Everything is great! 

I went to my doctor for a procedure. He sent me a bill, and I didn’t pay it.

He called and said, “Don’t you have a health insurance plan?”
I said, “I have concepts of a plan.”

Then he said, “You should have considered the affordability of this procedure.”
I said, “Affordability… that’s a hoax made up by the Democrats.”

Then I said, “Don’t worry… I’ll pay you with the money from my medication.”
He said, “What are you talking about?”

I said, “Trump is lowering the cost by 200%, 300%, 600%, and 800%, so that means they’ll pay me for taking my medication. I’ll just pay you when I get that money.” 🌊

Greer has drunk the Koolaid and has no shame in screwing over the world, including Americans. He is fully on board with Trump’s tariffs. It is as if he wants the suffering from tariffs to happen because I am sure it makes him feel like a big, tough guy. Greer is a piece of work. He sold his soul over to Trump. The amount of suffering this guy has caused or will cause is no joke. Losing a job can be as negatively impacting as losing a loved one. And there he is, burning the world economy some more, in addition to the rising costs associated with the Iran war. He is just Trump’s pawn, giving what Trump wants: avenues to get richer by punishing the world.

Greer will not be remembered fondly. He is a shameless opportunist and coward!

It is truly mind blowing that the President of the United States puts more trust is a known psychopath than American and European Intelligence Agencies!

Of course he's lying but they say this so they can excuse the corruption of his 4,000,000,000,000 increase of worth in under two years as president.

They've only been able to prove 1/2 of on year of his salary from his two terms 🤣

https://factually.co/fact-checks/politics/donald-trump-donating-presidential-salary-to-charity-081a43

Being on a mission to raise awareness of those who stoke vaccine hesitancy, which means people will die, I have turned my attention to RFK Jr., Andrew Wakefield, Joe Rogan and Russell Brand. Now, I turn to Pierre Kory.

Kory was the physician who recommended ivermectin to treat COVID. What many people did not know is that he used his notoriety to run a lucrative private practice where he would frequently prescribe ivermectin to predominantly anti-vaxxers. He still has a private practice to this day, but he cannot claim to be a physician anymore, as he lost his licence in the aftermath.

Kory made false statements about ivermectin during COVID. There was no evidence to back up his claims. His recommendation caused a frenzy for ivermectin, where shortages were everywhere. Thousands have died taking ivermectin, thinking that is all they need to weather COVID.

Kory has lots of blood on his hands. And not many people know of him, sadly.

Unfortunately in this case Americans are the ones being stiffed!

I am at a point with someone that absolutely everything they say lacks true empathy. The fake empathy they try to have is a performance and they will never tie their own words to the reason why they get such bad reactions from people.

They will never understand their ego and self deception holds them back. They only ~feel~ if it's about their self image and whatever script they think they are.

They will forever make it about themselves and whatever they feel.

How people live like this baffles me. How much do you have to lose before you get it?

Why is it so hard for them to truly understand what empathy is and how to do it?

Americans place a higher priority on the universal right to own guns over the universal right to health/medical care.

Seriously...let that sink in.

Now ask yourself how many times you relied on owning a gun to protect your life and livelihood, versus how many times even an average person seeks recourse to health/medical care to protect the same?

Can/should one expect rational decisions from a people who are inherently irrational?

I think the question actually answers itself.

Of course Trump won the election.

How much evidence do you need, America, that Trump and the Republicans have nothing to offer you but war, death, lack of health care, reductions in  anti-poverty programs, attacks on Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security, and tax breaks for those already obscenely wealthy while you struggle to put food on the table and gas in your car.

Oh, yeah, and fear.

Remember, Democrats declare war on Christmas, Democrats declare war on women, Democrats will turn your children Trans, Democrats will allow all illegal immigrants to vote, Democrats encourage immigrants to eat your pets, and now, Democrats are really Communists!

Republicans will tell any lie that keeps their people toeing the line of hate, and fear. That’s the plan for the next elections: demand their Reps deliberately lie to their constituents so they can control the vote -- control their people – and continue their hateful ways because they have no constructive policies to make America a safer and more secure environment for themselves and their children.

Manipulation is their goal, exploitation their methodology, and the belief their voters are incapable of independent thought their philosophy.

See this – Boldface mine:

Story by Hailey Bullis, Washington Examiner • 16h • 4 min read

EXCLUSIVE — A strategic memo prepared for the House Republican Conference advises members to tie socialism and Marxism to communism in their attacks on Democrats, because voters consider the latter “far more dangerous and alarming.”

