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There’s No Such Thing as a Preventative MRI — but There’s Definitely Such a Thing as Political Bullshit

Since 2005, I’ve had at least one MRI every single year of my adult life. I know MRIs the way other people know Spotify playlists or the McDonald’s menu.

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Kristoffer Ealy
Dec 04, 2025
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I’ve heard a lot of nonsense in politics over the years, but every once in a while a phrase pops out of someone’s mouth that is so cosmically stupid, so profoundly unserious, and so deeply disrespectful to actual lived experience that it reaches a new stratosphere of bullshit.

Donald Trump’s recent claim that he got a “preven…

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Political science prof & political psych nerd. Writes about groupthink, power, & American nonsense. Sometimes funny on purpose. 📬 professorealy.substack.com 🐦 kmezdoesit.bsky.social
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