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[Dan Hill @dandinohill]

I asked Grok about the Filibuster - whether it was based on the constitution:

"The filibuster is a Senate rule and later tradition, not a constitutional requirement. The Constitution does not mention unlimited debate, cloture, or a 60-vote threshold for ordinary legislation."

"A strong originalist argument is that the filibuster imposes an extra-constitutional hurdle the Framers deliberately avoided for ordinary lawmaking. They had just lived through the Articles of Confederation, which required supermajorities (nine of thirteen states) for important actions and produced paralysis. The Constitution was written in part to replace that system with a government that could act."

My interpretation: The Filibuster is a bunch of bullsh*t that produces paralysis.

[JR @JRowland63]

I have my 32 year old original Jenn-air refrigerator from when I built my house in my shop and it and the icemaker still works fine. We bought a Whirlpool with two icemakers about five years ago after the $3500 four year old Samsung quit working and after two months the bottom icemaker stopped working and now the top icemaker is on it's last leg.

[Leo @Leonajardinho]

An electrician with 22 years of trade experience brought his entire enclosed work trailer into a local pawn shop this morning.

He had $18,000 worth of commercial-grade Milwaukee and DeWalt equipment loaded up.

He lost his sub-contracting business last month after three general contractors defaulted on payments and walked away without paying his open invoices.

The shop owner offered him $3,200 total for the whole trailer.

He stood in the parking lot and said: "If a blue-collar guy misses three invoice payments, his business collapses, his credit is destroyed, and he sells his tools for 15 cents on the dollar."

Meanwhile, the commercial real estate firm that built the empty office building down the street defaulted on $45 million in debt.

Their punishment? The lender modified the loan, froze interest payments, and gave them $2 million in emergency operating capital to 'restructure.'

Small-scale labor gets liquidated instantly.

Corporate debt gets shielded forever.

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

Mike Johnson reminding everyone there’s no reason to vote Republican.

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

The Republican Party has no idea what is happening to them.

They have failed so massively there is literally no way back.

So many of us are so disgusted you couldn’t pay us to support Republicans at the federal level.

To be clear, we aren’t Democrats and aren’t voting for them, but we sure as hell hope the current form of the Republican Party burns to the ground.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

The hospital found out Gail Seiler was unvaccinated for COVID. Then they tried to MURDER her.

They STARVED her for 12 days, denied her water for 7 days, and told her husband she was going to die.

When her husband came to take her home, the hospital made her a PRISONER.

They called the police, and a 6-hour standoff followed.

When the hospital finally let them go, it wasn’t through the main entrance. It was through the freight elevator used to carry bodies to the morgue.

On the way out, a nurse told her husband, Brad, “Mark my words, she’ll be dead tonight, or before you even get home.”

Gail survived. Not because of a miracle, but because a caring physician stepped in and guided her home treatment: nebulized budesonide and ivermectin.

BRAD SEILER: “Over the next 30 days, she was weaned completely off of oxygen. Within 60 days, she had recovered sufficiently to return to work. Today, Gail is alive, healthy, active, and
enjoying life with our grandchildren and children.”

Gail’s story is horrendous, but it’s not uncommon. Hospitals were rewarded with perverse bonuses during COVID, and the more interventions they ran, the more they made.

As Attorney @RenzTom previously testified: “We have incentivized the MURDER of patients rather than incentivize TREATMENT.”

“When you go to the hospital, you get tested. They get paid more. When you get admitted for COVID, they get paid more. When they put you on remdesivir, they get paid more. When you get ventilated, they get paid more. When you die, they get paid more. This is perverse.”

[Ansley Brown @Ansleysgarden]

Yall can hate her all you want. She came out to my mom’s house and was GENUINE. She walked through 3ft tall grass just like any GA woman would do, listened to me, and gave me solid advice. To me, she is a friend.

[JR @JRowland63]

@drsimonegold Reason #37 why I refuse to go to a damn doctor. All they know how to do is prescribe pills.

[Dr. Simone Gold @drsimonegold]

I just watched that testimony from Brad Seiler at Senator Johnson’s roundtable. I have heard so many of these stories. This one still lands like a blow to the chest.

A conscious, coherent woman sitting in an ICU bed, telling her husband she wants to go home, and the hospital’s response is to call the police and turn a discharge into a six-hour standoff. She looks at the sergeant and asks the only question that matters: “Am I a patient, or am I a prisoner?” That is not a rhetorical flourish. That is the precise description of what American hospitals became in 2020 and 2021.

Let me speak as a physician who has actually stood in those rooms.

When a hospital tells a family “she will be dead in 24 hours” and then stops treating her, they have abandoned the practice of medicine. They have substituted a protocol for a patient. Isolation, denial of nutrition, secret DNR orders against the family’s wishes, refusal of the very therapies the patient requested in the ER — this is not “standard of care.” It is the systematic withdrawal of care dressed up as science. A nurse casually predicting death as they wheel her out is not dark humor. It is the culture that formed when doctors were no longer allowed to be doctors.

I have said this since the summer of 2020: COVID was treatable. Early, individualized treatment worked. Nobody needed to be starved, isolated, and declared terminal because they were unvaccinated or because they asked for something other than remdesivir and a ventilator. The moment the hospital learned her vaccination status, the entire tone changed. That is not medicine. That is ideology wearing a white coat.

Brad Seiler did what every husband and every physician is supposed to do: he refused to abandon her. He walked into the ICU, stood his ground for six hours, and took his wife home. She lived. That single fact indicts the entire system more thoroughly than any study. The hospital issued a death sentence. Her husband issued a rescue.

