The #1 Waster of Healthcare Dollars and How to Stop It

Posted on September 26, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Washington steals half of out health-care dollars.

Democrats threaten government shut-down over Medicaid cuts; as Americans are bracing for another increase in their healthcare costs; and as patients wait an average maximum of 132 days to see a primary care doctor, Americans can’t seem to wake up from the nightmare called U.S. healthcare.

The rise in insurance premium costs is estimated at 7–10 percent next year. This is on top of already unaffordable family spending with the average American family expending $32,066 on healthcare in 2024 according to Milliman Medical Index.

Faced with increasing pressure on their bottom lines, employers are passing these additional expenses on to employees with reduced benefits, narrower medical panels (which means longer wait times), plus higher deductibles and copays.

Republicans plan cuts to Medicaid that Democrats and the complicit media say these cuts will “hurt families,” “increase uncompensated care,” “and lead to thousands of deaths.” Biden’s 2021–2023 lockdowns threw millions of people out of work. Unemployment made them ineligible for employer-supported health insurance. Biden then expanded eligibility, adding 17 million Americans to Medicaid rolls. More than 60 percent of these individuals have returned to work and become (again) eligible for employer-provided insurance. Cutting them from Medicaid rolls will actually increase funds available to pay for those who truly need Medicaid.

NPR business analyst Maria Aspan is clear about whom she blames for elevated costs: “insurers, drug companies and your employer,” along with the Trump administration that has “government-sponsored alternatives” it won’t use, she says.

Last year, the U.S. spent $4.8 trillion on its healthcare system. That amount is greater than the entire GDP ($4.7 trillion) of the third-most productive nation on earth, Germany.

Where is all that money going? Who is getting rich, or richer, from Americans’ “unsustainable” (Obama) healthcare spending? Doctors? Big Pharma? Insurance? Hospitals? While each does take a piece of the healthcare “pie,” none comes close to the one entity that consumes more than 50 percent of all U.S. healthcare spending.

Of the $4.8 trillion, more than half, that’s right, at least $2.4 trillion, went to pay the federal BURRDEN — Bureaucracy, Unnecessary Rules and Regulations, Directives, Enforcement, and Noncompliance activities. Our own government denied Americans more than two trillion dollars’ worth of patient care to pay…itself.

The growth of the nonclinical healthcare workforce explains where the BURRDEN money is going — to accountants, administrators, authorization agents, compliance officers, lawyers (lots of lawyers), managers, reviewers, and a multitude of people who never touch a patient. From 1970 to 2020, the number of physicians increased approximately 100 percent. As a result of Congress passing innumerable healthcare Acts with familiar names like Medicare, Medicaid, and Obamacare, the number of healthcare nonclinical workers — bureaucrats — increased by more than 4,400 percent! Taxpayer dollars funded the salaries and fringe benefits of 44 bureaucrats for every doctor.

The public often fails to recognize the cost and complexity associated with passing healthcare legislation, no matter how straightforward. Take price transparency as an example.

Medical price lists do not simply, magically appear. It requires a complex series of costly tasks between the passage of the Health Care PRICE Transparency Act of 2023 and posted lists of hospital prices for patients to see. Rules must be written and vetted to assure concurrence with existing laws and rules. Regulations must be developed which are actionable and quantifiable, including consequences for noncompliance. Directives must be distributed to give hospitals time to understand the regulations, gather, collate, and format the data in compliance with federal requirements, while maintaining secrecy of proprietary commercial information. A system to enforce compliance and punish the noncompliant. An entire bureaucratic structure must be created to accomplish all these tasks.

Not one penny of the billions expended to implement price transparency (or any other healthcare legislation) provides care for a single American patient.

Don’t blame doctors, hospitals, insurance, or even Big Pharma — they are not the big money consumers. They are playing the game according to rules established by Washington.

Blame innumerable federal Acts passed over the past six decades such as

Medicare, Medicaid, EMTALA, UMRA, HIPAA, most OBRAs, ACA, and IRA-2022.

