I bet he’ll get a lot of marriage proposals in prison (real ones, I’m not talking about his cellmate, stop it).
That said, lack of decent health care is absolutely a bipartisan issue. The loudest voices against Medicare for all are the insurance lobby, the über wealthy and GOP congressional asshats who get it for free.
We're the only country in the civilized world that doesn't have universal health care. It's swimming with the sharks if you get sick or injured, even if you HAVE insurance! 🙄😡
And it doesnt make sense--people need healthcare like they need funerals--it's not like they couldn't make decent money running a fair and just healthcare system. The current paradigm is based on corporate greed alone.
Everytime we have to change jobs and re-enlist with an insurance provider its the same rigamrole to get my RA meds...preauthorization for weeks as I pray I don't run out of meds in the interim... nightmare fuel.
I was once part of an HMO and I hated them as medicine changed from a profession to a business. So, I switched to VA healthcare—like socialized health care—and have much better health care. However, the VA will probably be dismantled and all the Vets will learn that they are now dinosaurs that created their own meteor of destruction since so many are MAGAs.
I hope that doesn’t come to pass. We all deserve decent healthcare, but those that serve even more so.
I always went PPO when I worked because few of our doctors were on the HMO plan and one of my kids was on a medication that I couldn’t get without paying one of my arms and a leg.
I understand and empathize with the haters of medical insurance. I despise all insurance companies as Wall Street sycophants that are wired to make CEOs and other executives super wealthy like bloated ticks sucking blood from the masses.
However, there is another side. Why should insurance companies spend millions to keep an octogenarian alive, and in pain, for another year or so? The medical and hospital industries are also part of the problem for seeing the elderly as corpus from which they can slowly perform money-ectomies, like months of radiation and chemical therapy to extend a cancer patient’s life 12-18 months, months spent in agony. As a society or species we have not learned to open deaths door, look her in the eye, kiss her on the mouth and with Grace walk by.
Spot on. I live in a state that has a death with dignity statue and I am to take advantage of it if/when it becomes necessary. This should be available in all 50 states, but right now only 10 do.
Organized religion = “God’s will”. You don’t win prizes for suffering unless you think your reward is heaven, which doesn’t exist to my way of thinking. Even if it did, why would I want to end up someplace if suffering is what it takes to get there? Hard pass
I guess god had willed me to be ignorant. I knew he willed the crusades and the actions of the Templars but not keeping up with the Christian right since I knew Gott Ist Tot, I didn’t know that they had picked up on the Deus Vult phrase.
Also I didn’t know about Pete’s tattoo because, until recently, I never heard of Pete.
Why O why does god keep me in the dark? I have a pomegranate tree—the real tree of knowledge—in my backyard and I still do not understand why god allowed Adam to divorce Lilith just so he could create an ideal wife from his rib who liked pomegranates.
AMEN!! Between religion and family members being performative at the death bed ("no, you cannot remove mother from these hideous machines and let her die peacefully").
I agree wholeheartedly. I refuse to be maintained like a vegetable in a nursing home for ANY reason. Ever. Medical Aid in Dying is a great program for those seeking assistance with end-of-life.
Alicia--You nailed this, as always. Hard to feel bad for a UHC executive who was on his way to announce a $650 million PROFIT for denying health care to patients. When they have to pay your health care costs, the term is MEDICAL LOSS RATIO. It's a "loss" to the company that they may be required to save a life.
--Hard to feel bad for a UHC executive who was on his way to announce a $650 million PROFIT for denying health care to patients. --
THIS! Those clinking champagne glasses were made at the expense of the blood spilled to make that fucking money. I am so done with these social sponges.
Good stuff Alicia. Of course killing somebody because your back hurts isn’t the answer-but class wars are about to erupt and I for one will not be lectured to about not sending flowers to Thompsons family. These insurance companies are insidious and their actions are killing people through their murderous algorithm. They can all go to hell… with Brian.
Nailed it, Alicia. Luigi's gun came from? Certainly not a legitimate source. Deny Delay Depose was etched on bullets. No other major nation has a health care system as fucked up as America. Thank your drunk GOP uncle.
Every word of this! I'm sick of hearing how "spoiled rich" he was because of his school. They're calling him a "scion!" People think anyone who has $10 more than them, is rich. The private schools near me run $60k a year. I was surprised to learn how many kids get a free ride, or financial aid via the endowments.
