My sole and only point was exactly what I said, which was that both Biden and Obama weren’t golf players. Comparing a specific activity was disingenuous and you did specifically that.

I literally just grabbed the first fucking link I saw because the point was that Biden was out way more than 9 days/times. Your source proved that. My point is done. The rest is in your own fucking head. I don’t care what source it is. You’re going out of your way being obtuse about how you specifically compare shit.

You call me bad faith, your original post was outright a lie.

Edit: Oh and you complain that I didn’t read the NYP… except it calls out George Bush for taking a bunch of time at his estate.

George W. Bush spent 1,020 – or 35% — of his 2,922 days in office away from DC in his two terms, including plenty of time at his Texas ranch, according to tallies by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

But see, I did read it and you clearly didn’t. The numbers specifically don’t matter. It’s the fact that comparing Trumps primary leisure activity and comparing it to other presidents who don’t do that activity is just… dumb. Should be comparing actual apples to apple. Would be comparing all time used, or all time used on primary recreation activity. Golf vs golf is stupid, because the others didn’t golf. But see I already explained that and you’re just too dense to actually understand the point.

So then you admit that

Biden golfed a total of nine times.

Is a bullshit comparison then?

Edit: Interesting that you trust snopes.

https://www.allsides.com/news-source/snopes

NY post is effective the same , but other direction. So if my source is unusable then so is yours.
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/new-york-post

But still… your source says way more than 9 days out of office… and certainly not all that far away from trumps numbers at best.

Biden golfed a total of nine times.

Biden & Obama weren’t a golfer though… so looking at just golf is dumb for them.

https://nypost.com/2025/02/15/us-news/biden-took-off-577-days-in-4-years-tops-modern-era-presidents/

Biden’s out-of-office ratio far surpasses time off taken by Trump — who spent 26% of his first term away from Washington, D.C. — 381 of his 1,461 days in office, records show.

Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama vacationed for just 11% of their two-term presidencies — and workhorse Jimmy Carter took only 79 days of breaks, accounting for 5% of his single term in office.

Obama was low, Biden was stupid high. Trump is in the middle here.

Yes… Anthem is a subsidiary of BCBS that operates geographically and doesn’t compete with other BCBS subsidiary…

So literally yes. If they were blocked in their few geo locations… Literally yes.

Edit: They service 8 states. When your biggest state says “fuck no” to your new policy… you reevaluate or roll-back (or go to lawsuit).

Y’all

Speak for yourself please.

Apart from all the claims that were suddenly approved

Source this please… To date, I still see United Healthcare at dead bottom. And rate fluctuating only nominally over the past 12 months.

execs of other companies suddenly removing all personal info from websites?

If you’re counting this as a meaningful change to healthcare… Then I guess you found one that I can’t contest. Congrats!

Fear. Nothing meaningful will change until the rich fear for their lives, and we saw just how much they’re scrambling after 1 CEO.

No, this is my point. Even with “fear” nothing changed.

Like the one that would put a time limit in the anesthesia they’d pay for.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mollybohannon/2024/12/06/anthem-blue-cross-blue-shield-reverses-planned-anesthesia-time-limits-after-intense-pushback/

Elected officials in Connecticut and New York both said they stepped in Thursday to intervene with Anthem’s new plan before the company announced the reversal. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul said on X, formerly known as Twitter, the change was “outrageous” and she would “make sure New Yorkers are protected.” Connecticut’s comptroller Sean Scanlon said his office had already reached out to Anthem and the policy would “no longer be going into effect here in Connecticut.” Scanlon shared that update hours before Anthem announced the reversal.

But nothing changed… Can you show a change in healthcare since? have acceptance rates gone up? premiums gone down?

Nothing changed.

Edit: Bunch of downvotes… but nobody can tell me anything that’s changed… interesting isn’t it?

Instead of teaching the subject in class and then assign practice for home, we should be learn the subject at home and so the practice in class.

Then you get students who get mad because they’re “teaching themselves”. Not realizing at all that the teacher curated what they’re reading/doing and is an SME that’s available to them when they’re completely lost.

With the news cycles being 24/7 these days, there’s no reason they can’t talk about both. Blame them for being shit.

Yes, but as a custom notification channel on the IT OPs channel. That’s where we send system alerts. Outage notifications, script notices, etc…

I want to say CLM… If a community really doesn’t want downvotes, why not setup the community on an instance that doesn’t do downvoting?