Blame a World War II (1942) wage freeze that was never repealed, which has morphed into the disingenuous, market-distorting employer-supported health insurance benefit that denies 150 million employees an average of $25,572 of money they earned.

Blame a third-party payment system that takes away patients’ medical autonomy, supplants doctors’ judgment, and makes patients wait for care so long they die waiting in line.

Better yet, don’t play the blame game.

Identify the root cause and fix it. The problem of constantly rising healthcare costs is caused by Washington-created BURRDEN and third-party payment market distortion. The solution is to kick Washington out of healthcare. Empower patients — directly connect them with their own money and their chosen doctors without third-party payers in between.

Deane Waldman, MD, MBA, is Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics, Pathology, and Decision Science; former Director of the Center for Healthcare Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation; and former Director of the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange. He co-authored Empower PATIENTS – Two Doctors’ Cure for Healthcare with Vance Ginn, PhD. Follow him on X @DrDeaneW or visit deanewaldman.com.

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DOJ Directs Prosecutors to Probe George Soros’ Foundation

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

DOJ official directs prosecutors to prepare probes of George Soros’ foundation. The DOJ order was sent to U.S. attorney’s offices in at least seven states.

By Katherine Faulders, Alexander Mallin, and Pierre Thomas

Trump urges attorney general to prosecute rivalsPresident Trump appears to pressure Pam Bondi to prosecute his political rivals in a late-night post on Truth Social.

Multiple top federal prosecutors at U.S. attorney’s offices around the country received a directive Monday to prepare to launch investigations into the Open Society Foundations, a group funded by the billionaire Democratic donor George Soros, multiple sources confirmed to ABC News.

“This DOJ, along with our hard-working and dedicated U.S. Attorneys, will always prioritize public safety and investigate organizations that conspire to commit acts of violence or other federal violations of law,” a spokesperson for the Justice Department told ABC News when asked about the directive.

The order from Aakash Singh, a senior official in Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office, was sent to U.S. attorney’s offices in at least seven states, the sources confirmed, including California, New York, Illinois, Michigan and Maryland.

The letter lists potential charges prosecutors could take under consideration as they prepare to investigate the Open Society Foundations, ranging from material support to terrorism, arson, wire fraud and racketeering, the sources said.

Vance says ‘left-wing extremism’ helped lead to Charlie Kirk’s killing

A spokesperson for Open Society Foundations, in a statement to ABC News, said, “The Open Society Foundations unequivocally condemn terrorism and do not fund terrorism. Our activities are peaceful and lawful, and our grantees are expected to abide by human rights principles and comply with the law.”

These accusations are politically motivated attacks on civil society, meant to silence speech the administration disagrees with and undermine the First Amendment right to free speech. When power is abused to take away the rights of some people, it puts the rights of all people at risk,” the statement said.

The directive comes as President Donald Trump and senior White House officials have ramped up their demands in recent week that the Justice Department and FBI more aggressively pursue groups on the left that they claim have fueled recent acts of political violence around the country.

The New York Times was the first to report on Singh’s directive.

Both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance specifically singled out Soros in public comments since the killing of right wing influencer Charlie Kirk, with Trump saying in an interview with Fox News that Soros should be investigated for racketeering.

Mother files civil rights complaint against Virginia school over boy in girls’ locker room

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

A Virginia mother filed a federal civil rights complaint Sept. 24 against Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), alleging administrators allowed a male student with facial hair to repeatedly enter the girls’ locker room at her daughter’s high school and watch female students change.

Filed with the Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR), the complaint says the 14-year-old daughter first encountered the sophomore boy Sept. 2 in the locker room at West Springfield High School (WSHS). She and other students alleged he stood and watched them undress.

According to the filing, administrators said the male student identifies as female.

The filing alleges that despite multiple objections, school officials failed to intervene. Assistant principals allegedly told the girl’s mother that a staff member had instructed the boy not to enter the locker room, but added he would not be stopped or disciplined.

“After this episode, WSHS administrators called [the girl’s mother] to inform her that the boy has a right to use the girls’ locker room because he identifies as female,” the complaint states.

