The Death Cult: How a Liberal Media and a Delusional Left Will Turn an Assassin into a Hero by Scott Pinsker
Because of the hypocrisy and overreach of the left, Republicans in 2024 are utterly unfazed by legal pushback. Just a few years ago, the mere stench of a criminal charge was more than enough to deep-six a politician’s career. Now, an indictment is a badge of honor: it means you pissed off the right people.
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So in some ways, the December 1 pardon of Hunter Biden and the December 4 murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson were unrelated. It’s entirely coincidental that he was killed only three days later.
And why follow what you don’t believe, trust, or respect?
Just beneath the periphery of the frontpage, there’s an active campaign on the left to mythologize the grinning assassin — and to transform this cold-blooded murderer into a modern-day Robin Hood. Consider these headlines:
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CBS News: UnitedHealthcare CEO death reveals wider outrage over health care system
USA Today: Health insurance CEO murder unleashes Internet vitriol aimed at industry
USA Today (again): The UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed and many had little sympathy. Why?
The Washington Post: The UnitedHealthcare CEO was killed. Why did some people celebrate?
NPR: After a shocking shooting, Americans vent feelings about health insurance
Daily Mail: UnitedHealthcare CEO’s assassination triggers outpouring of hate directed at health insurance industry
The New York Times: Torrent of Hate for Health Insurance Industry
“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” posted liberal journalist Taylor Lorenz. Other liberals in academia agreed with her…
and this warning
And today, after Biden broke his word (yet again) and issued a blanket, unconditional pardon of his nitwit kid, the left stopped believing as well: the law means nothing anymore. The final holdouts have stopped holding out.
So why not kill a healthcare CEO?
If you can’t trust the legal process, all that’s left is mob violence. Which is where we’re at: welcome to post-legal America.
Buenos Dias!
Not seeing a Tuesday page but it’s 70 here and raining, not much, 1.20″ since yesterday morning but we surely need it.
Mornin’ Gang
If we start cutting SS by reducing or eliminating it from being given to illegals, that would be a legitimate start, IMHO.
It started out as a safety net for retirement, and now it’s dipped into for just about everything. Government is like mold- always wanting to grow bigger and eat what feeds it making everyone around it sick, until its supply source runs out.
Speaking of sick, on top of the back that’s kept me horizontal for most of the day, I’m now getting a scratchy throat. Dangit.
With a special friend, I’m going to try again to pull off this sweet, simple duet arrangement this Christmas.
I have had to back out several times due to voice problems at the last minute.
And that is why we will never have a balanced budget. Anyone whose ox gets gored like removing the mortgage deduction people start screaming. Politicians got us right where they want us
SS Meds Mscare and interest on debt take 55% of the budget. How can you say wrong?
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There will be mid-term elections in 23 months with every member of the House and 33 of the Senate seats up for election. Republicans have a 3 seat majority in the Senate and maybe a 3 or 4 seat margin in the House. I don’t trust any politician and I’m not impressed with their intelligence level, but I don’t think the Republicans are so stupid as to lose the House and Senate by scaring the daylights out of American families by slashing their SS checks. It would mean their chances of getting anything accomplished in 2027 and 2028 would be… Read more »
Most Americans don’t realize we will spend about $1.25 trillion on interest payments on federal debt in 2025 from a $5 trillion budget or roughly 25%. You know why ? Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and her conga line of pathetic imbeciles did not refinance our long-term debt back when interest reached near zero. Nations like Iraq refied their debt for 50 years at 1 or 2 %. So did a lot of other nations in Europe for instance. China did and Russia did. We can cut billions and billions out of our budget by simply managing our debt instruments like… Read more »
There’s no way to do this without cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Wrong.
About 5:30 I’m headed to church for Council dinner and New Council Members “orientation”.
Wish me luck.
Heh Heh Heh oh boy. Ya really think Trump is a good guy? Likin him teaming up with Muskatel creating yet another unelected governmental agency? On Thursday, Musk and his “DOGE” co-chair, Vivek Ramaswamy, went to Capitol Hill to discuss their plans. Republican lawmakers immediately announced that “everything is on the table,” including cutting Social Security and Medicare.During the campaign, Musk said his goal was to cut $2 trillion — or about 30 percent — of the entire federal budget. There’s no way to do this without cutting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Social Security alone accounts for almost a quarter… Read more »
This may be the reason you can’t trust Google Maps to navigate.
