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Yea.
I unapologetically support Ron DeSantis.
He’s the only candidate for office that I have ever publicly endorsed and likely ever will. As a scientist, I do my best to avoid endorsements. I hate government and I hate politicians, no matter which side of the aisle they are on.
Unlike you, though, I prefer to have tangible results instead of theatrics, memes, and a three-ring circus that backpedals and does the exact 180° of what we voted for and what they campaigned on. DeSantis has delivered on every single campaign promise and his only misstep I can think of was the “hate speech” bill he signed into law (hate speech is still free speech, in my opinion).
The GOP needs a massive overhaul. The results last week should be a clue.
And it starts from the top.
It’s time for real America FIRST candidates to step into the ring. DeSantis is. Young people like me are fed up with your neocon bootlicking buIIshit.
MAGA is a fake movement. It started out from the ashes of the Tea Party movement that Trump took over after the neocons destroyed it. Now the neocons and @POTUS have destroyed MAGA.
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I’ve seen some of my colleagues say @SecWar Hegseth has been effective and they agree with the war, so they’ll vote not to impeach.
That’s not the question though. The question is whether he committed impeachable acts, and the answer is yes, eight times:
massie.house.gov/UploadedFil…
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Mark, you started by saying we have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or to provide in this country. None. Then your conclusion is to propose that the people who cannot see the costs should be the ones to run it.
There is a reason nobody knows what anything costs, and you listed it yourself. Medicaid, Medicare, supplemental plans, Medicare Advantage, self insured employers under a tax code that hides the premium in the paycheck. Every layer you named is a government program or a government created structure, and in every one of them the person getting the care is not the person paying for it. That is where the price went. Prices exist where buyers pay. Remove the buyer and you get exactly the fog you are describing. Universal care removes every buyer who is left.
Then look at what you are asking for. Every private contract in the industry published by federal order. Every claim in the country handed to state and federal researchers. The DOJ turned loose on the pricing structure. Bipartisan legislation to work out what care we need to provide and what it should cost. That is not a market reform. That is the state seizing the information of an entire industry so it can set the terms of trade for every doctor, hospital, and patient in the country. You call the conglomerates Too Big To Care. The entity you want running it is the only one with a monopoly on force.
And the number. The post you are replying to has CBO at $3 trillion a year in new federal spending, 21.4 percent of payroll, with the author conceding it is illustrative and not scored. You respond that nobody knows the real cost and we should find out after we commit. No investor you have ever met would fund a company on those terms, and you have never funded one that way yourself. Only government gets to spend money first and discover the price later, because only government can send the bill to people who did not agree to it.
The information asymmetry you are describing is not a reason to negotiate blind. It is a reason to stop having a single buyer negotiating at all. Put the patient back in the transaction and prices appear on their own. Cost Plus is proof that you already know this.
Mises showed a century ago that a planner without prices cannot calculate, Hayek showed why the knowledge he needs is never in one place, and Rand showed why he has no right to try. You are proposing to prove all three wrong with a commission while you admit no one has any idea how much all of it will cost. Do you think they did not know what they were talking about, or do you just not want to find out?
We have no idea what healthcare costs to buy or costs to provide in this country. None.
States cover Medicaid at some level, but not all offer the same care. Nor do they all receive federal support in the same way.
Traditional Medicare requires supplemental and drug coverage. All of which differ by plan, and are offered by mostly huge conglomerates we should break up and are Too Big To Care
Medicare Advantage is all offered by those same Too Big To Care conglomerates. Every contract with a provider differs and while those contracts have pricing that is transparent, the fees and other charges are not.
67 pct of employees that get coverage from work get it from a self insured employer. I can tell you with absolute certainty that most get it from the same conglomerates as well. As a results they have zero idea how much they are paying for medical care or medications (even with recent legislation)
Every thing that is covered and paid for in this country has an actual cost, across the direct costs and indirect costs, that is hidden by the Too Big to Care conglomerates that should be broken up.
Market Dominant hospitals and most non profit hospitals are not innocent. They play along when they have to, use their own leverage when they can. Increasing the cost of care.
And the PBMs that are owned by the conglomerates have bastardized the cost of brand and specialty drugs in a way that should be investigated by the DOJ.
Put simply , HUGE dominant distributors are forced by PBMs to pay RETAIL Price for drugs that make them unaffordable to everyone.
If we want universal care, we can say the Feds will negotiate , but the information asymmetry is so insane, they will be negotiating blind.
The first thing a bi partisan legislation should do is require that all healthcare contracts be made public with no redactions other than personal information
AND
All claims be de-identified and available exclusively to state and federal researchers to determine what care and medications COULD cost.
Then we can start to extrapolate what care we need to provide and then determine what it costs and whether it will save or cost us money.
In parallel we can determine how we will deal with the technology and processes to handle implementation of some version of universal care
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Trump 6 months ago: "We must work to stop the Democrats on mass amnesty"
Trump now: "We must work with the Democrats on mass amnesty."
