Capy

my dream bio is probably TOS for the owner of this hellsite

[💀DeathMetalViking💀 @DeathMetalV]

Rightoids when they don't have 10k foreign accounts with AI generated profile pictures to back them up.

[Capy @callmecapybara]

She'd have some witty fun facts

[Capy @callmecapybara]

Jenny Nicholson is in my dream blunt rotation

[Derek Heckman @herekdeckman]

The best analysis of Sorkin was whoever on here said that what he’s truly gifted at writing isn’t sweeping political epics but “best friends having a fight”

[Natalie Wynn @ContraPoints]

She’s always right. I think nominating him is very risky, but it’s done. If I lived in Maine I’d vote for him.

[actually @CentristMadness]

We had a soft landing and the best economic recovery in the world

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Capy @callmecapybara]

@RyanGeddie Why attack the right when you can just attack liberals amirite?

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Wow, if you read this you might get the impression that trump is getting ready to steal the next election! And you’d be right.

[WarMonitor @TheWarMonitor]

Congress has given ICE a budget larger than the U.S. Marine Corps. Think about that.

[cursed @cursedhat]

men were claiming women liked kratos because he’s a hot big muscled man, but the truth is women like kratos because he softly whispered “i would have you close to me” to his wife he adores.

[Richard Newby @RichardLNewby3]

This is all because he got booed last night. What an absolute chode.

[kafka esquire @Kafkaesquire]

As a soft westerner, I must admit that I have a hard time watching the drone videos killing Russian invaders. Such tactics are necessary and it is good the Ukraine is deploying them. That being said, there is a helplessness to them that has always left me feeling that a combatant’s ability to surrender in the face of certain death is being removed.

I am glad to see videos like this, not only because it means that surrender for those who do not wish to fight is an option, but as an example of the humanity of Ukrainians. Knowing only a fraction of the pain they have suffered at the hands of Russians, I could not and would not ask them to show such grace, yet they do so. They show restraint, a respect for life, and civility that they never could expect from their enemy in this war.

My support for Ukraine will never waiver, and I feel as though Ukraine and its people continue to validate that support.

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

This is as close as you’ll get to a right-winger just admitting that they are totally uninterested in what is true or false; they simply demand to be assuaged.

They must *feel* calmed and satisfied. In their view, we all exist only to serve their feelings.

[st. vincent-st. marys grad @PuckFupett69]

I mean if we’re going to do this, why not just buy ads of Donald Trump on video saying he wants to rape kids or whatever? They wanna play the game, let’s play the game.

[Yerrr 🇵🇸 @MaceAhWindu]

Gas prices are going down a bit and this country’s voters are genuinely cattle

[daeveningglow @InlandCaGuy]

It's not really that complicated, Republicans think they are the true Americans and the Dems are just a mistake that is annoying, whereas Dems think the whole country is American and adjust their outlook accordingly based on who is in charge.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

This woman is a fraud who doesn't know we can fact-check her.

I found where she made the claim, and it provides some specifics: "If I had vaccinated the 6000 patients I treated for C0VID, I would have made $1.5 million."

This means she would've had to have been reimbursed $250 per patient. She attributed this number to a Blue Cross Blue Shield incentive program. But, the program she cites does not apply to her practice, which is in Houston, TX.

The program she's referring to is for participating Kentucky primary-care providers with an Anthem Medicaid panel of at least 25 members, and it involves tiered bonuses if the practice meets vaccination rate thresholds, with the highest final bonus being $250 per newly-vaccinated Anthem member, if the practice reaches a 75% vaccination threshold.

She's trying to claim that a Houston ENT could "vaccinate all her patients" and automatically collect $250 a piece. But she got the state wrong and she detailed how the program works incorrectly, too. She's even foolishly making these mistakes again in the comments section of this post.

To make matters worse, her own site says it's not possible for this to have applied to her. On her page, it says: "BreatheMD is a cash-pay facility, and Dr Bowden has opted out of all insurance plans".

The website currently, and for the past few years, has shown this, and the patient numbers given on the site do not match up with the timing of this program's existence either. There's no way to make her claims work, and her claims are about gross earnings, too. In reality, she still wouldn't have made $1.5m net with $250/person * 6,000 patients.

She's just a complete and obvious liar!

Now, if we're exceedingly generous, we can check what standard Medicare COVID reimbursement payments would've grossed her. The Biden-Harris administration upped payments to about $40 per dose, or $80 for a two-dose series. Thus, with 6,000 people and assuming everyone gets two doses, she'd have just grossed $480,000.

And you know what? I'm feeling really generous. The highest-paying commercial private insurer bonus -- which, again, her practice would not have been eligible for -- is $64. But reimbursements cluster near the Medicare rate of $40, and often below it. If you add the Medicare in-home add-on, then payments can go up to $75/dose for qualifying home vaccination visits, but this would not even apply to her office-based rates. Good luck getting to $1.5 million!

This woman is a delusional liar who doesn't expect anyone to fact-check her. Joe did not bother fact-checking her; instead, he seems to have just believed her obvious lying.

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[Enphian 🏳️‍🌈🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇳 @Enphian]

There’s far too many people who think if we just did socialism we’d immediately like solve climate change. It’s such a deeply annoying position.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

“I don’t trust the final result unless it’s exactly what I want” is the perfect representation of what the Republican Party has become