Here's the thing. He's sort of not wrong, but has no idea how this would actually work on a large scale. The reality is you *can* negotiate low prices for some care if you pay cash and don't use insurance. But that's not every provider or hospital. And that's certainly not every treatment or drug.

As someone from the south, outside the major cities it's everything you'd expect, and worse. Small and middle-sized cities are as segregated as the 60s.

It's not very different in the legal world, ironically.

Crime rates have been falling.

www.charlottenc.gov/cmpd/News-In....

Same thing with Grok before they fucked with it. And such a perfect encapsulation of their delusion. The LLM they're using is obviously trained on aggregated official news sources and legal documents and they thought somehow it would spit out their fantasy propaganda nonsense.

Imagine the Faye Dunaway character from Network only exponentially dumber and more incompetent.

Whitehouse voted no. He's generally pretty good and not the problem. But the premise is flawed. The speech needs to be to his Senate colleagues. They're the ones raising the white flag.

www.opb.org/article/2025...

I have an answer: they don't fucking care.

www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

FDR was trying for years to get into the war but kept getting rebuffed by recalcitrant isolationist Republicans. (some of whom were Nazi sympathizers)

The funny thing is you know they orchestrated this yesterday because of him getting booed at the football game on Sunday.

This guy's face is up there with Ted Cruz's for punchability.

Okay maybe they should send in the army.

That's hysterical. Was just in Charlotte and downtown is the most sterile, quiet downtown I've ever seen.