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Farmer-Rick

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2. It always amazes me to drive by a crumbling trailer
Sun Feb 22, 2026, 09:09 AM
Yesterday

With a rusty pickup in the front yard that has pedo Trump paraphernalia on display.

As if the pedo protectors would ever try to help them out, ever. As if a lazy psychopath born into wealth and a criminal organization would look out for the interests of the elderly couple living inside the tiny trailer.

And these poor people regularly vote for the pedo without a second thought. The majority of people who live around me, well within 10 miles of my house, are past the age of 65. These are the people who use Medicare/Medicaid the most and need much more medical care than someone in their 40s.

And the person they voted for has ensured there is insufficient resources for them to get adequate health care. It's like when Raygun kicked everyone out of mental institutions and nursing homes. The people were forced onto the streets or jails if family couldn't house them. Our medical facilities for the mentally ill never recovered. They are still the worst in the world with outcomes much worse than other developed countries.

It will be decades before these closed hospitals will come back...if ever. Living in rural areas has now taken on another deadly hazard. Now, instead of just an insufficient power grid, local monopolized communications access and outrages pricing on all utilities, add to it failing medical access.

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