Betrayer in Chief.
"They are punishing the American people, including travelers at airports, all in the quest to return to open borders and give amnesty to illegal alien criminals."
— @POTUS on Democrats refusing to fund DHS
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Add “mass deportations” to the list of broken promises.
Trump will go down in history as the President of broken promises.
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Microsoft just told the government that it laid off a bunch of Americans to replace them with H1B Indians and they still got 99.7% of their visa applications approved.
What the actual fuck is DHS and Mullin doing? Fire him immediately.
MICROSOFT GOT 1,504 PERM GREEN CARD CERTIFICATIONS IN NINE MONTHS WITH A 99.73% APPROVAL RATE
From Oct 2025 to Jun 2026, only 4 of Microsoft's PERM cases were denied.
On 1,470 decided cases, Microsoft checked yes: it had a layoff in that area and occupation within six months.
On July 6, Xbox announced 3,200 cuts, 1,600 of them right away. Weeks later JobsNow posted a San Francisco Chronicle print ad for an Activision Blizzard Media senior staff software engineer paying $241,800 to $321,060, telling applicants to mail resumes to a street address.
On Oct 8, the Labor Department suspended Microsoft from PERM indefinitely, citing active federal investigations.
Microsoft says most of its US staff are Americans and 80% of its H-1B filings were for existing employees (since “temporary” actually means forever in this program).
We must close all of these revolving door, rubber stamp programs. We will not stop being loud regardless of which party controls the government.
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The "you only have yourselves to blame" comment is a continuation and acceleration in what has been a noticeable change in the president's tone toward the American People, even his own voters.
It saddens me to see, because I believe he started his journey in politics from an earnest place wanting to help the people of this country. I remember his CPAC speech before he announced back in 2015 and I saw a man with sincere concern for the future of this country.
Now, we routinely see and hear frustration, and something that irrefutably passes for contempt. Believe me when I tell you, voters saw it too.
I have been pointing it out and speaking about this since the first time it reared up—when he fired off "I don't want your support anymore". That was followed up repeatedly with "MIGA" posts in the face of supporter worries that he was being distracted by the war lobby before Operation Midnight Hammer.
It was reinforced with comments like "Americans have no talent" in his interview with @IngrahamAngle, who looked just as stunned to hear it because she almost certainly remembers the man I do.
And that was a man who cared deeply for his country and the people in it, not just those who supported him.
I know it. I've seen it, and because being genuine is so rare in this business, especially at that level, it was hard to miss.
But that has not been the case this entire second administration, and voters saw it. Contrary to popular belief in the world of politics, voters collectively are NOT stupid. They saw it. They heard it. They felt it.
Last Tuesday, they rejected it along with the rest. It's just so sad to see it come to this and tragic his advisors either don't care enough about him or don't have the spine to confront it, even though that IS their job.
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You got to give Ben Shapiro & Mark Levin credit.
They were never Trumpers who tried to stop MAGA in 2016.
They then co-opted MAGA & tricked Trump into war with Iran.
They then completely tanked MAGA & gave Democrats a landslide.
All while smirking & denying responsibility.
This is because @POTUS is a closet Democrat. Always has been. He doesn’t want the GOP to win
South Carolina flipped to the Democrats because Trump endorsed a Republican candidate who had no qualifications, no experience, no political skills, no resume at all, and whose only pitch to the voters was "I'm the sister of Lindsay Graham." Just a staggeringly idiotic strategy that failed exactly as any reasonable person knew that it would.
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Every GOP strategist, consultant, and candidate should be forced to participate in a role-playing exercise this morning.
Your name is Bob. You’re a 49-year-old blue-collar worker in Ohio. You’ve always struggled to make ends meet. The good jobs were all shipped to China and the few remaining pay a pittance wage, undercut by endless illegal labor.
You’re a 3x Trump voter because you believed he would finally make America great again.
You put your son through Ohio State. He graduated cum laude in computer science. You couldn’t have been prouder. After months searching, he landed an entry-level job at Microsoft. Beneath his qualifications, but a good start for a smart kid.
Then he got laid off. That same month, Microsoft applied for 150,000 more H-1B visas because it can’t find qualified Americans.
Your son has spent six months back in his childhood bedroom, sending hundreds of applications without landing an interview.
On TV, Trump boasts about the greatest economy in history and how many women and minorities are finding jobs.
You decide a father-son steak night might cheer him up.
Gas is $4.50 a gallon. Filling your truck costs over $100. At Kroger, ribeyes are $30/lb. You settle for hamburger, even though 70/30 ground beef still costs $10+.
At checkout, a fat black woman is screaming at the cashier because her EBT will only cover most of the filet mignon and lobster in her cart.
You think to yourself how the Iran war has made everything expensive, but at least we’re stopping their nuclear bomb. You weren’t even sure where Iran was before you googled it after we first bombed them in March.