He'd probably need to A: claim temporary insanity and B: hire Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers, because no one else can get him off.
LOL, thank you. Yeah, they are going to use classism and once again divide people when we should all be fighting on the same side. He is indeed adorbs—he reminds me of the kind of guy I would have crushed on as a girl, not just because he was cute but also smart and passionate. It's such a waste. Yep, he is gonna need good lawyers; maybe his family will at least help him with that.
If he graduated from Penn State he's in debt now and can't easily work with that back. Graduation doesn't make you rich, it makes you enslaved. That was the precise purpose of Ronald Reagan starting State University Tuition after the 1960s Student Protests. That's when information on History is available and you see past the patriotic propaganda you get in High School. That's when you have a educated unemployed unattached healthy young idealistic person who can take action to right wrongs. And that's why Republicans are anti History, anti Civics and very anti University, especially those that take in regular people. And that's why Elite Universities charge sky high to limit regular people and train future rulers. This kid is the perfect example of what they fear.
That's when information on History is available and you see past the patriotic propaganda you get in High School. That's when you have a educated unemployed unattached healthy young idealistic person who can take action to right wrongs. And that's why Republicans are anti History, anti Civics and very anti University, especially those that take in regular people. And that's why Elite Universities charge sky high to limit regular people and train future rulers. This kid is the perfect example of what they fear. --
Penn is not Penn State, it's the University of Pennsylvania. It is an Ivy League school that my dad attended. He was a poor kid from Nebraska who happened to be smart enough to get scholarships. 90% of Harvard students get financial aid. Stanford, too. Ivy Leagues are not funded by tuition but by dividends from massive endowments. Lots of middle-class folks attend an Ivy, but that doesn't make them rich and most of them don't even leave with the connections that their legacy classmates already had going in. The fact that they are using where he went to school in an attempt to pretend he's "elite" (whatever tf that means) is weak sauce. He did something that millions of people have fantasized about doing (maybe not murder, but damage), and it scares them that millions of people are doing the comment equivalent of singing Cell Block Tango all over social media, complete with receipts about how dreadful our healthcare system is for the average person. It *should* scare them more than it does, and he proved that.
Our failure to teach the history of populist movements with any depth was designed to make people think that suffering is the norm and we should just pull up our non-existent bootstraps and get on with being exploited by the rich forever. Unfortunately for the rich, they also seem to have missed the part of history (of everywhere, not just here) that notes when people are out of options, unable to take care of regular business in a regular way to provide comfort and security for their families, those people rise up and take their ire out on the people they deem responsible - who are usually the people responsible. They work so hard to divide us but have created this giant hole to stick us in without realizing that people bond over shared trauma, and shared trauma is all some people have these days. Heck, folks stuck in an elevator for a couple hours or on a plane that has a mishap form lifelong relationships with those who were there with them. What did they expect when we all suffer the same bad care, denials, and deaths of loved ones while watching the people who make those decisions get richer and richer? I guess this would be the "find out" portion of the program.
He did something that millions of people have fantasized about doing (maybe not murder, but damage), and it scares them that millions of people are doing the comment equivalent of singing Cell Block Tango all over social media, complete with receipts about how dreadful our healthcare system is for the average person. It *should* scare them more than it does, and he proved that. --
120 percent Rebecca!!!
" Ivy Leagues are not funded by tuition but by dividends from massive endowments. Lots of middle-class folks attend an Ivy, but that doesn't make them rich and most of them don't even leave with the connections that their legacy classmates already had going in. The fact that they are using where he went to school in an attempt to pretend he's "elite" (whatever tf that means) is weak sauce. He did something that millions of people have fantasized about doing (maybe not murder, but damage), and it scares them that millions of people are doing the comment equivalent of singing Cell Block Tango all over social media, complete with receipts about how dreadful our healthcare system is for the average person. It *should* scare them more than it does, and he proved that.
Our failure to teach the history of populist movements with any depth was designed to make people think that suffering is the norm and we should just pull up our non-existent bootstraps and get on with being exploited by the rich forever. Unfortunately for the rich, they also seem to have missed the part of history (of everywhere, not just here) that notes when people are out of options, unable to take care of regular business in a regular way to provide comfort and security for their families, those people rise up and take their ire out on the people they deem responsible - who are usually the people responsible. They work so hard to divide us but have created this giant hole to stick us in without realizing that people bond over shared trauma, and shared trauma is all some people have these days. Heck, folks stuck in an elevator for a couple hours or on a plane that has a mishap form lifelong relationships with those who were there with them. What did they expect when we all suffer the same bad care, denials, and deaths of loved ones while watching the people who make those decisions get richer and richer? I guess this would be the "find out" portion of the program."
