Feds Raid Multiple Fraudulent "Autism Services Centers" in, Get This, Minnesota

Hm. It's almost as if Democrat-run states deliberately allow massive fraud to illegally funnel money to their key constituent groups.

It's the same scam we've seen before: essentially fake "health care providers" bill the federal government for "services" they never provide to "patients" who don't exist or don't even have the ailments they're supposedly being treated for.

This could quickly be stopped by the most basic of verification protocols, but the Democrats always turn those all the way off.

And, as usual, they find a liberal criminal, in this case a 70-year-old Karen, who has some certification which allows her to sign off on the completely-fake billing.

And no further questions are asked.

Federal agents raided multiple Minnesota autism service providers Thursday in the latest law enforcement action involving a state already under intense scrutiny over allegations of widespread fraud in taxpayer-funded programs.
The FBI confirmed that federal and state agencies were conducting "court-authorized investigative activity" at multiple locations across Minnesota, including sites in the Twin Cities and Rochester, according to MPR News.
...
Iska Inc. received more than $16.7 million in Medicaid payments between 2018 and 2025, according to state data reviewed by the Minnesota Star Tribune. The business participated in Minnesota's Early Intensive Developmental and Behavioral Intervention program, which provides services to children and young people with autism and has faced increasing scrutiny over fraud allegations.
...
The Justice Department also announced charges against 15 defendants in May in connection with alleged health care fraud schemes involving more than $90 million in intended losses. The cases included an alleged $46.6 million scheme targeting Minnesota's autism intervention program, which DOJ said saw Medicaid claims surge from more than $600,000 in 2018 to more than $400 million by 2025.

Meanwhile: Greasy Gavin Newsom is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to provide luxury gourmet food to welfare lifers.

California Sends Luxury Foods to Welfare Recipients
As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.

Salmon, beef, organic produce, and Amy's Kitchen meals: these are just some of the luxury foods that California welfare recipients can get delivered to their homes each week, for free.
Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.
"Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God."
She can also thank Governor Gavin Newsom. As part of his nearly $12 billion Medicaid reform package, welfare recipients--including illegal immigrants--can receive free, "medically tailored" meals and groceries, delivered straight to their door. They can get foods for free that would cost ordinary people a small fortune.
The food service is part of CalAIM, Newsom's multibillion-dollar Medi-Cal reform package. Signed into law in 2021, CalAIM directs Medicaid dollars to social programs like transitional rent payments and housing deposits. Newsom called it a "once-in-a-generation opportunity to completely transform the Medicaid system in California."
The transformation is working. The most popular of CalAIM's "Community Supports," by far, is "medically tailored meals." That program and a related offering send prepared meals or "tailored" grocery items to qualified Medi-Cal recipients' homes.
The state makes eligibility easy. Applicants need a qualifying Medi-Cal card, a provider's recommendation, and an eligible condition. In a 2024 presentation to a Los Angeles nonprofit, Andrew Barrier, a former executive of a California medically tailored food contractor, told his audience how easy it was to enroll.
"They're not looking to push people away from the program, they're really looking for people to be on it," he said. "Step one is that chronic condition. This is really how most people come in, and they could have diabetes, pre-diabetes, cardiovascular, mental- and behavioral-health disorders--we've seen anxiety, PTSD, depression, ADHD. Again, the list is very, very long."
From there, the food shows up at recipients' doorsteps. Medi-Cal pays contractors to deliver the food for up to 12 weeks, after which eligible recipients can re-enroll. And it's not cheap: across 24 weeks, between food and delivery, a single "medically tailored meals" recipient costs taxpayers more than $1,500.

Here's the Corrupt Karen who signed off on fake billing for fake patients suffering from fake autism and even warned her co-conspirators that they had to CALM DOWN on the truly massive fraud or else "the feds will come in."

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. HHS is now launching a wide-scale AUDIT of all 50 states' taxpayer AUTISM programs due to rampant fraud
North Carolina data just dropped: +11,000% PERCENT SURGE IN AUTISM BILLING 🤯
It was NOT just Minnesota!
PRESIDENT TRUMP ON FRAUD: "You haven't seen anything yet."
This is being called a "GOLD RUSH" of fraud, hundreds of millions and even BILLIONS are being found.
More data confirmed autism spending is surging in every other state with public data.
— MAGA NEWS 🇺🇲🗞️ (@MAGAlwr5) October 24, 2026

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 12:16 PM

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1 "Yeah, but it's not $2 billion in fraud uncovered, which means you are losers!"
-troll

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:16 PM (xjopy)

2 Fog in the streets, a church clock beats.
Midnight, darkness all around.
You better beware, you better take care.
Be prepared for the shock.

The time has come and he's the one
Who's breathing down your neck.
Coming from behind, now it's your time,
A loser will die.

Fast as a shark, he'll cut out of the dark.
He's a killer, he'll rip out your heart.
On a one way, track and you're not coming back.
Because the killer's on the attack ...

FOR FIRST!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (iFTx/)

3 Are there ANY AMERICAN dollars spent by the US government on social services that AREN'T being scammed?

Just curious...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (Sco7b)

4 HOLY SMOKES. HHS is now launching a wide-scale AUDIT of all 50 states' taxpayer AUTISM programs due to rampant fraud

North Carolina data just dropped: +11,000% PERCENT SURGE IN AUTISM BILLING 🤯

It was NOT just Minnesota!

========

There's an entire economy being attacked right now by the powers that be.

It's diffused across the nation. It's rich. It's connected.

But it doesn't seem to be racking up much in the way of wins.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:17 PM (xjopy)

5 I shannot believe it.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Fi81e)

6 SPONGE!!!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (JnkZq)

7 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (ccf/V)

8 Again and again, and again.

Fucking exhausting, it is.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (PSEDc)

9 RFKJr. is conducting a genocide on autistic kids!!

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:18 PM (Fi81e)

10 Nothing will happen.

Posted by: The person who always says that at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (aDmlG)

11 Corrupt Karen who signed off on fake billing and even warned her co-conspirators that they had to CALM DOWN on the truly massive fraud or else "the feds will come in."
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Note well. She is worried about the Feds, not the State's authorities -- because the state authorities are in on it.

Posted by: Captn Obvs at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (anL5R)

12 "This is absolutely awful, reprehensible, and we will take swift and decisive action immediately to hold the reporters who found this and leaked it responsible"
--Minnesota government

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (TMNW7)

13 Three of us nooded in the Rant thread. Must have all hit refresh at the same time.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:19 PM (NcvvS)

14 Hm. It's almost as if Democrat-run states deliberately allow massive fraud to illegally funnel money to their key constituent groups.
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Who them, gratefully fill Dem coffers.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Fi81e)

15 An autist's take: Autism providers provide autism. Autism services deliver autism.

Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

16 Hang them all.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (RDiUV)

17 Let the pouncing and seizing begin

Posted by: 2009Refugee at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (aCs4e)

18 RFKJr. is conducting a genocide on autistic kids!!

Guarantee you that will be the spin. From all the news organizations.

Just like "no we will not give free food to illegals and people who can work any longer" is being spun as "they are starving 900 trillion children in Alaska alone!!!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (TMNW7)

19 >>Note well. She is worried about the Feds, not the State's authorities -- because the state authorities are in on it.

She gets the first shot at cutting a deal to name names, though.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (NcvvS)

20 *North Carolina data just dropped: +11,000% PERCENT SURGE IN AUTISM BILLING.*

Is that a lot?

Posted by: I gotta ask at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (aDmlG)

21 Willowed on the previous thread, but Buck, you're so handsome! Almost like a work of art.

Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (lCppi)

22 Sung to the tune of the lego movie's opener, "Everything is Awesome," EVERYTHING'S AUTISTIC!!!!!

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (3p/KU)

23 75% of every dollar spent on healthcare in this country is stolen, fraudulent, clearly unnecessary, or otherwise just flushed down the toilet.

Total healthcare spending could be cut in 24 hours to 25% of what it is right now, and not one actual human with any real sickness or need of care will be affected. Not a one.

Nobody will ever be able to convince me of anything different. Not even if you try to use shark attack and car accident statistics!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

24 I must be a real putz going to work regularly and paying my bills. How dumb of me…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (M+uMR)

25 Stay tuned to learn why this is not a problem, or if it is, it's Trump's fault.

Posted by: I'm Korva Coleman, and this is NPR News at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (XE5AP)

26 All this uncovered fraud is a testament to the decades of toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats who just sat there and let it happen. Presumably because they afraid of being called racists.

Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)

27 22 Sung to the tune of the lego movie's opener, "Everything is Awesome," EVERYTHING'S AUTISTIC!!!!!

Posted by: M. Gaga at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (3p/KU)

=========

Everyone has AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (xjopy)

28 If your parents can afford treatment, you've got it.

Posted by: Therapists everywhere at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (aDmlG)

29 I always wondered where those trillions were going every year since, what, 2010?

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (Ae6Br)

30 Good afternoon Ace and everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (2rrwR)

31 Stay tuned to learn why this is not a problem, or if it is, it's Trump's fault.

Posted by: I'm Korva Coleman, and this is NPR News at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (XE5AP)
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Wait. You skipped the "It's not happening" phase.

We have to have a round of "It's not happening".

We gaslit know our gaslighting.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:23 PM (Fi81e)

32 Is this about us?

Posted by: toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats at October 30, 2026 12:23 PM (aDmlG)

33 15 An autist's take: Autism providers provide autism. Autism services deliver autism.
Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:20 PM (Jr5Lq)

Secondary take - real service providers should welcome a 50 state audit. B/c they will realize there will ultimately be more money for them when the 90% fake places are shut down...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:23 PM (Gb7+b)

34 I am maddened and amazed that so much freely flowing money is available to front all this fraud.
It appears as if all the fraud can be stopped, we might not need a national income tax.

Posted by: Mudshark at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (ZdCWL)

35 Are there ANY AMERICAN dollars spent by the US government on social services that AREN'T being scammed?"

Nope. However, if you or yours might be able to use some assistance...

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (ADOtk)

36 Nobody will ever be able to convince me of anything different. Not even if you try to use shark attack and car accident statistics!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

Assume a spherical hippo.

Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (wXgT/)

37 This is what happens, inevitably, though. Look at the huge spike in "trans kids" when there was enormous funding pouring into the cause. Huge money went into researching and treating autism and suddenly the number of autistic kids skyrocketed. I bet half the morons here would be diagnosed as autistic these days because we are dreamers, intellectuals, artistic, or just rebels.

