Posted on 12/10/2024 6:32:18 AM PST by MtnClimber
A manifesto recovered from the alleged shooter of UnitedHeathCare CEO Brian Thompson says that “These parasites had it coming” and “I do apologize for any strife and trauma, but it had to be done.”
This is music to the ears of many on the left, who cheered when they learned that Thompson had been gunned down and are treating the shooter as some sort of folk hero.
“Social media users have sometimes outright gloated at the killing,” is how The Hill put it, describing it as an expression of “populist rage” and then spending the rest of the article trying to obliquely pin the blame on Donald Trump.
The Atlantic dismissed the “mockery and disdain” of the cold-blooded murder as an “expression of widespread fury at a broken system.”
Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz reposted an article about how Blue Cross Blue Shield will no longer cover anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries, adding, “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”
“Saturday Night Live” joked that “it really says something about America that a guy was murdered in cold blood and the two main reactions were, ‘Yeah, well health care stinks!’ And also, ‘Girl, that shooter hot.’ “
If this reminds you of anything it should. Because the same cast of miscreants cheered the would-be assassin of Donald Trump as well.
In fact, the only problem they could find was that the shooter’s aim was off.
The left had effectively been calling for Trump’s assassination for years. Every time they described him as a “threat to democracy,” compared him to Hitler, and said that he had to be “stopped at all costs,” it was a call to action that at least two would-be assassins heard.
Is this sort of bloodlust confined to the left? Of course not. But if you follow the pundit class, you’d believe that it’s entirely contained on the conservative side of the spectrum.
The truth is that leftists are far more prone to want to murder their opponents because they’ve been infected by the Marxist-power-struggle virus, which leads them to think that the murder of a political opponent is always justifiable homicide.
In the case of health care, the left will never be satisfied until the government controls the entire system, soup to nuts, with Sen. Bernie Sanders making decisions about which patients live or die. If that means sacrificing a few health insurance CEOs on the road to this socialist Nirvana, so be it.
In the midst of this sickness, there were some voices expressing common sense.
One of them was Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean at the Yale School of Management. He wrote that:
I have studied CEO and business leadership for 40 years, and such dancing on the grave of a murdered business executive is one of the most abhorrent things I have ever seen. This vitriol and violence against business and business leaders is plainly un-American.
Indeed it is. And who hates America? Oh, right, those on the left.
I am not condoning murder. I have read a few articles about him doing all he can to prevent and discourage people from getting healthcare. Therefore he seems to be a scumbag to me. But he is going before the ultimate Judge.
I don’t think the guy was a gem either. That said, we don’t murder people because we don’t like them.
They actually the kind or people who would kneel you down by a ditch and blow your brains out
I agree.
For example, I may feel like kicking over every stupid “Hate Has No Home Here” sign I see, but I will never act on it. Ever.
I am a conservative man, and I practice impulse control. Most conservatives do. We are conservatives because we believe in a government that is governed by the rule of law, not by the rule of men.
Our enemies, both foreign and domestic, believe no such thing. They are perfectly happy to encourage lawlessness, assassination and murder, and when it takes place, they piously say “That was an individual acting alone, we don’t approve of that.” and in the very next breath, will continue to encourage lawlessness, assassination and murder.
We shouldn’t do that. Ever.
I totally agree.
Fail, there is always someone willing to step in and do exactly what the one that was killed was doing/
Killing him was a fail. The laws allowing those companies to do these things needs to be changed.
You are right.
Well if we killed all the scumbags, there would be few people left.
and.. the people who have been royaly screwed over by uhc are feeling at least a little justice.
Yes. The quoted dialogue above highlights that for me.
We don’t go down that road.
Everyone has grievances, and many of them are valid. This country is not founded on the concept that it is acceptable to break the law (especially by murder) if you deem that your grievance is serious enough in your own mind.
If the grievance is either not addressed by law, or there is no law to cover it, then you address those things.
Otherwise, we are a country of 345 million people with 345 million grievances that can be acted upon.
Nobody in their right mind wants to live in that country.
We don’t go down that road.
Because if we do, that is the road to pain, suffering, and perdition.
<< It is a religion of death. >>
Which is why leftists and jihadists are bedfellows — both are death cults who aim to destroy western civilization.
If found guilty of 1st degree murder, he should face the death penalty .... then, maybe in 60 or 70 years, justice will be served.
They sure do, and the left were screaming for more hits agaisnt Daniel Penny too because they didn’t get the false verdict of guilty that they wanted. Several black folks were calling for vigilantes to go and “do something” about Daniel Penny, and crowds standing around looked and sounded all in agreement-
The “tolerant left” sure are a blood lusting group
Leftists and Jihadists are both Leftists, IMO.
As are Nazis. Communists. And Fascists.
Yes...they certainly are. Repulsive.
Absolutely, the Nazi leaders escaped to the Middle East after the war.
Absolutely, the Nazi leaders escaped to the Middle East after the war.
Interestingly, Otto Skorzeny worked for the Mossad for awhile.
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