Kill them, too.
it seems dangerous that they would explicitly name Lisa Monaco, Benjamin Mizer, and Elizabeth Prolegar as the corrupted DOJ people who support the health insurance cartel over the citizenry.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya!
positively flabbergasted, dare I say
the top three DOJ officials under Attorney General Merrick Garland have all represented massive healthcare companies during their respective stints in private practice before joining the DOJ.
Because of COURSE they did! 🤦🤬
Carlin is so relevant rn
He never hasn’t been.
Always was but yeah, seems moreso now than ever before. Because it’s gotten worse AND because we’ve gotten more aware of it.
The awareness is lovely to see.
Interestingly enough I don’t think we’d have arrived here without COVID. It broke the routine, slowed the inertia, pushed self reflection.
And it made the house of cards that is the healthcare system visible to all.
This also helps explain the Texas Lt. Governor’s (?) plea to, “Let all the old people die. We need to get the economy moving again.” Health Care Insurance Inc. doesn’t want to pay money to treat people if we can convince everyone its cheaper to let them die.
I agree completely.
It also disproved the “once the crisis is big enough, everyone will hold hands and work together for the common good” myth that pro-establishment people used to trot out to mollify critics of the status quo.
The people radicalized by a combination of the inequities of the status quo and the gaslighting of opportunistic far right politicians (who are of course themselves very much part of the establishment) didn’t suddenly set their collective delusions of self-sufficiency and their scapegoating of vulnerable people aside to help themselves and other people get through the pandemic as safely as possible. They only got WORSE.
On a local level, we really do see humans band together to overcome crises. But not everyone, not all the time. And on a national level, stopping the rich motherfuckers is a struggle that goes back millenia.
Some people think that “progress will happen” as if it’s inevitable that society improves over time. But a quick glance at history proves otherwise.
A quick glance at history also shows which methods are the most effective. Which is why we have had decades of conditioning to push us in the other direction, for strategies that are loud and easily ignored.
People keep conflating health care providers with the insurance companies which are in the health care denial business. These are not at all the same.
Lisa Monaco, the Deputy U.S. Attorney General previously worked as a partner at the law firm O’Melveny & Myers LLP. At O’Melveny & Myers, Monaco represented Humana–the fifth largest U.S. health insurance company–according to her financial disclosures. Notably, O’Melveny & Myers also successfully defended United Health in a suit brought by United health group insured patients earlier this year.
Health “insurance” company, not provider.
The number three at DOJ, Acting Associate AG Benjamin Mizer, also represented healthcare and pharmaceutical giant Sanofi-Aventis, among others firms.
While not an insurance company, Sanofi-Aventis (now Sanofi) was provably corrupt and predatory on multiple occasions in multiple countries and was/is VERY much part of the same problem as United Health and the rest of the health insurance leech industry.
Finally, #4 at DOJ, Solicitor General Elizabeth Prolegar, reported Lumos Pharma, Syneos Health, and Amgen, as former clients on her disclosure.
Syneos have been sued for firing people who take family leave that they’re legally entitled to and Amgen pleaded guilty to guilty to improper marketing that put patients at risk
In conclusion: while you’re technically right that only one of them worked for INSURANCE companies, they all worked for health sector companies that were and are part of the problem, so it’s a distinction without importance in this case.
I’m not saying there isn’t a problem here. But we need to be a bit more precise in the language.
The club you are in it’s bigger though, they don’t want you to find out about it.
Something something el pueblo unido ✊
There’s more of us than there are of them.
To put it another way:
There’s more Luigi’s than there are healthcare CEOs.
Yes that’s what I said
That’s fine, I’m pressuring the neighborhood schizophrenics to directly pressure healthcare CEOs.
Pressure is fun, right health insurance leaders? It can make all sorts of fun things happen. Brian
knowsknew this, if only for a few seconds.This reminds me of a neat history lesson:
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-the-tragedy-at-buffalo
History doesnt repeat, but it certainly rhymes.
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
It wasnt Czolgosz or Mangione that sat at the reigns of a murder machine sanctioned by baron-owned-state monopoly of violence.
Goldman, for her part, had such a big heart for those driven to desperate acts.
Throughout her detention and after her release, Goldman steadfastly refused to condemn Czolgosz’s actions, standing virtually alone in doing so. Friends and supporters—including Berkman—urged her to quit his cause. But Goldman defended Czolgosz as a “supersensitive being” and chastised other anarchists for abandoning him.[75] She was vilified in the press as the “high priestess of anarchy”,[76] while many newspapers declared the anarchist movement responsible for the murder.[77] In the wake of these events, socialism gained support over anarchism among US radicals. McKinley’s successor, Theodore Roosevelt, declared his intent to crack down “not only against anarchists, but against all active and passive sympathizers with anarchists”.[78]
Berkman wasnt shit. Emma was a real one
I agree with you about CEO’s but please stop using schizophrenic people as a joke or prop.
Right? They probably mean Dissociative Identity Disorder too.
Idk usually that’s the case, but when I think “mentally ill in a way that’s susceptible to being pressured to kill rich people” I’m more inclined to think paranoid schizophrenics than did folks. Still shouldn’t use them as a joke like that.
I’m shocked! Shocked I say!
… Well, not that shocked.
I mean, really, who didn’t see this one? It was pretty blatant. The fact that we have confirmed reports of it is nice, but c’mon.
The state is just the armed wing of capitalism.
Who are these leaders? Names? Addresses?
Ju$tice
about the same time we hold politicians for the people they murder.
The Department of what, now?
Corporate Justice. The C is silent.
Oh right, the Dept of Orporate Justie! Lmao
There was a school shooting on the same day Thompson was killed. Without looking it up, can anyone name a single victim?
I’m not saying I support murder, but I don’t understand why I should care more about his life than those who are objectively more innocent.
We don’t care about his life either. It’s what he represents and how life goes on without him (possibly improved for people saved after execs have to fear for the policies they adapt).
I’m pretty sure they were going to charge him with it without them.
“Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
Biden could pardon him
And my cats could be appointed alternating empresses of Romania.
Nah he’s not a white collar criminal who destroyed the lives of millions.
Biden might be willing to posthumously pardon Brian Thompson for his insider trading crimes though.
Can he? Honest question. Can he pardon someone who hasnt actually been convicted of anything?
I don’t see why not. Ford pardoned Nixon for things Nixon wasn’t convicted of.
Yes, but accepting the pardon is an admission of guilt, which may have other consequences.
accepting the pardon is an admission of guilt
Logically and in the eyes of public opinion? Most likely. Legally, though? Nope
You’re right about there being consequences, though: you can’t invoke your 5th amendment right against self-incrimination for a crime that you’ve been pardoned for.
So technically being pardoned for the federal terrorism charge COULD make it more difficult for him to defend against the other charges, but I’m pretty sure that not even a NYC prosecutor can argue that the murder charge is independent of it…
Moot point, though, since Joe Biden is as likely to pardon Luigi as he is to drop trou and smoke a joint with his ass during a WH press briefing.