Autism became "not a dull, obedient, ordinary child who does well in school" rather than a mental illness. Any child who is slightly different than their baseline lab model? Austistic or ADHD! That boy who gets bored in school? ADHD! That girl who doesn't break down crying when teased? Autistic!

Thar's big money in them hills.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (TMNW7)

38 36 Nobody will ever be able to convince me of anything different. Not even if you try to use shark attack and car accident statistics!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:21 PM (iFTx/)

Assume a spherical hippo.

Posted by: far cry at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (wXgT/)

=======

Think I can apply my model for a spherical chicken?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (xjopy)

39 All this uncovered fraud is a testament to the decades of toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats who just sat there and let it happen. Presumably because they afraid of being called racists.

Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)
---
The only limit to hating the Republicans enough is how much you hate the Democrat/Media/DC complex.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (Fi81e)

40 Where do the billions go? Funding jihad, and the Muslim effort to kill The West and impose Sharia law.

I guess Islam is the green part of the Red/Green Alliance. Red is for commies, though the Greens are also commies with their fake Green New Deal and all.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (vbXSk)

41 Oh, wow. All this time we've been thinking the autism explosion is over diagnosis. How much of it is simply fraud?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)

42 >>>Note well. She is worried about the Feds, not the State's authorities -- because the state authorities are in on it.

good point.

Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

43 We had a 6 trillion dollar Covid Relief legislation that I contend at least half gone to fraud or completely unnecessary payments.

It's beyond frustrating when you can see the fraud coming from a million miles away.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (Ti9vn)

44 When the DSA and Dems (I repeat myself) say they want more socialism, tell them we already have that.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (n5tGW)

45 What would happen if the "nothing will happen" people and the "it's not happening" people got together?

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (I+a8W)

46 >>41 Oh, wow. All this time we've been thinking the autism explosion is over diagnosis. How much of it is simply fraud?

another good point.

Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (1wjle)

47 RFKJr. said he want's fewer autistic kids!

It's a genocide. (Except if we abort them because they have genetic markers for autism, were that a thing.)

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Fi81e)

48 Federal government employs thousands of well-paid accountants. Why are they catching this shit?

Posted by: mr tmz at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (rJ48h)

49 40 Where do the billions go? Funding jihad, and the Muslim effort to kill The West and impose Sharia law.

Posted by: illiniwek at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (vbXSk)

I'd like to think old fashioned and believe some of it goes to hookers, cocaine and booze.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

50 I added California's "Luxury Organic Food for Welfare Lifers"

Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (1wjle)

51 Cue campaign commercial -
"My opponent agrees with Trump, slashing much needed services to immigrants with autistic children!!!!!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (f0Zj2)

52 There is genuine autism, and its not a superpower that makes you magically more capable in other ways. Its crushing to a person and makes their lives notably more difficult. But just because your kid is shy or doesn't like to dance does not mean they are autistic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (TMNW7)

53 Who am I to speculate, but I'm going to do just that and ask the question about all this coming to light and who is involved: is there any gov't program that isn't swimming in Democrat fraudsters and cheaters wholesale ripping off the American taxpayers??? When you have no scruples, no integrity, no character, no honesty, and are nothing but reprehensible human beings, I guess it's easy.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (qBdHI)

54 We had a 6 trillion dollar Covid Relief legislation that I contend at least half gone to fraud or completely unnecessary payments."

Only half?

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (ADOtk)

55 All this uncovered fraud is a testament to the decades of toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats who just sat there and let it happen. Presumably because they afraid of being called racists.
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)

This! Starting to think that maybe decades of failed oversight wasn't accidental.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (lFFaq)

56 Also, a Minnesota prosecutor charges James O'keefe with felonies, identity theft and unlawful voting. False charges. He just showed how easy it is to fraudulently register people to vote in Minnesota..

https://tinyurl.com/4whwbftk

Posted by: JM in Illinois at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (myTpx)

57 50 I added California's "Luxury Organic Food for Welfare Lifers"
Posted by: ace at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (1wjle)

But they found that steak and lobster make for lower hospital admissions.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (Ae6Br)

58 All this time we've been thinking the autism explosion is over diagnosis. How much of it is simply fraud?

As usual, something I posted with 700 words is better stated by someone else using fewer than 20

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (TMNW7)

59 55 All this uncovered fraud is a testament to the decades of toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats who just sat there and let it happen. Presumably because they afraid of being called racists.
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)

This! Starting to think that maybe decades of failed oversight wasn't accidental.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at October 30, 2026 12:27 PM (lFFaq)

=======

All real power at the federal level is in the executive. It's the only prize that really matters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (xjopy)

60 Afternoon Ace.
How would you tell if a Somali is autistic? Less of a lightbulb head?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (f8snw)

61 Frautism.

Posted by: zombie at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (HD2n/)

62 Autism became "not a dull, obedient, ordinary child who does well in school" rather than a mental illness. Any child who is slightly different than their baseline lab model? Austistic or ADHD! That boy who gets bored in school? ADHD! That girl who doesn't break down crying when teased? Autistic!

Thar's big money in them hills.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:24 PM (TMNW7)

That was the scam of calling it a spectrum, rather than a proper diagnosis.

Any parent who is not immediately skeptical of such spectrum "diagnoses" should have their head examined.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (RDiUV)

63 ll this uncovered fraud is a testament to the decades of toothless worthless gutless dickless GOP asshats who just sat there and let it happen. Presumably because they afraid of being called racists.
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)

This! Starting to think that maybe decades of failed oversight wasn't accidental.
==
Just because we are fat and dumb, doesn't mean we aren't also greedy.

Posted by: The Uniparty at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (anL5R)

64 And if you don’t get out to vote, you will have a permanent Democrat Majority government who will make this fraud part of the system. Along with two new “states”, a packed Supreme Court to bless their wildest dreams, socialist healthcare, an illegal immigrant invasion with amnesty, political prosecutions for wrongthink, and a host of other horrors.

This isn’t hyperbole. It’s a partial list of what they have actually said is the agenda.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (oAqqA)

65 Portland's county now has "free" daycare, funded solely by a tax on "rich" people.

(Hint: if you make more than 125K a year in Portland, you are "rich".)

The county pays daycare providers, not on the number of preschoolers they take, but on the number of spaces they have "available", used or not.

Can't imagine a bigger invitation for fraud.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (aD4fx)

66
Feds: " What is it you would say you do here , karen?"

Karen: " I write the QPS reports. "

Feds: " as a matter of fact , that 's why we're here , because apparently you don't."

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (mmrXZ)

67 All this time we've been thinking the autism explosion is over diagnosis. How much of it is simply fraud?

As usual, something I posted with 700 words is better stated by someone else using fewer than 20
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:28 PM (TMNW7)
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But, nah, it's much easier to piggyback on a growing problem and siphon off money going to that than to invent the whole explosion yourself for fraud.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Fi81e)

68 Any parent who is not immediately skeptical of such spectrum "diagnoses" should have their head examined.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:29 PM (RDiUV)

To get on the spectrum.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (Ae6Br)

69 Also, a Minnesota prosecutor charges James O'keefe with felonies, identity theft and unlawful voting. False charges. He just showed how easy it is to fraudulently register people to vote in Minnesota

Yeah good luck in court, DA. Not only is this notoriously difficult to win against an investigative reporter, but most of those charges are utterly without a shred of support.

He didn't vote. He didn't even register to vote. He didn't sign anything.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (TMNW7)

70 What would happen if the "nothing will happen" people and the "it's not happening" people got together?

Duh - nothing would happen

Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (9TspW)

71 You would think that these fraudsters would read the room and stop their grift till it blows over or the Dems take over and kill the investigations ,but they didn't take a hint and continued...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (4WM7K)

72 So essentially, taxpayers are the chumps in all of these scams because they earned an honest living.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Q/FnY)

73 There is genuine autism, and its not a superpower that makes you magically more capable in other ways. Its crushing to a person and makes their lives notably more difficult. But just because your kid is shy or doesn't like to dance does not mean they are autistic.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (TMNW7)

They may just be "neurodivergent."

It's all part of the hip trend to have a many self-diagnosed afflictions as possible. Collect them all. Trade them with your friends.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (RDiUV)

74 Funny thing about "the spectrum", though. I was a preteen and I figured it could be a spectrum.

But my mom told me you either "have autism" or you don't.

That predated by decades the first time I heard about the "Autism spectrum".

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Fi81e)

75 71 You would think that these fraudsters would read the room and stop their grift till it blows over or the Dems take over and kill the investigations ,but they didn't take a hint and continued...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (4WM7K)

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1. It's their livelihoods.
2. Stopping now doesn't erase the records of what they've done in the past.
3. These people largely seem retarded.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)

76 70 What would happen if the "nothing will happen" people and the "it's not happening" people got together?

Duh - nothing would happen
Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (9TspW)

Double secret nothing will happen?

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (4WM7K)

77 There are 8 competitive seats where anti 2A groups alone have contributed huge sums. One of their first agenda items is to reinstate the NFA Tax at $4,900 indexed to inflation and ensure the registration is reinstated. They also want a host of anti 2A legislative deeds.

If you are a gun owner and value your 2A right, there is zero reason to sit home.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (oAqqA)

78 52 There is genuine autism, and its not a superpower that makes you magically more capable in other ways. Its crushing to a person and makes their lives notably more difficult. But just because your kid is shy or doesn't like to dance does not mean they are autistic.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (TMNW7)

Yes, my niece (and nephew to a lesser degree) are that category. Think nonverbals and intellects below the age of 6 - that's severe autism.

It pisses me off that their needed services get skimmed by the introverted kid or energetic boy. B/c those kids will have advancement and "show the treatment is working" b/c it was never needed in the 1st place...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (Gb7+b)

79 1. It's their livelihoods.
2. Stopping now doesn't erase the records of what they've done in the past.
3. These people largely seem retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)

I'm going with 3

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (4WM7K)

80 Off Thread but Maria is back.

Gunther Eagleman™
@GuntherEagleman
·
4h
🚨 SHE'S BACK: Maria Bartiromo just landed her first big hosting gig since leaving Fox News.

She'll host the America Business Forum in Miami on December 16 and 17, the same event that brought out President Trump, Jeff Bezos, and Lionel Messi last year.

President Trump is cheering her on.

Fox let her walk out the door, and Maria landed on her feet.

Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (E4rtv)

81 That was the scam of calling it a spectrum, rather than a proper diagnosis.

Yeah that was the first sign of a scam. I will buy that there is a range of human behavior and emotional response, we all learn that by the age of 5. What I won't buy is that there isn't a bright line between normal range of human behavior and mental illness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (TMNW7)

82 3. These people largely seem retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)
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Which makes me feel retarded.

A reasonably clever person should be able to exploit this forever if they don't get too greedy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:33 PM (FZ29D)

83
A reasonably clever person should be able to exploit this forever if they don't get too greedy.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:33 PM (FZ29D)

And there is the answer.... reasonably clever

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (4WM7K)

84 "Salmon, beef, organic produce, and Amy's Kitchen meals: these are just some of the luxury foods that California welfare recipients can get delivered to their homes each week, for free."

I think that's just another scam. The taxpayers are billed, but the meals are never delivered. Just another type of fraudulent "phantom" economy.

I think the phantom economy is nearly as big as the real economy.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (iFTx/)

85 Being fucking weird isn't autism

Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (enNUy)

86 It's all part of the hip trend to have a many self-diagnosed afflictions as possible. Collect them all. Trade them with your friends.

I don't think there is a single girl under the age of 25 in America that doesn't claim at least one. And they have been in therapy their entire life so they are great at faking it on demand.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:34 PM (TMNW7)

87 Autism survivors

- News Bimbo from KARE 11

Did the Autism hunt them down and beat them to within an inch of their lives or something?

Do they need PTSD treatment now, too?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (6ydKt)

88 More data confirmed autism spending is surging in every other state with public data.

— MAGA NEWS 🇺🇲🗞️ (@MAGAlwr5) October 24, 2026

How much will the medical community be held responsible for diagnosing every kid with some kind of hyperactivity as autistic instead of those with ACTUAL autism?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (ccf/V)

89 taxpayers are the chumps in all of these scams because they earned an honest living."

Yeah, this all makes me feel warm all over.

Like someone pissed on me.

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (ADOtk)

90 > There is genuine autism, and its not a superpower that makes you magically more capable in other ways. Its crushing to a person and makes their lives notably more difficult. But just because your kid is shy or doesn't like to dance does not mean they are autistic.

There are levels to everything. Some autistic people are basically non-functional. They can't take care of themselves. They don't excel in engineering or math or any of the stereotypical fields you find autistic people in. On a completely different level, go deep into SpaceX, or Microsoft 25 years ago, and basically everyone is autistic.

My main complaint with the label is it far too broad. If a non-functional person and a high-achiever both have the same diagnosis, it's not a useful diagnosis.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)

91 Being fucking weird isn't autism

I came by it honestly, I wasn't diagnosed as anything

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (TMNW7)

92 The problem seems to be a bureaucratic spectrum combined with a fraud spectrum.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (n5tGW)

93 Most of the gatekeepers (IG's) on the federal and state level were/are fucking useless.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (q921n)

94 Speaking of fraud, Pope Bob cast an absentee vote in Illinois. Anyone want to venture a guess as to for whom he voted?
As a Catholic, I have to say this is totally inappropriate; namely, he's a foreign sovereign and his realm is supposed to be spiritual, not on a tax increase for the forest preserve (which I'm sure he voted for).

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (qwx/I)

95 So essentially, taxpayers are the chumps in all of these scams because they earned an honest living.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (Q/FnY)
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Especially because it established all that many taxpayers are now trying to vote against.

They say you have to pay taxes for your child's "education", but in our schools they "know" that schools are NOT a "educational institution" but a "socializing institution" (My ex-teacher wife, had her principle say that square to her face.)

So every time you want to cut the sum: "But don't you WANT your children EDUCATED?!" "What do you have against EDUCATION?!"

But, NEA doesn't want schools for education, it wants to serve the needs of all the parents who say "You know what my child needs more of? Socializing. I'm worried that playing with the neighbor kids, they are not getting the right kind of socializing!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Fi81e)

96 82 3. These people largely seem retarded.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:31 PM (xjopy)
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Which makes me feel retarded.

A reasonably clever person should be able to exploit this forever if they don't get too greedy.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at October 30, 2026 12:33 PM (FZ29D)

=======

These people aren't coming up with anything. They're being handheld and instructed by a combination of NGO employees and government employees. They're pawns, at best.

It's government power specifically designed to steal from you and give to invaders.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (xjopy)

97 I've said it before but I've seen medical fraud up close in my 35 year career in the insurance claims business. And it was going on before I started.

It's just not the government being defrauded.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Ti9vn)

98 Some people want the spectrum diagnosis for their kids because it comes with a host of benefits. It also alleviates a lot of parental responsibility. When you receive that diagnosis, which by the way many studies have shown is over diagnosed to the point of being fraud, your child gets complete hand holding in public school. They get a host of accommodations including personal instruction, testing “accommodations”, etc. etc.. That’s before we get to the money handouts.

Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (oAqqA)

99 "Yeah, I know all about the fraud and I know that Democrats will shut down all gas and oil production BUT I just paid $4.29 a gallon to fill up so I'm voting Democrat." - Your Average Voter

And this is why I've lost faith in "Our Democracy".

And yeah, I know it's a Constitutional Republic.

Posted by: Chairborne!...Desk From Above! at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (bQDOK)

100 My main complaint with the label is it far too broad. If a non-functional person and a high-achiever both have the same diagnosis, it's not a useful diagnosis.
Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)

One is a disability, one is not. When you are an adult with the intellect of a 3 year old and are nonverbal and need a daily caregiver, you are autistic.

When you are an engineer with a 6 figure salary who just struggles in talking to girls and not saying weird things, you are not.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Gb7+b)

101 On a completely different level, go deep into SpaceX, or Microsoft 25 years ago, and basically everyone is autistic.

But that's my argument: they aren't. They aren't autistic, they are just weird or antisocial. Being awkward and nerdy is not a mental illness. Like NCKate noted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (TMNW7)

102 Speaking of fraud, Pope Bob cast an absentee vote in Illinois. Anyone want to venture a guess as to for whom he voted?
As a Catholic, I have to say this is totally inappropriate; namely, he's a foreign sovereign and his realm is supposed to be spiritual, not on a tax increase for the forest preserve (which I'm sure he voted for).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (qwx/I)
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We're not supposed to have dual citizenship.

If the Pope can't respect that standard, I shake my head.

Really? Can we have a spiritual pope saying "But everybody else is doing it!"

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Fi81e)

103
Everyone has AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS, AIDS
Everyone has AIDS
My father (AIDS)
My sister (AIDS)
My uncle and my cousin and her best friend (AIDS, AIDS, AIDS)
The gays and the straights
And the white and the spades
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (xjopy)

You asked for it.......

https://youtu.be/aLLeQQBk2pk

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (ccf/V)

104 Okay, I'm having a beer day today. For weeks I've been keeping AI alive. $300 AMERICAN - aside from subscriptions!! Those hundreds of billions to profitability are going to flow in.

So, that UTSA bitch Isa Casahuga. For some reason, this pissed me off. Maybe because she's cute and reminds me of Kat from Gutfeld.

But since it's a beer day, I have found her mom's office phone number, agency, etc and was just calling out of curiosity. No-one's answering anywhere.

I guess SOME publicity is bad publicity...

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Sco7b)

105 Yeah that was the first sign of a scam. I will buy that there is a range of human behavior and emotional response, we all learn that by the age of 5. What I won't buy is that there isn't a bright line between normal range of human behavior and mental illness.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (TMNW7)

I would concede that there is a spectrum of people/behaviors/disabilities that could be called autism, and that is just normal animal trait variability. But it is very narrow to the point of being essentially a bright line, as we once knew it to be - you are, or you aren't.

The abuse of the spectrum idea is purely financially motivated and leads to widespread child abuse or neglect of a child's actual needs (such as "fresh air," exercise, being forced from one's comfort zone, etc.).

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (RDiUV)

106 "What would happen if the "nothing will happen" people and the "it's not happening" people got together?"

'Will never happen' - the never will happen people.

Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Jr5Lq)

107 90 > There is genuine autism, and its not a superpower that makes you magically more capable in other ways. Its crushing to a person and makes their lives notably more difficult. But just because your kid is shy or doesn't like to dance does not mean they are autistic.

There are levels to everything. Some autistic people are basically non-functional. They can't take care of themselves. They don't excel in engineering or math or any of the stereotypical fields you find autistic people in. On a completely different level, go deep into SpaceX, or Microsoft 25 years ago, and basically everyone is autistic.

My main complaint with the label is it far too broad. If a non-functional person and a high-achiever both have the same diagnosis, it's not a useful diagnosis.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:35 PM (mkw2N)

Aspergers used to describe the functional ones.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (okun6)

108

Watch Autism Speaks newest PSA

https://t.ly/xnVcI

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (Cqx++)

109 don't get too greedy."

But I must have that designo paint on my Mercedes!

(Yeah, it's "Manufaktur" now)

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (ADOtk)

110 per gooogle ai:

Children's Prevalence: Rates among 8-year-olds have climbed steadily from roughly 1 in 150 (2000) to 1 in 36 (2020), and most recently to 1 in 31 (2022 data).

and...

Prevalence: Estimates in the 1960s suggested that autism affected only about 2 to 4 children per 10,000 (e.g., Lotter's 1966 study estimated roughly 4 in 10,000).

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (CWTWj)

111 Shark attacks would be far worse if Officer Krupke wasn't on the beat.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (rbvCR)

112 94 Speaking of fraud, Pope Bob cast an absentee vote in Illinois. Anyone want to venture a guess as to for whom he voted?
As a Catholic, I have to say this is totally inappropriate; namely, he's a foreign sovereign and his realm is supposed to be spiritual, not on a tax increase for the forest preserve (which I'm sure he voted for).
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (qwx/I)

Send that exact sentiment to him (he has contact ability) - popes can make mistakes and should be told when they are doing so.

I've never made it to pope level, but I have made it to bishop level for telling them when they are wrong...

Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:39 PM (Gb7+b)

113 You get some pills! And you get some pills! And you get some pills!

Posted by: Oprahpottamus at October 30, 2026 12:39 PM (q921n)

114 > Some people want the spectrum diagnosis for their kids because it comes with a host of benefits. It also alleviates a lot of parental responsibility. When you receive that diagnosis, which by the way many studies have shown is over diagnosed to the point of being fraud, your child gets complete hand holding in public school. They get a host of accommodations including personal instruction, testing “accommodations”, etc. etc.. That’s before we get to the money handouts.