Hospitals exist to treat patients, not to process them according to a federal playbook while families are locked outside. When administrators call law enforcement on a man trying to take his conscious wife home, the institution has ceased to be a hospital. It has become a detention facility with better lighting.

This testimony is not an isolated tragedy. It is a pattern. We documented it in real time. We were called dangerous for saying it. History is now catching up.

Gail Seiler is alive because one man remembered that medicine is a covenant, not a protocol. Every physician who stayed silent while this happened should watch this video and then look in the mirror.

[An0maly @LegendaryEnergy]

Lindsey Graham croaked and they basically were like: “Well his sister will also be a shameless Israel lobby puppet so let’s just plug her right in!”

The GOP is completely shameless.

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

General Michael Flynn says he’s knows why we’re not getting accountability for the Minnesota daycare fraud

He’s looked into Speaker Mike Johnson and he’s getting daycare and healthcare clinic money funneled through PACs

Taxpayers are being robbed blind

“I want Speaker Johnson to do more. So we started looking at Speaker Johnson's PACs and how many of his PACs turn money back around to daycare and healthcare clinics and that kind of stuff. It's incredible the amounts of money and that's one person, but he happens to be the Speaker of the House. So this is not a partisan thing for me.”

There are all in on it.

[Sensurround @ShamashAran]

The fact you were a general is why Pete Hegseth is so important.

[JR @JRowland63]

Damn, she's smart! And absolutely correct. Great analysis @Selene_Mariposa !!

[Selene Mariposa @Selene_Mariposa]

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion dollars to find out why families stopped coming.

I can save them the 8.5 billion.

They took out the playground.

The plan, announced Wednesday at investor day. Better food, faster service, new equipment, AI tools, hospitality training, and a bigger push into chicken and beverages. They call it Next. The goal, they say, is making customers feel more comfortable.

Wall Street loved it so much the stock fell 5 percent to its lowest since 2022.

Over five years McDonald's shares are down 3 percent. Burger King's parent is up 14. The owner of Taco Bell and KFC is up 13.

This is not a hamburger problem. This is a McDonald's problem.

So let us talk about who used to eat there.

Parents. That was the whole business. Parents at 5:40 on a Tuesday with three kids in the back and nothing thawed at home.

You did not go for the burger. You went because your kids could run screaming through a plastic tube for 40 minutes while you sat with a coffee and experienced silence.

That was the product. The food was the cover charge.

The first PlayPlace opened in 1971 in Birmingham, Alabama, and for fifty years it did one job. It made small children demand to go to McDonald's.

Then 2020 arrived, every play area in the country closed, and a great many never came back. The equipment came out during a remodeling program named Experience of the Future.

The Experience of the Future turned out to be a touchscreen.

Their own chief executive said he did not know if ball pits were in their future.

Sir, you were not selling ball pits. You were selling forty minutes.

So now there is no counter, no playground, and no reason for a seven year old to want to go. A screen, a window, and a bag.

And for that we pay prices that require a moment of reflection in the parking lot.

For thin, overcooked, oddly uniform pucks that taste like a memory of beef.

I did not love them because they were good. I loved them because I was eight and there was a slide.

And have you seen the new buildings.

The old ones were unmistakable. Red roof, yellow arches, legible from a highway at 70 to a child who could not yet read.

The new ones are a flat gray box with a small logo and a drive through wrapped around it. A regional claims office with a fryer.

They removed the color, the characters, the counter, and the playground, and then hired consultants to find out why it no longer feels like anywhere.

Which is why, when I have to eat fast food, I go to Chick-fil-A.

Not for the politics. For the competence.

They have led the customer satisfaction index for fast food eleven years running, and average 8.5 million dollars per location against McDonald's 4 million.

More than double, while closed on Sundays. Fifty two days a year with the lights off, and still double.

A seventeen year old hands you a bag and says my pleasure and means it about 70 percent, which is 70 percent more than a touchscreen has managed.

McDonald's is spending 8.5 billion on hospitality training.

Chick-fil-A earns 8.5 million per restaurant by just having some.

So here is my consulting proposal, free of charge, on behalf of mothers everywhere.

Put the playgrounds back.

Not a nostalgia campaign. Not a retro cup. The structure. Tubes, slides, a door the kids cannot open from the inside, and a bench where a tired woman can sit.

And understand what you are buying, because it is not lunch.

A six year old does not know your food is bad. He has no basis for comparison and no functioning palate. He thinks the burger is incredible because he is standing in a castle made of tubes.

That is the window. That is the only window you get.

You catch them before the taste buds arrive, and thirty years later they drive past your sign, feel something they cannot explain, and pull in anyway.

That is not a menu strategy. That is imprinting, and you shut it down in 2020 to save on cleaning.

Eight and a half billion dollars for AI tools and hospitality training.

Or a slide.

🦋

[JR @JRowland63]

@VoteMarsha Oh, is that the hill you want to die on. Because no one gives a rats ass about antisemitism.

[JR @JRowland63]

@carsonkrow They might want to look at those depressing ass stores that they built. And no drink fountains. No condiments unless you ask. And no service. And their prices.

[Yeah Yeah! @YeahYeahOkBro]

I DO NOT NEED TWO FACTOR AUTHENTICATION TO PAY MY ELECTRICITY BILL. LET ANYONE IN THAT MOTHERFUCKER IF THEY WANT TO PAY IT

[Robert J. O'Neill @mchooyah]

Every time you say, “It’s a free country” remember this: You got a number when you were born, the bank owns your shit and you better follow the rules someone else made up or you’ll be put in a cage. You know… freedom

[JR @JRowland63]

@LPNational Both parties.