Just got off the phone with my college roommate.
His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.
He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.
7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.
He told me he’s not the same person anymore.
Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.
They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.
One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.
And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.
I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.
I really don’t.
If we tax rich people or corporations they will leave. That's what people say all the time. Do we really care? They pay no taxes, take billions in subsidies and buy candidates to overturn protections for people and the environment. I say, go. Who needs them?
Having to watch the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet kill everything in their path on their quest to hoard the most amount of money possible is excruciating.
Whenever I see people fighting over whether they were a Nick kid or a Disney kid or a Cartoon Network kid, I get so confused bc y’all were just picking one…? I was flipping between all them mfs😩
I DO NOT understand what billionaires think the final outcome of all this would be. If nobody has a living wage, they CANNOT buy your products, pay for your services or rent the properties being owned and hoarded. At that point, does the whole thing not just collapse ??
Voting for Trump in 2016 was ignorant.
Voting for Trump in 2020 was malicious.
Voting for Trump in 2024 was evil.
Still supporting Trump in 2026 is irredeemable.
Drug tests are funny.
The guy doing fentanyl all weekend passes by Wednesday.
The guy who hit a joint at a barbecue three weeks ago is the one failing.
I'm not toxic. I'm reactive. There's a person somewhere calling me difficult, and they're leaving out the part where they pushed every boundary I set, ignored every signal I gave, and then acted shocked when I finally stopped being gentle about it.