The direction of society lately

[COVRTDESIGN]

Canada and Greenland.

Similar to how Hitler wanted Alsace/Lorraine, unification with Austria, the Sudentland, then all of Czechoslovakia and then parts of Poland (at least to take back Danzig).

Alsace/Lorraine, Austria (to a certain extent), the Sudetenland and Danzig all had ethnic German populations. I'm pretty sure Canadians and Greenlanders do not consider themselves American.

Please resign Donald. You are a clown and a fool.

Canada and Greenland are part of the Techocracy movement from the early 1930's, made up in part with Elon's grandfather.
That is why Mexico and Panama are in the crosshairs.

[Mabouya]

His family, his administration and Democratic party leaders get an assist for the proverbial Trump goal.

1) Denial

2) Hubris

3) Normalization of our gerontocracy.

I hope the Dem leadership has learned from this. Voters themselves are partly to blame, because they keep reelecting these doddering politicians, presumably for sentimental reasons.

One egregious example: Senator Strom Thurmond (R), who finally retired at age 100, six short months before he moved on to his great reward.

[rwsaunders]

I remember a photo of him asleep in a wheelchair sitting near the Senate floor with a headline of something like…Thurmond resides in the best nursing home in DC…the Senate.

[Mabouya]

For his last few years he actually (while still in office) lived at Walter Reed Hospital.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/strom-t...into-hospital/

[Mark Walberg]

Even the appearance of impropriety used to be sufficient cause for an elected official to decline a gift. That the sitting President wants to accept an airplane, for his own use, to be retained by his foundation after the presidency, from a country with whom his family does business, is at least that.

Of note, Bill Clinton was not allowed to keep a nice Selmer saxophone that he was given while president. Just think of all the trouble that could have caused !

[j44ke]

Even the appearance of impropriety used to be sufficient cause for an elected official to decline a gift. That the sitting President wants to accept an airplane, for his own use, to be retained by his foundation after the presidency, from a country with whom his family does business, is at least that.

And by expert accounts on the infrastructure required for the plane to operate as AF1, it would not be usable by the current President of the United States, unless of course he intends not to step down from office. In that case: What a deal!

[j44ke]

Of note, Bill Clinton was not allowed to keep a nice Selmer saxophone that he was given while president. Just think of all the trouble that could have caused !

Or Nixon the Colt .45 that Elvis Presley brought him. So unfair.

[72gmc]

And by expert accounts on the infrastructure required for the plane to operate as AF1, it would not be usable by the current President of the United States, unless of course he intends not to step down from office. In that case: What a deal!

They could just wrap a bow around it and wait for this administration to pull it inside the city walls. Then, when night falls …

[Scott G.]

And by expert accounts on the infrastructure required for the plane to operate as AF1, it would not be usable by the current President of the United States, unless of course he intends not to step down from office. In that case: What a deal!

The custom gold trimmed Ipad dedicated Signal kiosk is all that is required
per latest Pentagon regs.

[lumpy]

Or Nixon the Colt .45 that Elvis Presley brought him. So unfair.

And Elvis got to keep the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs badge that Nixon gave him. I guess that's the difference between a President and a King.

[Walter Sobchak]

I guess that's the difference between a President and a King.

It's good to be king.

[72gmc]

AP News tells me that the current president, with his unflattering history as a businessman, considers himself qualified to tell Walmart that they should not raise prices due to the impact of tariffs. I particularly enjoy the part where he says they made “unexpected” billions in profit during the prior administration and should therefore eat the higher costs.

[j44ke]

AP News tells me that the current president, with his unflattering history as a businessman, considers himself qualified to tell Walmart that they should not raise prices due to the impact of tariffs. I particularly enjoy the part where he says they made “unexpected” billions in profit during the prior administration and should therefore eat the higher costs.

Enough with the making of money. Let's do tariffs.

[Scott G.]

AP News tells me that the current president, with his unflattering history as a businessman, considers himself qualified to tell Walmart that they should not raise prices due to the impact of tariffs. I particularly enjoy the part where he says they made “unexpected” billions in profit during the prior administration and should therefore eat the higher costs.

Donnie just wants to wet his beak, Walmart should buy some Trump coin.

[72gmc]

Donnie just wants to wet his beak, Walmart should buy some Trump coin.

The real truth. Market manipulation for fun and profit.

[vertical_doug]

[72gmc]

https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/05/yo...th-fake-books/

The story of the Chicago Sun Times and Philadelphia Enquirer (so far) publishing a Summer Books feature that is 40+ pages of worthless AI-generated slop. Books that don’t exist, incorrect attributions of books to authors … of course the person who is taking responsibility for the error (at a third-party content provider) says this is the “one time” he didn’t check the work. He made sure to cash the check, I’d wager!

A fine metaphor for the current anti-expert, pro-grift environment. I do have hope that the pendulum will swing back toward actual people who actually care at some point.

[thollandpe]

Back to the OP, United Health just looks sicker and sicker.

A former exec admits, “You gain profitability by denying care,” which is pretty much our health care system in a nutshell.

Some really disturbing stuff exposed here:
Revealed: UnitedHealth secretly paid nursing homes to reduce hospital transfers
A Guardian investigation finds insurer quietly paid facilities that helped it gain Medicare enrollees and reduce hospitalizations. Whistleblowers allege harm to residents

And there’s more.

It’s gonna get really interesting when this corporate perversion of the Medicare Advantage program collides with $500 billion in Medicare cuts that are in the present Republican tax cut bill. Talk about 3D chess…

[j44ke]

In business, velocity is how you make money. The faster you do more things, the longer it takes regulators to unpack what you are doing. And by the time they do, the settlement costs are just a percentage of revenue gained. Meanwhile you've got 12 other things going on no one has figured out yet. Compliance is for losers.

[BBB]

So, Grandpa gets a plane, accuses Sth Africa of genocide against white people and uses footage from a country thousands of kilometres away as proof of the genocide, while conducting a witch hunt against an Ivy League university. I would have thought Grandpa and his acolytes should drop the witch hunt and perhaps consider going back to school themselves. Unless being dumb is a pre-requisite for working for Grandpa. The DRC is not Sth Africa people.