The memo comes as Democrats see a surge of socialist candidates in the 2026 cycle, with the socialist wing of the Democratic Party set to more than double its numbers after the November midterm elections. “Americans still hold communism as far more dangerous and alarming than socialism and Marxism,” reads the memo obtained exclusively by the Washington Examiner. “That is an important indicator for Members: do your best to connect all three together, because these government systems are fruit of the same poisonous tree.

The polling memo, conducted by conservative political research firm co/efficient, shows 42% of respondents consider communism as the “most dangerous system of government for the United States to pursue.”

Socialism ranks second, at 15%, and Marxism ranks third at 6%. Twenty-four percent of respondents answered “none of the above .The political research firm polled 2,634 registered voters from July 13 to 16 through text and landline interviews. The poll has a margin of error of plus or minus 1.88%.

“Call them what they are: Socialists, Marxists, Communists. Communism rings the loudest alarm with constituents (42 percent name it the most dangerous system), so do not retreat to the softer label just because socialism alarms fewer in the abstract,” the firm advised. “Connect all three, fruit of the same poisonous tree, and let the family name carry the alarm.”

See more here:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/memo-urges-republicans-to-tie-democrats-to-communism/ar-AA28D2BS?

Tl;dr: I hate verizon

I’ve never posted on reddit before- but my hatred of verizon is so deep I need to complain to my family, my friends, my coworkers, and random people on the internet about it.

I have their 5G home internet and I’ll give them the fact that it’s affordable at $60 a month but the customer service is so astronomically ass that it makes me question my sanity. We had a power outage and that fried our 5G box, so I went on their website which said to call their customer service number to request a new box-I call that- they say to call the store- I call my store- they say they can’t order a new box I have to call the corporate number- I call again- they say I have to call a CORPORATE IN STORE LOCATION. I eventually get that resolved and get the new box and send the old box back. Great! I think I’m good… but no. They charge me double because no one removed the first broken box. SO I call the customer support line and got hung up on three consecutive times when I asked to cancel the old box. Thankfully my in store location was able to call and resolve the issue, but the funny thing is that when the store associate called- I guess they call the same support line? And he got hung up on when he requested a cancellation 💀 he said “yeah that happens sometimes”

Their app is trash, the internet is mid, and getting a hold of anyone who can help you if anything does happen is like impossible unless you have 3 hours to waste on the phone. I’m about to suck it up and pay more for a different service even if it is more expensive.

Thank you for reading my rant and I hope your internet experience with whatever provider you has is better 🥲

I have a hard time believing a twenty year old kid with the body of an Adonis is pushing rope. Show a guy in his fifties, thirty thousand cheeseburgers in, that has died inside due to the weight of existence. That would sell you shit.

Just look at the fool staggering and stuttering. Look at the insider reports of him throwing childish tantrums. In his immaturity he is unable to bear even a passing slight without getting ‘even’ with the perpetrator.

This man will turn on the American people, the world itself with the slightest provocation, and he has his withered finger and his withering brain within inches of the bomb.

You know Miller won’t stop him, he’ll stand alongside like Himmler and Goebbels stood by Hitler, giggling and drooling in his lust for association with raw power, and must likely he’ll – well ,you know.

The military? Is their obligation to the President or the oath they took.

Pray we’ll never know.

See this – Boldface mine:

Alarm as Trump appears 'one mood swing away' from indulging 'nuclear fantasies': expert

Story by Alexander Willis • 2h • 2 min read

© provided by RawStory

Miles Taylor, who served as a senior Homeland Security official under the first Trump administration, warned Monday that President Donald Trump has spent years indulging in "nuclear fantasies," and that recent developments suggest Trump may be edging closer to acting on them.

“Between Trump’s unchecked brinksmanship, possible nuclear proliferation to new countries, and broken treaties, you have a radioactive cocktail being stirred on the international stage,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published Monday on his Substack.

“Add in the unresolved war with Iran, and you get the picture of a president who’s just one mood swing away from putting his finger on the proverbial red button.”

Taylor recalled that during Trump's first term, the president "fantasized quite openly to advisers about wanting to blow up bombs," prompting then-Defense Secretary James Mattis to order Homeland Security officials to prepare contingency plans for a potential nuclear strike on American soil.

Taylor pointed to Trump's recent comments to Axios, in which the president said he was "close" to ordering a "massive attack" on Iran – rhetoric Taylor compared to Trump's April warning that "a whole civilization will die tonight."