Oh and I ran into this near Mt Cheaha on a Road trip back in September of 2015, before I moved out of Texas.
Bush plane is built in Wyoming.
😀
With all of the busy church stuff this past weekend, I neglected to share Dr. Malone’s funnies:
https://www.malone.news/p/sunday-strip-dont-celebrate-yet
https://www.malone.news/p/friday-funnies-duck-duck-goose
I did see a photo over the weekend of two fairly low altitude drones over New Jersey in broad daylight that looked like the type militaries use, the type usually carrying armaments.
And now, from the “Karma’s a B***ch” department: The New York Post ran a very satisfying and ironic story this weekend headlined, “‘Defund the police’ activist goes viral after begging for help when everything she owned was stolen in San Francisco: ‘The cops didn’t do s—!’” Sometimes people get just what they deserve. San Fransisco (sic) resident and ever-masker Danice Bell, 60?, did not report to police the theft of her rented and fully loaded 26-foot Uhaul moving van, although she complained cops “didn’t do s—t.” Danice hates the police. She believes police, including black officers, are all raging racists, and it is… Read more »
Spotted over yonder, Rhode Island/King Ranch.
Luigi Mangione?
Must be Irish.
🙂 🙂 🙂
More on drones from the C&C: I researched drones that could fit the profile, information invisible in most of the media reports. Two categories of drones are at least as big as a small car. First, prototypes of “flying cars”… It’s unclear why flying car developers would risk huge penalties to test their prototypes like this instead of doing it legally and in the clear.The second possible category are the cargo drones. These are autonomous flyers, like hobby drones, except bigger. They’re operated by remote control, but unlike hobby drones, they carry a substantial payload. Amazon, for example, has been testing delivery drones… Read more »
Texpat – do you know anything about this? These drones were flying around military bases last fall. TPTB all gave a collective “I dunno” shrug in response. They are back, now invading New York and still hovering over NJ’s sensitive sites: Yesterday, NorthJersey.com ran one of many bizarre unidentified flying drone stories this weekend headlined, “North Jersey mayors demand action from NJ, feds on flurry of drone sightings.” Last Tuesday, the FBI issued a joint statement with the New Jersey State Police and the State Office of Homeland Security setting up a tipline for information from the public related to “the recent… Read more »
Mr. C. starts off with the “lightning fast” response by the Meat Puppet to the Syrian power shift, trying to take credit for any positive news that comes out of it. The painful comparison to the (lack of) response to the hurricane victims reared its ugly head. But back to Syria: MP says that we our military has begun striking “enemies” in Syria. How do they know who/where the “enemies” are? So soon? So fast? Syria is the Star Wars bar scene for terrorists. Biden then launched the big announcement: the United States —not the U.N., the World Bank, or for Hades’… Read more »
There are two kinds of folks.
Those who like living with peacocks nearby, and the other 99.9999% of us.
I have a couple roosters that live nearby who need a syrinxectomy.
Since today is a sucky pain day, I can at least cheer myself up with today’s C&C: Good morning, C&C, it’s Monday! Time for a brand new week as the air chills and the holiday spirit overtakes the country. This morning’s roundup includes: on the very first weekday following the dramatic fall of Syria, the United States flies into the gap; I take a deep flight over the unidentified flying drone controversy which, if anything, has soared above U.S. military bases and are now invading entire states; local officials freaking out while feds are slow walking any response; deliciously ironic… Read more »
Handyman is here and has his to-do list of stuff to move around for me while Hubby’s in Bryan tending to a tenant issue. I spent some time in the new craft room upstairs, throwing stuff into trash bags and moving things. I had to make room for the shelves that have been living in upstairs limbo for months and months. Now that the flooring is 99.9% completed, it’s time to start putting stuff where it belongs. That includes moving some of the construction items, like scaffolding parts, back to the shop. Then I can get into my closet again.… Read more »
I guess I’m just lucky. I haven’t had any problems with Yellowstone.
But I purchased this entire season last year through Amazon Prime/Firestick and it comes to me that way without going through some other app like Paramount plus. I received an email at 7:48 this morning that it was available for viewing on Prime.
