Swiss is taking a little “vacation,” and the nurses say he’s responding well to the thorazine and no longer needs to be restrained. He made us a lovely potholder in art therapy. Unfortunately, the loop pattern decodes into “I’ll get you for this you bastards.” SugarFree is still in the hospital and the doctors say his humors are severely out of balance; the poor fellow is covered with leeches. Much to their relief, the women nurses are forbidden from tending to him, which only adds to his misery. We’re still trying to figure out Wednesday, but the spice content must flow.
ROLL ME OVER, IN THE CLOVER: The Clover ruling is the moment the question changed. Clover did not argue that CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] counted wrong. Clover argued that CMS counted things it had no statutory authority to count at all, and that it changed the rules of the count without doing the rulemaking the Medicare Act requires. On May 27, 2026, Judge Lisa Godbey Wood of the Southern District of Georgia agreed on both points, set aside Clover’s 2026 Star Rating, and ordered CMS to recalculate it. This is a different kind of loss for the agency, and it is the one that should have every plan reading the opinion line by line.
FORMER FEEBS FEAR KASH, SETUP SUPPORT NETWORK: They’re running scared. Good.
THE RETURN OF PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY IN PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY: This coverage leads with a cherry-picked example of a child with ADHD whose problems are tangential, at best, to the actual issue at hand. And all of a sudden, big pharma is now a hero to the MSM.
THE MOST STEREOTYPICAL LIBERTARIAN THING YOU’LL SEE TODAY: Gudtrip’s crypto weed vape promises Bitcoin rewards for every puff. But is it an innovative twist or just a digital gimmick? Crypto has joined with the previous trifecta of weed, ass sex, and Mexicans to create a fourth great libertarian trope.
“WE NEED TO WORRY ABOUT TRUMP’S HEALTH:” Yet, we weren’t even allowed to mention Biden’s obviously diminished mental capacity. Fuck right off.
IMPOSTER FORMER DES MOINES SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT SENTENCED: Two years in federal prison for lying about being a US citizen. And that’s not all he lied about, but those aren’t federal crimes. At the end of his sentence he’ll likely be deported back to Guyana, where he belongs. I’d be okay with just deporting his ass to save money. The most angering thing about this case is the predictable, orchestrated “popular” response: Roberts’ arrest[…] sparked a walkout by hundreds of middle and high school students and protests by angry parents demanding that he be released.
Good to hear Swiss and Sugarfree are still hanging in there. Best wishes to them.
Absolutely. To everyone’s best health. I’ll tend to SF’s recalcitrant nurses.
I’ll have them… Lick my glove.
Porno for Pyros you say?
I considered linking to that since it was their most famous song, but when I found they had covered “Satellite of Love” I decided to play that. (There are actually two links in the P4P paragraph).
I know I promised the article over to be submitted over the weekend. Still working. Plan to be done tonight or tomorrow at the latest. So, I plan to cover the Thursday 11 am slot for you.
Thanks. I haven’t dug into my inbox for a few days, but will do so tomorrow and try to get a handle on the week.
Shoutout to Mojeaux with thanks for forcing Animal’s midday story. I was too hung up on links to check. My bad.
I’m sure those middle and high schoolers just walked out of their own personal anguish over whatever they were supposed to be upset with.
More in Gov Unions Using Kids as Political Pawns, but the desired Martyr Bonus is unlikely w this one.
I had to tap out of the nauseating knob-polishing in that article. So what if he is an illegal alien fraudster with multiple convictions – he wears flashy suits and matching sneakers!
JFC you don’t hate the MSM enough.
+1 perfectly creased pant
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In the spring of 2005, New York Times columnist David Brooks arrived at then-Senator Barack Obama’s office for a chat. Brooks, a conservative writer who joined the Times in 2003 from The Weekly Standard, had never met Obama before. But, as they chewed over the finer points of Edmund Burke, it didn’t take long for the two men to click. “I don’t want to sound like I’m bragging,” Brooks recently told me, “but usually when I talk to senators, while they may know a policy area better than me, they generally don’t know political philosophy better than me. I got the sense he knew both better than me.”
That first encounter is still vivid in Brooks’s mind. “I remember distinctly an image of–we were sitting on his couches, and I was looking at his pant leg and his perfectly creased pant,” Brooks says, “and I’m thinking, a) he’s going to be president and b) he’ll be a very good president.” In the fall of 2006, two days after Obama’s The Audacity of Hope hit bookstores, Brooks published a glowing Times column. The headline was “Run, Barack, Run.”
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https://newrepublic.com/article/68823/the-courtship
ook ook eek top monkey have shiny fur ook ook
Speaking of fraudsters….
Biden was a vegetable. I did not want that again. Robert Barnes has been talking about Trump’s congitive decline (early stage behavioral dementia) for a while. Sounds plausible and would explain much of the difference from his first term.
https://www.youtube.com/live/fONhN2kXJ-I
The “vegetable” is apparently getting $10 million from Little, Brown to write his memoirs of “his” 4 years as president.
