Eric Glenn

SC: erictheglenn #KU grad, sports lover of all kinds. #Broncos #RCJH I used to be good at golf. Doing my best to help others get through this thing called life.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Historian Johan Norberg explains that one of the major factors in taking down the Roman Empire that’s rarely discussed, is the rise in entitlement spending

So many people started receiving welfare and it kept getting expanded, it quickly skyrocket inflation and destroyed their currency

“What caused the fall of ancient Rome? There were many reasons; disease, famine, barbarian invaders but historian Johan Norberg covers one rarely talked about. You say entitlement spending played a big role”

“The emperors wanted to become popular by handing out free stuff to people. Originally, this started small. You just handed the very poor means of subsistence, make sure that they would but that group was enlarged because it was popular — So the group that lived on the public's expense grew larger all the time

And emperors complained about this constantly while they were expanding it.

Everyone from Caesar and onwards said, "Oh, we've gotta reform this system because it means that we have fewer people working and more people consuming." But no one succeeded. Instead, it was expanded all the time became more and more costly. So the Romans could conquer the world, but they couldn't do entitlement reform”

“It just reminds me of what I see in the West”

“It's a very worrying sign in each of these civilizations. Once you have an ever-expanding system of entitlements that you can't afford, then you have to deal with it in different ways. Well, some of them just try to conquer other people’s and take their stuff. But once you run out of that, you have to resort to inflation. Rome started to debase the currency

— The Emperor Diocletian, he blamed greedy businessmen for inflation, something that we hear today as well. So he imposed price controls on more than 1,000 goods and even imposed the death penalty on any merchant that increased the price above a certain level. But obviously it all failed because he kept debasing the currency. So inflation kept going, prices kept rising, It only happened in the shadow economy and undermined the Roman Empire completely”

I looked into this and found roughly 20% of the entire population ended up on welfare, it got so out of control they devalued their currency by 98%

This is exactly what’s happening in America

America is Rome and we’re falling the same way they did

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.

He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.

[Desirée Townsend @Cheering4Change]

Senator Mitch McConnell has now been hospitalized for three weeks. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated, especially given that his wife, Elaine Chao, appeared in China just days after his hospitalization to meet with high-ranking Chinese officials. The question now is about national security: if Senator McConnell has been unable to independently perform his duties, what safeguards exist to ensure classified intelligence briefings, defense appropriations information, or other sensitive congressional matters could not be accessed, discussed, or shared by individuals operating behind the scenes? And given the timing of Chao’s meeting with China’s vice president, what exactly was discussed?

[G-PA @IndianaGPA]

One thing I love about Americans-you can be minding your own business, hit a hole-in-one, and suddenly a whole boat crowd of strangers is acting like you just won the Masters.
They don't know your name, your score, or how many balls you lost getting there, but they're cheering, hollering, and celebrating like they've known you since Little League.
Only in America can a perfect shot turn a bunch of strangers into your loudest fan club for about 30 seconds... and honestly, that's pretty great. ⛳️

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝟰 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀!

"Why should I, as a female, be forced to get undressed in front of a biological male?"

His answer: Because magic words.

🙃

[Angela Rose @angelaroosee]

I spoke with the owner of the Drip Cafe in Denver, Colorado where the Denver Communists "protest" on the first Friday of every month.

The cafe has been vandalized and harassed for years because they are Christians. The Communists hand out the anti-cafe flyers on the street to prevent customers from going inside with false claims that they are homophobic.

The cafe helps homeless people get jobs, get ID's, haircuts, and helps them get access to food and clothing, while teaching them Christians principals that help them get off the street and improve their lives.

What incentive do communists have to keep people homeless, on drugs and on the street?

They are incredibly friendly and welcoming at the cafe! Highly recommend people stop on by! 869 Santa Fe Dr, Denver, CO 80204

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨#BREAKING: A 28-year-old confirms he has spent the last 10 YEARS of his life interviewing World War II combat veterans to keep their stories alive...

