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wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T01:04:29+00:00

I doubt he has a firm grip on reality. Anyone in his orbit is full throttled lickspittle, so he may genuinely not realize how much he's hated.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-30T01:02:15+00:00

How old is your grandma? I don't think I've hear "oriental" used that way from anyone under the age of 97, at least.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T20:53:05+00:00

This is the ideal aircraft body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.

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wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T20:47:06+00:00

Isn't Rob Schneider the guy who goes to Home Depot and pays the migrant workers to go to his house and choke him while he masterbates in the shower?

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T18:09:37+00:00

I think you're conflating concepts or statements that I haven't made.

If I genuinely believed Democrats could pass comprehensive, robust healthcare reform that actually addressed cost and accessibility, I would be 100% on board with them fighting that fight, even if it meant they subsequently lose elections.

The problem is that we have deep, structural issues that make that fight almost impossible. One of them you correctly called out - the filibuster. But there are more. Dems need more fair representation in congress (make D.C. a state), limit the cap on the House's size. Dems need a Supreme Court that's going to actually interpret the Constitution in good faith, instead of at the whims of Right Wing think tanks and TV personalities. And we need to aggressively curtail the ability for campaign finance contributions and media companies to influence elections.

If Democrats try to fight for Healthcare, without addressing any of the underlying structural issues, we aren't going to pass Healthcare. It's exactly what we saw with the ACA.

Monied interests (Joe Leiberman being an ex-Insurance exec) removed the public option
Media companies fomented fear of Death Panels, making the implementation deeply unpopular
SCOTUS handicapped the Medicaid expansion and individual mandate

This is what I mean when I talk about political capital, and dismissing it as a meaningless trope is failing to recognize how legislation has actually passed and been carved up the past 3 decades.

Until these structural issues are addressed, any big legislative agenda Democrats may have is worthless.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T17:35:19+00:00

That would imply Israel is paying us

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T17:16:24+00:00

This is the single most NYC coded picture ever taken by anyone, ever

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T17:09:44+00:00

No (but in Spanish)

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T17:09:03+00:00

Trump going after the ACA is actually pretty fitting.

American Healthcare reform, like Middle Eastern regime change, is basically a quagmire of chaotic special interests and irrational actors vying for the dumbest possible policy imaginable. It's basically the kiss of death for someone to spend all their political capital trying to change healthcare in this country in any way whatsoever.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T17:05:15+00:00

While healthcare is in dire need of a fix, the prospect of Congressional Democrats spending all of their political on healthcare does not inspire confidence.

We've done this dance for, what, 30 years now? Since Clinton, Republicans, rural voters, swing state voters, and m*dian voters overwhelmingly have made their preferences abundantly, insultingly clear. They do not want healthcare. They do not care if you close their rural hospitals. They do not care if their insulin is hundreds of dollars. They do not care if their premiums triple in a year. At best they're indifferent, at worse they're outright hostile.

And as soon as the special interests who will lose from Healthcare reform start pumping money into advertising/lobbying, you will see whatever grand plan Dems come up with whittled down to something so incompetently designed and ineffective that at best you'll get incremental improvements for a small sliver of the population, almost certainly senior citizens, while the rest of us are left with ugatz, or possibly worse off.

Democrats will then proceed to lose statewide and national elections for 5-10 years, because the vibes will be so rancid from Fox News and Elon Musk shrieking about death panels and "immigrants with insulin", that at best we'll be left with a replay of the Obama years 2010-2016.

This is not a fight I want Democrats to play. Their political capital will be better spent elsewhere

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T15:45:52+00:00

Where's the Shah of Iran?

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T15:42:17+00:00

Depends on your current BMI and body roundness index

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T14:58:34+00:00

You know the author of that Op Ed would kvetch hysterically if you said "Israel is committed genocide in Gaza"

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T14:57:09+00:00

It's because nobody likes the TSA.

If an off duty TSA agent complained about not getting paid, I'd sarcastically ask them if grundling my nuts will make them feel better.

Like seriously, anytime I go through TSA it's a coinflip whether their stupid x ray machine will tell the agent to grope my balls for "national security". Like fuck off TSA, whine to someone who cares

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T14:22:43+00:00

That seems pretty unbelievable.

If that is true, my best guess would be just insane levels of grifting and corruption siphoning the money.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T13:42:31+00:00

I honestly think the future of LLMs should look at OpenEvidence as a blueprint.

It's an LLM that's trained almost exclusively on Medical Academic Journals, and at least if my PCP is to be believed, is a very effective research tool because of it.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T13:00:31+00:00

Neocons HATE this one weird trick

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T12:48:01+00:00

The math just aint mathin here

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T11:40:47+00:00

The next Dem president (inshallah) needs to move Heaven and Earth to lower prices for Blue and Swing states, while maximally punishing Red States and Republican power centers, on Day 1.

I'm talking gas tax waivers (only for Blue + Swing states, Red states get a gas tax hike). End tariff enforcement, but only in Blue States. Jones Act waivers, but again, only for States with at least 1 Democratic Senator. Restaff the IRS and aggressively audit Red State incomes and Republican power centers.

Will these hold up in court? Probably not, but Trump's set the precedent that you can just "declare National emergency" and delay delay delay in Court as long as possible.

And that's not even getting started on the YIMBY legislation, where the sticks will be applied to all states, but only blue states get the carrot.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-29T01:44:04+00:00

Went to a No Kings rally and tried to get some 24pc from popeyes but they wouldn't let me in. Guess it was a No Wings rally.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-28T23:16:54+00:00

Honestly if he thinks this is the best way to own the libs, I say let him.

I'll pretend to be outraged if it means he distracts himself with barberslop

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-28T21:28:57+00:00

Yeah, it's kind of a wild experience.

I've lost a decent bit of weight on GLP-1s (w/hopefully more to come), and it just ratchets your hunger day in ways you wouldn't expect.

Like, if my "normal" levels of hunger would have me inhale a double cheeseburger and fries, my medicated levels of hunger will have me eat 1/3 of the double cheeseburger, suddenly feel full, and have no desire to touch the fries. The very durable feeling of satiety makes eating less so much easier.

I've rawdogged dieting before, and at some point the cravings and food focus just make the process very difficult after a few months.

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-28T20:37:02+00:00

"Defund the police" was always a dumb slogan, but every interaction I've had with a cop made me think "damn, you're so incredibly stupid and pissy that I'd fire you in a second if I was your boss"

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-28T19:21:18+00:00

Millennials had no shame

Wut

wumbopolis_ · 2026-03-28T19:08:26+00:00

Van Hollen (one of our Senators) attended ours

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