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GoofSchmoofer

@ GoofSchmoofer @lemmy.world

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  • Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California

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  • I mentioned this in a different comment - My feeling is that the RNC sees the writing on the wall with trump - his age, health, cognitive decline, etc and are previewing the potential next president and vice president (Rubio). They are letting Vance get some air time to build him up in voters minds before he gets thrown in the deep end when trump isn't president.

  • Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California

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  • This isn't the presidents job at all whomever it is. This is the job of the Congress.

  • Vance announces suspension of $1.3 billion in Medicaid payments to California

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  • Well yes. In this case it looks like this is a roll out of the new administration. What this signals to me is that trump is closer to the end of his term - either by health or 25th amendment (or both) and we are previewing the next president and vice president.

  • Happy Mother's Day

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  • Couldn't the person taking the picture have helped?

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • Changing the framing can help from weight loss to health improvement.

    You may always be overweight by health standards (BMI) but if your blood work is good, you're happy with how you are able to do the activities you like, you feel/are strong, you eat quality foods, and are mostly a happy person then I would say that you're successful.

  • New research shows weight loss is possible without GLP-1

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  • I'm always baffled by the lack of curiosity around this subject. It's just blame the victim for being obese. Just eat less, bro! and then defend that viewpoint to the death. There never seems to be a point where the question comes up "I wonder why only in the last 30 years or so that the western world has seen this dramatic increase in obesity?" Can't be large food corporations making cheap unhealthy foods highly addictive. Can't be a significant reduction in nutrition education. Can't be a reduction in access to mental healthcare.

    Nope. Just fatty goin' to be fat. Such a fucking lazy take.

  • Real estate titan compares 'tax the rich' slogan to racial slurs

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  • Statements like this from people like him just tell me that they are scared.

  • To End ‘New Gilded Age,’ House Progressives Unveil Bill to Raise Federal Minimum Wage to $25 Per Hour

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  • A question to add on to yours is: If inflation is defined (simplistically) as too much money in the system chasing too few products, then wouldn't taking money out of the system via taxes have a rate limiting effect on inflation?

    Being that if minimum wage increases would an increase on taxes for wealthy citizens slightly offset this increase?

  • ‘I know what it requires’: Harris on why she’s thinking about running for president in 2028

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  • Then it will be yet another tight race against Vance - Gavin I believe would win in this match up BUT I also think he will be a mediocre president on the level with Obama. Good, not great. Still try to appease a political ideology that will never vote for him all the while ignoring a true progressive platform. In the 4 maybe 8 years he's in office not much will change - mostly because cleaning up the mess made by this administration will take all that time. The public will be pissed that the massive changes that were promised weren't all completed perfectly in his term(s) so they will vote in a republican.

    AND I can see him not wanting to rock the boat and letting all of these criminals off the hook "for the good of the country"

    I've become very cynical over the past few years and I hope I'm wrong.

  • Higher!

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  • "Hey my wheelchair bound friend wants to visit."

    "Um... uh... well..... Do you think they will mind sleeping in their car?"

  • Here's the severance package Oracle offered laid-off US employees

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  • I believe that the reason for the layoff was due to the debt they took out to build data centers which was ~$10 billion so in order to not be too upside down they laid off 30k employees to save on payroll. I could be wrong on this fact, since I don't completely trust the source I got it from. But sounds like something Oracle would do.

  • Democrats accuse Dem Senate candidate of being a GOP plant over his past support for the president

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  • Interestingly I thought this was going to be about Fetterman ....

  • GOP Senate candidate on rising gas prices: ‘Maybe you take one less trip to Starbucks’

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  • There is a group, unfortunately large, in the political sphere that can't fathom there being people too poor to go to Starbucks. Their world view is that the poors are only making 80k a year (which is poor to them). We have some really old, really wealthy, and really out of touch people in leadership positions in this country.

  • Germany Tells Trump No Thanks on Invite to Join Iran War

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  • If it's not from the German region then it's just a sparkling WW

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • “If you decide to go with your ego and not with your head, you are leaving behind dozens of wealthy people from all over the world who will know that you performed market manipulation and stole from them. They know who you are, you don’t know who they are. It took them less than 5 minutes to find out exactly where you live … how often you see your lovely parents … and exactly who your … brothers and sisters are.”

    So the guy threatening the journalist to change his story so the gambler can make money isn't market manipulation, but the journalist not changing his story is....

    What scary about this, and it was mentioned in the article, is how future stories by less than ethical "journalist" can be purchased so that one side can become rich. Fuck accuracy it's all about the money.

    Well it's not like that is already the case with social media, but I would like to think there is at least some aspect of reporting that is based in ethics and truth.

  • Trump Dismisses GOP-Backed Housing Bill "‘Nobody Gives a Fuck About Housing!’"

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  • The contents of which will read -

    "If you or your shell company owns 50+ single family homes and/or 20+ apartment buildings then you'll be able to buy 500 more of either, or a combination of both fully subsidized by the American tax payer. If you don't have any home then fuck off!"

  • Does anyone else also have this weird feeling that maybe governments can already break into smartphones and this whole "we can't break into it" they tell the public is a facade?

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  • There was a story from the podcast 'Darknet Dairies' where it was discovered that a journalist's phone had tracking software uploaded to their phone in a zero click text. The target's phone received a text in the middle of the night that uploaded the software and then deleted any history of the text being received. I think this is one of features of the Pegasus software sold by the NSO Group. And that was 5 or 6 years ago.

  • ‘Ridiculous’: Pentagon doesn’t even know what to do with extra $500 billion Trump wants to spend

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  • ...And yet no one in power right now will push back against it because they don't want to be seen as "weak on defense"

  • Judge scolds Mark Zuckerberg's team for wearing Meta glasses to social media trial

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  • HA! yes. I knew I spelled it wrong just to lazy to edit my post - thanks!