Yours is a brilliant, clear, and accurate piece of observation and analysis. You have hit all the nails squarely on the head. We "peons" need to wake up and see clearly all the points you make in your analysis.
I do have one further question: How can we have any hope of the Billionaires ever doing anything but what they are already doing (utterly corrupt, morally bankrupt gobbling up of ever more of everything that belongs rightfully to all the rest of us) when the example of their actual fantasy-mentality is right in front of us: Our planet is already burning and flooding and suffering unprecedented droughts, with millions of species going extinct, and yet, this past year (under Biden, no less! -- equal opportunity stupidity) this Earth endured the hottest year the planet has ever endured since the Dinosaurs. The Billionaires who have stolen all the money and usurped all the power all the money and all the power are f-ing morons, so greedy and demented that they dont seem to realize they are on the planet also, and are losers along with the rest of us. -- Kate Delano-Condax Decker
I left out a key point: the Oil Billionaires drilled for more fossil fuels this past (hottest ever) year than ever in any previous year since they began to rape the planet. And they continue to do more and more drilling and burning, which is pushing ALL of us (even the Billionaires) beyond the ecological point of no return. HOW CAN WE STOP THEM?
Gvnr Shapiro of Pennsylvania made me laugh louder than I had in months when he said “America is not a place for cold blooded murder.” I’m laughing again as I write this.
I believe he saw the way people got treated at his family’s businesses and he seemed to go opposite of his family.
I don’t condone murder but I struggle with sympathy for a man who made the millions he did k wing his damn company harmed millions of people who were loved and needed. My mother was denied coverage her whole life due to getting Hodgkin Disease in her early 20s. She never had insurance and my dad had to pay her bills off over time. He was in debit for her bills and then eventually his own. All due to insurance. So I cannot help that I struggle to feel bad for a man who could have made a difference by moving his company to do the right thing.
I feel you, and I see you, sis. The people who aren't grasping the anger and apathy are the problem--until they wake up, the world will never change for the better.
Pain and anger are powerful motivators. And he probably doesn’t even feel like he threw his life away when his life was so diminished after his back surgery. This young man hasn’t even lived half his expected life yet, and he’s all but given up, especially in this post-opioid era when painkillers are so sparsely distributed. I’m sure this will factor heavily into his defense.
I believe so, as well as it should. I have been in mind-numbing pain before and can only imagine what it would be like to be in that kind of pain constantly. I hope that whatever sentence he gets, he will be young enough to live a decent life after serving his time.
This kid doesn’t need to be a working class hero to have struck a big ol’ throbbing nerve.
The vast majority of us—no matter how we just voted—are sick and fucking tired of corporate America, any stripe of oligarch and their stooges in D.C. who sell out all. of. us. on the regular.
Go get ‘em, girl. The revolution will not be televised.
Hollah! For me, it was never about hating the rich; it was about hating the parasitic wealthy. Some people earn their money by providing a service, a product, or by being good at marketing themselves as a commodity- that is not the same as profiting from misery.
I respect Warren Buffet. Despite his weird hobbyhorse obsessions, I can’t help but like Bill Gates. Hell, I’ll even throw in Stephen King—the richest author I know of—as one of the good guys who earned every dime and then had the common courtesy TO LEAVE THE REST OF US THE FUCK ALONE.
Sorry to shout. I just found out I’m no longer eligible for ACA subsidies since I had to move to an idiot red state.
Don't worry--the government in DC is collapsing. Trump appointed a guy with no qualifications to run HHS - Medicare, Medicaid, Community Health, Nutrition and Public Health programs.
Just one item - Penn State is not "Ivy League" no matter what USA Today says. State schools are a boon to those lower income people. Ivy League - there are only 8 schools that qualify - Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn (University of Pennsylvania), Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton.
