Delay, Deny, Depose

I can’t remember what I was doing last Wednesday before I came to school. I realized that someone got shot, but it was the United States. Happens every day. School shootings, neighborhood disputes, arguing over trivia—Americans are too quick to pull the trigger. The Adjuster, whoever the hell he is, showed just how cool he was.

A Rare Pistol

It was rather shocking—we hear about shootings, we don’t usually see people gunned down. We see car crashes after the fact. However, with security cameras everywhere, we’re viewing all sorts of mayhem. This was during daylight hours—barely. I can’t function in the morning, so for me to see something like that carried out at quarter to seven was bizarre. The gun, some sort of assassin’s pistol modeled after a WW2 gun, was an odd-looking thing. Commenters online argued whether or not the guy was a skilled professional. Did the gun jam? Some say it did, others said you have to pull back something or other (obviously not an expert on WW2 era firearms) because the bullets didn’t automatically feed. It’s a bit refreshing in the world of automatic weaponry, a rare pistol was used.

Delay, Deny, Depose

Whether assassin’s gun or veterinary pistol, the symbolism is rich with this one. He uses an obscure firearm, presumably to “depose” someone he considered an animal. I’d heard of the word before, but I looked up “depose” to see if I was right about the meaning.

I was.

The primary definition is to “remove from office suddenly and forcefully”. Thanks Oxford Languages! Supposedly the “delay, deny, depose” refers to a book called Delay, Deny, Defund: Why Insurance Companies Don’t Pay Claims and What You Can Do About It by Jay Feinman, a Rutgers Law Professor. I’m sure this book is selling well again.

The whole case fascinates me for some damn reason. I’m not sure what it is. I don’t know if it’s the killer’s smile, his good taste in backpacks, his intellect the symbolism, or the cool way he gunned someone down in cold blood. It’ like when I walked into a bank on September 11, and watched a portable television set. A bank employee said, “It was a brilliant plan. Evil, but brilliant.”

Not Planned by the Trump assassins…

That’s what this is. I can’t imagine the planning it must have taken. How did the shooter know Thompson would be walking to the meeting instead of staying in the damn hotel? How did someone who had been supposedly receiving threats not get security? How did the killer show his face and he still hasn’t been caught? Is the wife involved? Is it an inside job? Obviously, whoever planned this didn’t have a hand in the Trump assassination attempts.

It’s like a Goddamn movie and I can’t stop watching!

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MCU Presents “The Adjuster”

Is anyone else as fascinated with the United Healthcare shooting? I swear it’s like a movie, except it’s actually happening.

Amazing. AMAZING.

And people are cheering. But the reactions of the mainstream media are hilarious. What was the motive? Who could have wanted to kill someone responsible for the deaths of so many people because they were denied care?

Well, DUH.

Listen, I don’t mind people making money. You need money to live on, I get that. But at the expense of peoples’ lives? That’s where it gets shitty. I spoke with someone whose job it was to deny claims and I asked them how they could sleep at night. Their response? “It provides me a good living.”

United Healthcare Profits 2023

Because that’s all you need to know. No matter what you do, as long as it provides a “good living” it’s okay. So go ahead and keep selling drugs, keep selling women’s bodies, keep on keeping being a criminal. It’s okay. As long as you’re making good money.

No one can tell me that United Healthcare profits of 2023 are slim. I’ve looked at three sources (Forbes, Fortune and SEC.gov) and profits are either $16 billion, $22 billion, or $32 billion. Do companies actually NEED that much money?

Because insurance robs us. We pay money to get goods/services. Here’s an example:

Suppose you paid someone to bring you three meals a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner, five days a week. That’s 15 meals a week. I suck at math, so I’m making this easy on myself. Suppose you got your meals Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, but didn’t get your Thursday or Friday meals even though you PAID for them. Wouldn’t you be pissed? They are cheating you out of 40 percent of your meals, which you PAID FOR.

United Healthcare’s rate wasn’t quite at 40 percent, but at 32 percent, it wasn’t too far off.

The News People are Clueless

And the news people, no doubt told by their masters what to say on the air, don’t dare bring up the mess that healthcare insurance has become in the United States. The people aren’t stupid. They know EXACTLY why someone snapped.

