@washingtonpost @DeptVetAffairs @DAVHQ This is my reply based on observation, knowledge, facts and lived experience. 1/2 A series of reports published by The Washington Post beginning in October 2025 sparked significant controversy surrounding the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) disability compensation system. The investigation alleged that the rapid rise in disability ratings is driven, in part, by “manipulative tactics” from for-profit consultants and coaches who encourage veterans to exaggerate their ailments. That’s bullshit. Fuck you. Yes, there is some fraud and abuse in the VA disability system. No system is immune to that. But the reality is that the VA disability system is incredibly difficult to navigate. I’ve known people who were severely disabled by service-related injuries or illnesses who are sitting at 10% or 40% because of paperwork mistakes, language conflicts, or because they filed the wrong form after being told by the VA itself that it was the correct one. I know people who have used the wrong word during an evaluation or happened to go in on a relatively decent day and had their rating reduced. Two days later, they were right back to being the same person whose condition justified the original rating—but now they’re just as fucked up with a lower rating than they deserve. Situations like that are far more common than veterans scamming the system. The truth is, this system is incredibly hard to navigate. Securing an appropriate rating is already an uphill battle, and gaming the system is even harder. From my experience, the biggest reason ratings have increased in recent years is simple: a massive number of veterans are getting older. The conditions that were rated at 30% or 40% ten or fifteen years ago have worsened and, in many cases, have become completely debilitating. Compensation is their lifeline. It's the only thing keeping them from being JUST ANOTHER HOMELESS VETERAN I know a lot of disabled veterans, and not a single one of them is faking anything. In fact, most have lower ratings than they should. Many don’t even realize they can request increases as their conditions worsen. Others are afraid to try because they fear someone will screw it up and they’ll end up with a decrease instead. BTW, we're not just talking money we're talking veterans who are desperately in need of appropriate healthcare. Wait times have doubled and tripled over the last year or so. Mental health, physical health, everything health. And there’s another issue people rarely talk about: there are too many doctors and medical professionals doing these assessments who are either incompetent, indifferent, or both. They can screw a veteran over for weeks, months, years, or even a lifetime. Obtaining appropriate VA disability compensation is a complicated, often exhausting process. It is not easy. Not by any stretch. When these articles refered to people assisting veterans as “coaches” or use similarly loaded language, what they’re often really describing are people telling veterans what it takes to avoid screwing themselves over—or getting screwed over by incompetent medical personnel or the occasional clueless VA employee or rater. And for the record, the vast majority of people working within the VA system—service personnel, claims processors, and medical staff—are doing everything they can under an overwhelming workload, despite what this administration has piled onto them. Veterans need more support, not hiring freezes, and not people being fired or laid off because of the color of their skin or the sound of their name. Because of this administration, the VA is down tens of thousands of vital personnel. (To include more than 500 doctors and 1,000 nurses). To make the numbers look better, they hid unfilled positions behind a hiring freeze, effectively making desperately needed roles disappear from the active count. On top of that, they eliminated (next)

This Reverend supports literal pedophilia. The church says to turn away from false prophets. He is a liar, who can't prove anything he says.

Lincoln is buried in a steel cage under 3 tons of concrete because people kept trying to dig him up and desecrate him, that's how furious they were over his tyranny and murder and unleashing the black on the American people. Yeah, FUCK Abe Lincoln.

The crowd at the White House UFC fight will be one of the most diverse ever. There will be convicted felons, rapists, pedophiles, sex traffickers, domestic abusers and insurrectionists.

Lol, ok, opinion man

This scar completely ruined my face… I’m so ugly that no one will ever want me. That’s why I’m single and always will be 😭

Hi, Donald. Midcoast Mainer here.   You did not, in fact, “have to go to Japan” to get a Maine lobster before you. We sold millions. Our lobster fishery is one of the most valuable in the U.S.   It’s a big reason why people come here, in case you didn’t know!   If anything is hurting our lobstermen, it’s inflation (which you apparently “love”).   Also, exactly *zero* Maine fishermen run their boats at three knots. More like 30 knots—and some go even faster. You should check out a lobster boat race sometime!   I think it might be time for one of your famous Oval Office naps, because you have ZERO idea what you’re talking about.

*Obama got elected and people like you showed how much your racism and hate is still here, after 200 years. Obama didn't divide us, you did.

The post shares a video clip and transcript of President Trump stating that "transgender mutilization" happens in six states, where a child leaves home and unnamed parties "take you child from you" to "do what they want to do," while adding that he does not want to describe the actions. The transcript in the post uses the non-word "mutilization" (the standard term is "mutilation") and contains no names of the six states, no specific examples of children or incidents, and no details on the claimed procedures. The phrasing "I don't even want to talk about it" withholds any description of the alleged actions. The overall statement presents a general assertion without evidence or specifics attached to it in the post. State laws on medical interventions for gender dysphoria in minors vary, with some states restricting such care for those under 18 and a smaller number allowing limited consent options for older adolescents under defined conditions; parental consent is the general rule for medical procedures on minors, and documented cases of state custody removal tied specifically to enabling these procedures do not match a pattern across six named states.

The post misleads by using a 2020 photo of empty 2018 election envelopes that Sonoma County officials confirmed were legally recycled after the required retention period. It claims these show thousands of ballots dumped now, without noting the prior debunking or that they were not voted or current ballots, and frames it with sarcastic language implying hidden fraud by one side absent any evidence of new events.