Last year, 386 people were killed in NY city. National media response? Silence, except from the racists on one side and the ban-all-guns bleaters on the other. One rich guy gets whacked and Holy Shite, it's like WW III + the Second Coming of Christ. Even here in MN it's almost nonstop "Holy shit a rich guy got whacked!" I will bet that a hundred million people are thinking "I know a few more rich guys who would be better people for an ounce of lead."
BTW the first "attempt" on the Abomination of Desolation was a fake; both the orange atrocity and the Secret Service were in on it. I won't bore you with a page of evidence; it's pretty obvious. But as usual the corporate media says what's convenient for the corporations. And the second "attempt' was by an idiot. Real assassins do not hide in bushes or use SKS rifles. The SKS is a Chinese weapon that dates to the 1950's. Perfectly good weapon for jungle or alley gunfights, or deer hunting. But not a reliable 400 yard rifle.
You nailed it! The issue of health care cuts across all social and political lines. The media is treating this like a fucking tabloid piece. (That was one nasty ass troll. We slapped him around and sent him on his way.💥💪🤟
I bet he’ll get a lot of marriage proposals in prison (real ones, I’m not talking about his cellmate, stop it).
That said, lack of decent health care is absolutely a bipartisan issue. The loudest voices against Medicare for all are the insurance lobby, the über wealthy and GOP congressional asshats who get it for free.
We're the only country in the civilized world that doesn't have universal health care. It's swimming with the sharks if you get sick or injured, even if you HAVE insurance! 🙄😡
And it doesnt make sense--people need healthcare like they need funerals--it's not like they couldn't make decent money running a fair and just healthcare system. The current paradigm is based on corporate greed alone.
No kidding. There are very few among us that haven’t had to fight the health insurance companies over shit that shouldn’t have to be fought over.
Everytime we have to change jobs and re-enlist with an insurance provider its the same rigamrole to get my RA meds...preauthorization for weeks as I pray I don't run out of meds in the interim... nightmare fuel.
Right? One company I worked for changed insurance companies almost every year. It was maddening.
I was once part of an HMO and I hated them as medicine changed from a profession to a business. So, I switched to VA healthcare—like socialized health care—and have much better health care. However, the VA will probably be dismantled and all the Vets will learn that they are now dinosaurs that created their own meteor of destruction since so many are MAGAs.
I hope that doesn’t come to pass. We all deserve decent healthcare, but those that serve even more so.
I always went PPO when I worked because few of our doctors were on the HMO plan and one of my kids was on a medication that I couldn’t get without paying one of my arms and a leg.
I understand and empathize with the haters of medical insurance. I despise all insurance companies as Wall Street sycophants that are wired to make CEOs and other executives super wealthy like bloated ticks sucking blood from the masses.
However, there is another side. Why should insurance companies spend millions to keep an octogenarian alive, and in pain, for another year or so? The medical and hospital industries are also part of the problem for seeing the elderly as corpus from which they can slowly perform money-ectomies, like months of radiation and chemical therapy to extend a cancer patient’s life 12-18 months, months spent in agony. As a society or species we have not learned to open deaths door, look her in the eye, kiss her on the mouth and with Grace walk by.
Spot on. I live in a state that has a death with dignity statue and I am to take advantage of it if/when it becomes necessary. This should be available in all 50 states, but right now only 10 do.
Religion gets in the way. I see little connection between organized religion and spirituality that respects life and death.
Organized religion = “God’s will”. You don’t win prizes for suffering unless you think your reward is heaven, which doesn’t exist to my way of thinking. Even if it did, why would I want to end up someplace if suffering is what it takes to get there? Hard pass
Deus Vult.
Pete Hegseth's bicep tattoo, and my answer to every fucking thing that goes wrong for the MAGAs, including the work of the Jewish Weather Snipers.
I guess god had willed me to be ignorant. I knew he willed the crusades and the actions of the Templars but not keeping up with the Christian right since I knew Gott Ist Tot, I didn’t know that they had picked up on the Deus Vult phrase.
Also I didn’t know about Pete’s tattoo because, until recently, I never heard of Pete.
Why O why does god keep me in the dark? I have a pomegranate tree—the real tree of knowledge—in my backyard and I still do not understand why god allowed Adam to divorce Lilith just so he could create an ideal wife from his rib who liked pomegranates.
I guess Pete knows.
AMEN!! Between religion and family members being performative at the death bed ("no, you cannot remove mother from these hideous machines and let her die peacefully").
