FOX spreads FICTION that creates FRICTION and leads to FRACTIONS of truth and decency, while keeping uninformed Americans from knowing what's true and what's real. Unfortunate Americans are the hens that FOX watches over.
Though we currently have one shooting/killing from the left (one of very few--trying to think of another), and it is awful, I submit just one of numerous recently (including Jan 6) from the right to compare how each is handled in the news and even by us Dems.
Recall Kyle Rittenhouse? He gained notoriety for shooting and killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020. While these two deaths and one injured person were not quite as clear cut as the NYC obvious murder, he crossed state lines with guns to attend a left rally after a fatal police shooting.
He had his guns drawn at the time. His general intent seemed to, at minimum, aggravate whatever situation in which he found himself. The right supported him throughout the trial and after.
My point being, as with candidates, there is a very different line Dems must walk in this country and our line is far thinner and sharper than the GOP's.
I don't agree with much that's going on but it seems GOPers have wide ranging anger deployment options and Dems have virtually none.
On a brighter note, Jon Stewart interviewed a candidate for National DNC chair, Ben Wikler, during the 2d half of his Dec 9 show and he's fantastic, IMO.
It is commonplace, and rational, to say, "I don't comdone murder but . . . .
It is in that "but" that the truth of our national situation in regard to health insurance lies.
I wish there were reliable statistics on how many Americans have died by reason of the delay or denial of necessary health care by insurance compamies. Therein lies the resevoir of rage that spurred that murder. Can the reasons for that rage be denied? I think not. Will our representatives in Congress do anything meaningful to address the situation? I think not.
The assassination of a health insurance company CEO is an unambiguous evil, Liza. You would be well advised to eschew the use of the word “but.” There are no buts in that connection. As a country, we don’t want to go there.
We have our political differences, and we may throw some sharp elbows. That’s okay, it don’t cross my eyes none when someone calls me a fascist. I know that I’m not. And I know that you’re not some Bolshevik. Let’s see how it goes now that Trump has engineered the most amazing political comeback in American political history. We all need to think about all that happened.
I don’t know if I’m more shocked by someone willing to shoot an executive in anger at his company, or that guns almost seem to have become the default way of acting out our anger. What might he have done had he been unable to get a gun? The executive might be alive and the shooter might still have a future
Not to call out The Times, which I do ALL the time, but they are basically describing themselves "society only fixates on one version". They have normalized Trump, ad nauseam just as FOX, but even after Fox paid Dominion voting systems $787M for lying about the BIG LIE, J6 profiles in patriotism, staff admitting to being vaccinated and lying about their feelings for Trump in exposed texts, it still zooms over their viewer's heads.
The Times, picked apart every aspect of POTUS Biden, but found page 13, in 2022, appropriate when Trump stated he'd rip up the constitution, if re-elected.
Do they need a reminder of what allows them free press protection?
To be outraged over the death of a CEO, killing people, directly or indirectly, is similar to remembering 11/5/24 and the re-election of a madman, and a campaign, media, or journalist, elected official, or really anyone, that never mentioned ONE COVID victim but certainly could call out a migrant crime, for a vote, like natural born crime is non-existent. Rather they should highlight crime being down and the great economy Biden dug the country out of and that NO, Trump, didn't pay the relief money, because his signature appeared, in egotistic form, and for purposes of exactly what happened, to citizens, their own taxes did.
Trump's horrible response, to COVID, which is now a deniable pre-existing condition, which we don't know if any of his "concepts" for replacing, if he even intends replacing, the ACA will cover, or slashing Medicare or Medicaid, is no different. If he does replace any of it he will profit. Thanks K. Welker for another bomb of an interview.
The CEO of UnitedHealth wasn't a felon, a rapist, that I know, but was being investigated for insider trading. Corruption is in every corner of every business/personal area of life. Can't stop it. What they plan will KILL people and force us to make a hard decision about how, and if, we speak up to the ignorant MAGA Senators that will fly his nominees through who are no better than he is for obvious reasons.
We elected a murderer, by omission of COVID facts, that has no mandate, a serial philanderer, a convicted election interference felon, not hush money alone, a man bent on terrorizing our Asian American citizens for COVID, not taking any accountability, never had a replacement for the ACA and budgeted, for 2021, with no MUSK, for 2T in cuts that included SSI, Medicare and Medicaid because well, OHIO, pre-2018, had more people working and receiving welfare than any other state.
