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Old Feb 1, 2026 | 02:16 PM
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You don't hate the media enough.

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Originally Posted by cordycord
You don't hate the media enough.
And you don't fact check enough.

The Schumer one is a complete fabrication. His daughters weren't even born until the 1980s and his wife's name is Iris, not Kaitlyn. And the "news" org cited doesn't exist.
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Originally Posted by sixshooter
And you don't fact check enough.

The Schumer one is a complete fabrication. His daughters weren't even born until the 1980s and his wife's name is Iris, not Kaitlyn. And the "news" org cited doesn't exist.
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Someone tell me if this is true...
Someone tell me if this is true...
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Old Feb 3, 2026 | 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Someone tell me if this is true...
Someone tell me if this is true...
it doesn't matter if its true or not.

watch this:


replace MJ with obama. replace R Kelly with Solmolian day care fraudsters. that's how leftists think. facts dont matter, bullet points from reddit do.
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So much news today. I'm not going to copypasta it all. Here's a good summary link:
https://open.substack.com/pub/coffee...esday-february
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Who would have thought that waste/fraud/abuse has caused this much inflation? Food, health, insurance, homes....allofit.
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It's not the actual act, but the intent. This is the world of the liberal.
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Originally Posted by cordycord

It's not the actual act, but the intent. This is the world of the liberal.
I sold machines used for handling the waste and recycling materials. It all goes to the same incinerators in each of 3 counties that have waste-to-energy plants in this area. Solid waste, recycleables, and used tires all get burned for electricity in the same buildings. I've been in the incinerator buildings regularly over the last 25 years. They sell any scrap metal that comes out with the ash. They bury the ash in the landfills.
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Los Angeles Becomes Ground Zero for Medicare Hospice Fraud

Los Angeles County is under intense federal scrutiny after new reporting highlighted the sheer scale of suspected Medicare hospice and home health fraud concentrated in the region. Roughly 18% of all U.S. home health Medicare billing flows through LA County, with thousands of hospice agencies operating in close proximity, many with little visible infrastructure or patient care activity.

Federal officials allege widespread abuse involving ghost patients, shell companies, and paperwork-only billing designed to drain Medicare. One physician reportedly billed over $120 million in a single year while overseeing nearly 2,000 patients. California has revoked hundreds of licenses and imposed moratoriums, but federal investigators say the underlying incentives remain intact and taxpayer losses are still measured in the billions.
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Originally Posted by cordycord
https://x.com/calleymeans/status/201...303610417?s=51

Who would have thought that waste/fraud/abuse has caused this much inflation? Food, health, insurance, homes....allofit.

notice how everything blue, the government doesn't really regulate, but everything red the government is protecting and keep affordable for you?

somebody said something once about that.
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Old Feb 4, 2026 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Braineack
notice how everything blue, the government doesn't really regulate, but everything red the government is protecting and keep affordable for you?

somebody said something once about that.
Which is one reason I find it odd that no one is calling attention to the fact that Trump has been floating proposals to:

1: Create a new government-backed 50 year mortgage plan, thus ensuring that "homeowners" never actually own their own home, and / or
2: Encourage withdrawals from 401k / 529 retirement plans in order to make downpayments on home purchases.


Both of these will, of course, drive up the average price of housing, just as happened in the 1940s when the GI Bill and VA program created a new category of ultra-long-term 30 year mortgages with allowable loan-to-value ratios of up to 95%.

The former will additionally encourage the sort of people who look only at monthly payments to take on greater amounts of debt, while the latter will create a future crisis as millennials find themselves heading into retirement age still owing money on their mortgages while receiving a stark lesson in the value of compound interest as they calculate how much that 401k withdrawal they made in their 30s would have been worth in the present day had they left it alone.





On a lighter note...

As journalists continue combing through the newly released Epstein documents, one omission has drawn quiet curiosity: Bert and Ernie are nowhere to be found.

Given their decades-long public visibility and frequent association as a duo, some expected at least a passing mention. Their complete absence stands out—an oddly notable gap in a file otherwise dense with familiar names.



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Old Feb 4, 2026 | 07:37 PM
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As newly released Epstein-related documents continue to be examined, one omission has quietly stood out. Despite his long-circulated reputation as a bully, habitual rule-breaker, and serial offender of basic decency, Biff Tannen’s name does not appear anywhere in the files.

Given his documented history of intimidation, coercion, and unchecked entitlement, some find the absence puzzling. While many familiar names surface, Tannen’s exclusion remains a curious footnote—raising the simple question of how someone with such a track record managed to avoid even a passing mention.


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So we're dragging Bert and Ernie out into the light, huh?

Ok.
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