If you need any more proof that vaccines work: health insurance companies, with their long history of putting profit ahead of any moral qualms (or basic decency) are still going to pay for vaccinations, despite RFK giving them an easy out.

Vaccines prevent costly hospitalizations.

The only appropriate response today is to appreciate Kirk's commitment to the gun rights of the sniper who shot him.

Tim Burchett represents Knoxville, which is only slightly lower in terms of violent crime, and much worse in terms of property crime. Does he hide in his office there as well?

Credit: TikTok user Andr3w.

Let me remind you that our spending has been pretty constant as % of GDP since the 1950s. Why we are in debt? Because we have been removing the government's ability to collect/make money it can use to pay the debt. All of it went into the pockets of the 0.1%.

Also, the ratio of spending to GDP has actually been pretty constant.

We do overspend on stupid stuff here and there, but spending is actually not the reason we are in debt. That is because we have been cutting government income since the 1980s. Unless we solve that, cutting doesn't matter.

The answer for that question can be seen in one simple graph - government spending *as percent of GDP*. We have not increased spending - we have cut government income.

It's pretty straightforward.

One has to admire the balanced mixture of propaganda and ass-kissing in TikTok's closing message. Well honed, mask off, harbinger of how everyone expects things to work from this point on.

You want something from daddy? Bend the knee and praise the great leader.

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Top: extradition of a guy who killed a CEO.
Bottom: extradition of a guy who killed four students.

"Now to read articles about non-me categories doing things wrong!"

CURSES!