Robert L Peters

People need to come to grips with the cost of living crisis. Eggs are not more expensive Your house is not worth more Your dollar is worth less

@Noncompliant01 @WallStreetApes @Tneliton That’s not at all how this works

@WallStreetApes @Tneliton You are welcome. Signed all of us who pay high premiums so you can game the system.

American is a healthy 28 year old, he decided to skip paying for health insurance this year because the cheapest plan was $900 per month with a high deductible He had to spend 2 nights in the ER without insurance, he breaks down the bill “This is my receipt from spending 2 days in the hospital: - It totaled about $24,000 - My CT scan alone was $8,300 - Laboratory, 6,000 - IV therapy, $1,020, $4,000 in total And while $24,000 seems like a lot of money, let me show you something. This is what I'm actually paying, $2,478 because when you don't have insurance, these hospitals give you a discount. They discounted $22,000 off of this bill” “But if I had insurance, I wouldn't have gotten that discount. So it would've been a $24,000 bill billed to my insurance, and then my insurance would've said, ‘Hey, you have a $5,000 deductible. You need to pay $5,000 for this last emergency room visit.’ Then you tack on the $900 a month that I'd be paying for that insurance. I'd be paying $20K this year for healthcare. So the craziest part about this is even if I have another hospital visit, by the end of this year, I'm still gonna be paying less than I would if I had insurance. At minimum, my cost for healthcare this year would've been $20,000 with insurance. Right now I'm at $2,400.” US Health Insurance is a scam

@TheEconAnalyst @_emergent_ @reddit_lies I agree with you on that. But in the real world, we have a government that consumes resources that we're never going to convince the majority to get rid of. So, it's better to tie revenue to some metric instead of nothing like we have now.

@Greg8124 @_emergent_ @reddit_lies All government spending decreases production. This is because governments compel a citizen to pay for its services, bureaucracy, program instead of voluntarily paying for it like in a free market. Therefore government goods/services cannot be properly valued against costs.

r/politics is in denial that Kathy Hochul said the NY tax base has been eroded after millionaires fled the state.

@TheEconAnalyst @_emergent_ @reddit_lies Maximum revenue is an indicator that they've reached peak efficiency without decreasing production.

@_emergent_ @reddit_lies The government shouldn't be pursuing the "revenue maximizing point" to begin with.

This is great for Mexico. Illegals are good for the economy, commit practically no crime, and, of course, can't get welfare. They're nothing but upside and diversity 👩🏾‍🤝‍👨🏿

@thetect0nic @Faytuks 1/2 of their leadership is dead. Which position was stronger again?

@Faytuks The country that was supposed to capitulate is now negotiating from a stronger position than it held before the war began.

Three Iranian sources tell Reuters that these are Iran's demands going into talks: - Guarantees against attacks in the future - Compensation for losses - Formal control of the Strait of Hormuz - No negotiations on Iran's ballistic missile program

The Mount Rushmore of deconstructing the Right's enemies.

Holy shlit! Senator Chris Murphy (D): "The people we care about most, the undocumented" He then admits that their strategy for over 30 years has been to make them citizens This needs to be blasted on every screen

@cw2820 @S1apSh0es If that were true that'd be reason enough to keep him around

@S1apSh0es All I read was “Steve Phelps took the Daytona 500 away from Kyle Busch himself”

I’m gonna call it how I see it. Ever since Steve Phelps left, NASCAR race control has been infinitely better. Cars smacking the wall with two laps left would have been an instant caution just a year or two ago but race control has been letting these races go and it’s great.

Roseanne lost her career over one tweet to Valerie Jarrett but the first lady of New York City can celebrate October 7th and call people niggers and faggots without any consequences!

The near universal liberal response to Charlie Kirk's death was "I didn't like the guy but no one deserves to get gunned down in cold blood". You assumed there was celebration because it's what you would do if Rachel Maddow was shot.

It’s so weird to me that investigating fraud is somehow now right-coded. Daycare fraud, hospice fraud, autism fraud…these fraudsters are stealing our federal tax dollars in plain sight. Demanding accountability should not be considered a partisan thing at all.