If downvoting is “manipulation” just because you don’t like it… why allow downvotes at all? Lemmy supports disabling downvotes. It’s a checkbox for the admin. It’s easy.

You know what that equates to?

At COB on a random friday…

The commander walks out to the front of the formation. The unit comes to attention. First SGT hands over control to the commander and walks to the rear of the formation

Commander: <cover formalities of shit that they decide is important enough to cover for the week, Motorpool shit, upcoming range days/training/missions, whatever>… Now that we got that out of the way, President Trump is coming to Ft Bragg for an event. Battalion says we have 15 slots to the event. Those who are interested in going, come see me in my office after formation or talk to your platoon Sergeant. For everyone else… Go home, don’t beat your kids, wife, car, or each other. For the new guy that showed up… Get a battle buddy. I’m heading out to the officers lounge. If you see me at the bar this weekend… leave me the fuck alone. Dismissed.

Commander walks away

Only people who want to go will sign up for it. And most of those people will go because it’s during duty hours and they don’t want to get picked for some random other duty (like CQ, or cutting lawns). And if they go and end up making their commander look like shit, they’ll be reprimanded.

Nothing about this was “vetting”. I’ve seen this type of shit dozens of times, even while deployed in Afghanistan (Who wants to go see this random senator who’s coming out here on a guided tour to make themselves feel better!).

Now here’s the kicker… The article COULD be correct. I COULD be wrong. But since they fucked up and lied about one thing that I know for a fact happens for a completely different reason, I MUST discount the other things they say because I know that it’s more likely to have happened the way I’ve seen it happen before.

And lastly, I REALLY believe my concept is what happened… Simply because in the military.com article…

“If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don’t want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out,”

Meaning that if someone got voluntold to show up (a unit didn’t get enough volunteers but the commander sent the full amount regardless), get those soldiers swapped out with standbys from units that had more people who wanted to go than the allotted slots for the unit (usually from battalion [HHC/HHB (Arty!)] itself).

It’s funny because writing this paints me as someone who backs Trump. I do not agree at all that the speech should have happened on a post at all based on what I’ve heard about it (I haven’t watched it yet). Post commander should have shut that shit down, or minimized the event as much as possible. But the claims at the face, from what I’ve seen are just absurd. They fly in the face of my lived experience for 7 years, the dozens of events that I marched in. The information that I have first hand knowledge of that happened the majority under Obama… literally the same shit was happening then. Claiming that now it’s a problem because it’s Orange man… leads me to outright throw away these stories as garbage. You’re losing a population of voters who know that this shit is a norm in that specific circle, as stupid as it may be or as much as you don’t understand it happening.

https://www.army.mil/1775/

Educate yourself. This would have been a thing regardless.

This is your strongman, and even if tradition to select the crowd, it outlines the absurdity of Americans behaviour and hypocrisy.

… I’ve marched with other services as well. It’s not just “Americans” that do this. Now granted, 95% of my experience would be the American side of this.

You can have your opinion on how it’s stupid. I won’t disagree there. I never understood or cared myself. But to say that this is something special JUST for Trump is a delusion in of itself. This is a common occurrence, Trump be damned.

‘No Fat Soldiers’

Once again… Another post/article from somebody who’s never been in service. EVERY parade, march, etc… ANY official function where basically any colonel or above were going to be present. We were ALWAYS screened and sorted for visual aesthetics. If we needed more bodies than was “perfectly” available, the ones who aren’t “best” looking would be buried in the middle to be less visible. The really tall dudes (the 6’4 dude sticks out in a small sea of 5’11), and short people were almost always out first. Those who didn’t meet height and weight requirements (BMI/whatever you want to call it) were almost always certainly out. Commanders (captains) would do this without any orders to do it. It’s to make the unit look cohesive and uniform.

This is literally normal for any high visibility event.

I feel like I keep finding these posts about military stuff an virtually nobody knows what they’re talking about on here… It’s disappointing.

You should stop lemmying while in the shower. Bad for your electronic device.

That’s not up to the Joe.

And no they haven’t. They’re under northcom. Northcoms primary duty/role is to respond to these events. My unit was trained for a rotation under for this exact duty back in 2010.

Nothing illegal about sitting around and doing nothing… or riot defense against a building though… Which is the only things I’ve seen thus far.

Nah, just about any rifle round can. It’s a matter of hitting it somewhere important though. Most people can’t hit anything at any meaningful distance. So now you’re going to shoot into the air, miss the helicopter and take out someone a couple miles away as collateral.