...in fact, for the last 10 years, he has interviewed World War 2 veterans EVERY SINGLE DAY

He started as a teenager, ditching school to ride his BIKE to the local retirement home, walking up to the front desk and asking to, "meet some World War II heroes."

His name is Rishi Sharma.

He's crossed all 50 states and half the world.

He's slept in his car and lived on gas-station food to afford it.

He asks these men for hours of their memories, and then he hands the entire recording to their families...

...FOR FREE

So that 200 years from now, a great-great-grandchild will know not just their hero's name, but how he laughed, how he cried, and what he sacrificed.

Rishi has no military family, his parents immigrated here from India.

He does it out of pure gratitude.

In his words:

"My parents were given the opportunity to immigrate and raise a family because of veterans like these. It's a debt of love I'll spend my entire life trying to repay..."

As one 100-year-old Marine who stormed Iwo Jima told him, remembering the flag going up:

"The hair on my arms still stands up when I think about how beautiful it was."

THAT is America.

250 years of ordinary people doing extraordinary things...

God bless our veterans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Taylor Twellman @TaylorTwellman]

Wait wait you all told me it was a RED card. 😂😂😂😂

[Forest Park Pharmacy @ForestParkPharm]

My wife and I own a pharmacy. Last month we spent days trying to pry one prescription loose from a company that did everything it could to hold onto it.

The drug was everolimus. A generic. It treats cancer and protects transplant patients from rejecting their new organ. Not exotic. Not rare. A pill.

The patient wanted it filled with us because we're cash-pay and cost-plus. No insurance. No PBM. No secret markups, no games. Our price was $318. That's not cheap by our standards — most of what we fill runs under $20 — but it was honest.

Here's what that same prescription looked like on the other side of the counter.

In 2023, Medicare was paying about $6,645 for it. That's roughly 21 times our price for the identical medication. Medicare spent around $240 million on everolimus alone that year. If they'd paid our price, they'd have saved roughly $230 million. On one generic drug.

So how does an insurance company profit off a drug that expensive? Don't they pay for it?

No. You pay for it. In your premiums. Their job isn't to spend less — it's to keep your healthcare dollars circulating inside their own companies. And the tool they use is called spread pricing.

Spread pricing works like this: the middleman bills the health plan one price, pays the pharmacy a lower one, and keeps the difference. You never see it. On TRICARE, they pay an independent pharmacy like mine about $311 to fill everolimus. That barely covers our cost of the drug. Meanwhile the plan gets billed thousands. That gap — north of $6,000 on a single fill — is pure margin the middleman pockets.

Now here's the part they'd rather you not think about.

The pharmacy we were fighting was Accredo. Accredo is owned by Express Scripts. Express Scripts is the pharmacy benefit manager owned by Cigna. Same company, three masks. That nesting-doll structure isn't an accident — it's the whole design. When the pharmacy, the PBM, and the insurer are all one entity, they can shuffle money between their own pockets and call it whatever they want. The confusion is the product.

And this isn't a story about one weird drug. It's the business model.

The FTC has been digging into exactly this. In its January 2025 report on the three biggest PBMs — CVS Caremark, Express Scripts, and OptumRx — staff found those companies marked up specialty generic drugs by hundreds and thousands of percent when dispensing through their own affiliated pharmacies. Just those markups generated more than $7.3 billion above what the drugs actually cost to acquire, from 2017 to 2022. One in five of the specialty generics they studied was marked up over 1,000%. Some cancer generics: over 3,000%. On top of that, the FTC pegged spread pricing on those same drugs at another $1.4 billion.

One example straight from the FTC's files: dimethyl fumarate, a multiple sclerosis drug. Costs about $177 to acquire. The PBMs paid their own pharmacies close to $4,000 for a 30-day supply. Same trick. Different drug.