Sure, but the other side of that coin is a concerned parent who wants to get their kid all the help they can. They want to know so they can learn how to accommodate their kid(s) and help them thrive. For those parents, it's not so they can throw their hands up and quit, it's a guide for what they need to do to help.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:39 PM (mkw2N)

115 Some people want the spectrum diagnosis for their kids because it comes with a host of benefits. It also alleviates a lot of parental responsibility.

Yeah it means you don't have to teach, shape, and build a child: Its out of my hands they are (insert therapyspeak term). Now give me that sweet SSI money.

Speaking of fraud, Pope Bob cast an absentee vote in Illinois

I don't want to push this too far but if you're the literal head of a foreign country, maybe you shouldn't be able to vote in the USA.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (TMNW7)

116 Being fucking weird isn't autism

I need that on a t-shirt

Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (9TspW)

117 I have never gotten over the fact that most police raids mostly involve guys standing around in a gaggle wearing tactical gear with their hands in their pockets.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbvCR)

118 It's so easy though for Democrats to just point to the few hundred billion we're spending on Iran and ask how this really matters when these fraud day care centers get exposed.

Posted by: AVS at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5PF8b)

119 101 "On a completely different level, go deep into SpaceX, or Microsoft 25 years ago, and basically everyone is autistic."

But that's my argument: they aren't. They aren't autistic, they are just weird or antisocial. Being awkward and nerdy is not a mental illness. Like NCKate noted.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (TMNW7)

An inability to grasp social norms(at least through the intuitive means the rest of us rely on) isn't quite the same as being awkward or nerdy.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (okun6)

120 He didn't vote. He didn't even register to vote. He didn't sign anything.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (TMNW7)

I bet the DA loves those people who try to get Gun Show vendors to sell a gun to unqualified buyers.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Ti9vn)

121 I had a cat bite looked at by an RN at a primary care clinic and was prescribed amoxicillin, which was all well and good. They billed Medicare $550. Is that too much, too little, or just right? Sounds a little steep to me.

Posted by: gp at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Jr5Lq)

122 Some people want the spectrum diagnosis for their kids "

APGAR scores not enough?

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (ADOtk)

123
I'd like to think old fashioned and believe some of it goes to hookers, cocaine and booze.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 12:26 PM (Sco7b)

Jihadists love them some good old fashioned American excess, so yeah, there's that too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (ccf/V)

124 117 I have never gotten over the fact that most police raids mostly involve guys standing around in a gaggle wearing tactical gear with their hands in their pockets.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbvCR)

The saying in the military is, I think, "hours of boredom with moments of terror"

Posted by: 88C+u at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (88C+u)

125 71 You would think that these fraudsters would read the room and stop their grift till it blows over or the Dems take over and kill the investigations ,but they didn't take a hint and continued...

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 12:30 PM (4WM7K)

Next time the Democrats have both houses of Congress and the Presidency they'll enact a law making it a capital offense for any FedGov employee to indict any Fed funded 'health provider' for fraud, or submit a whistleblower complaint about health provider fraud.

Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5rh/l)

126 "What would happen if the "nothing will happen" people and the "it's not happening" people got together?"
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They would argue about what's not happening.

The Nothing Will Happen faction will argue that prosecutions and convictions and sentences aren't going to happen.

The Nothing IS Happening will argue that prosecution is a odd step since corruption doesn't happen (unless it's the other guy, who's 100% corrupt with power!).

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (Fi81e)

127 My firsthand view of autism and the spectrum is that it's a byproduct of smaller families and uncoordinated communities, among probably a million other factors including early vaccinations and shit food.

When I mean uncoordinated communities, as a child of the 70s, I had cousins and friends close by that gave social cues that were informal and not threatening. With widely separated blood families, this feedback loop allowed more vulnerable types to descend into the self.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (qwx/I)

128 118 It's so easy though for Democrats to just point to the few hundred billion we're spending on Iran and ask how this really matters when these fraud day care centers get exposed.

Posted by: AVS at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5PF8b)

========

We've spent less than $50 billion on the Iran action, and most of that is just operating costs of the military that would be incurred whether the ships were in port or in combat.

Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjopy)

129 You get some pills! And you get some pills! And you get some pills!

"There is no bribery and pressure applied by the pharmaceutical industry in congress and regulatory industries, and by none, I mean 'very little'"
--Big Pharma

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (TMNW7)

130
Shark attacks would be far worse if Officer Krupke wasn't on the beat.
Posted by: Kindltot

Watch out for Jabberjaw!

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (Cqx++)

131 I have never gotten over the fact that most police raids mostly involve guys standing around in a gaggle wearing tactical gear with their hands in their pockets.
Posted by: Kindltot

Frog suits. It's not a raid without frog suits.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (q921n)

132 An inability to grasp social norms(at least through the intuitive means the rest of us rely on) isn't quite the same as being awkward or nerdy.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (okun6)

They grasp them - they don't care about exercising them b/c no one makes them do so. There's a difference.

Anything can be memorized, and they are the masters of memorization.

Posted by: Nova Local at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Gb7+b)

133 concerned parent who wants to get their kid all the help they can."

Good luck!

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (ADOtk)

134 There's lots of money in those weird kids.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ovx+P)

135 have never gotten over the fact that most police raids mostly involve guys standing around in a gaggle wearing tactical gear with their hands in their pockets.
Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:40 PM (rbv

Same basis of the saying ' better to carry a gun and not need it to not carrying and needing it'

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ti9vn)

136 Democrats gonna be broke if they keep this up...

Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (SwyyQ)

137 Next time the Democrats have both houses of Congress and the Presidency they'll enact a law making it a capital offense for any FedGov employee to indict any Fed funded 'health provider' for fraud, or submit a whistleblower complaint about health provider fraud.

Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 12:41 PM (5rh/l)
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Do you want to kill your fellow American so much that you would bring down health PROVIDERS!!

They PROVIDE!! It's in the NAME!! (Antifa argument recycled.)

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Fi81e)

138 > But that's my argument: they aren't. They aren't autistic, they are just weird or antisocial.

That's a good argument to change the criteria for diagnosis. But the plain fact is that according to the current guidelines, they are autistic.

I think we basically agree with each other. I'm saying the label is too broad and needs to be narrowed. You're saying the label is misapplied. Both positions get you to essentially the same conclusion.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (mkw2N)

139 The radio host Michael Savage had an interesting perspective on autism; his brother was non verbal autistic and he viewed it as completely overdiagnosed in recent years.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (qwx/I)

140
If the Pope can't respect that standard, I shake my head.

Really? Can we have a spiritual pope saying "But everybody else is doing it!"
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:37 PM (Fi81e)

The pope is a fraud.

He's as bibilcal as Nancy Pelosi or Joe Biden.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ccf/V)

141 136 Democrats gonna be broke if they keep this up...

Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (SwyyQ)

=======

Billionaire donors to the GOP are like 3x the amount to the Democrat Party this cycle, and it's far from just Musk.

Democrats are probably going to have money problems for a few years.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (xjopy)

142 Old and busted: "Laering Center"

New hotness: "Eeeting Center"

Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (SwyyQ)

143 The radio host Michael Savage had an interesting perspective on autism; his brother was non verbal autistic and he viewed it as completely overdiagnosed in recent years.
Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (qwx/I)

Just don't say it too loudly........

Posted by: Alex Jones at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ccf/V)

144 We need to bring back the use of the word retarded. No one wants a retarded kid. If you stood up in a school parent night and announced all retarded kids would be in all retarded classes, would ride short buses to school and do retarded kid shit, every bitch in the suburbs would suddenly not have a retarded kid. Nobody wants retarded, they want special.

Posted by: NCKate at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (enNUy)

145 believe some of it goes to hookers, cocaine and booze."

In DC? Trans/furries.... and ketamine.

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (ADOtk)

146 There's lots of money in those weird kids.

Posted by: Sonny Corleone at October 30, 2026 12:43 PM (Ovx+P)
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I love retards.

Posted by: Pat Healy (Picture Matt Dillon in a Mustache) at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Fi81e)

147 We've spent less than $50 billion on the Iran action, and most of that is just operating costs of the military that would be incurred whether the ships were in port or in combat.

Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjop

We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion for their war interest.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Ti9vn)

148 Get them while they are young. Fuck them up real good and you got a lifetime customer. Business model on a paved road straight to hell.

But they get the coin so totes cool.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (q921n)

149 The radio host Michael Savage had an interesting perspective on autism; his brother was non verbal autistic and he viewed it as completely overdiagnosed in recent years.

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at October 30, 2026 12:44 PM (qwx/I)

I would expect someone with such up close, intimate experience to be the most discriminant.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (RDiUV)

150 ace: did you see the huge story of the Red Barron employee being harassed by Instagram idiots as he's stocking shelves? It's a Big Deal. Asmondgold has a great video about it

Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)

151 I love retards.

Posted by: Pat Healy (Picture Matt Dillon in a Mustache) at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Fi81e)

Um. Isn't that politically incorrect?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (RDiUV)

152 If these fraudulent companies in MN and elsewhere were just stealing taxpayer money out of the hands of needy seniors, kids, autistic kids, That's evil enough. Preying on the most vulnerable for a mansion or a Maserati. Thats bad enough.

But a lot of this money is sliding into the hands of terrorists and hostile nations like China. China especially benefits from the Asian senior scam.

Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (Toos7)

153 Yeah, at this point you need to be a yokel not to know exactly what Democrats are going to do about this. They’ve already shown you in places like California and Washington. They will prosecute anyone who finds the fraud and make it illegal to investigate. At the Federal government level they will cease all the intra agency checks, especially for illegal aliens. They will tell you what Trump did was a privacy violation.

Honestly, you’re an idiot if you believe that voting for Democrats is going to be a step in the right direction. Do you need them to carve it on your forehead?

Posted by: Vengeance at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (oAqqA)

154 Nobody wants retarded, they want special"

This.

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (ADOtk)

155 147
We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion for their war interest.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Ti9vn)

=

But, you see, that's a war for democracy. Zelensky will march on Moscow and depose Putin. Easy.

The war in Iran is for oil and Trump's ego since he doesn't have a plan to replace the mullahs.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (xjopy)

156 An inability to grasp social norms(at least through the intuitive means the rest of us rely on) isn't quite the same as being awkward or nerdy.

I used to be terrible at it. You know why? It wasn't that I could not, it was because I didn't. I was too busy doing other things, learning other things, thinking about other things. These guys are light years ahead of other people when it comes to nuclear physics and engineering, but terrible at personal interaction.

