bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The second he shows real weakness, mortality, the chickens will start pecking.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The second he shows real weakness, mortality, the chickens will start pecking.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The Yellowstone precursors are schlocky as hell, but damn if they don’t show how thoroughly life sucked. My own mother lost her only sibling to measles encephalitis, 6 months before the vaccine came out.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
AI is far from ready for prime time, especially in healthcare. If I were to use AIs suggested responses to patient questions, I would actively hurt them. Claims are already run through AI to get past the clearinghouse stage. God forbid a typo is made on the claim, AI has no intuition.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Plus, AI is stupid. I had a claim stuck in the auto denial clearinghouse purgatory because whoever entered my demo into the claim put me as a male. Took 9 months to unravel this mystery.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
This tracks. Most MAGA I know love conflict, are very hubristic about their “rightness.” Anecdotally, as the Dems I encounter live in red states which is very confounding, we tend to go underground or avoid these tense conversations altogether.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m old enough to remember this man pimp walking a group of women on a literal leash.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m very familiar.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
True. Having LDS buy in, of any size, in Utah, will never hurt your influence. I’ll be the first to tell you MWEG doesn’t represent a majority of LDS women, but alliance and progress wherever we can get it is good.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Case was brought by Mormon Women for Ethical Government. A fierce group of women I’m proud to be a part of.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
If they let any portion of SLC/park city stand alone you’ll get a Ben McAdams (who was awesome.). It may not happen in time for 2026, but as a Utah native it’s nice to see hope for some representation.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Listen to Tim Miller try to get anything substantive and human sounding out of Jeffries on the Bullwark podcast. It’s painful, and Tim is a very affable interviewer. Jeffries used to have some charisma. The leadership has sucked the fire out of him.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
And it’s not really surprising just because she’s a Dem, it’s more those two states aren’t really “rally around the pols” states
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
She had a packed house in Idaho and Utah 🤯. Being from that area… that’s gob smacking
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
My kid has to carry a passport card because of him. Would you ever compliment him if it were your son?
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The glee they’re getting from torturing a blue collar tradesman.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I always think this about their treatment of immigrants. Why do they assume Christ doesn’t love non-American children? I imagine he’s cheering for the underdog.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Teamwork makes the dream work. They each have their role to play. Dem super governors unite 👊
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Sounds like a bizarro world charitable organization.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Utah votes almost exclusively by mail. Utah Dems will be shocked to know this has helped them cheat.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Targeting the infirm first is pretty much the genocide playbook.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Guess what happens when you feed sick kids……
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Occurred to me today I haven’t seen any women as part of these goon squads, wTAF is wrong with our men? (Not all men)
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
People seriously need to internalize the lessons in “The Coming of the Third Reich” by Richard Evans. Know who you can work with and who are Nazi.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Someone said yesterday that Rubio’s face is gradually becoming the Joker, as he has to stamp down any vestige of his morality.
London BYU Fan (@jfloyd314.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
The ultimate unforgivable sin as a politician is to have the full power to stop a threat to your constituents and to choose not to for selfish reasons. It's a basic violation of the social contract that allows representative democracies to exist. These people have to be held accountable for life.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I hated ranching so much…. I shed not a tear when we ate my 4H project.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
No one can ever go lower than a man who fleeced a gofundme for stillborn babies
Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social) reposted reply parent
Our inability to take these monsters seriously is where they draw all their strength!
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I lived there during Aristide. I remember thinking if I had kids I’d float them out on a raft of matchsticks if there was a remote chance we’d survive.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
No one’s replicated it for a reason
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Doesn’t need all that. Just needs to convince Trump that he never has been a loser.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Always trust moms that bring wine
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
What if what the male Latino voter wants is bad for everyone else?
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Today was evidence 1 million that they did.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Think he swallows or spits?
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Honestly, the fact he lost 2020 will torment him until he dies. Dems need to lean into the fact he lost, is a loser.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
A man responsible for stealing thousands of Ukrainian children is being treated like a celebrity. Revolting
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Especially a carrier like Oscar that denies everything. How are they keeping their payouts at 85%?
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Vietor has been consistent on his Israel position since well before October 7th. He’s easily the most progressive pod save guy.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
As a provider he knows darn well that able bodied young people rarely show up to, or make, appointments (Medicaid or otherwise). Be cheaper for everyone in the long run if they did.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The only way to beat a craven, immoral asshole is with your own craven, immoral asshole. Godspeed Hunter.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
My main problem with it is there is no disconnect between your instagram account and your threads account. Zero anonymity.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
It looks just like my parents mid tier country club, complete with stripey umbrellas
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I understand it’s hard to show substantial % rise from an already high point, but “falling grocery” prices is a factually incorrect reading.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I was arguing, tongue in cheek, that sometimes children in restaurants = free food.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
You’re probably right, but this view of the future is a brain dead dystopia that I’m sad my kids will have to navigate.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Totally. More power to them. It was a really badly timed ear infection that taught me a lot about parental hubris. No nice steakhouses with kids until they are happy without a kids menu.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Devils advocate, a child free couple was comped there meal because my normally well behaved child went ape shit at a steakhouse. Nevermind that I was the one that had to pace with him outside, in December, while my party ate. The ear infection diagnosis, unsurprising, but they got FREE FOOD.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
As a parent… you aren’t wrong. This would actually be a blessing for kids too. It sucks for them to be taken to spaces they aren’t equipped for, or wanted.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
She’s not Eva, she’s pure Magda
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Jay Z has plenty of experience with being over-policed. Hope he remembers.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Not this kind. Makes me think he’s trolling for outrage. His own wife is neck deep in his government work, including attending meetings, on signal chats etc.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
For all the conservative women just waiting for a podcast primer on how to channel Magda Goebbels…Katie’s got you covered!