And they steer the profitable ones to themselves on purpose. Pharmacies affiliated with the big three took in 68% of specialty dispensing revenue in 2023 — up from 54% in 2016. The prescriptions marked up more than $1,000 disproportionately end up at their own pharmacies, not independents like mine.

So when we called to transfer this patient's everolimus to be filled without insurance, it landed like we were asking them to set $6,000 on fire. Of course they stonewalled us.

That's why we fired them.

No insurance means no invisible $6,000 charge buried in a premium you can't itemize. It means the price you see is the price. Ours was $318. Theirs was thousands. Same pill.

[Orwell Day @OrwellDay]

Man shows Flock camera tracking him as he walks, Flock firing when no cars around

[Joseph Severino @Joe_Severino]

Chicagoland Radio Host Jenny McGuire beating up her boyfriend and terrifying her child.
AM560 went from Conservative to ghetto with two new hosts. Tommy McIntosh and Jenny McGuire.
@RickyCaplin are these the values you wanted instilled in the station when waterstone acquired it?
@marcusbrown Are you proud of your leadership? Why is a Democrat managing a conservative station?
@CGAdamo @AM560TheAnswer
@ABC @nbc

[Eric Glenn @eric_glenn1]

@JakeGuti BRUTAL Red Card there…
Not even a Yellow on the field, somehow goes to a Red upon VAR? 🤔🤷‍♂️🧐

[Pete Mundo @PeteMundo]

Do you guys think Travis and Taylor will have The Garden set to 78 degrees for the wedding this weekend, per Mamdani's request????

[USGA @USGA]

Padraig Harrington seems to always have the right perspective 👏

His answer says it all when asked why he's playing in events for eight straight weeks.

[MAZE @mazemoore]

1993. Dianne Feinstein: Should people be able to come to this country, get on Medicaid, give birth to a baby, and then go back to their home country? The answer is no.

Democrats used to be somewhat sane. Those days are long gone

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

On this day in 1983, Joe Delaney died a hero attempting to save three children from drowning. Today and always, we honor his memory and sacrifice.

[Emily @emilypitek]

I went to the World Cup game yesterday in atlanta.

We bought
- 2 slices of pepperoni pizza
- thing of popcorn
- powerade
- bottled water

Grand total: $15.25

Every single concession stand in this country should be like this w/ what ticket prices are for fans

[Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok]

Mother/daughter duo arrested after showing off their stolen designer bags on tiktok

Janeice Downs, and her mother, Janeice Wiley, have been operating an organized retail theft crime ring stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of merchandise for years.

Downs was released from prison just a few months ago on her most recent robbery charges and has a long criminal record.

Downs would reportedly wear a burqa to rob stores to hide her identity.

[Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill]

I gave her every opportunity to say Americans don’t need Coca-Cola to survive. She wouldn’t do it.

This is who Democrats brought to defend food stamps.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

We are not mad enough. This is a print out of all the fees just for a permit to build a 747 square foot 2 bed, 1 bath single family dwelling

Impact Fees:

- Sheriff Residential SMI Fee: $1,979.00
- Fire Department Impact: $1,979.00
- General Government: $2,174.00
- Library: $421.00
- Park: $1,033.00
- County Public Protection: $2,557.00
- Other Impact Fees (including Road/Country Road): $17.23 – $145.52

Building Permit and Plan Check Fees

- Base Building Permit/Plan Check: $7.60 per sq ft (living area)
- Automation/Software Fee (Automation Maintenance + Plan Check Software): $19,096.00

Supplemental / Trade Fees

- Electrical Living Area Fee: $895.50
- Mechanical: $141.00
- Plumbing: $67.00

Development Review Fees

- Environmental Health: $75.00
- Fire Safety: $52.00
- Planning: $99.00

Other Development Review (various):

- $69.00, $75.00, etc.

Total Fees: $30,803.22

This is JUST FEES, this includes no building

Government is way too big. We are being robbed blind. This is a major factor of why housing is so expensive and why so many people don’t even bother building anymore

Every state is different but this is outrageous