After dinner, you take your son to the county fair. Half the people aren’t speaking English. Virtually none of the crowd looks like you. You’re forced to leave early after a “teen takeover” turns violent. A foreign born judge pledges none of them will go to jail.
Back home, you turn on the TV. Vivek Ramaswamy is lecturing the crowd about American mediocrity and why Ohio needs more foreign talent.
Your son grows upset. You change the channel.
Now a Republican surrogate, the daughter of a governor or wife of an elderly billionaire, explains that young White men are the REAL welfare queens. They’d rather play videogames in their parents’ basements than work.
Your son says nothing. He just goes back to his childhood bedroom. You turn off the TV.
Then your neighbor starts blasting reggaeton and cracking open Modelos. He brought his cousin’s family from Mexico to help with all the minority-business contracts his construction firm keeps winning. Tonight they’re celebrating his nephew’s birth, the family’s first birthright American citizen.
You sit alone in your living room.
You worked hard, paid taxes, obeyed the law, and raised your son to do everything right. You voted Republican again and again because you believed somebody in Washington would finally fight for you.
Instead, your wages are stagnant. Groceries are unaffordable. Your community is unrecognizable. Your country is fighting another foreign war.
And upstairs, the son you sacrificed everything for is lying awake in the bedroom he slept in at twelve, wondering what the heck he’s even supposed to do with his life now.
Every time you turn on the TV, the Republicans you elected are either congratulating themselves or explaining why you and your son are the problem.
For ten years, they told you America’s future depended on your vote. Now you aren’t even sure America has a future worth defending.
The Republican Party needs to answer one simple question this morning:
You’ve spent a decade demanding Bob’s loyalty. You’ve given him stagnant wages, unaffordable groceries, another foreign war, and a son who did everything right but can’t find work.
And when they complain, you call them lazy, entitled, and racist.
What possible reason have you given Bob and his son to vote Republican? Do you honestly think you deserve their vote?
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Want to know why I'm angry at @realDonaldTrump? So @NewYorker just ran a piece about how DC Republicans are running for the exits. And amid all the sneering was this quote:
"We took over and we just kind of fucking botched it. The Democrats didn’t create some bullshit. We had a generational opportunity and we basically squandered it. Look at the coalition we had in 2024. Those people might not ever vote again in their lives."
Exactly.
Trump could have tried to KEEP the promises he made, to make the government fairer and leaner, make medical care more affordable (not just lard it with more subsidies), make housing easier to build, fight the bureaucracies that make every level of school far more expensive and inefficient than it should be, etc.
A lot of middle-class and lower-middle-class people really believed he would fight for them. And would he have won all those fights? No, of course not. But he would have made real progress - the Republicans controlled the White House and Congress. Instread he didn't even try. He concentrated on getting rich and ballrooms and the reflecting pool, the stupidest, vainest possible stuff, along with starting foreign wars, the one thing he'd promised he wouldn't do.
Now, two years later, all those people think the system is MORE corrupt, that Trump only cares about himself and getting richer and the billionaires who can help him to do it. And they're right to think so. They are angrier and more dispossessed than ever. And that's bad for the United States, bad for our future, bad for my kids and yours.
And it is one man's fault.
The old man was treated unfairly in 2016, when they tried to crown Hillary
2018, when they pretended he was a Russian spy
2020, when they pretended Covid was the plague
2024, when they prosecuted him for the crime of beating Hillary
But there’s nothing unfair about the ass-whipping he is about to take. He deserves every inch of it and more. This time around he has become the grifting incompetent doddering fool they said he was, he has leaned in to the caricature so far he’s fallen over and taken the Republican Party with him. I take no joy in writing this, I voted for him in 2024 and hoped for better. But the next two years will be brutal, and he has only himself and the thieving courtiers he installed around him to blame.
Happy Election Day, El Hombre Naranja
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How do you spend the last 10 months telling your base that Visa fraud is rampant, turn around and approve 271,000 visas in 9 months and deny less than 3%?
Do you seriously expect me to believe that public universities sponsoring H-1Bs for assistant athletic coaches and parking assistants were all legit?
270,419 H-1B APPROVED IN 9 MONTHS. 97% ACCEPTANCE. ONLY 8,231 DENIED.
That is still an open door policy, guys.
USCIS approved 97% of the H-1B petitions it decided from October through June. And those totals are still growing. Another 156,404 petitions were pending on June 30.
Renewals are the backbone of this program. Only 86,346 approvals were for new employment. The other 184,073 went to workers already on an H-1B, covering renewals and job switches.
That is more than two renewals and transfers for every new hire.
Last year showed the same pattern. In FY2025, new approvals fell while continuing approvals rose 12.9% to 291,542. That was 72% of all approvals.
The cap fight gets the headlines. Renewals keep the workforce in place.
