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  • Delays could be disastrous for many Americans. In one study, 42% of Americans aged 65-plus said they wouldn’t be able to afford basic necessities like food without their monthly check.

    There are approximately 60 million Americans aged 65 and over.

    42% of that is about 25 million people.

    … And thats not counting those on Disability, SSDI, like myself.

    Thats another roughly 11 million people, under 65, disabled and unable to work due to serious, debilitating injuries or medical conditions.

    If these idiots actually do this, and fuck it up as much as they are likely to, we’re looking at something approximating 5% to 10% of the country becoming homeless within months … and then likely starve to death or die of exposure, we’re talking about the eldery and disabled here.

    … This would effectively be somewhere between, or comparable to, the varying estimates of avoidable deaths of Holodomor or the famine during the Great Leap Forward.




  • There are absolutely a lot of very snarky things I could say, that would be completely justified…

    … But it is actually a very good sign that Trump and his admin have managed to fuck shit up so hard, and get so much backlash (the townhalls, numerous protests)… that we actually have any Republicans saying, outloud, ‘we fucked up’.

    Maybe this is baseless optimism, but it could actually be that significant cracks are forming in the MAGA alternate reality cult universe… it is at least possible that the absolute worst outcomes can be avoided if enough Republicans defect, even slightly, and the Dems can … you know, actually do politics.

    Breaking ranks from the MAGA cult and calling out its leader, Trump, would have been utter heresy, unthinkable, just 3 months ago.

    This article mentions 2 R congressmen, and we’ve also got Susan Colins ® in the Senate making pretty serious ‘the President cannot effectively line item veto budget items via executive order’ noises, and she’s the head of thr Senate Appropriations Committee.

    https://thehill.com/business/budget/5217825-susan-collins-trump-emergency-funding/


  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzThicc
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    I mean, not too long ago I saw a meme post about a woman who got such a huge dildo stuck up her ass, it ended up fixing some lower back spinal alignment problem.

    Probably not a conventional treatment, but I guess getting your back blown out has a non zero chance of working?



  • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzMother
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    Some of the skeletons that we’ve found from… basically the last ice age, some even further back, show humans (or proto humans) that had had badly fractured bones… but they healed up (not well by modern standards, but nonetheless), and then those bones grew, and the individual died at a much greater age than when the serious fracture occured.

    … And these people are buried in graves, with grave goods, not just thrown out or left behind in the wild.

    Strong evidence of early human groups actually giving enough of a shit about their members to take care of the wounded, helps to be able to date early societal formation.

    https://kimwerkmeister.substack.com/p/the-first-sign-of-civilization-how

    Empathy and responsibility to care for others are actually the literal foundation of human society and civilization, contra to Musk and all the fascists and Christian Nationalists recently claiming ‘empathy is a sin’.



  • I mean, you nailed it right there, if it was that, then they could just say who had the similar name.

    … but that isn’,t possible when everyone involved is a sentient piece of ratshit molded into the form of a human, that has absolutely no ability to ever admit any fault or take responsibility for anything, ever.

    These people are all completely unqualified, sociopathic opportunists with moral fiber composed of fucking anti matter, they’d instantly explode if they ever attempted to flex those moral muscles and develop any actual principles.

    I have, entirely seriously, known multiple meth/fentanyl addicts (in the process of detoxing) with better moral character, sense of responsibility for their actions, honesty, loyalty, and principles they strive to live by.


  • … So, the angle they are going with now is that this was a very serious offensive and nefarious act perpetrated against Mike Waltz, the guy who created the group chat.

    M Waltz is saying that well hey maybe this piece of shit Goldberg guy (the journalist) hacked his way into the chat? Maybe it was an inside job, or an outside cyberattack, and somebody swapped out Goldberg’s phone number with another one of my contacts, so that when I tried to add a legit person who should have been in that group chat, it tricked me and added Goldberg!

    … Yeah. These idiots are unfortunately in charge of investigating themselves, and at least Mike Waltz seems to be saying ‘no it is utterly impossible that I accidentally added the wrong guy to the chat, I was clearly the victim of some kind of hack!’

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=hJ2gxzPEzjU

    Yes, Mike Waltz ‘takes full responsibility’… by positing an inconsistent mess of possible cyberattacks/manipulation techniques that could have been used against him, absolutely no way he fat fingered a contact add, nope.


  • Oh yeah absolutely.

    I never partook in any of that myself, but yeah I’ve watched/listened to some hours of youtube videos doing their best to recount some of the more insane history of subterfuge, sabotage, getting rival clan members installed as spies, as CEOs and masters of coin in their enemy’s corps, draining all their funds and liquidating an entire clan after a 3 year long deep undercover op with the spies regularly being on voicechats of some kind, and then just doing the deed and ghosting everyone …

    …fucking bonkers shit for a video game clans… but yeah, many of those kinds of stories show people with better understanding of spycraft and opsec than… the literal, actual, current heads of the CIA, DoD, etc.

    absolute clown world.





  • A CIA spokesperson asked us to withhold the name of John Ratcliffe’s chief of staff, which Ratcliffe had shared in the Signal chain, because CIA intelligence officers are traditionally not publicly identified. Ratcliffe had testified earlier yesterday that the officer is not undercover and said it was “completely appropriate” to share their name in the Signal conversation. We will continue to withhold the name of the officer. Otherwise, the messages are unredacted.

    The news outlet these fucktards accidentally leaked their detailed operational plan and timeline to…

    … is still excersizing better OPSEC than the actual head of the CIA.

    EDIT:

    https://youtube.com/watch?v=_2sODSpJo2A

    Watch this clip of Mark Kelly with some pretty on point questions for Gabbard and Ratcliffe, listen to their responses, and go read through the full text chat.

    Watch more of the hearings.

    I think there’s a pretty decent case Tulsi actually fucked up enough in her testimony that she actually did a perjury, Ratcliffe however, was both a bit more conciliatory and ever so slightly more honest, and also a bit better at just giving ‘I don’t recall’ answers.