Category: Politics, Religion & Money

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Losing weight and maintaining some level of physical fitness is ideally done by eating less and moving more. Simple and free, but not easy.

The other methods are varying degrees of complicated and expensive, from a gym membership, to gastric bypass surgery and, most recently, GLP-1 drugs. Medicare is about to provide funding for some GLP-1 treatments.

Here is Massachusetts, Masshealth is dropping coverage of GLP-1 medications. (Masshealth is Medicaid, which isn’t the Health Connector, aka Romneycare, the predecessor to Obamacare.)

https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2026/06/27/masshealth-will-stop-covering-weight-loss-drugs-next-week/

The Internet has been chatty about the possibility that Trump is the beneficiary of an FDA decision to allow “compassionate use” of the weight loss drug retatrutide.

https://people.com/why-the-internet-thinks-trump-is-on-experimental-weight-loss-drug-12005518

Trump, who is finally the billionaire he always, and falsely, claimed to be, is obviously obese. Whatever else is wrong with him, all of his medical care will be free for him and taxpayer funded.

What’s Wrong With US?

On Substack, Oliver Kornetzke says, “What a sick fucking society we are.”

https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/p/a-sick-society

Paul Krugman says something that’s similar, but he says it differently. “Something is fundamentally wrong with America.”

“Trump is who he is, and a nation that elected him twice simply can’t be trusted.”

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/pathetic-in-ankara

Oliver Blocked Me!

Not John Oliver, Oliver Kornetzke. I’ve been blocked from his Substack page:

https://substack.com/@oliverkornetzke

I had previously posted a comment on his page that is now deleted. The text of my comment is here:

Waiting for Oliver or Someone Like Him

Nobody liked or disliked that comment, or commented on it. Then Oliver posted an alleged autobiographical essay that provided no actual background information, amounting to a pile of rhyming AI gibberish.

https://oliverkornetzke.substack.com/p/my-autobiography

This time, my comment was terse and intended to elicit some sort of a response. I said, “Obviously not written by an actual person.” Well, that woke somebody — or something — up, resulting not in a pointed rebuttal, but in my being banned.

As far as I can tell, the person, or persons, who are Oliver Kornetzke aren’t trying to cash in, other than perhaps accepting paid subscriptions on Substack. That much is good, but there’s a lot of left-wing flavored candy being tossed to the most sweet-toothed of gullible Trump haters. What distinguishes me from them is that I’m not so gullible.

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