Walmart and Vance will again be in lock step if they succeed in P25.
Trump had an economy with declining GDP, after inheriting a recovered economy, with both Chambers being his, the first two, and only two years he wasn't even POTUS due to said conviction of ELECTION INTERFERENCE, that suddenly had a rate cut and no demand.
We forget the forever "supply chain" excuses while the F500 were reporting record profits afterward but they didn't trickle down. Mnuchin and Trump took stock equity in the travel industry bailouts. It just......keeps going but I'm trying to keep it to the health issue and worm brain in our future. There will be more violence because of the Times, FOX, POST, and TRUMP, MUSK, etc.
Now he is on track to kill more, make more money, as POTUS, than he ever did in business, while bankrupting the rest of us morally, physically, and mentally but let them dine on Mickey D's while on a private jet to a multi million dollar golf club and get your vote!
Here I thought it a compliment when I was called liberal Alex Jones for suggesting "tolling" the election until those indictments were in court. Shame on me for an unprecedented, novel idea for a dangerous malignant and pathology ridden old man with Musky money to make us jurists and not voters.
Cheers. People are mad but they aren't certainly educated on where to get relief, and the economy and the government and life ain't like addiction, where the hit is instant, it takes cycles and we were going in the right direction, but no where close because of "things" but do need changes. We have just seen what a protest vote, a bro vote, a Joe Rogan vote gets....and it ain't pretty. We probably won't get midterms but that is for another day!!!
As a retired physician, the power that healthcare insurers have over medical care is overwhelming. Worse, they are immune from having to take responsibility for bad outcomes related to their decisions to deny care. The insurance industry claims that they are only determining if they will pay for healthcare, not whether or not the patient gets the healthcare, as if they are not the same thing. I wasted significant amounts of time fighting for patients to get the healthcare they needed. That doesn't mean that anyone in the health insurance industry should be killed, but the killing did raise our awareness of the problem.
FOX spreads FICTION that creates FRICTION and leads to FRACTIONS of truth and decency, while keeping uninformed Americans from knowing what's true and what's real. Unfortunate Americans are the hens that FOX watches over.
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Another good perspective and cartoon; thank you.
Though we currently have one shooting/killing from the left (one of very few--trying to think of another), and it is awful, I submit just one of numerous recently (including Jan 6) from the right to compare how each is handled in the news and even by us Dems.
Recall Kyle Rittenhouse? He gained notoriety for shooting and killing two people during protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in 2020. While these two deaths and one injured person were not quite as clear cut as the NYC obvious murder, he crossed state lines with guns to attend a left rally after a fatal police shooting.
He had his guns drawn at the time. His general intent seemed to, at minimum, aggravate whatever situation in which he found himself. The right supported him throughout the trial and after.
My point being, as with candidates, there is a very different line Dems must walk in this country and our line is far thinner and sharper than the GOP's.
I don't agree with much that's going on but it seems GOPers have wide ranging anger deployment options and Dems have virtually none.
On a brighter note, Jon Stewart interviewed a candidate for National DNC chair, Ben Wikler, during the 2d half of his Dec 9 show and he's fantastic, IMO.
Many littles make a mickle. Many mickles make a muckle. Old Scottish saying.
It is commonplace, and rational, to say, "I don't comdone murder but . . . .
It is in that "but" that the truth of our national situation in regard to health insurance lies.
I wish there were reliable statistics on how many Americans have died by reason of the delay or denial of necessary health care by insurance compamies. Therein lies the resevoir of rage that spurred that murder. Can the reasons for that rage be denied? I think not. Will our representatives in Congress do anything meaningful to address the situation? I think not.
Sad and true incoming
The assassination of a health insurance company CEO is an unambiguous evil, Liza. You would be well advised to eschew the use of the word “but.” There are no buts in that connection. As a country, we don’t want to go there.
We have our political differences, and we may throw some sharp elbows. That’s okay, it don’t cross my eyes none when someone calls me a fascist. I know that I’m not. And I know that you’re not some Bolshevik. Let’s see how it goes now that Trump has engineered the most amazing political comeback in American political history. We all need to think about all that happened.
is it just me? or is the country (wourld) getting crazier? one can only hope...
