Believe it or not, I do actually find it sad when we see 70 year olds rationing medications because they have no financial literacy and critical thinking has long diminished to the point that they fall victim to fox news ads about Medicare advantage scams.
As I said, the blood is insidious.
Pete Sessions on ABC saying the 14th amendment is fraud
I love how absolutely emboldened these people are this week. Had a patient ask me if I was "one of them libruhls". He was a fucking attorney. So many patients who are going to get butt-blasted by a man they almost worship, but abuses them to enrich himself and his friends.
I always bring myself back and tell myself that people are just largely incapable of understanding why they're wrong or why their interpretation may be misunderstood in the moment, no matter how much you explain it. Don't try.
Over half the country reads at or below a 6th grade level, and 1 in 4 are functionally illiterate. Largely by Republican design. It's hard to be mad at someone for literally being raised to be stupid.
nah i can definitely be mad at them
in fact im doing it right now
If they're seeing psychiatry, or a large consumer of healthcare resources in general..they tend to be more pliable and vulnerable, sadly.
small aside for how batshit crazy everything has been. Page 76 of Biden Thread #1 took 29 months to reach.
This thread hit the (inferior) page 76 count in 2.5 months. Boy are we all fucked.
This is probably my favorite academic paper of all time. Details how we strategically fuck over regions we want to shape by diminishing their resources when they're children and forcing adults into incompetence.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w14064
Someones got to run the machines and pick up the garbage without asking questions. See; any story ever. Why they don't want poors getting abortions, that's the workforce in 10 years.
Gods and clods, winners and losers, alphas betas gammas (brave new world, not that brainrot shit)
Trump has canceled John Bolton's secret service detail. He had extended coverage due to assassination threats from Iran.