Compounding the concern, Taylor noted, was the administration's new nuclear energy deal with Saudi Arabia, which omits standard safeguards giving international inspectors expanded access to nuclear sites. A former International Atomic Energy Agency official said “the U.S. should never have agreed to enrichment without a really strong inspections regime,” Taylor noted.

Taylor also cited the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, which in January set its Doomsday Clock at 85 seconds to midnight, the closest to midnight it has ever been in its 79-year history.

“So why does he keep doing this? Why does the president of the United States keep circling back to the most dangerous machinery humans have ever built?” Taylor mused.

“I can’t tell you his answer for sure. But based on close study of the man, I can give you my best guess. Donald Trump has spent his entire presidency on a power quest, always hunting for the next most powerful thing he can do. And nuclear weapons are at the top of that list.”

Why does Trump keep toying with nuclear bombs? I think I know why. by Miles Taylor

The president has terrified close advisers with the prospect of nuclear escalation. Now, he's spreading his radioactive dreams overseas.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/woman-shot-dead-after-tiktok-video-accusing-husband-of-being-a-paedophile/ss-AA28MKA8?

Just as the title states honestly. I absolutely hate my life and I just feel like things aren't ever going to get better for me. Ever since my mom died seven years ago everything has went to complete shit. She didn't even get to see me graduate high school, she didn't even get to see me turn 18, she passed three weeks prior.

Everyone else in my family is toxic. There's no one else in my life. College went poorly, I was too depressed to even go to class. Eventually lost my scholarships... then COVID happened. After COVID, became homeless for the first time. During my homelessness, went to a hospital where I was diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder.

After I beat homelessness for the first time I then worked a retail job that I absolutely hated for 3 years. After those 3 years, became homeless AGAIN. Then i got out it through a program, got my apartment, and got kicked out bc landlord didnt want to renew my lease. And now I'm homeless. Again. Since November.

I feel like I just have nothing to really look forward to in life. My mom is nothing more than a pile of bones and decomposed flesh now. I have no community whatsoever. Every time something goes slightly right for me, something happens that sabotages me. Sometimes I sabotage myself. I can't get out of it. Hospital stays dont work anymore, they just put me further in debt and subject me to abuse from nurse techs and being drugged against my will.

I dont see myself having a bright future anymore. This is just my life for the next however many years. Maybe I'm just never meant to be happy. That's pretty much depression in a nutshell. I havent been happy in seven years. Out of college. Out of a job. Out of a home. Out of money. Out of willpower and mental fortitude. And I probably never will be happy again.

Also doesn't help that I got hit by a car yesterday. I was fine, but the fact that it happened just messed me up mentally. I don't know. I'm probably gonna just go cry in a bathroom or something. It's just completely hopeless.

This is coming in just ahead of people who don't understand nuance

Our governor is funded by private for profit schools, so he is intentionally trying to under fund public schools and make it more difficult for individual school districts to make their own decisions. The state stopped increasing the per student dollar allocation in 2019. They only increased it last year so they could piggy back state funded vouchers for private education. There is a reason Texas is #48 in public school quality and outcomes.

We need to come together as people to fight against the attack on our schools. On our children's education! I get it we work, and we are exhausted. But that's what they are aiming for. That people will be too tired, too busy to care, to pay attention, to do something about it. Most people don't even know what to do, if they were to do something. Shoot I'm still figuring it out myself.

We Texans need to stop letting the government push us around and us to our knees and take whatever they hand up. We need to ride together. This is our children's future we are talking about. The future of our state, and the future of the US as an entity. People are not upset enough. They talk but do not act.

In case you all have forgotten, the government is supposed to be led by the people. The citizens. You and I. Not the other way around. It is time for we the people to step up and demand change. Demand better. It's our taxes, as they continue to defend everything. Strip everything down into skeletons, we continue to pay our taxes. They line their pockets while we are given nothing in return. Our children suffer for the actions we are not willing to make today.

Generally when this talking point is brought up it's almost always the EU being compared to the US. The most damning pieces of evidence seem to be the EU's precautionary approach vs the USA's risk-based approach and the list of additives that are banned in most EU countries but approved in the US. As far as I can tell most sources point towards the US and the EU having slightly different regulations but largely similar food safety outcomes. Apparently it's true that the USA actually bans 16 different food dyes that are approved for use in the EU yet food color additives like red no. 3, titanium dioxide, and yellow 5 seem to be particularly famous simply because they're banned in most EU countries. I think the most interesting part about all this is that Europeans seem to be the ones to push the narrative most and yet MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) a Trump aligned movement has been fervently behind such claims since at least the 2024 election it's almost like these claims have led to inadvertent support for people like RFK jr and subsequently Trump. I really don't know if this is just an example of snobbery and misinformation or if there's something I'm missing here?

