When are we going to pressure the DOJ to prosecute health insurance leaders for the deaths (just one example) caused by their actions?
Kill them, too.
Ju$tice
The state is just the armed wing of capitalism.
You mean to tell me that going from the street to trial in less than a month, from what would normally be a single murder charge isn’t the normal way of things??
He’s only made his plea. Yes, that part happens quickly.
EDIT: Look at the upvotes on the parent comment. Y’all are really dumb enough to think this man is going to trial right now.
It’s misinformation, it’s ignorance, it may even be a lie. Downvote this crap.
Privatization of the government working well
Merrick Garland showing he was always a Republican.
Drain the swamp so the water feature can be filled with leopards.
Oh, look, they did a corruption
“Those who make peaceful reform impossible make violent revolution inevitable.”
Bought and sold
No. Shit.
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.
Biden could pardon him
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.
And my cats could be appointed alternating empresses of Romania.
I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya!
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