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LizBeth

LizBeth's Journal
LizBeth's Journal
March 14, 2025

The power is in the people and it is that simple. It is not Schumer, our Dems, but the people.

The people are not going to be just all of us on the left, .... but the people are going to be a lot of the right too. They are pissed, and getting more mad, and we are starting to hear their voice. But from what I am seeing that is so much greater, is our progressive young. And they are seeing the only answer is....

The power is the people. And that....

Is what it is about, what it is.

And to know.... is to own.

February 20, 2025

Question: We use to be able to see the last ten comments posted. Now,

My threads have that marker next to all the posts and unless looking at time, I cannot see the most recent ten replies. Can I do something in system other then the 5 last highlight? Has this option changed? Am I even clear cause hard to explain.

February 20, 2025

Today I have had to UNfollow around 10 sites feeding me the extreme MAGA shit

that is never on my feed. They are throwing out this shit like I am following and has really been going on since they got in. I have had to unfollow a number. But today was particularly high. And FB isn't good, the only one I have for family and friends, I am keeping it. Mostly I am conscious about who I use. Never ever Twitter, since musk bought it.

February 9, 2025

Signal App.... good idea for text.

Is Signal app really safe?

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December 14, 2024

Woman arrested after telling her health insurer 'you people are next'

A 42-year-old woman from Florida has been arrested and charged after police say she threatened her health insurance provider over a recently denied medical claim, repeating a common phrase from critics of the health-care industry that had been inscribed on ammunition casings found next to slain UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson.

According to an affidavit obtained by The Washington Post, Briana Boston of Lakeland contacted Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield on Tuesday after the company denied her medical insurance claim. Toward the end of the recorded phone call with her health insurer, Boston told an agent: “Delay, deny, depose. You people are next.”

The words, “delay, deny, depose,” reference tactics insurance companies have used to decline or limit medical claims. They were engraved on bullet casings found outside a midtown Manhattan hotel where 26-year-old Luigi Mangione is suspected of gunning down Thompson earlier this month.

Boston’s Tuesday arrest comes as consumer frustration with insurance companies and the broader U.S. health-care system balloon. More than half of Americans say the quality of U.S. health care is fair or poor, while only 28 percent say health care coverage in the U.S. is excellent or good, according to a December survey conducted by Gallup. In 2023, nearly a third of Americans gave health insurance companies a poor rating, according to Gallup.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/13/briana-boston-blue-cross-insurance-threat/


Such an abuse of power and screwing little person once again. Judge set bond for $100,000 and up to 15 yrs.
December 3, 2024

Had first one today on FB. You are blaming Trump and the voters for a tariff cost before

he has even gotten into office? There was a FB post showing a bill where the business had a line Tariff and the cost added into the bill. This poster was flabbergasted people were blaming Trump and the voters for that price because Trump has not even gotten into office yet. I replied, you blamed Biden for the price of eggs and that had nothing to do with Biden but corporate greed. And so it begins.

November 9, 2024

Processing this, Trump seems to have come across social media kinda like an "influencer"

which I had no clue what it was until like a couple yrs ago. These people are powerful and a powerful influence on so much of our nations mind. They don't stay up late scrolling, scrolling, reading about reality. And so much of the culture under about 40 now are so brainwashed thru this mentality and the do not watch news. And people feed them, an appetite of it. And further, if they see you tend to one conversation, they will throw you into the red, rw crowd and that is what you consume all fuggin day and into that night. Then throw in Musk.

November 7, 2024

Hate. Outloud, in your face.... Hate. And so it begins.

One of the previous issues I remember from Trumps time was the vocal in your face hate and yes, violence because trump opened the flood gates for that. Over the last 4 yrs it is not as loud and constant during his time. I was reading FB and conversation about girls being taunted on the playground by boys "your body our choice". And so it begins. the approved and allowed, accept out loud hate and mean that Trumps brings to the table and feeds thru our society with him as the "leader". Another was a girl in front of class. White/Asian and boy yelled out I know who you would vote for because you do not want to be deported.

This is one of the many things Trump brings to us.

November 5, 2024

Reading the SC rulings today and what they have ruled recently just makes my stomach sick.

To all those people back in 2016 that told us the SC was not important, what do you say now?

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