Medicaid enrollees aren't charity cases for the hospitals, they get paid for services rendered by the government. Medicaid expansion saved a ton of struggling rural hospital systems. Isn't understanding rural issues this guy's whole thing?

there is just no way to reconcile the liberal rural fetishism with the conservative politics of rural people, you concede either the former or the latter

that’s a lamb, you stupid mother fucker

can you imagine for just a second how dangerous it is to require teachers to *out* trans kids to their parents against their will? these laws are going to get children killed and abandoned

I can’t tell if Kamala is an extraordinarily skilled operator or the luckiest human being alive

telling a child they’re going to spend an eternity in a fiery pit of torture and suffering for a variety of normal human desires and behaviors is in fact incredibly abusive and traumatizing

Matt Fundamentally the issue with online discourse on religion is that there's a huge number of people who think religious people are all so obviously lying about the things they say that it's impolite to treat them as serious

literally both of the people who tried to off him have been republicans lol

the rise of the median voter terrorist

Bad but straightforward: the labor market cooled, which disproportionately affects low-paying and part time labor, which is disproportionately female. But the wage gap is still lower than in 2019, because real wages for that segment grew more than for "white collar" jobs

if you don’t understand how this is an inherently reactionary position, i do not know what to tell you