Born a Cranky Old Bat

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Historians be like "there were Black ppl in Western Europe but only in small areas and that doesn't count."

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

When your mail is delayed, your medications arrive late, or your packages get lost—remember it’s because two billionaires decided to fire thousands of mail carriers and cut billions in essential funding for USPS for NO reason except to break government & enrich themselves.

[Stygu 🍉 @Stygu108]

This will destroy way more than you think, and will lead to so much suffering and death. Y'all dont even realize how many people rely on essential medications being shipped via USPS to areas that dipshit companies like Amazon refuse to deliver too.

[Maren C @_mamaren]

Again: The USPS is REQUIRED to deliver to EVERY. SINGLE. ADDRESS in the United States. They have someone ride into the Grand Canyon ON A MULE to deliver mail to people who live at the bottom of the canyon. They are not meant to be profitable. They are meant to serve US citizens.

[Steve @StevenJ1279]

@AaronBlake @MollyJongFast If Elon Musk is going to keep inseminating women until he gets a kid who loves him, we're going to be at it a long fucking time.

[Rachel True @RachelTrue]

They tells you not to vaccinate your kids
But vaccinated theirs

They outlaw critical thinking But send their kids to expensive private liberal boarding schools

They tell you not to go to college
But send their kids to the best ivy league schools

They tell you a lot huh?

[Millie @MilOnYourMind]

Gawd, these MAGA morons are so fucking dumb!
#TrumpsAmerica #FEMA #MAGA #UltraMAGA #DisasterRelief #NorthCarolina #HurricaneHelene #BidenDelivered

[John Daniels @JustAnAlgorithm]

@tobitac People are very fucking angry below the surface. The comment in some of the threads I am reading are savage.

[Michael Sampson @MichaelASamps10]

@tobitac The first thing I thought of was how people aren’t going to be too forgiving towards that “economic turmoil” their plans will bring.

Gutting social security, cutting VA benefits, etc.

The trump voters thought it was for anyone but themselves.

[Kristin @KristinVGK]

@tobitac 100.8 BILLION profit last QUARTER alone, while denying ~53% of claims. They profit from denying sick people care. We all have felt the negative impact of practices/policies that CEOs like him pushed. The comment sections tell the true story. My sympathy to his family.

[Amy Barnes @amybarnes_usa]

@IamIronMANny @tobitac I went up against a few of THE largest companies in the USA & the regulatory fallout cost them tens of millions of dollars. A few of their ppl even went to my job to demand that I be fired. It was THAT bad at one point.

Betcha this guy was a whistleblower.

[Amy Barnes @amybarnes_usa]

@tobitac And then there is the massive bevy of medical office failures due to UHC refusing to pay in a timely manner and then refusing to pay unless they receive literal interest on what should have paid, forcing MDs to hold the bag for a ransom payment. CROOKERY.
https://t.co/SI3jskAYdd

[Chris Kelly @Ckelly2022]

@RockyTrumpboa @nicksortor The CEO & CFO used insider info to sell their personal stock (CEO was $15 mil … CFO was over $100 mil) … the info was that the company was about to be investigated … after they sold the stock went down $27 per share

[Rocky 🇺🇸 Boa @RockyTrumpboa]

Does everybody know the story with United Healthcare that was likely the start of all of this?

It seems that this is connected to a security breach that occurred back in February, affecting 100 million people. The breach targeted Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth, and hackers reportedly took huge amounts of sensitive data.

UnitedHealth paid $22 million in Bitcoin to the ransomware group AlphV/BlackCat, but even after the payment, they weren’t given back their keys. Instead of telling anyone, they waited, hoping the hackers would follow through. They waited months.

My wife was in the health insurance industry until recently, helping people get coverage for certain specific conditions. She told me that while United sat on their hands, doctors couldn't get paid. Patients were denied coverage and medical treatments. Pharmacies also struggled, unable to process prescriptions because of the disruptions. United claimed the problems were being addressed, but it dragged on for longer and longer.

Ultimately it got so bad that the doctors' offices were underwater. They came to United and complained. United told them it wouldn’t be much longer and agreed to "help" them with short-term loans... with interest. By mid-year, UnitedHealth had issued $8.9 billion in loans.

More time passed, and nothing changed. The doctors' offices went bankrupt. So United "helped" them again by buying them out for pennies on the dollar. UnitedHealth now owns an unholy conglomerate of doctors' offices and health insurance operations, something which my wife says is a massive conflict of interest.

The DOJ has been working on a fraud and insider trading case as a result of this series of events.
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The CEO of UnitedHealth, Brian Thompson, was gunned down yesterday by a masked, hooded man using a silencer. He is still at large.

It is clear from footage that he is very familiar with his weapon, suggesting a professional hit, but he was also on camera at a local Starbucks just before the attack, suggesting an amateur.

The assassin wrote the words "​Deny, Defend, Depose" on the bullet casings left at the scene.

Was Brian Thompson about to testify? Was this politically motivated? Or was this revenge?

[Amy Barnes @amybarnes_usa]

@tobitac It's gotta be tough on his family to see that he is being publicly declared to be just as disposable as all the rest of us have been treated by insurance companies.

[pixel_north @pixel_north]

@tobitac love how mainstream media is like "watch this bone chilling footage of this horrific tragic crime 😱" and the whole country is celebrating

[✯ 𝙽𝚎𝚜𝚜 𝚂𝚌𝚒𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚛𝚜 🚩 @MarxoidNess]

@ValforNevada Next time some liberal dipshit says, "People don't want left-wing policies, bro. This election proves it," I'm gonna point at this.

A majority of Americans simply didn't vote in the last election, and it's BECAUSE THERE IS no left-wing option.

[sammy-o ($8) @baldbucknut]

@ValforNevada My girlfriend works in a pharmacy. They are seeing zero denied claims this morning, when usually close to half are denied/requiring prior authorization. Everything is going through today.