Court documents also allege that school officials also told the girls they could use a single-occupancy unisex bathroom if they were uncomfortable changing in front of a male student.

On Sept. 22, staff reduced the amount of time the freshman girls had in the locker room to allow “the boy to use the locker room after them without being in their presence,” according to the complaint.

“I’m just dumbfounded that this is even a thing, that I’m having to go to this length in order to protect my child,” the mother told National Review. “At any point, as a parent, your first responsibility is to protect your child. You send them to school, you think they’re safe at school, and my daughter having to worry about a boy looking at her in the locker room is not safe.”

The Defense of Freedom Institute for Policy Studies submitted the complaint on behalf of the mother, and the filing alleges Title IX violations against FCPS.

The district is one of five in Virginia facing potential loss of federal funding after refusing to roll back policies allowing male students to use girls’ bathrooms and locker rooms. As CatholicVote reported in August, Fairfax Superintendent Michelle Reid said at the time the district’s policies already complied with state and federal law.

Elise Winland, Catholic Vote

From the Gates of Auschwitz: Why Anger Is the Only Honest Response

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Several columns ago, I used the phrase, “Thunder without sound,” when writing about our First Lady, Melania Trump. After my wife, two good friends, and I toured Auschwitz, I hope you’ll allow me to reuse that phrase, albeit slightly changed.

Auschwitz doesn’t whisper, shout, or mumble; it’s a quiet explosion rocking the foundation of my soul. I walked through our tour with an open mind, allowing it to flow rudderlessly to shape an outline for me to express in a way I hope makes sense. However, to properly share my thoughts, I’ll need to break this down into a few parts.

There was a strong sense of irony as we entered the camp, disembarking in the same area that victims did around 85 years ago, except we knew what to expect. The air felt different as we entered through the gates, almost as though it remembered. The weather truly fit the mood: windy, cold, rainy, as if we needed a reminder of what occurred there.

Then the barracks, the long rows of brick, standing like mute witnesses refusing to look away. When we entered them, it hit me, it wasn’t sadness, although that was there, it was rage. Unrestricted, boiling rage.

I was furious when looking at the selection lines, where men sitting in uniforms holding clipboards, deciding on the fly which prisoner would be healthy enough to work, and those who didn’t died a cruel death minutes later.

I felt tremendous rage towards the officers who carried out orders with German precision, with polished boots and a cold resolve. Rage at wives kissing their husbands goodbye, unsure if they would ever see them again, even though the SS soldiers told them they needed to shower off the dust of the long railroad ride. Rage at the local neighbors who saw trains packed with souls, heard cries, smelled the smoke, and decided to stick their heads into the ground. To them, silence was much safer than defiance.

The husband of the couple brought this up afterward, during a quiet lunch, the pejorative word, “Nazi.” Because of our tour today, I will never be able to connect that word uttered by idiots in America to what I witnessed. President Donald Trump and his cabinet aren’t Nazis when they’re working to restore our government, fix a broken education system, or clean up a nest of entrenched bureaucrats in the CDC.

No, the barracks made history books lie when calling this history an atrocity or tragedy, words too soft and sterile to describe what happened accurately. What occurred wasn’t a tragedy; it was a choice, not an accident of war but an enterprise of extermination, the result of an industry of evil, designed and maintained by people who enjoyed dinners with their families after a day of murder.

People casually tossing around that word will never have the bravery to face an evil that took the face of Nazis, because if they did, they would hopefully look themselves in the mirror and resolve never to use that word in anger again.

Yeah, right.

The Machinery of Murder

It took the Nazis a few years to transform chaos into order; trains arrived on time, families divided left or right based on a nod from a camp doctor, a chance for life when chosen for labor, or an immediate death. Bureaucrats dictated who worked until collapse and who walked straight into gas chambers disguised as showers.

