Richard Sessums

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

I hate to admit this but Trump was right.

He said that if I vote for Kamala Harris gas prices, groceries prices and my utility bills will go through the roof.

I voted for Harris and my gas, groceries and utility bills have gone through the roof.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Matt Smethurst @MattSmethurst]

A news reporter asked Michael Jordan if he thought the ’90s Bulls could beat LeBron’s Lakers.

MJ: Yes.
Reporter: By how much?
MJ: Two or three points.
Reporter: Why so close?
MJ: Most of us are almost 60 now.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

The funniest part about the Trump phone is that he could launch the 2nd Gen Trump phone pre-orders today and all of these dumb fucks would give him another $100.

[Richard Sessums @rsessums]

@CollegeFBonX Bo Jackson

[Richard Sessums @rsessums]

@CollegeFBonX Totally agree! On occasion, I still queue it up for a rewatch.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This one is so much more accurate than the original.

[Carolina ❤️‍🔥 @realCarola2Hope]

Pope Leo XIV is not ‘woke’, nor a Marxist, nor a progressive, nor a leftist.

The Pope is simply a Christian.

When he defends the poor and the innocent, he is following the Gospel.

When he denounces injustice, he is imitating Christ.

When he speaks for the poor, he is repeating word for word the Sermon on the Mount.

Those who are angry at him are not fighting with Pope Leo XIV.

They are fighting with Christ.

Because it was Jesus who said: ‘Whatever you did for the least of my brothers, you did for me.’

Rejecting the Pope for being merciful is not something a Christian does.

The problem is not that Leo XIV has strayed from Christ.

The problem is that some have strayed so far from the Gospel that they no longer recognize it when they see it.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

If you hate Pope Leo because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Let me just say that I truly admire the legendary Bruce Springsteen. He’s an incredibly talented artist, an actual American patriot, a fighter for democracy and a good human being.

[Lazzyyyyyy @em_Lazzy]

To all you Christians who support Trump…name one Christlike attribute he has. This should be interesting

[Richard Sessums @rsessums]

@USF_P5 @USFFootball That moment is the most excited I have ever been at a football game!

[Jvnior @Jvnior]

🚨🇱🇧 BREAKING: Israel is completely ETHNIC CLEANSING civilians in Lebanon and world is 100% silent on this.

Don't be silent. Repost this. Stand with Lebanon.

[U.S. Rep. Kathy Castor @USRepKCastor]

Congratulations to Senator-Elect Brian Nathan!

Floridians deserve relief from high costs and electric bills. Tampa/Hillsborough voters are sending a Navy veteran who will stand up to the special interests and fight for their pocketbooks.

[Richard Sessums @rsessums]

@bostonradio https://t.co/kSmy4r1iwJ

[Richard Sessums @rsessums]

@stickermule The sign-up process does not work. Frustrated with this company.

[Dutch Rojas @DutchRojas]

Your doctor went to medical school for 12 years. The person denying your claim went through a two-week training module.

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Private equity has poured over $1 trillion into US healthcare in the last decade. 2025 set a record: $191 billion in deal value. The money goes in to own the debt structure, not to fix the hospitals.

The playbook is mechanical. PE firm acquires hospital using leveraged debt. The debt lands on the hospital’s balance sheet. The PE firm charges management fees to the hospital, sometimes for services never rendered. The hospital now owes hundreds of millions it never borrowed, plus annual fees to the people who put it in debt. To service those obligations, the hospital cuts staff.

The Harvard/University of Chicago study quantified what “cut staff” means in an emergency room. ER salary spending dropped 18.2%. ICU salary spending dropped 15.9%. Headcount fell 11.6%. Emergency department deaths rose 13%, seven additional deaths per 10,000 visits. A separate study found surgical patients at PE-acquired hospitals had 17% higher odds of dying within 90 days.

488 hospitals are PE-owned as of 2025. A quarter of all US emergency rooms. Texas alone has 108. New Mexico: 36.2% of all hospitals.

Steward Health Care is the clearest case study. Cerberus Capital bought the chain, loaded it with debt, then sold the hospital real estate to a REIT. Steward now paid hundreds of millions in annual rent on buildings it used to own. CEO Ralph de la Torre collected over $250 million in personal compensation. He bought a $40 million yacht, a $15 million fishing boat, two private jets worth $33 million each, and an 11,000 square foot Dallas mansion next to George W. Bush. He flew the corporate jet 582 times in two years. He visited his own Massachusetts hospitals seven times. Each trip lasted less than a day.

Steward filed for bankruptcy with $9 billion in debt. Eight hospitals serving 2 million people nearly disappeared. De la Torre was held in contempt by the United States Senate for refusing to testify. He attended the Olympic equestrian events in Paris while his emergency rooms went dark.

This tells you everything about how the model actually works. The fund makes money at acquisition, at the real estate sale, and at the fee extraction. The mortality spike happens after all three. The IRR is already locked in before the death rate moves.

The capital keeps flowing because the returns don’t depend on the hospital surviving.

[Sonali, your friendly dentist🦷 @chutneylife]

Ban private equity from healthcare