He was basically the head of Murder, Inc. Fuck that guy and his uber wealthy family. It’s just as much blood money as the Musk fortune.
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There is video. This shows the gunman but not anything graphic about the kill.
For those who don’t want to watch, the shooter walks up behind Thompson with the pistol drawn, large silencer attached. He calmly shoots Thompson, appears to have a problem with the gun, and puts it away before jogging off.
This guy is no more a professional assassin than I am a professional astronaut. If he were he wouldn’t have gone into a Starbucks beforehand and gotten his face on video in there. He also wouldn’t have been wearing a particularly distinctive backpack.
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Don’t forget that healthcare providers get far more flexibility in what they charge because of the multi-payer system we have. Under a single-payer system, providers would have to work for the MFA rates or not at all because almost no one would be paying cash. This also means that every doctor will be in-network.
People will argue that this will suppress innovation and stop people wanting to go into the healthcare field, but that is nonsense that is disproven by the entire history of man prior to the invention of for-profit healthcare, and also currently in all the other first world countries.
The first IVF birth happened under the UK’s NHS. You know why there was no sub-plot in the Stephen Hawking movie about how his family struggled to pay his medical bills? Because he didn’t fucking have any.
It would be the right thing to do - to heal the sick and relieve millions and millions of people of fear, dread, pain and sickness - even if it cost more money. The fact that it would be more cost-effective makes keeping it just cruel and inhumane.
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I also read he hit him in the calf at first, from 20ft? I’m not into professional hits, but that doesn’t seem right.
That doesn’t seem right from the video, which shows the shooter aiming high up the body.
I agree with Chuck that the shooter doesn’t seem to be a professional, but it’s definitely a hit. It was someone who laid in wait for the victim and then executed him, very much under control the whole time.
One would think the pro-lifer right wingers might be into, you know, seeing that people had access to affordable healthcare and treatment, but, they’re mainly concerned with only protecting fetuses.
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Maybe so, it was in The NY Times. Said he hit him in the calf, and in the back, and the victim turned around to see his attacker. I think he fired one more after that.
ETA: maybe the first shot hit him high, dropped him and the second shot was aimed lower. I never saw a film of the shooting, just him stalking the victim.
Second edit, to include NYT text, and clarify my mistaken first edit:
“The shooter fires multiple times at Thompson, who appears to be hit first in the calf and is also shot in the back. He manages to take a couple of steps and turns around to face his attacker before collapsing on the sidewalk.”
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In addition to being the only first world country without a single-payer healthcare system, we’re also the only one without mandated paid parental leave, sick leave or time off. Fucks given about people end at birth.
I used to work for a company in the UK that mandated every employee take a two-week vacation every year. You got a minimum of four weeks, so it wasn’t burdensome in that regard. You didn’t have to go anywhere, you just had to be not in the office.
This was looooong before smart phones or even cell phones. If you weren’t in the office you were properly gone. The company implemented this policy on the basis that any skeletons you may be hiding will probably fall out of the closet over a two week period. You simply could not be gone for two weeks without handing over all your active stuff to a colleague. It was just good business practice in their eyes.
It was a shock when moving to the US to find that we were all expected to maintain all our own workload while not in the office. On a business trip I could see it, but it was expected of us when on vacation too. I have lived here 30 years and have not had a proper vacation in all that time.
Things like paid time off and single-payer healthcare have been so severely demonized that I do not know how they could ever be rehabilitated in the eyes of the American public. It would take an end to the demonization, an equal and opposite effort to explain the benefits, and probably the expiration a few generations. So maybe in 50 years if we start now.
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The People’s Power Party here in Korea has taken the stance that Yoon shouldn’t be impeached. We need 8 of their votes to impeach. The public response will be interesting and I’m guessing I’ll have to avoid the city center this weekend.
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Can he be criminally prosecuted?
Well this is my second impeachment since moving here but I’m a little hazy on the details. I thought I remember them having to remove Park Geunhye before prosecuting her but an impeachment is immediate removal from office here. A quick poll done yesterday had 76% of people in favor of impeachment and 64% in favor of prosecuting him for treason. If the ruling party wants millions in the streets again this is how you get it.
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It looked to me like he hit him in the back first and then in the leg as he went down and then again I couldn’t tell where when he was lying on the pavement.
Anyway, my guess is that the Venn diagram overlap between dudes who have recently bought that backpack and dudes who have recently lost a spouse or a mother or whatever it will turn out to be to cancer where UNH rejected the necessary treatment is going to be pretty thin.
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National Metal Worker’s Union has declared the martial law declaration as unconstitutional and will resist Yoon staying in office.
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You can have my beer and my truck when you pry it from my warm, dead, coozie encased hand (the one that wasn’t on the wheel)
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I’m assuming UHC is “United”? What about Humana?
I ask because my mom just switched over due to Scott and White system shennanigans.
I imagine all health insurance CEOs - and CEOs in some other industries too - are not feeling safe right now.
The widespread lack of sympathy for the victim here has got to sting a bit.
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Yeah, I get all that (and i deal with it personally), but I was asking a specific question for a specific reason.
Is a simple majority enough to impeach?
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