I agree wholeheartedly. I refuse to be maintained like a vegetable in a nursing home for ANY reason. Ever. Medical Aid in Dying is a great program for those seeking assistance with end-of-life.
Alicia--You nailed this, as always. Hard to feel bad for a UHC executive who was on his way to announce a $650 million PROFIT for denying health care to patients. When they have to pay your health care costs, the term is MEDICAL LOSS RATIO. It's a "loss" to the company that they may be required to save a life.
--Hard to feel bad for a UHC executive who was on his way to announce a $650 million PROFIT for denying health care to patients. --
THIS! Those clinking champagne glasses were made at the expense of the blood spilled to make that fucking money. I am so done with these social sponges.
Good stuff Alicia. Of course killing somebody because your back hurts isn’t the answer-but class wars are about to erupt and I for one will not be lectured to about not sending flowers to Thompsons family. These insurance companies are insidious and their actions are killing people through their murderous algorithm. They can all go to hell… with Brian.
That's the definition of a "death panel.
And the same for the hospital industry.
Nailed it, Alicia. Luigi's gun came from? Certainly not a legitimate source. Deny Delay Depose was etched on bullets. No other major nation has a health care system as fucked up as America. Thank your drunk GOP uncle.
Thank you for your comment, Rob! Not sure how he got hold of a ghost gun! Can't wait to learn more about the case in the weeks to come.
3D printed. There everywhere. 😎
Every word of this! I'm sick of hearing how "spoiled rich" he was because of his school. They're calling him a "scion!" People think anyone who has $10 more than them, is rich. The private schools near me run $60k a year. I was surprised to learn how many kids get a free ride, or financial aid via the endowments.
He'd probably need to A: claim temporary insanity and B: hire Kyle Rittenhouse's lawyers, because no one else can get him off.
Also, "hot as hell fire" lol.
LOL, thank you. Yeah, they are going to use classism and once again divide people when we should all be fighting on the same side. He is indeed adorbs—he reminds me of the kind of guy I would have crushed on as a girl, not just because he was cute but also smart and passionate. It's such a waste. Yep, he is gonna need good lawyers; maybe his family will at least help him with that.
‘Yeah, they are going to use classism and once again divide people when we should all be fighting on the same side.”
How does one divide a people that have been divided since the end of the Stone Age?
True--I wonder how long we can sustain this bipartisan outlook--long enough to win?
If he graduated from Penn State he's in debt now and can't easily work with that back. Graduation doesn't make you rich, it makes you enslaved. That was the precise purpose of Ronald Reagan starting State University Tuition after the 1960s Student Protests. That's when information on History is available and you see past the patriotic propaganda you get in High School. That's when you have a educated unemployed unattached healthy young idealistic person who can take action to right wrongs. And that's why Republicans are anti History, anti Civics and very anti University, especially those that take in regular people. And that's why Elite Universities charge sky high to limit regular people and train future rulers. This kid is the perfect example of what they fear.
That's when information on History is available and you see past the patriotic propaganda you get in High School. That's when you have a educated unemployed unattached healthy young idealistic person who can take action to right wrongs. And that's why Republicans are anti History, anti Civics and very anti University, especially those that take in regular people. And that's why Elite Universities charge sky high to limit regular people and train future rulers. This kid is the perfect example of what they fear. --
Perfectly stated and couldn't agree more!
Penn is not Penn State, it's the University of Pennsylvania. It is an Ivy League school that my dad attended. He was a poor kid from Nebraska who happened to be smart enough to get scholarships. 90% of Harvard students get financial aid. Stanford, too. Ivy Leagues are not funded by tuition but by dividends from massive endowments. Lots of middle-class folks attend an Ivy, but that doesn't make them rich and most of them don't even leave with the connections that their legacy classmates already had going in. The fact that they are using where he went to school in an attempt to pretend he's "elite" (whatever tf that means) is weak sauce. He did something that millions of people have fantasized about doing (maybe not murder, but damage), and it scares them that millions of people are doing the comment equivalent of singing Cell Block Tango all over social media, complete with receipts about how dreadful our healthcare system is for the average person. It *should* scare them more than it does, and he proved that.
