Those hands are far too large.

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(satire) Donald Trump announces new ‘Don’t Buy American’ campaign

The Guardian - Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid

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TV pitchman Dr Mehmet Oz was confirmed on Thursday to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

 

Oz became the agency’s administrator in a party-line 53-45 vote.

 

The 64-year-old will manage health insurance programs for roughly half the country, with oversight of Medicare, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act coverage. 

 

He steps into the new role as Congress is debating cuts to the Medicaid program, which provides coverage to millions of poor and disabled Americans.

 

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The scary thing is how many Americans have dangerously poor judgement.
They essentially got what they wanted.

Unfortunately it seems majority of Americans are very Cargo Cultish. 
Don't laugh at islanders who saw the endless resources as war moved across the Pacific. 
There is a techno version in modern world.

Tell Americans people in another State, or Country will pay for their F150 in the driveway and they will believe it.
Florida a Porsche, Lamborghini, Bentley, Aston Martin, Mercedes-Benz, or Pagani paid by productivity somewhere else, that now has to pay additional for the tariff. 
Maybe that supply of Ketamine, and E as well to fuel your success.

Trump is on a winner with his 'Those guys are eating our lunch' speech.
Its what Americans want to hear.
Give them someone/thing to hate as Mr H and Mr G .

Elon Musk and Thiel would say, kill your empathy it holds you back.
Oh Elon wanted Star Trek, but this would be a doomed dystopian planet in original series.

The American dream is the dream of a dream, believe what you want.
Leaving the tab for someone else to pick up, live without empathy, paying off the credit card with another credit card.

This I think is part of why Harris lost - to his credit, the orange buffoon (very effectively) said before the electionthat he would lower prices, end the Ukraine war "in 24 hours", close the borders and make the US safer and blah blah blah.

She did similar things too, but he was louder and probably a more convincing salesman.

Unfortunately, whether a portion of Americans either didn't like voting for a woman (moreso a woman of colour) or they were just voting with their wallets, that I think is why he won.

Of course, as soon as he won he started saying it was "very hard" to reduce prices and the Ukraine War was a lot more complicated than he had previously stated.

However, for most voters they have basically been sucked in by a snake oil salesman and are now finding out the hard way (especially with Musk's DOGE thing) that he can't or won't or doesn't want to do the things they voted him in on. It's a bit late for buyer's remorse, they're basically stuck with this crap on a daily basis for at least the next 4 years now.

As awful as this sounds, Americans made their bed and now they can lie in it. It will be even worse if he tries to run for a third term - there are very few Republicans left who would stand up to him saying or doing such a thing now, it's the party of Trump, sadly (depressingly might be a better word).

A large organisation I do occasional work for has just issued a travel advisory for the US.  It's at about the same level as for China in terms of sanitising social media posts and carrying wiped electronic devices, which previously was the worst-case one.  Russia (pre-2022) in contrast was pretty minimal.

Luckily my boy isn't travelling until September, so that gives us a bit of time to get things ready.

I'm still astonished to think that this sort of nonsense even needs to be done in the first place in 2025 🙄

He's not LGBTQ+ is he?  There was... quite a bit of text covering that, with a worrying "could get worse in the future" attached to some of it.

As long as they only have to be inventive for Easter eggs (and all the calories and plastic waste that entails), it's okay. I'm just afraid that it won't stop at Easter eggs in the future.