Pre-ACA, a co-worker took his Mom to India for a hip replacement. Flights, Surgery + 5 weeks luxury accommodations for both of them cost less that what she was going to have to pay here in US just for the surgery with NO after surgery care.

Not surprising as California has adopted universal mail in ballots, and all those that had been returned before Election Day have already been counted and those initial tally’s released as soon as polls close

Kelly LeBrock was the ONLY reason why I ever watched “Hard to Kill”, and pretty sure I’m not the only one…

True karma would have been this: youtu.be/0FAnJeK_rVY

When you elect a clown, you get a circus

The Venezuelan travel prohibition is also blocking Maestro Gustavo Dudamel from bringing his world renowned Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra to perform in the US this year. Like a bunch of classical musicians are “bad hombres”

It is a really no-win situation. Pass the CR, and make DOGE fight in court for every little cut? Or not pass as CR and let DOGE set burn the whole place down at once with an extended shutdown. That’s a MAGA wet dream! In a few weeks, people will be clamoring for Trump to declare martial law.

This. An extended shutdown is a wet dream to the “burn it down” MAGAts. Furloughing employees works just the same as laying them off, without the messy legal stuff getting in the way.

As if I needed anything more to make me depressed :-/

Rufo needs to lay off the acid

His sin was not the rascist posts, but rather for getting CAUGHT.

What are you switching to for you mapping app? Interestingly, search for “Gulf of Mexico” still pops up that name in the middle of a Google Maps.

I call them “Cafeteria Christians”, as they pick and choose parts of the Bible they like and ignore the rest.

MAGA doesn’t care if anything gets “fixed”, just so long as it hurts the people they hate more than it does them.

How long until Leon reaches “Don’t know him. Never met him” status with Trump?

Unfortunately there is really nothing meaningful that can be done between now and Jan 20. We would be in same situation as before the election, when the response to our efforts was “oh he wont really do that” or “you are being over dramatic”. Sadly we now have to wait for the sh*t to hit fan.

I expect searchable government databases related to public health will suddenly disappear in the next administration

She would still DESTROY him even if it was his buddies at Fox News running the debate

Exactly! Outrage farming to increase “engagement”/clicks