It’s nearly impossible to estimate the number of people on the planet who believe the Holocaust was nothing more than a myth. The rage in me ebbed when looking at the evidence that’ still there, especially in its ordinariness: Shoes piled high, still laced, neatly labeled suitcases because the victims were told that they’d retrieve them later — they expected relocation, not annihilation. What nearly put me over the edge was the sight of roughly two tons of preserved human hair. Something I didn’t know was that the Nazis shaved the heads of men and women, primarily women, and kept the hair for industrial uses, typically woven into fabric used for felt and stuffed inside mattresses.

The Nazis felt pride in their efficiency, where industrial-scale murder ran like a factory line. Engineers designed crematoria, and doctors performed selection using the same detachment they would use when diagnosing illness.

The trains continued rolling, while the killing kept up with them. Civilization didn’t collapse; it simply inverted itself: Knowledge, science, law, and order remained intact, yet severed from conscience.

For the first few years Auschwitz opened, the Nazis took ID photos of all incoming prisoners. Looking at the eyes of the people who defied with their eyes struck home for me. The people in those pictures were of the era of my parents and grandparents; it was impossible for me to see my loved ones standing in front of those cameras.

That’s why the barracks left me furious, because the horror wasn’t the product of monsters from another world: It was men and women belonging to a civilization stripped of their souls.

The Neighbors’ Silence

Evil on this scale requires more than the executioners, making the complicity harder to bear than the perpetrator’s uniforms. This evil demands silence from the neighboring world, which saw ash drifting from chimneys, looking the other way, while others convinced themselves they didn’t know: The rest preferred the relative safety of silence to the perils of truth.

The screams from Auschwitz carry across time, yelling that evil doesn’t grow in secret, it grows in plain sight, and “decent” people decide it’s somebody else’s problem.

A Warning Hidden in Anger

I didn’t walk out of the barracks feeling lighter, but shocked and sad, while carrying the weight of fury, including a warning buried inside. Auschwitz dares you to prove that you would have stood up while others looked away.

The temptation to remain silent in evil’s face didn’t die at the end of World War II. Proving that the world still watches atrocities, calling them “complex conflicts,” the bureaucrats continue inventing euphemisms like “complex conflicts” to avoid responsibility, so when neighbors heard cries, they were able to pretend they didn’t hear anything.

Auschwitz doesn’t only belong to history; it’s the mirror held up to us, asking if we continue remaining silent.

Final Thoughts

Even though Auschwitz is a memorial, I don’t think it’s an opportunity for reflection; it demands confrontation. Barracks aren’t relics; they’re accusations reminding us that civilization is a fragile thing, where ordinary people build Hell when conscience is stripped away, and silence is as deadly as complicity.

I wasn’t moved to tears when I walked out; I was moved to fury because anger is the only honest response to standing where mankind decided that sitting was a safer path for them. I felt the camp figured that efficiency mattered more than mercy.

This fury must never fade, or else the barracks stands ready to welcome new victims, except now they’re built with the hands of contemporaries who continue to forget their humanity.

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Suspect in Charlie Kirk Killing Now Has Lawyer

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

The Utah County Commission has approved an agreement naming Kathryn N. Nester as lead defense counsel for Tyler Robinson, the man charged with capital murder in the killing of conservative leader Charlie Kirk, the Deseret News reported.

Nester is a seasoned Utah trial lawyer with decades of experience handling complex criminal and capital cases.

Robinson appeared via video from the Utah County Jail during a 4th District Court hearing in Provo last Tuesday, where he is being held without bail. He remained expressionless as Judge Tony Graf read the charges.

Graf appointed the public defender’s office to handle the case but did not immediately name a specific attorney. Greg Skordas, a veteran Utah defense attorney and co-host of KSL NewsRadio’s “Inside Sources,” appeared on behalf of Utah County at Robinson’s first court hearing.

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Before entering private practice as a founding partner of Nester & Lewis PLLC, Nester served as executive director of the Federal Public Defender Office for the District of Utah, where she managed federal capital and high-stakes criminal defense.

She is known for meticulous case preparation and expertise in death-penalty litigation.

Nester will oversee Robinson’s defense as prosecutors weigh seeking the death penalty, a process requiring intensive pretrial investigation and specialized mitigation work.

