"I don’t think people should be taking medical advice from me"

"Then why did you ask to be HHS secretary?!"

I feel bad because…

Well, because this money is not coming directly from the private coffers of Elon.

I for one feel absolutely honored that my tax dollars are helping a fellow comrade get that bag

The explanation I saw that the Blackhawk pilot got confused about which airplane he was supposed to be paying attention to kind of brings up the obvious question of "why the hell were they flying through the approach corridor of a major airport?" I normally try to refrain from backseat quarterbacking subjects I don't have expertise in, but it seems obviously reckless.

Fifteen Democrats joined Republicans in supporting the measure.

Imagine hating Muslims so much that you give your political opponents the tools to suppress you.

As unbelievable as it might sound, in the USA justice system, if a lawyer knows their client is guilty as hell, they are not supposed to just pretend otherwise and make up crazy legal theories in court to try to get them off the hook. Lawyers who make such grossly bad-faith arguments like this in front of a judge are supposed to get disbarred.

It's rotting from the bottom-up. The collapse has already happened for the lowest income people, and in regions where incomes are predominantly low. If you don't have enough money, or a reliable car, or the ability to take time off work, that means you simply don't get professional medical service. For a lot of people, medical services have effectively stopped existing in the USA; you just ask your friends and family what sort of remedies you can buy at a corner drugstore, and do what you can. We're at the beginning of the process of drugstores starting to pull out of certain areas as well, which will basically just leave local corner convenience stores as the last place where you can acquire actual medical supplies.

This collapse is slowly creeping up the income ladder. It's been hitting middle income people hard for awhile, who are regularly foegoing some important medical treatments. It's even starting to creep into the lower eschelons of high income people, who are being hit long waits for scarce services, and are also at risk for bankruptcy for some medical issues.

It's a good example of how collapses happen. Not overnight, dramatic collapse of a structure. More like gangrenous flesh slowly rotting away until there's nothing left. The collapse of US medicine comes in the form of "guess I'll just die"

Imagine that, getting shot while trying to invade someone's castle.

The Founding Fathers always intended that suburban Atlanta voters decide the direction of the country.

You have two options:

-vote for the person who will stab you

-vote for the person who won't pull the knife out

ComStar is literally the satire faction about tech nerds and how their own self-worship has religious undertones. The BT writers were specifically making fun of people like Elon.

He respects that grindset

"NO DRAMA" means tons of drama