That's not a disability, its different priorities. When you were learning how to flirt with Lisa in the desk next to you, they were figuring out how their pen worked.

My firsthand view of autism and the spectrum is that it's a byproduct of smaller families and uncoordinated communities

I think that plays a big role: disconnected parents and no extended family to teach and demonstrate proper behavior and cultural roles.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (TMNW7)

157 I've said it before but I've seen medical fraud up close in my 35 year career in the insurance claims business. And it was going on before I started.

It's just not the government being defrauded.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:36 PM (Ti9vn)

True medical insurance reform would have allowed for armed auditors and black ops teams for fraud resolution.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (rbvCR)

158 It seems like every frigging day they announce another multi-million if not billion dollar fraud scheme. I would love to see the total amount of our tax dollars that have gone to these schemes.

We are being forced to pay for our own demise.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)

159 ace: did you see the huge story of the Red Barron employee being harassed by Instagram idiots as he's stocking shelves? It's a Big Deal. Asmondgold has a great video about it

Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)

Red Baron was backing the employee, and people are rewarding them with a buycott.

Everyone's sick of Karen's shit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (RDiUV)

160 ace: did you see the huge story of the Red Barron employee being harassed by Instagram idiots as he's stocking shelves? It's a Big Deal. Asmondgold has a great video about it
Posted by: Max Power at October 30, 2026 12:46 PM (SwyyQ)

And if it's not fraud, the dude will be a millionaire by next week.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ccf/V)

161 don't get too greedy."

But I must have that designo paint on my Mercedes!

(Yeah, it's "Manufaktur" now)
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:38 PM (ADOtk)
________

"Meh"

-- Iridescente Metallizzato

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (iFTx/)

162
Anyway , the feds are finally getting to the rubber stampers. That's encouraging.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (mmrXZ)

163 > An inability to grasp social norms(at least through the intuitive means the rest of us rely on) isn't quite the same as being awkward or nerdy.

That's an oversimplification. A lot of the traits that make a good engineer are because of autism. Over-fixation on details. Extreme interest in things over people. Extreme retention of technical information.

Talking with an engineer who can recall all the details how a barely used function works based on their cursory review of it three years ago will lead you to quickly realize they're not like other people.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (mkw2N)

164 Nobody wants retarded, they want special"

This.
Posted by: man

Eunice Shriver had to scrap the Retarded Olympics.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at October 30, 2026 12:48 PM (q921n)

165 We are being forced to pay for our own demise.

Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)
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Yes. Yes you are....

Posted by: Cloward and Piven at October 30, 2026 12:48 PM (Fi81e)

166 did you see the huge story of the Red Barron employee being harassed by Instagram idiots as he's stocking shelves? "

Those "influencers" need to be punched in the face. Hard. Repeatedly.

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:48 PM (ADOtk)

167
Everyone's sick of Karen's shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

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That one had nothing to do with karen. In fact , we probably need to get a nickname for these mulatto social media pranksters who get clicks off other people's distress.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (mmrXZ)

168 147 We've spent less than $50 billion on the Iran action, and most of that is just operating costs of the military that would be incurred whether the ships were in port or in combat.

Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjop

We've given Ukraine almost 200 billion for their war interest.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:45 PM (Ti9vn)

Whatever we spend on taking down the Iranian IRGC Caliphate will be worth it.

Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (5rh/l)

169 By extension a lot of this money flows into google through adds.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (Ae6Br)

170 MN has a natural advantage in fraud with Walz & all the Somalis. Nobody out-incompents Walz.

Posted by: Dave at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (JsnYl)

171 I had a cat bite looked at by an RN at a primary care clinic and was prescribed amoxicillin,

How big was this cat?? That's like one step down from morphine in terms of pain management

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (TMNW7)

172 re 141: it can't cost that much to steal votes where it counts, eg, atlanta or detroit

Posted by: gnats local 678 at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (CWTWj)

173 That one had nothing to do with karen. In fact , we probably need to get a nickname for these mulatto social media pranksters who get clicks off other people's distress.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (mmrXZ)

I was waiting for the crackhead buddy to touch Pizza Guy and get a good "don't touch me" across the face.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (ccf/V)

174 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ccf/V)

I'm a skeptic generally but it seemed real .

And I already thought Red Barron pizza was the best for the price.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Ti9vn)

175 Question on a different topic:

Does the Hasan Piker lawsuit against Scott Jennings for like $70M+ have legs, or is it a nothing burger? Apparently it's connected to a clip he ran that might have been doctored.

I'd hate for Piker to get one penny, when all he does all day is spew vile, treasonous, violent hate and lies on Twitch, and shock his dog on camera and then lie about it. If he's ever slandered anyone in the right, they need to sue him right back.

Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Toos7)

176 don't get too greedy."

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You just don't like gold!

Posted by: Dwarves of Khazad-d�m at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (Fi81e)

177 156 "An inability to grasp social norms(at least through the intuitive means the rest of us rely on) isn't quite the same as being awkward or nerdy."

I used to be terrible at it. You know why? It wasn't that I could not, it was because I didn't. I was too busy doing other things, learning other things, thinking about other things. These guys are light years ahead of other people when it comes to nuclear physics and engineering, but terrible at personal interaction.

That's not a disability, its different priorities. When you were learning how to flirt with Lisa in the desk next to you, they were figuring out how their pen worked.

I think that plays a big role: disconnected parents and no extended family to teach and demonstrate proper behavior and cultural roles.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (TMNW7)

I believe it goes farther than that, one of the common experiences in dealing with autistic people is that they are frustrated with difficulty in communication and understanding, which certainly doesn't suggest contentedness. Roundabout explanations are often needed to explain things that are intuitive to most.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (okun6)

178
How big was this cat?? That's like one step down from morphine in terms of pain management
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (TMNW7)

Amoxicillin is an antibiotic. I practically grew up taking that shit for bronchitis as a yute.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (ccf/V)

179 But what about all of the autistic chiren

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (tB7nu)

180 Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (TMNW7)

That's an antibiotic.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (Ti9vn)

181 I'd love to see autism rates next to a chart of when kids started getting smart phones.

I think at least half of the people that are diagnosed as autism are just slightly, socially awkward with absolutely nothing remotely wrong with their brain. Not everybody can be class president.

Posted by: Sharpie at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (IRNAh)

182 How big was this cat?? That's like one step down from morphine in terms of pain management

Wait, no I was thinking of like hydrocodone. Amoxicillin is for infections. Tough for me to keep these pharmacy invented names straight.

There was a funny bit on Babylon Bee about a woman reading off a list of prescriptions and accidentally summoning Cthulhu

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (TMNW7)

183 Everyone's sick of Karen's shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder,

==============

That one had nothing to do with karen. In fact , we probably need to get a nickname for these mulatto social media pranksters who get clicks off other people's distress.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 12:49 PM (mmrXZ)

It's in the same realm.

MYOFB, whether its some lonely cat-abusing Karen or some IRL ragebait "influencer." Just leave people alone.

Everyone's had enough of your shit.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (RDiUV)

184 We are being forced to pay for our own demise.
Posted by: JackStraw at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (viF8m)

Out: "the capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them"

In: "the taxpayers will subsidize through taxation the rope with which we will hang them, and then they will give us more money to ease the pressure on their throats a little"

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (rbvCR)

185 I'm a skeptic generally but it seemed real .

And I already thought Red Barron pizza was the best for the price.
Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (Ti9vn)

I'll have to wait as I think EVERYTHING I could cook with is packed, so no pizza tray OR cutter.

Otherwise, I'd be eating pizza all weekend.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (ccf/V)

186 OK, so how does someone who can't afford a $5 head of lettuce afford a manicure?
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Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.

"Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God."

Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (kX27y)

187 147 We've spent less than $50 billion on the Iran action, and most of that is just operating costs of the military that would be incurred whether the ships were in port or in combat.

Also, it's like a couple of days worth of Medicaid spending.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:42 PM (xjop

that's a good point. It would be interesting to see the amount attributable solely to the Iran "war" effort (which I fully support).

Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (lCppi)

188 I'd almost rather be called retarded than special needs.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (Ti9vn)

189 Hmm. Looking at Article 1, Section 9, of the US Constitution, makes me wonder if Pope Leo should have been considered:

No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

Pope is both a Title, and an Office, of a foreign State. Did Congress approve of this?

Or am I just too tired, and I've missed something obvious?

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (qx7Zg)

190 Amoxicillin is an antibiotic. I practically grew up taking that shit for bronchitis as a yute.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:51 PM (ccf/V)

It's generic too. Over the counter south of the border.
Pisses me off that I have to go to a doctor to get it.

Posted by: Reforger at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Ae6Br)

191
MYOFB, whether its some lonely cat-abusing Karen or some IRL ragebait "influencer." Just leave people alone.

Everyone's had enough of your shit.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:52 PM (RDiUV)

This.

I quite enjoy the videos out there with the dipshit 'influencers' f*cking with people and getting the FAFO treatment.

It soothes me........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (ccf/V)

192 Everyone's had enough of your shit."

My shit is special shit.

/wine box

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (ADOtk)

193 California Sends Luxury Foods to Welfare Recipients

As middle-class families struggle to afford groceries, the state delivers organic produce, salmon, and more to Medi-Cal members.

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What's the matter racist. Don't you want people on government assistance to have better shit that you.. Raycissssss

Posted by: Lemmiwinks at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (tB7nu)

194 But what about all of the autistic chiren
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“I've got no option but to sell you all for scientific experiments.” -- RFKJr.

Posted by: Cloward and Piven at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (Fi81e)

195 Does the Hasan Piker lawsuit against Scott Jennings for like $70M+ have legs, or is it a nothing burger? Apparently it's connected to a clip he ran that might have been doctored.

I don't think the video in question is doctored and Hasan has no shot here. Given all the horrendous stuff he's said in the past, the last thing he should want is to go to court and air them all out.

The worst part? He's worth tens of millions of dollars and is begging his viewers for donations to pay for legal fees.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (TMNW7)

196 OK, so how does someone who can't afford a $5 head of lettuce afford a manicure?
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Californians like TikTok user "Lupita" are taking full advantage. Earlier this year, she posted a video of herself opening a taxpayer-funded grocery box, apologizing to her manicurist as she unboxed it by hand. Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.