Prosecutors say Robinson fired a fatal single shot to the neck of Kirk, co-founder and CEO of Turning Point USA, on Sept. 10 during an event at Utah Valley University in Orem.

Mark Swanson, Newsmax

Mamma Mia! Greta’s Gaza Flotilla Flooded with ABBA Music on Repeat as Radios Hijacked

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Swedish professional protester Greta Thunberg and supporters now traveling in a 51-vessel convoy to Hamas-terrorist controlled Gaza have a problem. Opponents have hijacked their radios and communications systems to play ABBA on repeat and block out any other comms within the anti-Israel fleet.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) alleges the ongoing radio jamming incidents using the mellifluous tones of the legendary Swedish super group to be the work of an Israeli attack.

Mamma Mia! Greta’s Gaza Flotilla Flooded with ABBA Music on Repeat as Radios Hijacked 2 BARCELONA, SPAIN – AUGUST 31: Greta Thunberg waves as she greets people while sailing on tMario Wurzburger/Getty Simon Kent25 Sep 202566 2:30 Swedish professional protester Greta Thunberg and supporters now traveling in a 51-vessel convoy to Hamas-terrorist controlled Gaza have a problem. Opponents have hijacked their radios and communications systems to play ABBA on repeat and block out any other comms within the anti-Israel fleet.

The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) alleges the ongoing radio jamming incidents using the mellifluous tones of the legendary Swedish super group to be the work of an Israeli attack.

“We are witnessing these psychological operations first-hand, right now, but we will not be intimidated,” they added. “Sumud” in Arabic means “steadfastness” or “steadfast perseverance,” NBC News reports.

The protesters were subjected to hours of relentless playing of ‘Lay All Your Love On Me’ by the pop band – in a possible nod to Thunberg’s own nationality, the outlet confirmed.

Multiple ships in the activist’s flotilla are understood to be targeted by the intrusions, GB News reports.

“They’re jamming our radio,” Yasemin Acar, a member of the GSF, despaired in a video while ABBA blasted in the background.

“We don’t know where this is coming from, the sound, but other vessels are experiencing the same thing.”

Simon Kent, Breitbart

Pregnant Liberal Woman Suffers Fatal Tylenol Overdose After Trying to “Prove Trump Wrong” — Now Allegedly on Ventilator Fighting for Her Life: REPORT

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Nicole Sirotek, founder of American Frontline Nurses, shared the tragic story of a pregnant woman who allegedly overdosed on Tylenol in an attempt to “prove Trump wrong” Nicole Sirotek, founder of American Frontline Nurses, claimed that she received a frantic 4 a.m. call from a distraught husband whose pregnant wife is now on a ventilator after overdosing on Tylenol.

According to Sirotek, the woman, who was between 23 and 25 weeks pregnant, attempted to ingest massive amounts of Tylenol in an effort to “prove Donald Trump wrong” after his recent remarks linking acetaminophen use during pregnancy to autism.

As The Gateway Pundit reported, President Trump on Monday announced that the use of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, can increase the risk of autism when used by pregnant women.

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Tylenol is tied to autism, ADHD, and liver toxicity in children.

“Today, the FDA will issue a physician’s notice about the risk of acetaminophen during pregnancy and begin the process to initiate a safety label change,” Secretary Kennedy said. “There is a potential association between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, including later diagnosis for ADHD and autism.”

Following the historic announcement, pregnant leftists took to TikTok to mock Trump and RFK Jr.’s warning about the drug. As one will see, X users collected several videos of these snarky libs popping Tylenol pills while acting like they’re performing some act of defiance.

Talk about the height of arrogance with little regard for the little human being inside of them.

In a post on X, Sirotek wrote:

“Got a frantic call at 4am from a husband who was given my phone number via someone who had it. His pregnant wife is now on a ventilator dying of liver failure trying to “prove” that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism since this is trending in TikTok.

