Alito doesn’t want religious liberty, he wants religious tyranny. The U.S. is not a theocracy, at least not yet, and it is horrifying this clergyman is in the highest level of power.

Wikipedia:

Religious abuse is abuse administered through religion, including harassment, humiliation, spiritual abuse, or religious violence. Religious abuse may also include the misuse of religion for selfish, secular, or ideological ends, such as the abuse of a clerical position.

They do, but they want more.

I think you’re dead wrong for one reason: Primaries.

In most places Republicans are the only ones who can vote in GOP Primaries. They are regularly choosing and protecting pedophiles, child rapists and criminals.

And the “BoTh SiDeS Do It!” you’re pushing is bullshit.

Gaslighting, noun gas·​light·​ing - psychological manipulation of a people over an extended period of time that causes them to question the validity of their own thoughts and perception of reality.

Example Sentence: JD Vance is openly gaslighting Americans when he claims people are too focused on the little things.

But it shows [Talarico’s] lead is much tighter among likely voters, 51–49.

It’s time to face the facts: Republicans want child rapists and criminals running the country.

The challenge here is between Democrats who want to destroy the country, who want to permanently disempower you … and Republicans who fundamentally are trying to solve the problems that Democrats under Joe Biden created.”

As usual, every accusation is a confession.

It is astounding that Magats actually believe this bullshit.

Democrats growing a backbone? I’ll believe it when I see it.

Prior to the Great Depression three Republicans repeatedly cut taxes for the wealthy, reduced government regulation, and made corporations a driving force in the government. (Sound familiar?) When the Depression hit it took 20 years for another Republican to be elected and almost 50 years if you exclude Eisenhower.

IMO Trump is going to cause another depression and for many Americans that depression has already begun. Maybe people will remember this, but who am I kidding?

Prior to the midterms, how do you propose we do that?

Nope

He rapes kids, that’s why.

Unless he can get special treatment this asshole won’t be able to re-enter the US for at least 5, and more likely 10 years. I’m guessing his promoters won’t be willing to pay him if he’s just another British asshole in Britain. I wonder what he’ll end up doing for cash?

Anything to distract from the fact Trump rapes children.

People who can be fired when Trump wags his finger happen to support what he wants them to support! What a surprise!

My old 8GB laptop runs amazingly well with an 8GB swap file and Zswap enabled. If you set up both with 16GB of RAM, your machine should be able to handle most anything easily.

I did this using a router to handle traffic for about a year between sites 240 miles apart. The only downside was it used a lot of bandwidth. Maybe it can be done with some IP cameras, but I expect they’d be expensive commercial models. OpenWRT compatible routers can be dirt cheap.

If your MIL’s router supports OpenWRT or you can replace it with one that does, you can use a VPN and PBR (Policy Based Routing) to your home router or server and do exactly what you want with any camera that supports RSTP (Real Time Streaming Protocol). That includes most cheap wired TP-Link cameras and plenty of others. PBR on the router at your MIL’s home would be used to route all traffic from camera IP addresses to your server.

I used Frigate software and Home Assistant for occupancy detection/alerts and Wireguard for transport. It worked perfectly but I eventually got around to adding 2nd server.

You are right, Medicare does suck compared to single payer coverage other countries have, but it is far better than anything else in the U.S. I’ve done more than my share of reading and researching for friends and relatives. Maybe too much info follows…

What you’ve heard isn’t really accurate. There are 3 flavors of Medicare, 2 of them decent and 1 that can be OK or an absolute nightmare.

1. Standard Medicare - you owe about $260/month + 20% of allowable charges for everything, but that’s a smaller amount that it appears. A $550 specialist visit might only have Medicare allowable charges of $150, and the 20% deductible is $30, NOT 20% of $550. You and your doctor make the care decisions and there is no insurance company denying coverage. Standard Medicare denial rates are very low. Almost every medical provider accepts this and if you want to fly to Mayo Clinic for care you just get on a plane.

2. Medicare + Medigap - An additional policy that pays most all of that 20% deductible. It runs around $200 per month in many locations, but can vary quite a bit. Like standard Medicare, there is no insurance company making decisions about care. No matter what care is needed, costs out of pocket are predictable. Almost every provider accepts both of these too.

3. Medicare Advantage - This is NOT Medicare at all and it’s what you hear the horror stories about. Medicare Advantage is the same horrible insurance UHC, Cigna, Aetna, etc. offer but is paid for by the government. THIS is the one with the 17% denial rates and the people dying from lack of care. What’s worse, Medicare Advantage and those denial rates are such money makers for the insurance industry that the companies trick people into signing up by charging very low or zero dollar premiums per month. Medicare insurance salesmen are also paid far more to sell MA plans so they push it and lie about how great it is. Providers must be in network AND within a geographical area for coverage with limited exceptions. No Mayo Clinic for you!

The worst part is that the Medigap rules make it damn near impossible to move to Medicare + Medigap once on Medicare Advantage. I’ve spoken to people with dying parents that can’t get care from local cancer centers because of they can’t get off Medicare Advantage.

Of course it’s far more complicated than this, Medicare A & B for instance, but everyone I know that’s gone from standard insurance to Medicare + Medigap love it, and a few that are on MA with coverage at decent local medical center have good experiences too.

Discovering what Medicare really means is depressing as fuck.

Why?

Or the middle man that Republicans inserted into the equation in 1973 could be eliminated and instead everyone could pay way less for universal health coverage. The downside is that there would be fewer billionaires in the world, but I could live with that.

Don’t forget raping children.