$1 Trillion a year is spent on managers managing healthcare in America. Not on doctors, hospitals or nurses.

How about we stop health insurance companies from managing nothing while skimming our money like they’re the mafia

There’s a Japanese haiku that goes something like

For these few days
The Hills are bright
with cherry blossoms
Any longer
And we would not prize them so

Again:
There's no such thing as amorality
There is only morality & immorality
Do not excuse the immoral by pretending "amorality"
They know that what they are doing is Immoral
That's why they have to lie (immoral)
Trumpism means always having to choose bad & wrong, meaning
THEY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE.

The root is the “love“ of money.

In the past the vast majority of us held some basic political tenets in common even if we were on different sides. For example, that the outcome of elections should be respected and the Constitution followed.
Now all of that is shattered and I don’t know how we put it back together again.

6/ The federal shelter system was set up to house and help reunite "unaccompanied" immigrant children with family in the U.S., usually after the kids crossed the border alone.

Now the system has been turned on its head. The administration is “creating unaccompanied children," one advocate told us.

“Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.” — George Washington.

From his Farewell Address. A warning: patriotism exploited by those pretending to serve country but serving self.

Nobody hates America. We hate the indecency, the corruption, and the evil of MAGA fake patriots.

Hard for me to say how this is different from Fox News's entire business model, except that it's less sophisticated. This is transparently and obviously bad — and Elon should ban these accounts — but the spirit here of trading rage for money is pretty much a lot of right-wing media.

In California, protesters bought 79-cent ice scrapers and returned them on the spot as a symbolic statement.

I think all democratic leaders must have:

CHARISMA and the GIFT OF GAB.

Right?

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Dehumanization serves two functions:

• Makes cruelty feel more acceptable or funny
• Justifies exclusion and mistreatment

In “quiet piggy,” the insult suggests:
You’re not a full person, you’re like an animal who needs to be controlled. This increases psychological harm and social isolation.

“Quiet piggy!”

Imperative + insult is a standard bullying syntax

Examples in playground speech:
• “Shut up, loser!”
• “Sit down, dummy!”
• “Be quiet, crybaby!”

“Quiet piggy” follows the same rhythm: [command] + [demeaning label].

Trump the asshole bully everybody hates.

“I believe in morality, but I also believe in the leader.”

Painful psychological conflict! Rather than change their belief, they resolve the conflict by:
• Denying the behavior happened
• Declaring it irrelevant
• Minimizing its severity
• Redirecting blame to enemies

The leader becomes sacred, not in a rational sense but in a spiritual or mythic archetype. Anything the leader does is reinterpreted as justified. Moral lines are erased. Ends justify the means.

Loyalty to the leader becomes more important than the leader’s actual behavior. This creates a psychological structure where

People fuse their personal identity with the group so attacks on the leader feel like attacks on them personally. They defend the the asswipe as a way to defend themselves.

When people invest emotionally or socially in a belief, evidence against it causes pain. To reduce discomfort:
• They double down instead of change their minds.
• They reject reality rather than admit they were wrong.

Anti-science cults are not about science—they’re about power. When a cult leader depends on loyalty, science becomes the enemy because science encourages skepticism, reason, and evidence not blind obedience. MAGA’s anti-science shit follows the same pattern seen in authoritarian and fascist regimes.

Oh absolutely, Trump has captured the low IQ crowd.

16% Americans have an IQ under 85.

That’s a lot of people.

A lot of victims to abuse.

We elected a sadist.