He reportedly got $8 million for writing about his 8 years as V.P. How much Dr. Jill is getting for her tome isn’t known yet.
Here I thought .220 hitters were grossly overpaid.
I only hope that the ghostwriter is being well paid for his/her work and silence.
Even if Trump was in the 99th percentile in cognitive ability for men his age, that’s still a low bar to clear.
In a saner country, there would be no presidents, congress critters, or supreme court justices over the age of 60, same as commercial airline pilots.
Alternatively, I’d allow waivers for those passing annual cognitive tests, but I doubt that will ever be a standard practice. Too many people benefit from the manipulation of the elderly.
Yep – No getting elected after 60. Mandatory retirement at 65. At least the 3rd time around with this bs.
Reagan was starting to lose it by the end of his 2nd term – although to a lesser extent and with a vastly more competent staff than Trump or Biden.
You assholes weaponized the titanic power of the state against the enemies of (D)emocracy. I don’t care if Kash denies that it’s political – of COURSE it is political and entirely appropriate under the circumstances.
The system only works if the elected officials can force unelected bureaucrats to actually do what the voting population wants them to do.
I hope Patel is terrorizing the bureau.
This. It isn’t a sinecure, you are expected to be non-partisan. If you aren’t, then the other team will play by your rules.
GOP lawmakers and federal health officials, they say, hold a reproachful stance toward chronic illnesses and the estimated 129 million people in the U.S. affected by them.
Because… shocker… many people’s chronic conditions are self-inflicted. The article won’t tell us what percentage, though. Let’s look further:
Taking medication to manage diabetes? FDA Commissioner Marty Makary suggested on Fox News in late May that it would be effective to “treat more diabetes with cooking classes” instead of “just throwing insulin at people.”
True enough as it is. Most diabetics would do better if they managed diet and got up off the couch once in a while.
People with Type 1 diabetes must take insulin because their pancreases don’t produce it, according to the National Institutes of Health,
Note the sleight of hand / stolen base here. Type 1 diabetics are only 5-10% of all those with the disease.
Typical MSM lying, in other words.
And that’s not even considering the knock-off effects.
“Note the sleight of hand / stolen base here.”
Good catch. Thanks.
That’s just crazy talk.
“The devastated daughter of the Atlanta train passenger viciously slaughtered by an alleged homeless maniac in a random attack ripped local officials Monday for opening the transit system to free riders — and then failing to properly police its stations.”
many people’s chronic conditions are self-inflicted
People are too stupid and lazy to be expected to care for themselves. /nanny govt
My mom’s been living with diabetes for 30 years or so. It’s entirely due to her weight and diet. I’ve been trying not to repeat her mistakes.
She needs insulin to live yet continues to buy and consume food with added sugar. It’s like watching a guy on oxygen smoke cigarettes. Moderation is just not her thing. That’s common trait in my family.
Oh well. She’s 72 and it’s her life. Smoke ’em if ya got ’em.
I’ve been having mixed success with my efforts to drink less alcohol. It’ll probably be a lifetime struggle. One day at a time. My blood work a few months ago showed normal liver function. Yay me.
I dunno. I have Type 2, and it doesn’t matter how much I exercise or carefully I watch my diet, without injections my sugar levels balloon out of sight.
Just saw Sean’s Mecum link in dedthred.
And I thought this was goofy. It doesn’t even have the later 5spd overdrive update.
I wouldn’t mind having another FJ60, but not for that kind of money.
Think of all the corn squeezzins being wasted making corn syrup when it could go to a consumable libation.
no longer needs to be restrained
Swiss, vacationing
Charlie don’t surf.
the Justice Department is being weaponized in a way that is totally unfamiliar
“This ditch is full of dead people. Why did you bring ME here?”
“GOSH! It’s like, so much less fun when *I’m* not on the student president committee! Jeeeez! We even put menstrual products in all the boys bathrooms! Cuz we’re like, so popular all stuff!”
“Dry your eyes with this one.” *hands Tampax Regret to failure*
Your annual reminder on this, the first day of hurricane season.
🙂
It was the first day of hail season where I live.
Malta fireworks factory go boom.
I hope Not Adahn is OK.
Some conservatives and MAHA adherents argue that people need to take more responsibility for their health. But comments that shift blame to patients and physicians risk perpetuating stigmas, fostering the spread of misinformation, and eroding trust in modern medicine, say medical groups, doctors, and patient advocacy groups.
Eroding trust if modern medicine? That’s the point, dummy.
You are right. Don’t change your habits, just take pills. Nothing could go wrong.
I can crank out some GlibCars tonight to keep you going. Vacation has been good to me.
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@Derp from before: Rather flattered, shocked and pleased to be a “role model” for you in the ‘meaningful work and life’ search.
One thing to keep in mind, as I’m not sure of this aspect on your quest, I have loving parents that give me rent-free housing, so I have a comfy hammock regardless of anything I achieve, or fail to achieve. *checks bank balance* My own place would require a drastic change in employment or lottery-winning status.
