jross

Hare reports that about 1 percent of the general population meets the clinical criteria for psychopathy. Hare, RD (1994), "Predators: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths among Us", Psychology Today, 27 (1): 54–61. Hare further claims that the prevalence of psychopaths is higher in the business world than in the general population. Figures of around 3–4 percent have been cited for more senior positions in business. Baibak, P; Hare, RD (2007), Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work. The AI Personality Assessment reports much higher psychopathy in the non wrestling forums. High Great White North Lisa Morales Moderate to High Double Half Rock Lobster Moderate Bigbrog Husker Du JimmySpeaks Kentucky_Mudflap Saylors Tiny Willie Tripnsweep Low to Moderate Caveira Gene Mills Fan jross MPhillips Red Viking Scouts Honor Low Flying Porta John headshuck Lipdrag mspart Scourge165 Uncle Bernard WrestlingRasta

It is good to think critically about the Kirk shooting. That same level of thinking should be applied elsewhere! So many conspiracies... so little skepticism depending on the bias.

The ultimate accountability lays with the illegal alien for having been in the country and failure to comply. It is easy to understand how the agent believed his life was in danger, even if it was his own actions contributing to it. Maybe he should have let go, maybe he should have tried harder to get the driver to stop. By holding on, the situation is made worse. The cop could have fallen into traffic or been ran over when the car reversed. Then the car rapidly sped forward into traffic with the cop still holding on. This is probably what caused the tear in the agent's pants and why he visited the hospital for knee, hand, and back issues. In hindsight yes the agent should have let go. Maybe the agent should be disciplined, maybe he shouldn't. It was a judgement call in the moment by an officer doing his job. Video of shooting: Decent article: https://archive.ph/qkyfl#selection-525.0-525.164

My wife agreed ^^^ but when pressed on subsidizing foreigners, she said the U.S. should prioritize helping its own people. The U.S. does not recognize food, shelter, and health care as a human right but offers many programs and charity. I agree with the US on their legal stance. The US current programs must be doing okay given their willingness to extend charities to other countries where the charity is siphoned from the corrupt folks in charge.

Trip is likely being hyperbolic... I get the frustration whether you know someone that died painfully of cancer or just feel strongly that opposing universal health care is cruel. Your comment is cruel and unproductive. My painful death by cancer will have zero impact on my belief that healthcare is a service that should not be forced by others to provide. And this says nothing about my humanity. Good people provide charitable health care to those in need because they choose to, not because they are forced.

WTF Portland. We got a Trump supporter here. Bang. Bang. Dead.

I agree with you. I am referring to the illegal border crossings rather than over stayers.

100% of illegal aliens enter the country unlawfully and 75% commit felony fraud when they provide stolen or fake information to work. Understanding why they commit crime does not excuse the crime.

I haven’t seen anyone, anywhere, say anyone shouldn’t get emergency stabilization.

Jared Leto, Jennifer Lawrence, Keanu Reeves...

True. With the impact of shifting the federal tax burden to Midwest taxpayers like me. Note: New York plays the shell game with provider taxes to get federal funds for their illegal alien healthcare program. Note 2: New York declares health care as a human right for their residents. Forcing others to work so that others can get a service IS NOT A RIGHT! Entitlement to resources IS NOT A RIGHT! This popular disagreement is why state sovereignty matters and why its unfair for NY and CA to scam Federal dollars. Health care services may be provided freely through choice, not mandates!

I see rock solid stairs being cut into the slope.

The state taxpayer is directly funding state funded non-emergency care for illegal aliens. For example, California was providing coverage for 1.6 million illegal aliens per Newsome (source). ALSO the federal taxpayer is indirectly funding non-emergency care for illegal aliens in several ways. Method 1: Shell games California uses a shell game to collect federal subsidies and fund non-emergency care for illegal aliens. How? The state heavily taxes health insurance companies for each member plan The state uses the tax money to pay back the insurance company higher rates for Medicaid services. The Federal government matches a high percentage of the state funding for Medicaid services. The state uses the increased Federal funding to help pay for its state plan that covers non-emergency care for illegal aliens. John borrows $100 from Jack, and pays back $105 to Jack. Uncle Sam pays John $300 for "spending" $105. John actually spent $5... not $105... It meets the rules but is subjectively a scam... Method 2: Cost shifting The existence of an illegal alien getting health care that is not paid by that alien increase insurance premiums to citizens nationally. Method 3: Incentive Multiplier Free care incentivizes more illegal aliens to come the USA, which compounds the impact of shell games and cost shifting. ...I'm sure there is more. Administrative costs, logistic costs, care provider stress... --------- SO WHAT --------- The big beautiful bill eliminates the California shell game by restricting the provider tax strategy. It also reduces Fed Medicaid funding to states that offer state funded health coverage for illegal aliens. I had no idea California was scamming the Fed like this...

This is distasteful to hold it over the dems heads that if they shut down the government, reps will layoff the work force. There is no need to deflect. Just say it. We want a small government and will use this as an opportunity to downsize.

Facts: It is unoriginal and hallucinates. It encourages slop from humans that do not verify the source. It legit may affect our brains to shrink over time as the need to memorize, recall, and think critically. WALL-E is coming.