Our failure to teach the history of populist movements with any depth was designed to make people think that suffering is the norm and we should just pull up our non-existent bootstraps and get on with being exploited by the rich forever. Unfortunately for the rich, they also seem to have missed the part of history (of everywhere, not just here) that notes when people are out of options, unable to take care of regular business in a regular way to provide comfort and security for their families, those people rise up and take their ire out on the people they deem responsible - who are usually the people responsible. They work so hard to divide us but have created this giant hole to stick us in without realizing that people bond over shared trauma, and shared trauma is all some people have these days. Heck, folks stuck in an elevator for a couple hours or on a plane that has a mishap form lifelong relationships with those who were there with them. What did they expect when we all suffer the same bad care, denials, and deaths of loved ones while watching the people who make those decisions get richer and richer? I guess this would be the "find out" portion of the program.
He did something that millions of people have fantasized about doing (maybe not murder, but damage), and it scares them that millions of people are doing the comment equivalent of singing Cell Block Tango all over social media, complete with receipts about how dreadful our healthcare system is for the average person. It *should* scare them more than it does, and he proved that. --
120 percent Rebecca!!!
" Ivy Leagues are not funded by tuition but by dividends from massive endowments. Lots of middle-class folks attend an Ivy, but that doesn't make them rich and most of them don't even leave with the connections that their legacy classmates already had going in. The fact that they are using where he went to school in an attempt to pretend he's "elite" (whatever tf that means) is weak sauce. He did something that millions of people have fantasized about doing (maybe not murder, but damage), and it scares them that millions of people are doing the comment equivalent of singing Cell Block Tango all over social media, complete with receipts about how dreadful our healthcare system is for the average person. It *should* scare them more than it does, and he proved that.
Our failure to teach the history of populist movements with any depth was designed to make people think that suffering is the norm and we should just pull up our non-existent bootstraps and get on with being exploited by the rich forever. Unfortunately for the rich, they also seem to have missed the part of history (of everywhere, not just here) that notes when people are out of options, unable to take care of regular business in a regular way to provide comfort and security for their families, those people rise up and take their ire out on the people they deem responsible - who are usually the people responsible. They work so hard to divide us but have created this giant hole to stick us in without realizing that people bond over shared trauma, and shared trauma is all some people have these days. Heck, folks stuck in an elevator for a couple hours or on a plane that has a mishap form lifelong relationships with those who were there with them. What did they expect when we all suffer the same bad care, denials, and deaths of loved ones while watching the people who make those decisions get richer and richer? I guess this would be the "find out" portion of the program."
Guuurl, this, THIS alla this!!!!
Thanks, someone else mentioned the Penn State thing. Let me fix that.
I know it seems petty, but the investment in a Penn degree is intense.
Yours is a brilliant, clear, and accurate piece of observation and analysis. You have hit all the nails squarely on the head. We "peons" need to wake up and see clearly all the points you make in your analysis.
I do have one further question: How can we have any hope of the Billionaires ever doing anything but what they are already doing (utterly corrupt, morally bankrupt gobbling up of ever more of everything that belongs rightfully to all the rest of us) when the example of their actual fantasy-mentality is right in front of us: Our planet is already burning and flooding and suffering unprecedented droughts, with millions of species going extinct, and yet, this past year (under Biden, no less! -- equal opportunity stupidity) this Earth endured the hottest year the planet has ever endured since the Dinosaurs. The Billionaires who have stolen all the money and usurped all the power all the money and all the power are f-ing morons, so greedy and demented that they dont seem to realize they are on the planet also, and are losers along with the rest of us. -- Kate Delano-Condax Decker
I left out a key point: the Oil Billionaires drilled for more fossil fuels this past (hottest ever) year than ever in any previous year since they began to rape the planet. And they continue to do more and more drilling and burning, which is pushing ALL of us (even the Billionaires) beyond the ecological point of no return. HOW CAN WE STOP THEM?
Writing our Congress folks didn't work--next step--revolution.
I really truly hope not. But I am starting to feel like we are pushing in that direction.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full tide are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves
Or lose our ventures..."
(seems to me that Shakespeare always said if best, and before anybody else :-)
Thank you, Rebecca. I was a smart poor kid and attended Penn on a 50-50 ride. Half academic scholarship, half student loans.
Gvnr Shapiro of Pennsylvania made me laugh louder than I had in months when he said “America is not a place for cold blooded murder.” I’m laughing again as I write this.
Right! Is he new here?
I believe he saw the way people got treated at his family’s businesses and he seemed to go opposite of his family.