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Soviet brutalism comes for the White House
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Food is visceral. Did my well off, depression era grandparents need to reuse tinfoil? Did my well off father, who grew up homeless, need to hoard food in our basement? We had food lines and a pandemic, followed by a huge amount of inflation. The food insecurity, real or not, is now hardwired.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Much is made of the new ballroom’s price tag. My problem with it is it will forever ruin the iconic front facade of the White House. The symmetry and understated elegance, gone.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Unironically, yes.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The thought of not being able to feed your family is visceral. I have teens, so not representative, I also remember 2008. My biweekly grocery going from $350 to $450, in 2 months makes me anxious. I imagine if I were lower income/in a rural area I’d feel even sicker about it.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Free trip to Illinois 😝. It’s thin, but you can see where they are going with it.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
It looks like a parking lot, so very ugly.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Staying in Hyatt, paid for by Pritzker. It’s a stretch but Texas would probably convict
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Bullshit…
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Just wait until October…. Open enrollment is going to be cataclysmic. Would be pure irony if the GOP kills private health insurance through it’s malevolent incompetence
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s so hot here in August. It feels like the kids are housebound anyway. Get em to school early and they get out a few more days when the weather is better.
Sarah Longwell (@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social) reposted
If you’re an immigrant with legal status who’s committed 0 crimes you can be sent to a torture prison where you’ll be raped and dehumanized. If you’re old pals with Trump and ran a pedophile ring you get sent to a cushy minimum security prison despite being ineligible because you’re a sex offender.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I’m not voting for any Dem who doesn’t have fire and retribution shooting from their eyes.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Yes. I lived there for several years. Haiti’s problems are complex, but they originate from that debt.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I live in a ruby red suburb. It’s so disorienting knowing the very nice parents of my (Hispanic) kids friends are all in on Trump, while simultaneously genuinely caring about my children.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Yup, and then WE took over that bill for France. So Haiti ended up paying these French reparations to the USA.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
It’s essentially what France did to Haiti
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I helped set up care for orphans in Haiti. Mainly for abandoned kids with cerebral palsy. They’d come in emaciated and dying. We fed them, bet you can’t guess what happened next. 🙄
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Classic Americana meets Soviet Brutalist… just like Trump
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
People have been saying how practical replacing the garden was…. But surely it didn’t have to be so “Soviet Brutalist” in style
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Plus the freak out when insurance open enrollment starts in October
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Healthcare is starting to hemorrhage. Largest employer in my state is on a hiring freeze after 2 rounds of layoffs. When open enrollment starts in October it’s going to get ugly.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Add in the shit show that’s hitting healthcare (~25% of many states whole economy.)
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
He went scorched earth on healthcare while levying inconsistent sales taxes on consumables. How is he shocked that this hasn’t resulted in jobs?
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
He was on a separate helicopter, going to the same place. It’s normal not to have the entire leadership of a company fly together. It is too bad. The men who died were not bad men, and his business practices further declined after they died.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Exactly. The obvious question of why an underage girl was working at a high end spa was right there..
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
I think the world being (rightly) horrified by Israel’s actions helps Hamas more then anything.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Stop. I personally know the family of one of these men. His treatment of the widows and the mens’ memory was abominable, but at the time of their death they were in no way ‘turning’ on him. It was a horrible accident.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Oh god no. Marsha might actually be better than that oily pompadour in a suit.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Speaking as an exchange consumer.. UHC offers mainly bronze level in my state. So a combo of people with pre-existing conditions, taking potentially expensive gambles, that UHC will have to pay the lions share of after OOP max met. 🤷♀️
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
GOP is about to kill the insurance market in the most painful way possible. Be ironic if we get German style shared cost in response.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Ironic if the gop kills the health insurance market. They’re doing so in the most painful way possible, on brand.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
These countries missed the opportunity to call his bluff. A little up front pain to avoid this. They are still counting on a different regime in 3 years and that’s shortsighted.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
So they’ll stop shooting people in food lines? Doubt it
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
They just aren’t eating for the fun of it? This ignores that the IDF is shooting people who do happen to find food lines.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
They will. Not because they’re wimps, but because they’re corrupt. Too much special interest $$$ to protect existing seats/reps. They won’t want to sacrifice that. They don’t mind being the minority party.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Banks is nuts, but there is a trench of research showing black and brown kids being perceived as older then they actually are, and being held to age inappropriate standards.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
We could let in more immigrants/path to citizenship to expand our tax paying base.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Have you met baseball dads? Having had a son play in this tournament it’s very MAGA coded. This puts the other international teams in danger. If they protest will those kids get their visas stripped? The international component needs to happen in Canada.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
The last World Cup involved dead slave labor. FIFA isn’t even going to blink at this level of human rights abuses.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Yeah, my son went in 23. It’s a fantastic event, full of fantastic young, mostly sweet/goofy athletes. My son will certainly never forget it.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
So the US World Series happens at the same time. Then the winner of the US plays the winner of the international. (My son’s team went in 23) Venezuela is always a top team. It’s an amazing event with kids from everywhere getting to know each other. So of course Trump needs to ruin it.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
These are literally 12 year old children who worked so hard to get to the World Series. Just, why?
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Plus, why healthcare right this second? Open enrollment is in 2-3 months. Hit that when it’s top of mind.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
That House Dem is woefully out of touch. Epstein has very much entered the mainstream. Plenty of time to talk about healthcare when open enrollment starts.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
He benefited from those ‘Trump as Superman’ memes/NFTs. It was cutting edge culturally and improved his image. Especially when the contrast was Biden.
bippity.bsky.social (@bippity.bsky.social) reply parent
Maggie deserves her own trial for aiding and abetting when this is all over.