He know has to make to make the tough decision to try and save an unborn baby that may not survive outside the womb at an approx gestation of 23-25wks. At the same time his wife won’t survive through the week and will never get to meet her baby

This behavior is ridiculous. This woman hated Trump so much because of the HARVARD STUDY on Tylenol and Autism she ultimately killed herself by overdosing on Tylenol to try and “prove Trump wrong.”

Her baby may not even survive either Her husband now may lose his entire family because of the craziness of liberal women chasing TikTok clout with TDS.””

In a follow-up video, Sirotek shared chilling details:

Sirotek: “It’s going to be 6:00 AM, finally. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, I recommend that you do. I got a very frantic call at 4:00 in the morning from a husband whose wife is now dying of liver failure on a ventilator in an ICU because she was trying to prove that Tylenol doesn’t cause autism—because of what Trump said. Mind you, that’s a Harvard study.

Now, whether or not you believe the Harvard study is not the issue here. The issue is that she’s somewhere between 23 to 25 weeks, and she overdosed on Tylenol. She’s going to die. She’s not going to come off that ventilator.

The guy got my phone number from somebody. Somebody gave it to him. I mean, guys, it’s early in the morning. I’m still in Hello Kitty sweatpants at the gym trying to work out. She’s going to die.

Let me tell you something about Tylenol overdosing and death: if you aren’t administered the antidote, it is a very slow and painful death. Tylenol—as well as Benadryl and Aspirin—are the three most common OTCs that people will typically try to unalive themselves with, so don’t get censored.

But now people are just taking massive amounts of Tylenol to prove Trump wrong. I mean, weren’t these the same people who put Harvard and Fauci and the pillars of science on a pedestal? And now they refuse to believe it.

I don’t believe it’s going to do it either, but I’m also not going to go overdose on Tylenol. And it’s just so sad because he has to make the choice of them going and trying to emergency deliver this baby—and the baby may not survive.

The baby is going to spend a long time in the NICU. Hopefully, the baby will survive. Remember, guys, premies have complications even if they do survive. I didn’t ask him if he had more children. Let’s say this woman did. They have more children, but now they’ve lost their mother.

The baby’s not going to grow up with the mom. He’s lost his whole life if this baby dies too—all because of TikTok challenges. Everybody wants… well, not everybody, but maybe these crazy liberal women. They literally hate Trump so bad that she killed herself and her baby, potentially.

I’m just like—I don’t even have words for this because it’s such a waste of life.

It’s such a waste of life. This was a preventable situation. This situation didn’t even have to exist. It wasn’t like she woke up and was in a car accident, or something fell off a building and killed her. She willfully did this herself.

I don’t know. What are you guys saying? I’ve got to stay off TikTok because that’s all the nonsense I keep seeing right now. I’m going to try and hopefully finish my workout in my Hello Kitty sweatpants now that I’m done helping. Well, I mean, probably not done helping this guy—he keeps calling.

But I don’t know. Pray for these people, folks. Pray for them. They need help.”

WATCH:

The Gateway Pundit cannot independently verify Sirotek’s claims.

Skeptics online pressed Sirotek to verify the story, asking why mainstream media has ignored it.

“I would love to talk to the news about this situation and what is going on in hospitals. Remember I was the one who told everyone about what was going on in the hospitals in 2020. I was also the one who warned everyone about remdesivir and the Covid shot killing kids before the doctors finally caught on.

I would love to go on @joerogan and let him know considering he’s had every doctor in but won’t get back to me. Or how about @jordan.b.peterson who has also spoke with the doctors but not the nurses? I had a scheduled phone call with him when he was on a book tour in Brussels which he missed.

Or how about @tuckercarlson and his @tuckercarlsonnetwork? I’ve reached out to him and his network as well. Once again, he has spoken to the doctors but not the nurses. ’m down to talk to anyone that will listen, they just don’t want to listen to me because I’m “just a nurse”

Screenshot Sirotek also responded to another comment that medical privacy laws prevent her from releasing identifying details without the husband’s consent.

Screenshot According to the FDA and medical authorities, Tylenol (the brand name for acetaminophen) can cause overdose, which can lead to serious — even life-threatening — harm.

