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.
It seems to be a trend.
It is a religion of death.
There are a number here on FR that are fine with the latest assassination.
Interesting this. This broken system, Obama Care, is what liberals wanted. They lied and cheated to have it. Now they don’t like the results and so condone murder thinking that will put it in order.
Yes, it surprises and saddens me, how a number of people on Free Republic were happy about this shooting.
But the comments are out there, if anyone wants to go back and see what some Freepers said.
Yes and no.
Yes, this is what they pushed for.
No, what they REALLY want is a non-private, totally government-operated system like the British National Health Service (NHS). And we all know how wonderful that system is.
The media also told us that Biden was in full flower of his mental powers, and Kamala was the most qualified person for President of the USA. When actually, Kamala is best suited for wine tasting in NAPA valley.
So “he sounds like a scumbag”?
Murder is wrong - that said, every ‘deal’ congress has made with ‘the industrial healthcare complex’ needs to be looked at by Elon and Vivek. Lobbyists paid off Congress for all these horrible toxic ‘advantages’ that are killing patients. Start with medicare advantage - the largest graftcare.
I've noticed.
Just like Marxism and ISlime.
Yes, sadly.
They are Marxists and Marxist love and need chaos.
SOME people just need killing. -Snake Plisken
Interesting this. This broken system, Obama Care, is what liberals wanted.
They lied and cheated to have it.
Now they don’t like the results
and so condone murder
thinking that will put it in order.
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must be repeated ,
often and loudly.
Ivermectin works well.
Thomas, of course Glad is right, but beyond that, your comment is absolutely vile. We’re talking about political murder, and the left is heavily inclined to violence and always has been. Do we really want to go there as a society? Murder is murder and should be denounced; the alleged character of the victim is entirely beside the point
I'm less than fine with it, but "some people need killing".
Just as I don't let a mouse live in my house and I'll use whatever trap I can, glue traps work great. Idk the s.o.b. suffered, it's a rodent hell bent on making me and my home sick and unlivable.
I don't think the ceo was akin to a mouse. But his life created enough pain in someone that they did something to stop the grifter
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