Good news, folks: two federal judges stop the proposed Albertsons/Kroger merger in two separate cases. We'll see if we celebrate any such victories during TFG's second term, but just as we're getting a pro-monopoly President back, our federal judges finally seem more willing to actually enforce antitrust law. Albertsons has now called off the merger and, hilariously, sued Kroger for breach of contract.
America's five largest health insurance corporations have cleared over $370 billion in profits since the Affordable Care Act passed in 2009 – with the notorious UnitedHealth increasing its profits an absurd 400 percent as they deny about a third of their health care claims. I present this information in case you know anyone who's wondering why anyone might be so angry at a health insurance executive that he might kill him.
In a peripherally-related note, ProPublica reports that UnitedHealth has started to deny claims for necessary health care for autistic kids. If anyone says reports like this "pile on" UnitedHealth in the wake of its CEO's murder, challenge them by asking if denying necessary health care to autistic kids is moral. They will hate that. But the experience will be good for them.
In another peripherally-related note, too many "liberal" media outlets have indulged in abject hypocrisy about America's quite explicable reaction to the UnitedHealth CEO's murder. Long story short: a lot of them cheered on Daniel Penny and Kyle Rittenhouse and (even!) Trayvon Martin's murderer, but when a CEO who makes money denying more health insurance claims than anyone else gets murdered, they suddenly find their moral compass and start lecturing the "mob." No one needs these entitled enablers.
One year into Javier Milei's "chainsaw" approach to public spending in Argentina, poverty has more than doubled there. But I'm not sure we should be imagining what the Milei government "believes," as I'm pretty sure they only believe in the clarifying, purifying power of cruelty. And if "chainsaw" politics comes to America, as our incoming President and his advisors would like, too many Americans will love it, as long as it doesn't happen to them.
Finally, despite our efforts, our Senate fails to confirm current NLRB Chair Lauren McFerren to another term, which will allow the incoming President to shape our National Labor Relations Board to his liking, though that sure won't be to our liking. The vote was 50-49 with one Republican absent, which means two non-Republican Senators voted the wrong way, and I bet you just can't guess which two. Hint: their names rhyme roughly with Manshit and Shitema. Heckuva job, clowns! Enjoy your penniless oblivion!
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