I don’t know if I’m more shocked by someone willing to shoot an executive in anger at his company, or that guns almost seem to have become the default way of acting out our anger. What might he have done had he been unable to get a gun? The executive might be alive and the shooter might still have a future
Not to call out The Times, which I do ALL the time, but they are basically describing themselves "society only fixates on one version". They have normalized Trump, ad nauseam just as FOX, but even after Fox paid Dominion voting systems $787M for lying about the BIG LIE, J6 profiles in patriotism, staff admitting to being vaccinated and lying about their feelings for Trump in exposed texts, it still zooms over their viewer's heads.
The Times, picked apart every aspect of POTUS Biden, but found page 13, in 2022, appropriate when Trump stated he'd rip up the constitution, if re-elected.
Do they need a reminder of what allows them free press protection?
To be outraged over the death of a CEO, killing people, directly or indirectly, is similar to remembering 11/5/24 and the re-election of a madman, and a campaign, media, or journalist, elected official, or really anyone, that never mentioned ONE COVID victim but certainly could call out a migrant crime, for a vote, like natural born crime is non-existent. Rather they should highlight crime being down and the great economy Biden dug the country out of and that NO, Trump, didn't pay the relief money, because his signature appeared, in egotistic form, and for purposes of exactly what happened, to citizens, their own taxes did.
Trump's horrible response, to COVID, which is now a deniable pre-existing condition, which we don't know if any of his "concepts" for replacing, if he even intends replacing, the ACA will cover, or slashing Medicare or Medicaid, is no different. If he does replace any of it he will profit. Thanks K. Welker for another bomb of an interview.
The CEO of UnitedHealth wasn't a felon, a rapist, that I know, but was being investigated for insider trading. Corruption is in every corner of every business/personal area of life. Can't stop it. What they plan will KILL people and force us to make a hard decision about how, and if, we speak up to the ignorant MAGA Senators that will fly his nominees through who are no better than he is for obvious reasons.
We elected a murderer, by omission of COVID facts, that has no mandate, a serial philanderer, a convicted election interference felon, not hush money alone, a man bent on terrorizing our Asian American citizens for COVID, not taking any accountability, never had a replacement for the ACA and budgeted, for 2021, with no MUSK, for 2T in cuts that included SSI, Medicare and Medicaid because well, OHIO, pre-2018, had more people working and receiving welfare than any other state.
Walmart and Vance will again be in lock step if they succeed in P25.
Trump had an economy with declining GDP, after inheriting a recovered economy, with both Chambers being his, the first two, and only two years he wasn't even POTUS due to said conviction of ELECTION INTERFERENCE, that suddenly had a rate cut and no demand.
We forget the forever "supply chain" excuses while the F500 were reporting record profits afterward but they didn't trickle down. Mnuchin and Trump took stock equity in the travel industry bailouts. It just......keeps going but I'm trying to keep it to the health issue and worm brain in our future. There will be more violence because of the Times, FOX, POST, and TRUMP, MUSK, etc.
Now he is on track to kill more, make more money, as POTUS, than he ever did in business, while bankrupting the rest of us morally, physically, and mentally but let them dine on Mickey D's while on a private jet to a multi million dollar golf club and get your vote!
Here I thought it a compliment when I was called liberal Alex Jones for suggesting "tolling" the election until those indictments were in court. Shame on me for an unprecedented, novel idea for a dangerous malignant and pathology ridden old man with Musky money to make us jurists and not voters.
Cheers. People are mad but they aren't certainly educated on where to get relief, and the economy and the government and life ain't like addiction, where the hit is instant, it takes cycles and we were going in the right direction, but no where close because of "things" but do need changes. We have just seen what a protest vote, a bro vote, a Joe Rogan vote gets....and it ain't pretty. We probably won't get midterms but that is for another day!!!
Live draw the inauguration? I’m flying to Paris for the week and working on my French to be able to respond to the questions from my French friends.
As a retired physician, the power that healthcare insurers have over medical care is overwhelming. Worse, they are immune from having to take responsibility for bad outcomes related to their decisions to deny care. The insurance industry claims that they are only determining if they will pay for healthcare, not whether or not the patient gets the healthcare, as if they are not the same thing. I wasted significant amounts of time fighting for patients to get the healthcare they needed. That doesn't mean that anyone in the health insurance industry should be killed, but the killing did raise our awareness of the problem.
I am a former Trust and Estate law atty.
Funny thing about irrevocable trusts is thet . . . sometimes they are in fact irrevicable and unamendable.