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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • Bear in mind - the poor (even the elderly poor) generally get coverage under medicaid or qualify as dual-eligibles. But it ain’t much.

    Federal funding for medicaid is actually already in the shitter so plan administration and sustainability is mostly a state matter. If Trump suddenly pulled medicaid funding it’d cause a lot of financial stress but most states could probably weather the storm in the short term.

    The people really fucking shafted by Medicare cuts would be the disabled which (as little help as they’re given under the US system) would be unable to afford regular care on medicaid’s FFS model (where partial costs can often exceed the amount they’re legally allowed to save (it sucks, but that’s a separate topic)). Anyone like my stepson who has BPD, ASD, and a few more spicy disorders would be fucked if they tried to maintain daylight (let alone overnight) staff supports. That’s not even getting into med or doc costs…

    And the old folks, of course… it’ll be an extremely rude awakening to elderly conservatives and probably cause a real shock to the stock market as people are forced to disinvest to avoid dying if they’re lucky enough to have that option.







  • Actually, to be quite honest… we’ve been looking at a pretty much inevitable recession in 2025 for about nine months now.

    The slight upside is that this will happen in the onset of Trump’s term and likely lead to widespread discontent instead of hitting a Harris administration right out the gate.

    For poetic justice this whole cycle of greed-flation into recession seems to have been mostly triggered by Trump royally fucking up his pandemic response on the first place.






  • Armies don’t need complex phrases like “Last week did I see you go to the library?” And as such they’ve often used non-verbal communications in battle (especially because battle is fucking confusing) this has included drum signals, colored smoke, flags for different actions, and gestures.

    When they are using verbal commands they’re often a greatly simplified set of phrases - sometimes in a jargon that isn’t even proper speech. It’s rare to see ten syllable commands and you’re much more likely to hear “company, right” than “Company of soldiers whom I command, please initiate a pinwheel rotation to the right around the rightmost file of your formation. Thank you kindly.” So if Europe had to form an army inter lingually then “a derech” and “a isker” would probably end up being right and left respectively… that or they’d follow the EU trend of “When in doubt, default to French”… or they’d just signal their troops with different patterns of Eurohouse beats.