You also mentioned the majority bachelor /childless dudes here. The 5yo has even further warmed to me during his (still continuous) stay with us. (I’m taking a needed break from him, right now.) He’s the one I’ve been physically present for during his youth, and it helps he’s by far the most like me of the three boys. It’s rather remarkably how quickly he picks up on certain phrases of mine he happens to like.
He, along with teaching for a decade, reminds me why I *don’t* want kids, but I think it’s important for me to build this strong foundation with him. It’s a saving grace I can ‘hold on to,’ a smiley face in the headlights, at least. But it’s fickle. This ‘weekend’ ends with me again feeling like ‘Ev just pawn in game of (other people’s) lives.’ /Mongo (I kinda forget what having a life is like.)
You, me and UCS should be a show. (We need a gal. TOG, maybe?)
I haven’t called off the search for a mate, just made peace with the fact that odds are I’ll be a bare branch on the tree of evolution. Shikata ga nai, as the Japs say.
I don’t think singles/childless are a majority here, but a plurality maybe.
What happens when 4 libertarian bachelors and one mythical libertarian woman move in with each other? Find out next on the Unreal World!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4AgIKosl1E
spoiler: they live peaceably, but uncomfortably for a time before going their separate ways again.
One of the big biological advantages humans has been that the childless often do a lot of work to keep the species and civilization going.
Go Team Worker Bee!
Thanks for thinking of me, Evan! Sounds fun: see how a week’s vacation rental goes, for a start.
Let me know your sandwich preferences, gentlemen. 😉
This weekend my wife received a birthday card that read: “May this be the year that you have the audacity of a mediocre white male.”
I feel a little sorry for the obnoxious midwit who wrote that. Her head must be full of “and then everybody clapped” fantasies.
Glad to hear Swiss is responding to his meds. Does that mean I can get away with calling him ‘Swissy-poo’ without triggering any traumatic traumas?
Sugar Free just needs the right nurses.
Dr. Jill Dr. Biden, Hillary, and Hooma Weiner should do the trick.
I’m sure they will let him nurse back to health.
Robert Reich. Dear God, what a loser.
Outside of my brother, who reads that guy on purpose?
I have to admire his grifting skill. He became rich and famous for minimal effort and against steep odds. He’s about as pure a capitalist there is.
Opinions are a commodity like a drug. The demand for the right ones is endless. Fun fact: hearing an opinion you agree with activates the pleasure centers of the brain the same way food and sex do.
It makes sense given the whole social primate thing.
Yes he’s really making an outsized contribution to the grift.
I hope he’s not being short-changed.
I imagine him as a jester and chuckle at the tinkling of the bells in his floppy hat as he cavorts and tumbles.
The local paper runs Robert Fourth Reich’s column once per week. I think if Trump cured cancer, he’d be outraged about the poor oncology nurses put out of work. At least the paper balances the views of the columnists they carry: Megan McArdle shows up about every two weeks, and some of the “conservatives” don’t slobber OMB too much.
In Italy about 3 days now. I’ve observed that there are also significant populations of young south Asian men doing menial jobs here.
How is it that all the G7 countries, all at once, decided that this was the thing to do, despite it being broadly unpopular and no one voting for it?
There is absolutely room to push back strongly against this. I don’t care if you call me a racist for pointing this out. In fact, I want you to. I demonstrably am not, and it shows you don’t have a counter argument.
Boomers don’t like the whiff of being called a racist. Fine. You paid into a public health care system for 40+ years and now that you need to access it you can’t because it’s overwhelmed by people who arrived yesterday and haven’t paid a cent.
Nobody voted for any of the global organizations that pushed all of it, either.
When interests align, there is no need for a conspiracy. The path of least resistance is what makes a river crooked.
I see Gordilocks is on Tucker. Bully for him!
I finished watching the interview about a half hour ago. It’s pretty good. And only an hour or so long.
adventure in AI art
I tried and failed several times to make a side-by-side cartoon comparison of slaves picking cotton and Mexicans picking lettuce. Apparently “slave” and “Mexican” are both Romper Room no-no words.
So then I tried just a picture of a cotton plant with a dollar sign above it and 1826 below it next to a head of lettuce with a dollar sign above it and 2026 below it. That one almost made it through. I suspect Thought Police interference.
After trying various combinations, I did succeed in making a cartoon of a large Indian family in front of a shanty next to a small European family in front of a McMansion.
https://platedlizard.blogspot.com/2026/06/do-math.html
The case for free markets and limited government has been made many times more eloquently at great length by people much smarter than me. I think it’s time to start using wordless cartoons.
Some more of the censored comparison cartoon attempts
-big Amish family in front of small house vs small family in front of McMansion
-big Sudanese family in front of mud hut vs small family in front of McMansion
-big Indian family in front of mud hut vs small family in front of McMansion
Yes, Virginia, there is a narrative, and it is being pushed hard every day.
Remember Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalfe?
Jury Selection begins today
Another report on the first day