It can be! This may be stuff you already know, but I definitely use AI continuously for work and personal. There are actually classes about how to use AI well, specifically around AI prompts. But AI is also only as good as what it is trained on. You can prompt AI to cite its source. We still must verify the source because AI will make up source and article titles. Even with prompt refinement and source verification, leveraging AI is incomparably productive for most of my needs. Scary and awesome. I have a hard-earned, niche technical skill set. I outproduce my peers by 10x in this area. It seems incomparable to review my analysis to AI for what was previously a rarely accessible skill. AI knows more, adjusts faster, and produces quality instantly.

If you are not using AI to gather information, then you are a dinosaur my friend. If you are leveraging what AI tells you without verification, then you are a puppet my friend. If you trust but verify information regardless of source, and recognize opinion from fact, you are a critical thinker my friend.

You win the challenge. That is not what I've been attempting to communicate. I very well could be wrong with this second order thinking. The republicans are using federal power via BBB to coerce states to reduce their self-funding health care for illegal aliens. That is the effect from the BBB reducing Federal payments from 90 to 80 percent to states, with illegal alien state coverage, for Medicaid enrollees who gained coverage through expansion. This is the only practical angle I can find for why Republicans are angling this to be about health care for illegal aliens. Without checking polls, I assume the focus on the illegal alien angle is because most citizens are against it. If Republicans focused the narrative on lawfully present aliens, there would be higher resistance. The CR is not fully "clean" either. That's an exaggeration lie but relatively true. When the republicans control the narrative, and most people trust without verification... this is an awful look for Dems. And it is actually bad of Dems to shut the government down here based on what both sides have said about time to negotiate.

FWIW: I used AI and verified before posting by directly reading the source for exactly this information only: Section 71301 (Effective 2027): Action: Bars Premium Tax Credits (PTCs) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for non-qualified lawfully present immigrants. Impact: Reduces coverage by ~1 million lawfully present immigrants by 2035, saving $91.4 billion (2026–2035). Source: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61734 Section 71302 (Effective 2026): Action: Denies PTCs to lawfully present immigrants with incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL), who are ineligible for Medicaid due to immigration status. Impact: Affects ~200,000 lawfully present immigrants by 2035, saving $27.3 billion (2026–2035). Source: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61734 ...This impacts illegal aliens Action: Reduces the federal Medicaid matching rate (FMAP) from 90% to 80% for states with expanded Medicaid that use state funds to cover undocumented immigrants (e.g., California’s Medi-Cal, New York’s Essential Plan). Impact: May lead to ~1.4 million (mostly illegal aliens) losing state-funded coverage by 2034, saving $131 billion in federal Medicaid funds. Indirectly risks uninsuring citizens due to state program cuts.

The Republicans in the BBB made this about illegal aliens when they reduced federal funds to states providing state funded health care for illegal aliens. Democrats want taxpayers to pay for illegal alien health care as they already demonstrate today by having taxpayers fund it at the state level. Democrats are mad about the BBB creating financial pressure that impacts how they fund illegal alien health care. It is a lie by omission for Republicans to only focus on the illegal alien narrative. But it is also true that: The Democrats have shut the government down prematurely given more time is allowed to discuss the impact on lawfully present aliens. The Democrats shut the government down prematurely because they want taxpayers to continue providing health care for illegal aliens.

The Big Beautiful Bill did not change that illegal aliens get emergency health care paid by Americans. The Big Beautiful Bill impacts immigrant healthcare coverage through provisions like these: Section 71301 (Effective 2027): Action: Bars Premium Tax Credits (PTCs) under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for non-qualified lawfully present immigrants. Impact: Reduces coverage by ~1 million lawfully present immigrants by 2035, saving $91.4 billion (2026–2035). Source: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61734 What is the Affordable Care Act? - Medicaid for legal immigrants and a marketplace for medicaid-unqualified legal immigrants What are Premium Tax Credits? - Taxpayer funded breaks to help immigrants afford private insurance. Section 71302 (Effective 2026): Action: Denies PTCs to lawfully present immigrants with incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level (FPL), who are ineligible for Medicaid due to immigration status. Impact: Affects ~200,000 lawfully present immigrants by 2035, saving $27.3 billion (2026–2035). Source: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61734 ...This impacts illegal aliens Action: Reduces the federal Medicaid matching rate (FMAP) from 90% to 80% for states with expanded Medicaid that use state funds to cover undocumented immigrants (e.g., California’s Medi-Cal, New York’s Essential Plan). Impact: May lead to ~1.4 million (mostly illegal aliens) losing state-funded coverage by 2034, saving $131 billion in federal Medicaid funds. Indirectly risks uninsuring citizens due to state program cuts. I read that some of these states say that if the federal medicaid funding is reduced, it will auto trigger reduction or cancelation of the state funded programs.

Claim: Illegal aliens get emergency health care paid by Americans Fact Check: True. This predates Biden/Trump. Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA, 1986): Requires hospitals to stabilize anyone in an emergency regardless of immigration status (42 U.S.C. § 1395dd) Claim: Illegal aliens get non emergency health care paid by Americans Fact Check: True at the state level across numerous states. Claim: Non citizen, legal status immigrants have health care paid by Americans Fact Check: True. Claim: Biden's admin increased the legal status of otherwise illegal aliens, thus increasing the amount of "illegal aliens" with Federal health care coverage. Fact Check: False. While, the Biden administration did grant legal status to an increased number of illegal aliens, the health care coverage 'at the time' was 'then' for 'newly' lawfully present aliens.

What are the evidence based facts on non citizens getting health care funding? What are the facts about illegal vs legal non citizen immigrants getting health care funding?

What is this about?

Except Social Security claimed 75% of illegal aliens commit felony fraud to work in the USA.