Aside from the fact that it can cause autism and ADHD, the FDA stated on its website:

Taking too much acetaminophen, also known as an acetaminophen overdose, is unsafe and can lead to liver failure and death. FDA has previously communicated to the public about how too much acetaminophen can lead to severe liver damage.

That is why the agency has taken steps to reduce the risk of overdose by limiting the amount of acetaminophen allowed in prescription drugs, requiring label changes for over-the-counter drugs containing acetaminophen, and requiring manufacturers to take certain actions for prescription drugs containing acetaminophen.

Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

American Communism in a Nutshell

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

As scary as a nut job with a gun can be, a disarmed population is a hell of a lot scarier.

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This is not satire. I am utterly speechless. Read on:

Violet Affleck, the 19-year-old undergraduate daughter of Hollywood’s Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck, addressed the United Nations on Tuesday and demanded an immediate return of personal masks to combat coronavirus.

The first-year student at Yale’s Davenport College was appearing as part of an event titled Healthy Indoor Air: A Global Call to Action.

She was introduced as “a youth advocate, [the] voice of gen Z, [a] climate champion and [a] clean indoor air advocate” and wore a K95 mask plus goggles for the entire time she stood at the U.N. podium. [From Breitbart 9-24-25]

Daddy Ben Affleck must be so proud. Oh, that’s right; he’s a totalitarian too.

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Treasury’s Bessent warns NYC: No bailout under Communist Mamdani if he’s elected mayor; Bessent says Mamdani can “drop dead.”

Drop dead, New York City. Finance your own Communist starvation.

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Trump’s Justice Department weighing whether to charge former FBI Director James Comey, sources say.

They’re talking perjury — if we’re lucky. It should be treason. Easily. Death penalty. Anything less for this ruthless scumbag, and we’re not a country.

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“On Wednesday, as Breitbart News is reporting, a gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Dallas, Texas, leaving one migrant detainee dead and two others in critical condition.”

So let me get this straight: In order to help people who entered the US illegally, you shoot at the officers detaining them — and kill the people you claim to be helping. And then congratulate yourself for being virtuous.

That’s leftism and Communism–in a nutshell.

Michael J. Hurd, Daily Dose of Reason

The Case Of Bolsonaro: What They Had In Mind For Trump

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

Donald Trump is now President of the United States for a second term, having survived an unprecedented campaign of lawfare that has included no fewer than four criminal prosecutions, two state and two federal, brought during the four years that he was out of office. All were brought by highly partisan Democratic Party prosecutors.

The four prosecutions of Trump are all now essentially dead. However, much of the process of killing off these prosecutions has occurred either since Trump’s re-election, or only because of the fortuity of Trump getting enough appointments to the Supreme Court during his first four years in office to have an effective majority on that Court.

To get an idea of how things might have gone differently for Trump, we need only look to the country of Brazil. There, a couple of weeks ago, on September 11, the prior President and leader of the opposition party, Jair Bolsonaro, just got sentenced to some 27 years in prison. According to the BBC, the charges against Bolsonaro included “armed criminal conspiracy,” “attempted abolition of the democratic rule of law,” and “attempted coup d’état.” In other words, the charges against Bolsonaro sound very similar to the charges against Trump in the Jack Smith Washington DC prosecution.

And yet the BBC also states that the subsequent and current President, known as Lula, “was sworn in without incident on 1 January 2023.” To be fair, there was unrest following the October 2022 election that was ultimately called for Lula, and on January 8, 2023, after Lula took office, Bolsonaro’s supporters staged a large protest in the capital of Brasilia, that turned violent. Bolsonaro himself was out of the country at the time, actually in Orlando, Florida.

