Have you heard of Eliquis? It's a blood thinner, currently the most effective on the market. Bristol-Myers Squibb with Pfizer have been defending the patent like vipers, extending it and suing the more than 20 generic alternatives that are trying to get to market. Without government intervention, this drug would likely be $30 a month or less. Because of that intervention, it's difficult to get for less than $300, and out of pocket is $600. Back in 2021, I stopped taking Eliquis. I was leaving SSI, leaving Medicaid. Couldn't afford it while also trying to escape the life of government supported parasitism I'd been living. I'm one of a small number of people under 40 with sever blood clotting issues, with only Eliquis able to effectively treat it. So despite attempting through diet and supplements the whole time, eventually the lack of proper treatment caught up with me. I nearly died this last week, the clot that ended up forming strangling my gut. I got out of the hospital today, still recovering. The government has, through sheer dumb luck, successfully forced my hand. Their intervention means I cannot continue to live without depending on them; without returning to parasitism. I'm going to have to beg and plead from people who I hate and who hate me to stay alive through their stolen goods. Plus, I'll be lucky if I figure out how to escape the debt spiral I'm now on. I'm already 99% certain bankruptcy is inevitable, bye bye my BTC. It's a personal rant, but it's where I'm at. I don't even know who's death would solve it, otherwise I'd go hunting. I'd happily sacrifice myself if it brought this to an end for everyone else, but I don't see how that trade happens. Ugh

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Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) on X

🚨 #BREAKING: Police in riot gear are fighting with THOUSANDS of protestors that are approaching the U.S. Capitol

A schizophrenic woman in California Filed an Emergency Red Flag protection order Against a relative in Texas. Because the Texas man Was unable to get to California To face the judge in the case In only a matter of days He can no longer purchase firearms Because the federal database Has him flagged. Source:

A best case path by which US gov could overcome their debt: 1. Buy as much bitcoin as they can get their hands on. 2. Mark the dollar value of all of the bitcoin they hold at equal to 110% their total outstanding debt + interest. 3. Officially default, and use their bitcoin holdings instead of dollars to pay off all treasury bonds. We get the same massive upheaval in the economy we're gonna get anyway, but we also get a rapid widespread distribution of bitcoin comparable to the current dollar distribution. There's also an incredibly simple direct translation of value between dollars and bitcoin to the layperson. The value calculation would be off by some order of magnitude, but it would be as smooth a transition to hyperbitcoinization as possible.

Excellent coverage of the assassination attempt.

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Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) (@TheMilkBarTV) on X

🚨 Watch the real time assassination attempt on Trump from different angles. With countdown from footage of people warning authorities about the ...

I had Trump Derangement Syndrome, back from late 2015 through early 2021. I knew that some of what I was seeing coming from liberals and the government was insane, but I believed he was in many ways worse. I listened when the media showed him as a fascist tyrant. I even voted for the dementia patient (red state overrode me, thank God) because I chose to risk that over Trump. Middle of 2021, seeing lie after lie bombard through the covid machine, I did a thorough accounting of where I was getting my information. I determined to verify for myself what news organizations and individuals were liars, and I decided that any who proved to be liars through their own actions, were to be dismissed as valid sources of any information whatsoever. Not lies or truth, but useless noise. Once the liars had been removed, all of the evidence I had once accepted of Trump's fascist character was gone. Not a single shred remained. He was still an asshole, but all remaining evidence was that he cared about America and was truly fighting for it. That's only been reinforced since. It is not an ongoing failure to have been wrong. It is to stay wrong when the choice presents itself. There are a number of rather smart people with TDS who, if they were to do the kind of self-assessment I put myself through, would likely recover from it. I hope this in some small way helps someone wake up.

It would be awesome if the central planners and deep state could be stopped with bitcoin only. It would be lovely if this were a true bloodless revolution. It can't, and it isnt. The leviathan will not go peacefully. The amount of violence that will have to be used to save ourselves from them is not zero. I only hope that whatever moves are ultimately taken, that they are surgical and precise.

The assassination attempt last night means many things, but an unexpected one is a test on #nostr as a place of true discussion. Will the lack of a hate driving algorithm plus a generally truth-motivated user base mean that we actually listen across the divide? Even as it turns into a hot war? I pray it does. I for one am not blocking anyone. Even if I find most of their views on this deranged or reprehensible. I hope you all do the same.