This vibe, for lack of a better word, is more important than some may think. Having an official role for poking fun at the government once a year reinforces Democracy and 1A. This is an act that signals to everyone just how ok it is to point out flaws and say what you like about the federal government and the people in it, including the president. To remove the comedy element states the opposite.

The midterms will be the prequel to 2028

Trump stated in November that the Hatch Act was not to be enforced. This also means we can be harassed, threatened, cajoled, bribed, or just about anything, really, while standing in line to vote in 2028. If it even happens. It may. It may just count on the shenanigans happening in blue areas.

Protein replacement for poor people who could not afford meat. I don’t know what to recommend now. No one wants to live on beans, that’s misery personified.

Appraise: 4

Bluff: 19

Concentration: 1

Diplomacy: -34

Disable Device: -23

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Rolls a 1 on Diplomacy skill checks just about every time.

You’re asking that like a dictator needs a legal byline for his actions.

Trump already announced he plans to prosecute anyone trying to enforce the Hatch Act.

The Hatch Act is what makes this illegal.

This isn’t going to happen.

Trump already made a point of saying, in November, after he won, he would go after anyone trying to enforce the Hatch Act. I’ve already posted the 6 min speech several times, it doesn’t show up in Google searches for some reason. YouTube. RFK channel. Trump 1A speech. Green crayon subtitles. 6min.

I didn’t realize we have bases there. Well, that does change things.

Shoot? No.

Tell them no? Yes.

This admin changed the rules, broke alliances, and is reforming us into a dictator/authoritarian government. This means the rest of the world owes them nothing. It’s not like the US wouldn’t detain a Greenlander at the border, they’ve locked up business owning Canadians with valid work VISAs.

There’s no obligation here. Turn them away verbally and let the world know if they bully in anyway. It changes the game.

They’re using Signal so nothing is recorded.

Basically there’s a government transparency mandate by We The People. It’s why info gets released to the press and eventually things like the JFK assassination are released years later. It’s why everything the president writes or says is recorded. Because, in theory, they work for We The People and have to answer to us. They can’t do that if no one knows what they’re up to.

Trump admin says, fuck that, fuck We The People, we will now use an end to end encrypted service that cannot be effectively subpoenaed. What we do is our secret, so no one knows what we are up to.

As a messaging service Signsl is as secure and private as the people using it. You want privacy you use WIRE or Signal. Your stuff isn’t recorded on a database like Facebook Messenger, for later subpoenas, it’s just poof, gone, as you delete it. You can even time delete it for everyone in chat after a few minutes, an hour, a week, etc.

As for the phones themselves, I don’t know. In general terms, out of the box, Apple is more secure than android but neither is private, unless the feds get a telemetry removal package or some such which would make sense. GrapheneOS on an Android device (strips all telemetry including that map app) is how we laymen do it.

Can’t Greenland just close its borders to anyone from our government visiting? Why were they even allowed to land? Unless they’re showing up with the military.

It’s echo chamber headline bait. Any “people think such and such” headline is just there to tell you what you want to hear. There’s no action here. Nothing useful. Just bricks in the echo chamber wall.

If you use a faraday bag, there’s no need to leave your phone.

What kind of bullshit level headline is that? The content states the obvious and that is all.

A large flip book, maybe. Flip it open and use it like a 15” tablet.

In a perfect world.

If what you say could come to pass then we’d never see another mental health institution close. But that is, sadly, not the world we live in.

Heavy metals in artists’ oil paints.

You can always dig into true crime, see what methods are used to kill husbands.

Check out ChubbyEmu on YouTube. He’s a pharmacist who presents strange and interesting medical stories (with dramatic re-enactments) involving unusual chemical exposures that damage and sometimes kill people. Examples: soda, coconut water from a bad coconut, a fermented soup, ivermectin ordered online, lab chemicals stolen by a student and given to a disliked roommate, and so on. Maybe something there will inspire you. ChubbyEmu does a good job of breaking down complex medical into an easily digestible format.

This is not hyperbole. There are many elderly living alone, SScheck to SScheck with no one to lean on.

They’re a common admission when neighbors call in wellness checks and they’re found down or confused.

The other piece is the people who supply medical care and social services still get paid, one way or another and that payment comes from SS and Medicare. Every time someone doesn’t pay their bill, costs increase. That said, the purpose of a hospital care management team is to transition these elderly cases to a safe living situation. If that is now assisted living or a nursing home it happens by the grace of those institutions now essentially taking the monthly SS check to pay for the new room and board situation with caregivers on site.

These institutions would certainly miss the SS check. In fact, there’s a hard cap on the level of profit these institutions can make because they rely on the monthly senior benefits to pay their staff, supplies, and electricity. Those monthly benefits don’t really increase. And before you scream that there should be no profit, without profit, these institutions would not exist. People get paid, or doors close. We see this a lot on well meaning but short sighted (regarding money) mental health care institutions. But for elderly care, up until now, SS and Medicare paying costs has been reliable.

Which raises the question. If the nursing home doesn’t get paid and the dependent old person gets evicted? Where do they get evicted to? Bedbound, confused, where do they go?

I have an answer for that one. A medical reason will be found to drop them at a local ER, with no return (the needs of a patient can exceed the capability of an institution so this is legal and happens often enough). This makes the displaced SS recipient and senior citizen a not paying hospital customer. Moreover, they are a non-acute person taking up an acute care bed, leaving the ER even more clogged with even longer wait times as the flow out (in the form of discharges, freeing beds for ER admissions, which frees space in the ER for people in the waiting room) slows down even more.

I give the long explanation so you can follow yet another crack as it forms, leading to the eventual collapse of the already tenuous and strained healthcare system.

Your statement that they may just die is apt. Strangely, Heritage is serious about banning assisted suicide because it “lacks dignity”.

They’re money. They’ve always been money. Backtrack through the news of Kamala’s campaign regarding all the money raised. Where did it go? What happened to it? The point is, win OR lose, they make bank.