@inside_IL_intel Thanks, ChatGPT

🚨 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: ISRAEL U.S. WAR WITH THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC Reporting Window: 3/22 to 3/23 • Iran fired additional cluster munition barrages into central Israel, with damage reported in Holon, Bat Yam, Or Yehuda, Safed, and the Jerusalem area, while another overnight launch triggered alerts in the Jerusalem corridor and south. • Israel widened its Lebanon campaign by destroying the Qasmiya bridge over the Litani and accelerating demolitions of homes and crossings in frontline villages. Reuters and AP both treated that as a major escalation. • Overnight strikes hit Tehran and a wider arc of Iranian military infrastructure, with your wire tracking blasts in east and northeast Tehran, Karaj, Yazd, Khorramabad, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, and near Parchin, while the IDF publicly announced a broad wave of strikes on regime infrastructure in Tehran. • The Hormuz front remained the strategic center of gravity, but AP reported that Trump extended his deadline by five days rather than moving immediately to strike Iranian power plants. Iran simultaneously threatened Gulf power and water infrastructure if attacked. The last 24 hours were more concrete than conceptual. The most important story was not a new grand theory of the war. It was a set of specific events that showed how the conflict is now functioning day to day. Iran kept using cluster style ballistic attacks to create wider damage zones inside Israel. Israel moved from hitting Hezbollah targets to physically reshaping southern Lebanon. And inside Iran, the strike map widened again overnight with visible pressure on Tehran, missile infrastructure, coastal nodes, and internal security sites. At the same time, the anticipated U.S. move on Iranian power plants did not happen yet, which makes the immediate next window as important as the one just completed. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🚀 IRANIAN MISSILE ATTACKS ON ISRAEL Iran continued missile launches into Israel, but the operational detail that matters is how these attacks are being configured. Times of Israel live coverage reported fresh damage in central Israel from cluster munitions or fragments, while Jerusalem Post live coverage tracked shrapnel and fragment strikes in central Israel and additional impacts farther north. Ynet also highlighted two lightly wounded in Bat Yam and a partly collapsed building in Holon from the same general wave pattern. That matters because the attacks are no longer just about how many missiles Iran can fire. They are about how much disruption each missile can create. A single cluster warhead can turn one penetration or one imperfect interception into several impact points. Your wire also tracked this in real time, including central Israel damage and a later overnight launch that sent alerts toward Jerusalem and the south. One specific point worth noting is that today’s Israeli home front story was not dominated by mass casualties. It was dominated by repeated local damage events, scattered fragments, and shelter disruptions. That makes the attacks feel smaller than earlier war barrages, but not less operationally relevant. They are being used to sustain pressure while Iran’s launcher network remains under strain. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🇱🇧 LEBANON: ISRAEL MOVED FROM STRIKES TO TERRAIN DENIAL The biggest concrete change on the northern front was Israel’s continued move toward physical denial of Hezbollah movement rather than just attritional fire. Reuters reported that Israel struck the main bridge on the southern Lebanese coastal highway and ordered the destruction of homes near the border and bridges over the Litani River. AP reported the same bridge strike and framed Katz’s order to include all Litani crossings as a meaningful broadening of the target set. That means the Lebanon front is no longer just a story of rockets and retaliatory airstrikes. Israel is trying to reengineer the battlespace itself. Destroying crossings, flattening frontline structures, and reducing usable approach routes all point to the same objective: make it harder for Hezbollah to return south in meaningful strength even if the current phase of fighting slows. Reuters explicitly described Lebanese criticism that these measures look like pre invasion preparation and collective punishment. There was also an important corrective detail today. Times of Israel and Ynet both reported that the farmer killed near Misgav Am was not killed by Hezbollah fire after all, but by errant Israeli artillery shelling intended to support troops in southern Lebanon. That matters because it changes the factual record of one of yesterday’s most emotionally resonant northern incidents. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✈️ STRATEGIC AIR CAMPAIGN OVER IRAN Open source intelligence reported explosions and reported hits in east and northeast Tehran (shown in attached video), Hakimieh, Lavizan, Tehranpars, near the Parchin mountains, Karaj and Fardis, Khorramabad, Yazd, Bushehr, Bandar Abbas, and other sites. The IDF later publicly announced that it had launched a broad wave of strikes on regime infrastructure in Tehran. Mainstream coverage supported the broader pattern even where every individual site was not independently confirmed one by one. AP’s live coverage described explosions in Tehran and widening Israeli activity, while Times of Israel’s liveblog tracked the announced broad strike wave in Tehran. The strike set also appears to have remained mixed. This was not just about launchers. Open source reporting referenced possible targeted assassinations in Khorramabad and Tehran, missile site damage in Yazd, busier strike activity around coastal and port areas like Bandar Abbas and Bandar Deyr, and pressure near Parchin. Even where some of those claims remain open source rather than fully confirmed by Reuters or AP, the overall pattern is clear: the campaign remains broad, multi city, and focused on degrading the regime’s ability to keep fighting, not merely blunting the next launch. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌍 GULF FRONT: STRIKES, INTERCEPTIONS, AND INFRASTRUCTURE THREATS The Gulf front stayed active, but the most important part of today’s story was not one giant headline strike. It was the persistence of Iranian pressure and the hardening response from Gulf states. AP reported that Iran threatened to mine the Persian Gulf and target regional energy infrastructure as Trump’s deadline neared. Reuters reported that Iran threatened to hit Gulf power plants and the systems powering U.S. bases if Iranian power infrastructure were attacked. Open source intel tracked the practical side of that pressure in real time. It logged interceptions and alerts in Bahrain, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia, including reported UAV interceptions in eastern Saudi Arabia, missile and drone interceptions by the UAE, and multiple reports of explosions or sirens in Bahrain. Those details are useful because they show the Gulf story is still not abstract diplomatic signaling. Air defenses are still being used. Another development worth mentioning is market stress. Reuters’ earlier energy reporting remains relevant here because Gulf attacks have already damaged major oil and gas facilities in several states, and the International Energy Agency chief warned that the current situation is worse than the oil crises of the 1970s. Your wire separately tracked comments from Fatih Birol about reserve releases and Hormuz as the key pressure point. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⚡ HORMUZ: THE BIG DECISION DID NOT HAPPEN YET This was probably the single most important strategic update of the day. The expected U.S. strike on Iranian power plants did not occur in this reporting window. Instead, AP reported that Trump extended the deadline by five days, temporarily holding off on those strikes. That is a real development, because it changes the immediate pacing of the war and means the next reporting window matters more than expected. That does not mean the Hormuz crisis eased. Quite the opposite. Reuters reported that Iran threatened retaliation against Gulf power and water infrastructure and warned it could mine all Gulf shipping lanes if attacked. AP similarly reported threats against electrical plants and broader Gulf systems. So the practical reality is that the strategic center of gravity remains Hormuz, but the execution timeline shifted. This also helps explain why this report feels operationally busy but strategically suspended. Lots happened. But the one action that could have forced a dramatic phase change was deferred. That makes the present moment feel less like de escalation and more like a pause before a possible infrastructure war phase. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📌 WHAT MATTERS MOST RIGHT NOW First, today’s report is really about concrete battlefield mechanics, not broad narrative drift. Iran kept using cluster style missile attacks to widen disruption inside Israel even without restoring early war salvo size. Second, Israel’s Lebanon campaign moved another step away from reactive fire and toward deliberate terrain denial. The destruction of the Qasmiya bridge and orders to strike Litani crossings are specific, visible evidence of that shift. Third, the Tehran centered air campaign remained expansive and geographically wide overnight, and open source reporting was useful here in showing how broad the strike footprint was beyond the handful of locations that got top billing in mainstream coverage. Fourth, the most dramatic expected U.S. move did not happen yet. Trump extended the deadline, which means the next 24 hours are now more consequential than the last ones. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ END OF REPORT

