{"id":88853,"date":"2024-12-06T07:21:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88853"},"modified":"2024-12-06T07:21:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T13:21:50","slug":"we-were-warned-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=88853","title":{"rendered":"We Were Warned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>They warned us that if we voted Republican, extremists would roam the streets murdering their enemies, as their fellow extremist droogs rejoiced.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/unitedhealthcare-brian-thompson-death-12-5-24\/index.html\">they were right<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.jpeg\" alt=\"Image\" class=\"wp-image-88854\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image.jpeg 900w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-300x161.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-768x411.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/image-500x268.jpeg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The meme has traveled about that UHG denies claims at double the national average.  That may be true, and that may be utterly without context, and neither I nor the gerbils posting the memes know one way or the other.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, most of the people rejoicing (not exaggerating) Thompson&#8217;s murder do it by way of saying it&#8217;s high time we adopt &#8220;single payer&#8221; government healthcare.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, if they think a UHG denial causes problems, wait&#8217;ll they get a load of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;rct=j&amp;opi=89978449&amp;url=https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-64004329&amp;ved=2ahUKEwiF78ntnZOKAxVV78kDHXogDc8QFnoECBUQAQ&amp;usg=AOvVaw3nOObPQxCvJAPBWb5-XRHy\">the &#8220;cost cutting&#8221; measures single-payer systems are moving into<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They warned us that if we voted Republican, extremists would roam the streets murdering their enemies, as their fellow extremist droogs rejoiced. And they were right. The meme has traveled about that UHG denies claims at double the national average. That may be true, and that may be utterly without context, and neither I nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,426,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-orwell-overestimated-democrats","category-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88855,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88853\/revisions\/88855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}