"Yesterday, I was like, 'I need some lettuce,' but the lettuce was like five dollars," she said. "And look at this. Fresh lettuce! Thank you, God."
Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 12:53 PM (kX27y)

Because the lettuce is now freeeeee!!!!

Posted by: LASue at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (lCppi)

197 I've missed something obvious?
Posted by: Hour of the Wolf

Voting in Chicago.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at October 30, 2026 12:55 PM (u82oZ)

198 OK, so how does someone who can't afford a $5 head of lettuce afford a manicure?"

You're kidding, right?

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:55 PM (ADOtk)

199 we are going to see a real explosion of spectrum disorders when the covid kids start grade school.

all the kids. damn, adults fucking wrecked them with their isolation and fear mongering and threats. no wonder they are all so freaky weird, tattooed, pierced, hormone raging, cross hormone taking, mentally deranged, socially inept and violent.

Posted by: nurse ratched at October 30, 2026 12:55 PM (W2Pud)

200 >>> And if it's not fraud, the dude will be a millionaire by next week.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:47 PM (ccf/V)

Hope so! And that he gets a good financial advisor so he can just bank it all and live off the interest. Get to be with his kids every night!

The part of the vid where his voice breaks as he talks about how he couldn't tuck his kids in at night, and then has to go back out at 5 am and do it all again... that's the part that got me. I think it's resonating for a lot of people.

Demonize the rich, dumb but I get it. But sucker punch and punch down on the little guy just making a living for his kids? There will be blood. Glad the Red Baron PR team read the actual mood of their audience and are boosting him, not firing him.

He's made enough money in pizza sales for them this week, I hope they give him a huge Christmas bonus check!

Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 12:56 PM (Toos7)

201 It's generic too. Over the counter south of the border.

I thin they are concerned that the bacteria will become resistant if its overused, but they hand that stuff out like Tic Tacs at the hospital so I dunno.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:56 PM (TMNW7)

202 Does the Hasan Piker lawsuit against Scott Jennings for like $70M+ have legs, or is it a nothing burger? Apparently it's connected to a clip he ran that might have been doctored.

I don't think the video in question is doctored and Hasan has no shot here. Given all the horrendous stuff he's said in the past, the last thing he should want is to go to court and air them all out.

The worst part? He's worth tens of millions of dollars and is begging his viewers for donations to pay for legal fees.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (TMNW7)
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I think the lawsuit is a giant attention-whoring and grifting operation. Piker is scum, lower than an earthworm's dick.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 12:56 PM (iFTx/)

203 >>>But what about all of the autistic chiren

The '60s rate of 0.04% of chiren? There is more than ample treatment available. For everyone else, there's parenting.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 12:57 PM (RDiUV)

204 Paul forgets that while France is funding Ukraine, it is also buying Russian Diesel. While it fumes because the US has waived restrictions on less Russian diesel that France buys in a year.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:57 PM (rbvCR)

205 The worst part? He's worth tens of millions of dollars and is begging his viewers for donations to pay for legal fees.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:54 PM (TMNW7)

His 'fans' are mental retards, so......

A fool and their money are soon parted, n' shit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (ccf/V)

206 Some of my ancestors were Popes. Alabama Popes.

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (MWfyi)

207 I would be really surprised if a muckraker like Hasan Piker has anything of a case against one of the most deft commentators on TV.

Unless it's tried in DC, that is.

The Scott is toast.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (Fi81e)

208 Was there just absolutely no oversight for years on all of this crap? I get audited all the time at work for proof of proper procedure and my company isn't even taking government funds. This should be caught well before someone steals $7,000,000.

Wasn't enough funding for oversight. Now funding that would normally go to care is going to oversight because no one wants to increase funding for disabled people

She was the safeguard and she deliberately allowed millions if not billions in theft. Find out who she works for and where that money went and I 100% guarantee you it leads right back to the CIA and American government funding proxy wars in other countries

Republicans voted against the oversight the Dems wanted more of. They win on pretending to care about fraud and pretending they are fiscally responsible because idiots don't pay attention

MN has an annual Medicaid spend of 23B. 7M is .03% of that. It's a rounding error for most people. If you spend 1M for your company it's like losing 300. You're not getting questioned on that amount.

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (nW0Hp)

209 The part of the vid where his voice breaks as he talks about how he couldn't tuck his kids in at night, and then has to go back out at 5 am and do it all again... that's the part that got me. I think it's resonating for a lot of people.

Yeah he sounded and acted like most dads out there. Busting their ass at a job that feels demeaning, doesn't ever seem to earn enough, and keeps you from your family, and now he has to put up with THIS?

Inside, she found carrots, heads of broccoli, apples, oranges, celery, rice, lettuce, and more.

You know what? Putting aside the dubious need and questionable funding of this all... That's the kind of stuff I want sent out for the poor. Here's raw materials, here's fruit and healthy stuff.

She says "Thank God" but I bet she was seething inside "where's my wagyu and lobster???"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (TMNW7)

210 204 Paul forgets that while France is funding Ukraine, it is also buying Russian Diesel. While it fumes because the US has waived restrictions on less Russian diesel that France buys in a year.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 12:57 PM (rbvCR)

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How is Ukraine our war?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (xjopy)

211 no wonder they are all so freaky weird, tattooed, pierced, hormone raging, cross hormone taking, mentally deranged, socially inept and violent."

At least they're not Methodists...

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (ADOtk)

212 I stopped at "manicurist".

Posted by: fd at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (MWfyi)

213 But they found that steak and lobster make for lower hospital admissions.

"Our studies have found a strong correlation between eating more lobster and using less meth."

-- Gov't statisticians

Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (vTZFs)

214 As October surprises go, this one is a doozy. Usually they are dead girls and live boys, but this one is "the watchdogs you hired are killing your chickens"

It is a hard one to ignore.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (rbvCR)

215 @294 Kindltot , worse than that the EU nations purchase something like $9b worth of Russian liquid natural gas. It's not subject to sanctions. They're funding both sides of the war.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (f8snw)

216 I have a young kid.

90% of parents in this area claim to have kids with autism or ADHD.

1. Everyone is making money on it. The parents get social capital.
2. 50% 0f the kids are simply average, and their parents can't handle it.
3. 40% of the kids are just weird, mostly because their parents let them play vidya games all day.
4. <1% are actually autistic

Posted by: MJ at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (XOmY9)

217 I think the lawsuit is a giant attention-whoring and grifting operation

Yeah I suspect that his numbers have been trending downward and he needs publicity.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (TMNW7)

218 I like Iowahawk's proposal:

David Burge
@iowahawkblog
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3h
Please support my legislative proposal for nationally televised woodchipper shredding of Tik Tok pranksters

Colin Dunlap
@colin_dunlap
·
Oct 29
Real people have real emotions.
Real people need to stop being f’ed with for your social media pranks and content. Not everyone is living in your fake world.
Good on the Red Baron Pizza guy.
The world was better when kids had a healthy fear of all adults.

Posted by: beckster at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (kX27y)

219 Under the Today's News on the X machine:

I find this particularly amusing:

Obama Calls for End to Political Anger at Atlanta Rally

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (qBdHI)

220 208 She was the safeguard and she deliberately allowed millions if not billions in theft. Find out who she works for and where that money went and I 100% guarantee you it leads right back to the CIA and American government funding proxy wars in other countries

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at October 30, 2026 12:58 PM (nW0Hp)

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CIA had USAID for a slush fund.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (xjopy)

221 How is Ukraine our war?

Pootin Man Bad.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)

222 Posted by: weew at October 30, 2026 12:22 PM (9TspW)

They weren't afraid of being called racists. They were in on it.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (I+a8W)

223 >>>I don't think the video in question is doctored and Hasan has no shot here. Given all the horrendous stuff he's said in the past, the last thing he should want is to go to court and air them all out

I really hope so. Some news channel posted on YouTube a panel of "experts" and had this lawyer on that was all "Scott is cooked!" And the others on the panel were practically clapping over it, and all the comments on the vid were joyful that Scott would lose and probably lose his show and spot in CNN and be forced to stop telling his "lies."

Hope the piker gets his butt handed to him. But I didn't see the details of the video Scott posted, and why or why not it might be doctored.

Posted by: LizLem at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (Toos7)

224 "Our studies have found a strong correlation between eating more lobster and using less meth."

"Ha!"
--Hunter Biden

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (TMNW7)

225 Speaking of fools and money:

Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ccf/V)

226 219 Under the Today's News on the X machine:

I find this particularly amusing:

Obama Calls for End to Political Anger at Atlanta Rally

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (qBdHI)

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I brought my gun to my knife fight, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)

227 221 How is Ukraine our war?

Pootin Man Bad.

Posted by: Oddbob at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (vTZFs)

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Gayatollah Man Not Bad?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)

228 Barack Obama: "I am tired of being divided! I want friendship and neighborliness!"

How did he not spontaneously combust over that statement is beyond me.

Posted by: Lady in Black at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (qBdHI)

229 I remember Secretary Kennedy in his first few days in his current position saying, "The Autism levels are way too high, and we have to do something about that."

I'm surprised that the Media and the Democrats aren't calling for his removal since they "were not too high." It was only fraud making it look that way. The TRUMP CABINET IS A BUNCH OF LIARS!!!!

Posted by: Orson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (dIske)

230 How is Ukraine our war?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (xjopy)

Besides the politicians making bank off of kickbacks? Good question.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)

231
Wasn't enough funding for oversight. Now funding that would normally go to care is going to oversight because no one wants to increase funding for disabled people

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit

======================

There was plenty of funding for it , but who could keep up with this level of fraud? And there might have been funding , but there wasn't enough nerve for oversight. People curled up in a ball and died if a somali fraudster threatened to call them a racist

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (mmrXZ)

232 41 Oh, wow. All this time we've been thinking the autism explosion is over diagnosis. How much of it is simply fraud?

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 12:25 PM (mkw2N)

Time to ask the same question about trans.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (I+a8W)

233 If we find an actual autistic savant on the rolls can we use him to track down fraud or would that be genocide?

Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (FhXTo)

234 >Talking with an engineer who can recall all the details how a barely used function works based on their cursory review of it three years ago will lead you to quickly realize they're not like other people

Quick - without looking it up, who won the 1968 Super Bowl and what was the spread?

Ask your wife or girlfriend - what was the most expensive Kate Spade handbag in 2018, and what's the current resale value?