The underlying merits of the case against Bolsonaro are almost impossible for an outsider to evaluate. However, the process employed against Bolsonaro is not difficult to evaluate: it had no semblance of fairness. Somehow the tribunal that rendered the verdict on Bolsonaro consisted of five Supreme Court justices, the majority of them closely allied with Lula. The head of the tribunal, one Alexander de Moraes, has made a name for himself taking on what he calls the “digital far right” in Brazil, and for shutting down “misinformation,” otherwise known as speech by political opponents. Among other things, de Moraes personally shut down Twitter/X in Brazil after Elon Musk took it over. Two other judges on the five-judge tribunal are close allies of Lula: a former Justice Minister in a prior Lula presidency, and a former defense lawyer for Lula in a corruption trial that he faced prior to his current term as President. Those three constituted a majority to convict Bolsonaro. One judge, a guy named Luiz Fux, voted to acquit Bolsonaro on grounds of insufficiency of evidence. Fux wrote a lengthy dissent.

Back here in the U.S., Jack Smith was the special prosecutory named by the Merrick Garland Justice Department to go after Trump while he was out of office. Smith brought two criminal cases against Trump — one in DC for conduct related to the January 6 demonstrations, and the other in Florida for alleged mis-handling of classified information. Smith did everything he could to get his cases to trial before Trump could get re-elected. In the DC case, that goal was frustrated by the Supreme Court ruling in Trump v. United States in July 2024, holding that Trump had immunity as President for any official acts he took while in office.

Trump v. United States was a 6-3 decision, along straight party lines. In other words, if Trump had not had his appointments to the Supreme Court, the case would likely have gone the other way, and he would have found himself a defendant before a DC jury in the Jack Smith prosecution. Irrespective of the merits, he could well have found himself in the position of Bolsonaro.

You may think that Jack Smith has completely disappeared since he got fired upon Trump resuming office. However, Mr. Smith re-emerged giving a lecture last week at George Mason University. Here are a few excerpts from a September 22 piece in the New York Sun reporting on Smith’s talk:

The prosecutor declared that “what I see happening at the Department of Justice today saddens me and angers me … the government, using the vast powers of the criminal justice system to target citizens for exercising their constitutional rights.” The special counsel, who was appointed by Attorney General Merrick Garland, reflected, “My career has also shown me how fragile” the rule of law can be. “As an international prosecutor, I have seen in other countries the rule of law erode. … One of my concerns is that we have had the rule of law function in this country for so long that many of us have come to take it for granted.” . . . Mr. Smith insisted until the end of his tenure that he could have convicted Mr. Trump “but for” his victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election.

According to the Sun, Smith got a standing ovation for his speech, which gives you a good indication how a DC-area jury may have viewed the case.

Francis Menton, Manhattan Contrarian

Gruesom Newscum launched an antisemitic attack on Stephen Miller referring to Miller, who is Jewish, by the Nazi acronym “SS”

Posted on September 25, 2025 by theartfuldilettante

MANY PEOPLE ARE SAYING THAT “SUBMISSIVE STEPHEN” (“SS”) MILLER IS THROWING THE BIGGEST, MOST PATHETIC “TANTRUM” IN THE ENTIRE WEST WING. CRYING, STOMPING, WAILING, “OUR QUOTAS! OUR ARRESTS OF CHILDREN! HOW WILL WE SURVIVE WITHOUT RAIDING THE INNOCENT?!” HIS TANTRUM WAS SO LOUD IT TRIGGERED A SMALL EARTHQUAKE IN SAN FRANCISCO (SCIENTISTS ARE CALLING IT THE “MILLER QUAKE”). HE IS FURIOUS THAT I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM (THE REAL LEADER OF AMERICA), JUST SIGNED BEAUTIFUL NEW LAWS TO HOLD TRUMP’S SECRET POLICE ACCOUNTABLE: NO MASKS, NO RAIDS IN OUR SCHOOLS AND HOSPITALS. KIDS, TEACHERS, NURSES ARE SAFE AGAIN BECAUSE OF ME! “SS” MILLER IS NOW GROUNDED. NO JUICE BOX. NO CARTOONS. WHEN YOU’RE READY TO STOP TERRORIZING AMERICANS, STEPHEN, YOUR DADDY (ME!) MIGHT UNGROUND YOU. UNTIL THEN, IT’S “TIME OUT.” YOU ARE WELCOME, AMERICA! — GCN

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