My brother just had his prostate removed, can’t eat or leave his apartment for a week, and he’ll probably never have a full-on erection again. My wife had to do dialysis three days a week, which left her weak and ruined after every session. A friend of mine is in pain 24/7, and has been for decades.

I am the luckiest fucker on earth, to have good health, and I’ve never done a damned thing to deserve it. For 50 years I ate almost nothing but crap food, and I’m flabby and never exercise.

Ain’t no justice in this life. Ain’t much life if you don’t have your health.

What is it lacking?

Plush carpet and air conditioning. No, it’s working fine — fun for me, and a handful of others don’t seem to mind.

That’s what I’ve been doing for a year or so…

Medium has a paywall, which tends to keep me away, but Substack pays Nazis to post there. This makes the Substack platform distasteful for those who dislike fascists.

Stop saying ‘detained’. The word is imprisoned.

It’s not for me, but it sounds cool for those active on both sites.

It’s Newsweek.

Agreed. There’s the tech to do it, so they do it. Not a moment’s thought to whether it makes the info less accessible.

This is shit journalism. Yeah, his name is Trump so he’s probably an asshole, but he’s living his life, which has no impact on your life or mine. He’s a private citizen, and his alleged assholery is not a public matter.

Dude doesn’t quite connect the dots. The government — under Biden — had a deal to save his farm. The government — under Trump — is changing all the rules, reneging on the contract. If all he groks from this is “government bad,” then game over. Except it’s not a game.

Here’s one of the most corrupt, cartoonishly awful politicians of our time, making what might be his first non-blatantly evil statement: He’s against polio.

Best, calmest explanation I’ve seen, thanks.

Biden then said, “And what happened was, Barack said to me, ‘Go to Detroit, and help fix it.’" This is way too deep in the nettles for me to remember or even google; do you have any idea whether that trip to Detroit was about the pandemic, or (like TBD seems to think) about the recession?

Do they not teach government and civics in schools any more?

No, they do not. In most American school districts, civics classes are no longer part of the curriculum.

OMG, man, until you made me look closer I thought it was three photos of the same guy.

Are we supposed to believe the US hasn’t already been sharing intel with Israel, like, since 1948?

They know it.

Sneering is rude, and I try to be polite. But those voters, those souls are lost and cannot be reached. Our survival depends on getting sane voters to vote.

Welcome to the new Newsweek. It’s shit so consistently, I no longer click.

Much more likely explanation: He was lying when he made the ‘pledge’.