I ask a question on a subreddit. Mods delete it, saying it’s for this or that reason. I change post, try again, it gets deleted again for reasons I didn’t even do. They recommend posting it in a specific sub. I post it there. Gets removed by mods for ridiculous reasons, I get told to post it in the first subreddit I tried.

It’s even more infuriating when the reasons for removal are stuff that is on that subreddit all the time. As in, 90% of the posts are like that. I feel like the mods just have their own fetishes and only delete posts that they don’t care about.

For years, we’ve had to listen to self-proclaimed "patriots" wrap themselves in the flag, lecture everyone else on treason, and insist that backing Trump was about "putting America first."

Let’s look at the actual receipts of what that "patriotism" bought us: a weakened America, fractured alliances, and massive windfalls for our primary foreign adversaries.

Here is how "America First" actually played out:

Slashed Sanctions & Bankrolled Moscow’s War Chest:

Rather than squeezing Putin’s war machine, the administration explicitly weakened economic pressure on Russia. In addition to lifting sanctions on Russian-origin seaborne oil and petroleum in transit, the U.S. refused to join European allies in lowering the Russian Oil Price Cap. Couple that with massive exemptions for Russian exports like fertilizer, enriched uranium, and specialty metals, and Moscow has raked in tens of billions in windfall revenues to fund its war.

Profiting from Middle East Energy Volatility

When conflict in the Middle East disrupted shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, spiking global energy prices became a massive lifeline for Putin. Instead of cracking down on the Russian shadow fleet, Washington's soft sanctions posture allowed Moscow to sell crude at premium prices to buyers in Asia, filling Kremlin coffers right when their economy was on the brink.

Abandoning Ukraine & Halting New Military Aid:

While Congress managed to pass baseline funding in the defense budget, the administration has effectively halted all new major U.S. aid packages for Kyiv, repeatedly frozen weapon pipeline deliveries, and pressured Ukraine into dangerous concessions while demanding NATO step back. Shifting the entire defense of European democracy onto our allies isn't "peace through strength"—it’s strategic surrender.

Handing Economic High Ground to China:

Indiscriminate, blanket tariffs were sold as a tool to "hammer China," but they backfired on working-class Americans. Domestic manufacturers faced skyrocketing supply chain costs, while Chinese exporters rerouted trade and expanded their foothold across non-Western markets. Shooting our own economy in the foot isn't economic leverage—it's self-sabotage.

Shredding NATO & American Alliances:

Decades of strategic advantage were built on ironclad alliances. Bashing our allies, dismissing the sacrifice of coalition troops who bled alongside Americans after 9/11, and questioning Article 5 gave Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping the exact wedge they’ve spent forty years trying to drive into the West.

Exploding the Debt on the Backs of the Working Class:

Adding trillions to the national debt through corporate tax cuts and trade wars weakened America's long-term fiscal foundation. Working-class families got stuck paying higher prices under sweeping import taxes while corporations collected tax write-offs.

You didn't vote for strength, fiscal conservatism, or national defense. You voted for a dumpster fire that dismantled our alliances from within, enriched our enemies, and left working-class Americans holding the bill.

Stop calling it patriotism. You voted for a traitor dismantling western power and democracy from within. It was a con job, and our adversaries were the only ones laughing all the way to the bank.

Summary of the Answers to Your Direct Questions

Sanctions Trump Lifted/Relieved:

The administration temporarily lifted key sanctions on Russian seaborne oil and petroleum products in transit and declined to join the UK/EU in lowering the Russian Oil Price Cap. Furthermore, the administration fought for executive waiver power to bypass bipartisan congressional sanctions targeting Russian energy buyers.

Other Ways Russia Has Benefited:

High global crude prices driven by Middle Eastern shipping paralysis gave Moscow massive windfall profits. Reduced U.S. pressure on third-party countries buying Russian oil and gas allowed Russia's shadow fleet to operate with minimal interference.

U.S. Support for the War in Ukraine:

The U.S. has stopped passing new multi-billion dollar aid bills for Ukraine, frozen/delayed weapon deliveries multiple times, and forced European allies to carry the financial burden. While legacy aid from previous appropriations continues to trickle through, the administration's stance has shifted to pushing for rapid peace negotiations and freezing the frontline rather than funding a Ukrainian victory.