@eeleete @PinoAmericano It's his facial expression. It comes off as overly serious and performative

@PinoAmericano There was something always off with that dude. Never liked him.

People are finally catching on to Jack Posobiec’s grift? This has been quite the week for many.

@_fat_ugly_rat_ A conservative like Amy Barrett?

Genuinely kind of shocked neither Alito or Thomas have retired yet. Why gamble with dems winning the Senate this year when you could retire now in your mid 70s and have a 100% chance of getting another conservative replacement.

@AndrewKolvet She clearly benefits from no ID

Lisa Murkowski has been on the Senate floor for over ten minutes. As a member of the GOP, she's doing an EXCELLENT job of advocating for the SAVE America Act… oh wait... no, she's not. She's explaining why it's apparently TOO HARD to overcome logistical and geographical issues because of sled dogs and other things far less important than our nation's sovereignty. The amount of effort these people put into opposing something as simple as voter ID is astronomical and only proves how afraid they are.

Roberts cries about hostility towards judges… Nationwide Injunctions: 8 years of Reagan: 12 4 years of H Bush: 6 8 year of Clinton: 12 8 years of W Bush: 6 8 years of Obama: 12 4 years of Biden: 14 40 years of previous Presidents: 62 5 years of Trump: 96 Judicial Activism.

@goober59914 @blacknredtext Troon take

@blacknredtext realistically why would I care about how other ppl feel though cause im not even gonna be here to deal with it

anon submission

@GuntherEagleman No.

IRISH PRIME MINISTER WANTS IMMIGRATION PATHWAY to America: "I'd love if we could develop a legal pathway between the US and Ireland into the future." Would you support this?

I’m just wondering. Do Muslims ever spread their faith through good works, such as starting orphanages, opening hospitals, feeding the hungry, and helping the poor? Or do they just spread it with violence?