I don’t condone murder but I struggle with sympathy for a man who made the millions he did k wing his damn company harmed millions of people who were loved and needed. My mother was denied coverage her whole life due to getting Hodgkin Disease in her early 20s. She never had insurance and my dad had to pay her bills off over time. He was in debit for her bills and then eventually his own. All due to insurance. So I cannot help that I struggle to feel bad for a man who could have made a difference by moving his company to do the right thing.
I feel you, and I see you, sis. The people who aren't grasping the anger and apathy are the problem--until they wake up, the world will never change for the better.
Pain and anger are powerful motivators. And he probably doesn’t even feel like he threw his life away when his life was so diminished after his back surgery. This young man hasn’t even lived half his expected life yet, and he’s all but given up, especially in this post-opioid era when painkillers are so sparsely distributed. I’m sure this will factor heavily into his defense.
I believe so, as well as it should. I have been in mind-numbing pain before and can only imagine what it would be like to be in that kind of pain constantly. I hope that whatever sentence he gets, he will be young enough to live a decent life after serving his time.
Damned good analysis, Ms Alicia.
This kid doesn’t need to be a working class hero to have struck a big ol’ throbbing nerve.
The vast majority of us—no matter how we just voted—are sick and fucking tired of corporate America, any stripe of oligarch and their stooges in D.C. who sell out all. of. us. on the regular.
Go get ‘em, girl. The revolution will not be televised.
Hollah! For me, it was never about hating the rich; it was about hating the parasitic wealthy. Some people earn their money by providing a service, a product, or by being good at marketing themselves as a commodity- that is not the same as profiting from misery.
Damned straight.
I respect Warren Buffet. Despite his weird hobbyhorse obsessions, I can’t help but like Bill Gates. Hell, I’ll even throw in Stephen King—the richest author I know of—as one of the good guys who earned every dime and then had the common courtesy TO LEAVE THE REST OF US THE FUCK ALONE.
Sorry to shout. I just found out I’m no longer eligible for ACA subsidies since I had to move to an idiot red state.
You take care, darlin. You make me smile. xoxo
*hugs* Thank you, Holly! Sorry to hear about that--fucking Red States!!!
Don't worry--the government in DC is collapsing. Trump appointed a guy with no qualifications to run HHS - Medicare, Medicaid, Community Health, Nutrition and Public Health programs.
I really appreciate how thorough this summary is. You strung it all together.
Thank you, Lia!
Just one item - Penn State is not "Ivy League" no matter what USA Today says. State schools are a boon to those lower income people. Ivy League - there are only 8 schools that qualify - Harvard, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Penn (University of Pennsylvania), Columbia, Cornell, and Princeton.
Indeed--we see what the MSM is trying on, and sadly, that shit is working.
Yeah. No guts, no morals, cowards who will sell us cheaply to Trump's punishers. Scary stuff. You be well.
Same my friend, same.
Last year, 386 people were killed in NY city. National media response? Silence, except from the racists on one side and the ban-all-guns bleaters on the other. One rich guy gets whacked and Holy Shite, it's like WW III + the Second Coming of Christ. Even here in MN it's almost nonstop "Holy shit a rich guy got whacked!" I will bet that a hundred million people are thinking "I know a few more rich guys who would be better people for an ounce of lead."
BTW the first "attempt" on the Abomination of Desolation was a fake; both the orange atrocity and the Secret Service were in on it. I won't bore you with a page of evidence; it's pretty obvious. But as usual the corporate media says what's convenient for the corporations. And the second "attempt' was by an idiot. Real assassins do not hide in bushes or use SKS rifles. The SKS is a Chinese weapon that dates to the 1950's. Perfectly good weapon for jungle or alley gunfights, or deer hunting. But not a reliable 400 yard rifle.
Thank you, Joe, and I concur--Trump played the masses like a fiddle, and they fell for it. Luigi strikes a blow for all of us and is taken down...
You nailed it! The issue of health care cuts across all social and political lines. The media is treating this like a fucking tabloid piece. (That was one nasty ass troll. We slapped him around and sent him on his way.💥💪🤟
YUP--he is probably somewhere else harassing a Swiftie fan group or something.
The media has become little more than a tabloid machine with the hatchet jobs they did on Biden and Harris.
Baazinga, Alicia!
X-D I actually heard that! TYSM!