It’s hilarious to see these wide-eyed commentators try to get the public to be outraged at this killing. It’s pretty hard to be sorry for someone who denied thousands of people life-saving care (or any care, for that matter) in the name of profits. Plus, he was doing insider training. Ten million dollars a year isn’t enough to live on? That is what is sending people over the edge. People are pushed to the limit and they can’t take much more. Wendell Potter, a former healthcare insurance executive said, “I’m not shocked.” Check out the video—it’s probably one of the few I’ve seen where the journalist actually talks to someone about WHY everyone is so angry.

Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield Got the Message

Think vigilante justice doesn’t work? Just days after Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield announced they would be putting limits on the amount of time anesthesia coverage, they backed down on it. Was it the doctors and nurses who were the catalyst for this decision? Was it the protest of elected officials? It could be, but I think not. The caregivers aren’t necessarily the problem. I think Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield is watching the news and knows the people aren’t happy.

I’m not finished talking about this. More to come.

Vigilante Justice in Action

Rest in Profit, Brian Thompson

As a true crime fan, I’ve become fascinated with the CEO of United Healthcare, Brian Thompson, being gunned down in NYC. Watch the uncensored (except for pixelation of Thompson) security footage here.

I love how the police department is like, “we don’t have any motive.”

Sure you do. Someone who was screwed over by UHC. Which narrows it down to a few million suspects, I guess.

Getaway Car was an E-bike

This case has got me going. The words left on the bullets. The calmness of the gunman. The knowledge involved. And he disappeared in Central Park. On an e-bike.

It reminds me of the Zodiac killing, or D.B. Cooper bailing out of a jet with a bunch of money.

Vigilante Justice is Coming Your Way

What’s hilarious are the comments on YouTube. A lot of people don’t really have any sympathy for the guy. They feel bad for his wife and kids, but that’s about as far as it goes.

It shows how America feels about its health care.

If you’ve got money, you’re fine. But if you are working class or poor, you’re screwed.

If things get bad enough vigilante justice will become the norm.

Don’t worry, I’ve got plenty of popcorn.

Tuesday Night Soup

Ordered some Campbell’s Tomato Soup off Baopals the other day and it came last week. You can’t buy it on store shelves in China. So I’m enjoying a delight can in my nice big cup I bought on Sunday.

I added just a little bit of water because I love a thick soup. To counteract what seems like a shitload of sugar added to this wondrous liquid, I added a generous amount of crackers, salt, and freshly ground pepper. God, this is good.

The text at the very bottom of the cup reads: Making Money=Having Meals.

Sorry about Sunday…

Usually I post on Sunday without fail.

But I went out because it was a gorgeous day. I found some stuff I could use, and discovered a local street that is part wet market, part fruit and veggie market, and part odds and ends market. I love stuff like that.

I did upload to Medium.com, and that is something I try to do on a monthly basis, either around the first of the month, or within a few days of that.

I wrote a little something about the 4B movement and how I have been living that lifestyle for the past 14 years or so.

Started in South Korea, it was adopted by US women as a response to the recent US elections.

It would be great if this movement really kicked men in the ass and made them behave a little better, but it probably won’t.

Unfortunately, there are enough damaged women out there who will continue to accept men’s shitty treatment of them. The 4B proponents are probably not too attractive to men in the first place–they’re probably educated, feminist, and have jobs–in other words, they would like men to be decent companions.

And while men have been pretty vile for thousands of years, it seems within the last 10 years, things have gotten worse–a LOT worse.

While it’s true feminism has screwed up men’s lives, is it really THAT hard to have manners and be well-groomed and smell good and be nice and have a sense of style? I guess for a lot of men, it is.

Men, if we don’t need you for economic reasons, we still sort of need you for companionship. I say, “sort of” because I haven’t dated seriously in 14 years or so.

I know what I want. And if I can’t get it, then life goes on, because it HAS to.

We all know you want to get laid. But work for it a little, okay?

Read the article here.

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Heating Your Home in China

Chinese homes don’t have central air or central heating.

So I’m cozying up to a space heater.

It was quite brisk on the way home from work today. We had clear blue skies all day which became clear skies at night. Which means it’s going to be cold. Or it will feel that way.

Tonight at the bus stop, it was 14 C, which for you Americans means it was 57 F. It felt like 34 F to me.

But I got home and cranked up the space heater and ate dinner by it while watching YouTube.

It was nice and cozy.

Hoping you had a cozy Thanksgiving and Black Friday.