This is common and a literal conservative tactic called "starving the beast". You strangle off funding to a thing you wanna cut, wait a couple months for the service to go to shit because they have to realign to compensate for having no money, and then go "wow look this sucks, better just kill it".
Reagan did it in the 80s.
The worse part is that this is totally dependent on who your insurance is, and you don't know prices on anything until the bill shows up 3 months later. You or your doctor also might have to fight your insurance to prove a procedure is necessary, or that a medication needs to be covered. Most times you can expect your procedure to not be covered, so you have to tell the insurance company that yes, this is covered, here's why it was necessary (usually this first round of rejection is done via having an algorithm or ML setup "review" the case).
From what I understand, some forms of dementia can affect the limbic system, causing a forward lean. Combine that with his lifts...
See, here's the thing, we would've heard about it. Trump and all his ilk can't keep their fucking mouths shut and would've been lording this shit over us. Someone would've said SOMETHING, because none of these people can keep a secret.
When he wasn't trying to engage in his favorite pastime of killing and vilifying Superman, Lex Luthor was a pretty good President all things considered.
As someone who used to work in wastewater treatment? Those clothes go in the trash, maybe even in a burn barrel. Boots might too. It doesn't come out. It'll haunt you to the end of your days, which is why you shop for work clothes at the thrift store.
Fell in a waste lagoon once, the outfit was a loss and the work truck never smelled good again.
Yes, because the bigger plan is to make sure they don't need to vote again. By "they", I don't just mean the public - the GOP Congress knows their days are numbered, because the overarching Federalist and Heritage Foundation plans are to rule by decree and turn the president into a monarch in all but name.
I don't even think it's trying to win electoral support, I think this is him shoring up so that when Trump falls out of his chair finally (either dead or 25th'd), Vance looks like the "reasonable" face of the religious feudal aristocracy that his backers want him to build.
Enough to fill the black void in his soul.
Many states also don't (usually) require old plates to be turned in when designs change. My state's gone through two design changes since I started driving in 2010 and I still have my original plates. I've seen people driving with plates from the 80s.
Not just that, red states have also, side-by-side with the feds, dismantled their own oversight and public safety. This used to be the sort of thing your local Health Department could and would catch and deal with alongside federal HHS, but 40 years of ripping THAT copper out of the walls too means the whole thing folds in on itself when something happens.
Different method of action, but yes. Turns out coating your entire GI tract in an impermeable film for a day or so is a bad idea.
Maintenance Phase did an episode on it a while ago, well worth a listen.