of his home.

Geriatrics who are fraying around the edges also do worse when not at home.

Biden, arguably, was at home in Washington having spent 52 years of his life there. Is Trump? This is what, year 5, total? And didn’t he spend half of the last 4 at Maralago?

There’s an inertia to geriatrics that start to wax and wane.

Biden did one thing his entire life, and he had an intact army of bureaucrats to hold him up.

I do think this old man is also waxing and waning, and that Trump too is following the inertia of his base tendencies which is why he is more erratic and stubborn now. And Trump doesn’t have friends or real family he has sycophants.

Lol, yes. Maybe I read it wrong. It was one of the less stressful discussions of late. He says right things. But I don’t buy that the DNC can reform itself with any of the old players.

The piece that needs to be spoken loudly and often is the hospital system shrinks and nears collapse without Medicare and Medicaid. Those 2 things fund over 50% of hospital income. Think about that for a minute.

What dies first? Rural and critical access. The little places that transfer out to a larger metro hospital when you need surgery. Statistically, specialists and surgeons gather around metro locations where Level 1 and most Level 2 are located. Look up your closest hospital. If it’s Level 3 or 4, or labeled as critical access, it will be in trouble. Those hospitals rely even more on Medicare and Medicaid income to stay alive. In fact Medicare may provide subsidy to hospitals considered critical access.

What dies second? Mother/Baby, NICU, labor and delivery. The hospital units involving childbirth are all loss leaders in the hospital product line. Surgery and speciality income cover those costs.

What dies third? Jobs. Layoffs will ensue, from supply runners to nurses. I can’t imagine hospitalist staff (attending, in house, generalist doctors) won’t be cut to bare bones as well. Patients will be more unsafe due to less staff in general, those who are able to drive 100mi for services.

Jon Stewart’s latest podcast. Buttigieg is trying to line himself up to be that guy.

Market manipulation to pay his allies.

FDR legacy is over.

Global post WWII goodwill is over.

Done.

Due process exists for a reason. Like making sure you have the right guy.

We’re all reaping it whomever sowed it.

New Republic headlines, echo chamber fodder.

The idea is to have income fof the executive branch, independent of congress. As is, a legislative branch check on the executive branch is that they hold the checkbook.

That said, wether or not he can weather everything burning around him remains to be seen.

There’s no compassion or honor play here. Trump doesn’t care about us and he certainly doesn’t care about the constitution. And the same goes for Elon Musk.

He’s married?!?

Given the well publicized cheating and alcoholism, reinforced publicly by Hegsbeth’s mother, this cannot be a healthy relationship. Even so, it’s bring your wife to work day, never mind national security and the potential for Jerry Springer vibes with that national security. I’m fascinated. What is this family dynamic?

Unless, like it sometimes occurs in healthcare, Hegsbeth requires a support person to help him retain and interpret information given by those with advanced degrees and experience. That’s my best guess. Second guess is the executive branch is now full low EQ in supporting individuals who cannot go 10min in their lives without another person attached to them. (You can’t watch this movie alone it must be done together, you can’t go back for surgery prep alone we must be together until the last possible minute, my adult self can’t spend the night anywhere with my person, mommy?).

I have so many questions.

It’s more than that. Every year the president sits down in public to be roasted. Maybe it’s lighter and more formal than Reddit, but it’s still a roast. Sitting in a chair for it at an event is much more pointed than passing headlines or essays.