Engineers are no more prone to autism than the general population. They're just interested in things that society doesn't value. Anyone who thinks they're "not like other people" has never had to sit through twenty minutes of a sports fan telling you in detail what his team's chances are this year and why.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (LgYtf)

235 Some news channel posted on YouTube a panel of "experts" and had this lawyer on that was all "Scott is cooked!" And the others on the panel were practically clapping over it, and all the comments on the vid were joyful that Scott would lose and probably lose his show and spot in CNN and be forced to stop telling his "lies."

Internet sleuths also said Mr. Clancy murdered his 3 children........

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (ccf/V)

236 230 How is Ukraine our war?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 12:59 PM (xjopy)

Besides the politicians making bank off of kickbacks? Good question.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (rbvCR)

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"You are opposing Ukraine! That's treason!"

"So, Ukraine is our vassal state and must do what we say?"

"No! The US is Ukraine's vassal state and must do what it says!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (xjopy)

237 >> oundabout explanations are often needed to explain things that are intuitive to most.

Depending on specifics, we used to call this learning disabled. Which goes back to the point they’ve vastly over expanded the definition and diagnosis of who is actually autistic. It’s moved well away from a clinical definition and more neatly into one that meets certain legislative and ultimately benefits driven definitions. That encompasses much more than a clinical diagnosis which at one time was directly tied to the physical genesis of autism itself. Notwithstanding that a direct cause for most autism has not been discovered, that allows the continued expansion of what falls into this category. If you go back to the earlier days of autism and look at the clinical definition it’s easy to see why it has grown over the years. I would argue it’s mostly what they include in that category under an ever expanding definition, and the growth of benefits provided for it.

Posted by: Marcus t at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (egaJw)

238 CIA had USAID for a slush fund.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (xjopy)
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Most of the D-Development when to develop footholds for the CIA.

Trump said they weren't cutting any man-critical programs. Musk said they weren't cutting any man-critical programs.

But apparently the death toll from stopping the "Agency for International Development" is killing thousands upon thousands, because people are dying in Africa of something.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Fi81e)

239 Hey! Can I git me some o' dat 'autism' stuff … ? I needs me some food rilly rilly badly … and a bit o' dat money won't hurt me none neither also too …

Posted by: Dr_No at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (ayRl+)

240 But I didn't see the details of the video Scott posted, and why or why not it might be doctored.

IF its the video I am thinking of, is the one where Piker says basically "F black people, we need to go back to the days of lynching"

Its worth remembering that before he hooked into the Champagne Socialist persona, he used to be a red pill frat bro guy saying outrageous stuff about women and minorities.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (TMNW7)

241 I'm surprised the Left hasn't discovered that Hitler just had autism.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (I+a8W)

242 I brought my gun to my knife fight, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)

Obama never carried a gun to a knife fight, he had the CIA and the USAF kill all his opponents via drone strike.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

243 238 But apparently the death toll from stopping the "Agency for International Development" is killing thousands upon thousands, because people are dying in Africa of something.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (Fi81e)

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They're as real as the Claude created Republicans that NYT/Siena now use in their polling.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

244 "You are opposing Ukraine! That's treason!"

"So, Ukraine is our vassal state and must do what we say?"

"No! The US is Ukraine's vassal state and must do what it says!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:02 PM (xjopy)
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Right they didn't care how many groceries you had to put back as long as Zelenskyy (and DC) got his money!!

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Fi81e)

245 90% of parents in this area claim to have kids with autism or ADHD"

Been that way for 20 years now. Everyone wants special consideration...

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ADOtk)

246 My friend likes to tell the story of him , newly married and starting a new business, being behind a lady in the grocery store checkout with his pack of hotdogs and boxes of Mac and cheese . He was eyeing her package of steaks and other desirable groceries when she pulled out her food stamp booklet. He was not happy.

My mom also has her story . She worked for 35 years for Walgreens as a pharmacist tech and for the first 30 she waited on and got to know customers who were on Medicaid or some type of government assistance and had empathy for them.

Then the drive thru window became a thing and her empathy was reduced when she noted almost all had a brand new expensive model car .

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Ti9vn)

247 242 I brought my gun to my knife fight, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)

Obama never carried a gun to a knife fight, he had the CIA and the USAF kill all his opponents via drone strike.

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:03 PM (rbvCR)

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"I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

248 I brought my gun to my knife fight, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)

Doof hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)

249 Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career

Back before they turned into The View for sports bros, ESPN did a good documentary on how athletes end up bankrupt despite being paid so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (TMNW7)

250 244 Right they didn't care how many groceries you had to put back as long as Zelenskyy (and DC) got his money!!

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (Fi81e)

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I couldn't buy those bananas because $21 went to Ukraine.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (xjopy)

251 I have a young kid.

90% of parents in this area claim to have kids with autism or ADHD.

1. Everyone is making money on it. The parents get social capital.
2. 50% 0f the kids are simply average, and their parents can't handle it.
3. 40% of the kids are just weird, mostly because their parents let them play vidya games all day.
4.

Posted by: MJ at October 30, 2026 01:00 PM (XOmY9)

I have had two young kids. I currently deal with other people's kids in Boy Scouts, children's theater, home school group, and coaching little league. The predominance of kids having real issues with attention and focus or reading social cues or whatever have been less than probably 1%, and many of those are a result of neglect or medicating their kids instead of parenting.

The people I know who do have genuinely weird or asocial kids who could be considered "on spectrum" are not actually medicated, and the parents do all they can to expose them to social situations, encourage social interaction in Scouts and home school group, and bust their asses to make sure that they can experience normal human relations.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (RDiUV)

252 90% of parents in this area claim to have kids with autism or ADHD"

Been that way for 20 years now. Everyone wants special consideration...
Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ADOtk)

Isn't some obnoxiously large percentage of Harvard students have some sort of 'disability' now?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (ccf/V)

253 "I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

And a pallet of cash

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (4WM7K)

254 170 MN has a natural advantage in fraud with Walz & all the Somalis. Nobody out-incompents Walz.

Posted by: Dave at October 30, 2026 12:50 PM (JsnYl)

In retrospect I am certain to that Walz is a doofus that the Democrats spotted as an easy mark. They made him an offer to get to be Gov, if he swore to do exactly as instructed by whatever DFL Party cabal pulls the strings in MN. He, and his social-climber wife, said, "YES!!"

He's a beta-male copy of Hochul in New York. A moderate track record elected Democrat nebbish who who instantly becomes a Radical Leftist when installed in a executive elected office.

Same thing with Biden. Who will the DNC select as its totally controllable or at least very steerable cypher, to run for Prez in 2028?

Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (5rh/l)

255 248 I brought my gun to my knife fight, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (xjopy)

Doof hardest hit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (ccf/V)

=

Doof and I are gentleman scholars who only duel with the finest of folded steel rapiers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (xjopy)

256 stopping the "Agency for International Development" is killing thousands upon thousands, because people are dying in Africa of something.

Their methodology for that number is basically "add up all the people who died since it was announced USAID was being cut"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (TMNW7)

257 Elric @23, your % is probably high, but you're right on target. The quality and outcomes delivered by the health care "system" in the US are very good - the financial arrangements of that system are Soviet in terms of waste.

Obviously a thousand wheels turning here, but the main drivers are state and federal mis-regulation and captured regulation, and oligopoly or even de facto cartel situations at all levels both on the medical and financial sides of the picture.

And things were made much worse, every flaw and rent-seeking outrage was compounded, by "reform" in 2013. To its almost puzzling credit, the electorate fought against it (including the greatest partisan bloodbath in modern history, 2010). But the inertia and lack of an opposition party prevailed. So a sector that should be about 10% of the economy (even with the aging demo) instead is .... 3 to 4 times that.

Posted by: rhomboid at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (U/Byj)

258 all the kids. damn, adults fucking wrecked them with their isolation and fear mongering and threats. no wonder they are all so freaky weird, tattooed, pierced, hormone raging, cross hormone taking, mentally deranged, socially inept and violent.

That description fits the perfect description for model citizen in the DSA's reformulation of the former United States.

Posted by: Community Notes at October 30, 2026 01:06 PM (a3CJ+)

259 "I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
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Drones aren't missiles, so as long as he can classify them as "diplomacy", he's set.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)

260
I couldn't buy those bananas because $21 went to Ukraine.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:05 PM (xjopy)

You can't perform The Bagels classic "Eat Like a Somali Citizen" with only rice......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (ccf/V)

261 I want to know more about this salmon.

If it's fresh wild-caught reds, yeah, luxury food.

If it's canned pinks or even farmed trash fish? Not so much.

I'm thinking probably canned, if only because I find it hard to believe that a bureaucracy could be efficient enough to deliver fresh salmon before it goes bad.

Canned pinks are currently going for a little more than the crap tier ground beef at the local Walmart. The good ground beef is quite a bit more.

Most Alaskans consider pinks just marginally edible even when fresh. They're the next step above chum salmon, which the marketroids have been foisting off on Lower 48ers who don't know any better as "keta" or "silverbrite".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (qlLNh)

262 259 "I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)
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Drones aren't missiles, so as long as he can classify them as "diplomacy", he's set.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)

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I don't think the drones we used to bomb that wedding procession was a kamikaze drone. Pretty sure it used...missiles.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (xjopy)

263 Isn't some obnoxiously large percentage of Harvard students have some sort of 'disability' now?

The primary one being "attending Harvard"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (TMNW7)

264 We have struggled for over 20 years to get Boy F. the help promised to have a barely functional life.

Mrs. F. has had this as a full time job since 2003. I foreshortened my career because she was exhausted.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (RIvkX)

265 That neglect is often the result of drugs in the parents lives or removal of the child from the home for the same.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (RDiUV)

266 "I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

The No Agenda Show has ended production, so I was listening to shows from 2012. Curry and Dvorak mentioned that during the one month they were tracking in 2012, Obama had killed over 35 people overseas via drones, as it was reported in the MFM

I am glad the archive is there, I am reminded a of a lot of things that I forgot about that time because I got busy

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (rbvCR)

267
The primary one being "attending Harvard"
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (TMNW7)

HEY!!!!!!

Posted by: David Hogg - Scholar at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (ccf/V)

268 >
"I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

You used pallets full of untraceable cash, shit-for-brains.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (qlLNh)

269 Speaking of fools and money:

Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:01 PM (ccf/V)
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I'm sure Pierce blew piles of that money during his career, but keep in mind that this is coming out of court proceedings over child support for this 751st baby momma. Everyone claims poverty in divorce and child support cases. Everyone.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (iFTx/)

270 264 We have struggled for over 20 years to get Boy F. the help promised to have a barely functional life.

Mrs. F. has had this as a full time job since 2003. I foreshortened my career because she was exhausted.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (RIvkX)

So sorry....

Posted by: It's me donna at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (4WM7K)

271 I would imagine predatory financial advice is a leading cause of athletes losing their shirts. Obviously the usual squandering is involved. I have seen first hand what these money manager shark cocksucker scammers do to the moderately wealthy. In fact now that I think about it they have somehow, even in this day and age, avoided a reckoning.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (I+a8W)

272 268 >
"I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

You used pallets full of untraceable cash, shit-for-brains.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:08 PM (qlLNh)

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He mostly used surrender.

Remember the US Navy ship being taken by Iranian pirates?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (xjopy)

273 Most Alaskans consider pinks just marginally edible even when fresh. They're the next step above chum salmon, which the marketroids have been foisting off on Lower 48ers who don't know any better as "keta" or "silverbrite".

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (qlLNh)

We smoked them. For canning, I go with Coho.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (RDiUV)

274 Cisco's President Jeetu Patel (I'm not making that up) is trying an interesting experiment. Can a two man engineering team with unlimited AI tokens refactor Cisco's code?

http://tiny.cc/gtwc101

It's probably doomed to failure. But what if it doesn't fail? Cisco's code is infamously hard to update. It would be good to have a more flexible, modern code base.

I see lots of people saying the new code won't be tested or is un-testable. That's silly. You have the old code. Cisco has a bazillion unit tests and extensive test suites. They can run those tests against both and compare results. You can fuzz test against both and compare results. There are lots of ways to ensure parity.

Posted by: bonhomme at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (mkw2N)

275 I don't think the drones we used to bomb that wedding procession was a kamikaze drone. Pretty sure it used...missiles.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (xjopy)

Dude didn't know his own state of Illinois bordered Kentucky. I guarantee you he doesn't know how our drones work. You say drone to him today he's not thinking Predator.

Posted by: polynikes at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (Ti9vn)

276 That description fits the perfect description for model citizen in the DSA's reformulation of the former United States.

One of the more amusing things to do is ask a young person who prefers socialism to define socialism. They either disappear, give up quickly, or get very angry and accuse you of being a bot. They almost never even get close.

Mostly they think socialism is "I won't have to work and can play video games all day as food is delivered to my free apartment"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (TMNW7)

277 253 "I didn't use missiles. I used diplomacy."
-Obama, like, 2 days ago
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (xjopy)

From the UTSA school of diplomacy.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

278 I ain't like dem udda prezdents dat fiah dem missles

Posted by: Barky O'Liar at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (I+a8W)

279 Drones aren't missiles, so as long as he can classify them as "diplomacy", he's set.
Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:07 PM (Fi81e)

No, those were drones that fired missiles, not the ones being used in Ukraine today

Global Hawks, Predators and Reapers. And other less known ones

Posted by: Kindltot at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (rbvCR)

280
She was the safeguard and she deliberately allowed millions if not billions in theft. Find out who she works for and where that money went and I 100% guarantee you it leads right back to the CIA and American government funding proxy wars in other countries

Posted by: Intercepted Reddit

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Holy carp are they talking about ilhan

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (mmrXZ)

281 > Remember the US Navy ship being taken by Iranian pirates?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (xjopy)

I'd been trying to forget.

I hope Jimmy Carter died in peace, knowing that he was no longer the worst President in history.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (qlLNh)

282 Nood

Posted by: Thanatopsis at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (hG5L0)

283 Isn't some obnoxiously large percentage of Harvard students have some sort of 'disability' now?"

Depending on reports... about a third.

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ADOtk)

284
From the UTSA school of diplomacy.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 106 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (Sco7b)

As they say at Texas State, you can't spell NUTSACK without UTSA.

Posted by: David Hogg - Scholar at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)

285 HEY!!!!!!
Posted by: David Hogg

Don't take it personally, you were retarded before you left high school.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (TMNW7)

286 Damn......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ccf/V)

287 281 I'd been trying to forget.

I hope Jimmy Carter died in peace, knowing that he was no longer the worst President in history.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:10 PM (qlLNh)

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And every day Martin Van Buren thanks God that no one remembers him at all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, precisely framed and deadpan with Wes Anderson at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (xjopy)

288 Mostly they think socialism is "I won't have to work and can play video games all day as food is delivered to my free apartment"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (TMNW7)

Actually I think a lot of them believe it's punish the wealthy. And they're right.

A lot of them just don't know that even impoverished students are considered the wealthy.

Posted by: ... at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (I+a8W)

289 Isn't some obnoxiously large percentage of Harvard students have some sort of 'disability' now?"

Depending on reports... about a third.

Posted by: man at October 30, 2026 01:11 PM (ADOtk)

Liberalism.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (RDiUV)

290 warned her co-conspirators that they had to CALM DOWN

Someone has been reading and heeding the HordeSource advice given here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (0sNs1)

291 "75% of every dollar spent on healthcare in this country is stolen, fraudulent, clearly unnecessary, or otherwise just flushed down the toilet.

Total healthcare spending could be cut in 24 hours to 25% of what it is right now, and not one actual human with any real sickness or need of care will be affected. Not a one.

Posted by: Elric The Blade "

A good start would be the end of most health insurance and govt. programs as it now structured and go to fee-for-services. End that and prices would drop 50% overnight. They would then drop 50% again over the next year or so as demand and prices came into line and there would be no need for most insurance

Health insurance should only be for truly catastrophic events. It has completely distorted by the entire price/demand system.

Posted by: Ripley at October 30, 2026 01:14 PM (GUOwU)

292 > We smoked them. For canning, I go with Coho.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at October 30, 2026 01:09 PM (RDiUV)

You mean silvers. :-)

For those in non-PNW areas, every species of salmon but pink and chum has a different name in Washington State than it does in most of Alaska. Parts of extreme SE Alaska use the Washington names. I think British Columbia also uses the Washington names.

Washington/Alaska
Chinook/king
Sockeye/red
Coho/silver
Pink/pink

Chums are also known as "dog salmon", but I don't think those names are as highly localized. I've heard both in both places.

Why the names are different, I don't know, but there's always good natured "correcting" going on whenever someone uses the "wrong" name.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at October 30, 2026 01:17 PM (qlLNh)

293 81 >>That was the scam of calling it a spectrum, rather than a proper diagnosis.

Yeah that was the first sign of a scam. I will buy that there is a range of human behavior and emotional response, we all learn that by the age of 5. What I won't buy is that there isn't a bright line between normal range of human behavior and mental illness.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 12:32 PM (TMNW7)

IANAMHP, but my understanding is that the only "bright line" is whether someone is unable to perform a normal function, like initiating a romantic relationship or maintaining gainful employment. Otherwise, the difference between a disorder (you have it or you don't) and a trait (on a 100-point scale) is not as big as it seems, since diagnosing a disorder involves counting up the number of 'tells'.

Without that singular objective measure, the diagnostic criteria for a disorder is hiding a spectrum by using a threshold to collapse it into a step function. And even so, you can speak intelligibly of sub-clinical "shadow syndromes" that mimic the real deal, but without the crippling disability.

But I think this is because the field is post-Christian and PoMo, so ungrounded.

Posted by: SciVo at October 30, 2026 01:18 PM (ke3zm)

294 the new code won't be tested or is un-testable. That's silly. You have the old code. Cisco has a bazillion unit tests and extensive test suites. They can run those tests against both and compare results. You can fuzz test against both and compare results. There are lots of ways to ensure parity.

Determinant doesn't mean repeatable.

Posted by: DaveA at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (FhXTo)

295 249 Former NBA star Paul Pierce is on the verge of bankruptcy, having squandered over $200m in earnings during his NBA career

Back before they turned into The View for sports bros, ESPN did a good documentary on how athletes end up bankrupt despite being paid so much.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at October 30, 2026 01:04 PM (TMNW7)

More than a few of those extremely high-paid but now bankrupt athletes went bankrupt because one of their highly-trusted relatives, often an uncle, acted as their agent and robbed them blind.

For me one of the saddest parts of too many of these athlete rags-to-riches-to-rags stories is the end result of the lavish homes they bought for their Moms. Even if the athlete paid cash up-front for the property rather than paying the mortgage payments. The athletes don't always fund a trust fund to pay the property taxes and upkeep costs on the property, or didn't fund it enough to keep-up with inflation and the inevitable property tax increases. In those cases, eventually Mom and all the relatives who moved-in to take advantage of free housing with Athletes Mom get thrown out after the athlete goes bust.

Posted by: Gref at October 30, 2026 01:20 PM (5rh/l)

296 >> Total healthcare spending could be cut in 24 hours to 25% of what it is right now, and not one actual human with any real sickness or need of care will be affected. Not a one.

Look at the growth of healthcare administration. Just like the growth of administration in schools, it has very little purpose as comprised and adds significant cost. Then take a deeper look at some of the healthcare positions that are unionized. You’ll notice they too have been expanded, with much of it due to contractual concessions.

Posted by: Marcus t at October 30, 2026 01:21 PM (egaJw)

297 "75% of every dollar spent on healthcare in this country is stolen, fraudulent, clearly unnecessary, or otherwise just flushed down the toilet.
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It's a good thing Obama put the fix in.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:23 PM (Fi81e)

298 warned her co-conspirators that they had to CALM DOWN

Someone has been reading and heeding the HordeSource advice given here.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at October 30, 2026 01:12 PM (0sNs1)
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It's no "cool your tits", though.

Posted by: Axeman at October 30, 2026 01:24 PM (Fi81e)

299
I stopped at "manicurist".
Posted by: fd

I dream of manicurist.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0512594

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at October 30, 2026 01:26 PM (Cqx++)

300
I really hope so. Some news channel posted on YouTube a panel of "experts" and had this lawyer on that was all "Scott is cooked!" And the others on the panel were practically clapping over it, and all the comments on the vid were joyful that Scott would lose and probably lose his show and spot in CNN and be forced to stop telling his "lies."

Hope the piker gets his butt handed to him. But I didn't see the details of the video Scott posted, and why or why not it might be doctored.
Posted by: LizLem

Good tell for infotainment is when a lawyer is practicing on tv rather than in a court room. Nancy Grace comes to mind and she nearly got disbarred for misconduct as a prosecutor before becoming a fake and gay legal commentator.

Posted by: whig at October 30, 2026 01:28 PM (E4rtv)

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