By the way, the next time I need a legal team in Europe, I’m hiring these two. On Thursday, a judge in The Hague sentenced right-wing TV presenter and lawyer Raisa Blommestijn to 80 hours of community service—double the amount requested by the prosecution—over social media posts she made from her personal account in May of last year.In response to viral footage showing a migrant gang beating a defenseless white man before throwing him onto the train tracks, she wrote:Yet another white man beaten up on the street by a group of Negroid primates. How many more defenseless whites must become victims? Probably countless:… Read more »
UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting latest: Man being held for questioning in Pennsylvania, sources say.
Not surprisingly Texpat beat me to the Daniel Penny Not Guilty Verdict but just after that there are now reports that they’ve caught the United Healthcare CEO’s murderer in Altoona Pa!
All eyes are Mayor Eric Adams who already said Penny should be acquitted and blamed the situation on the whole city government of NYC for failing to maintain peace and safety.
The BLM and Al Sharpton’s people have been threatening riots if this former Marine is acquitted. Adams and the NYPD are going to look very bad if they don’t keep a tight lid on it.
Jury in New York acquits Daniel Penny.
AS if we needed any more evidence that Pope Frankie is in league with the evil one, we have this:
Those were the days….,
This was not long after Chrysler opened their Belvidere plant just outside Rockford Il.
The Jones Act is now 104 years old and it’s long past time for it to die and be buried. The Jones Act “requires that all goods transported by water between U.S. ports be carried on ships that have been constructed in the United States and that fly the U.S. flag, are owned by U.S. citizens, and are crewed by U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents.” It was passed over 100 years ago as part of the Merchant Marine Act of 1920 when it might have made some sense (I can’t speak to that), but it has become an expensive and… Read more »
On SD’s rabbit trail theme.
https://twitchy.com/samj/2024/12/09/thread-of-trumps-most-savage-moments-n2404892
About my @ 7:43 AM. When my wife said she was going to Tallahassee my first thought was that I’d not been there in years so I got to thinking and it’s been much longer than I thought. The last and only time I was in Tallahassee was the Summer of 61 when I was 7. We’d been fishing and camping on Lake George, on the St Johns river and were heading home. We had planned to stop off at a beach on the gulf coast before going back to Alabama but what we didn’t know at the time was… Read more »
The back is bad today. Having to lay down. I guess pain killers are next.
Peacock
Back to this Kristen Welker woman. Glenn Reynolds posted this video from Meet the Press with Trump and recommended watching with the sound off. Since I refuse to watch any of these network fake news shows, I wasn’t even sure who she was. The woman is hideous. Welker has the archetypal set of crazy eyes. Run, don’t walk away because she is not only crazy, but obnoxious as well.
We will have a high of 60 degrees here in Wednesday, December 11th. Amazing. Of course, it dives to a high of 33 on Friday, however temps rise into the 50s again next week. More global warming, please.
Just one more and yes I did stumble down a Rabbit Hole.
and don’t forget to drink too much and put on weight,……. @ about the 3:20 mark.
FWIW; GJT was/is right; Hal does not like the word Peaco@k. 😉
Another one is the show “The Firm” on Prime. We liked the original movie and I ran across a series based on the original movie. It is older, not the best acting and plots are far fetched but it is good lazy viewing and I got hooked. Went through 22 episodes only to find out a season 2 was never offered so I got left hanging. First world problems, I tell ya
I just have one, maybe two words for streaming in general; IT SUX!!!!!!!!
Television streaming has yet to reach prime time. It is frustrating to keep up with passwords – did I set it up, or did you, do the forgot my password thing and no such email matches. And we get more and more commercials.
Got one in the bucket, maybe Hal does not like the word Peaco@k? 😀
We’ve been watching Yellowstone on Paramount via Showtime. The Samsung TV software refused to let us access Yellowstone last night.
On Paramount Plus, we watch The Agency, The Diplomat and Lioness. The only thing we could access last night was Lioness since the Samsung TV programming format sucks so badly. Not only that but I could buy this same TV today for about half what I spent 3 years ago.
This is old news but it is worth the watch;
Watch Donna Brazile go from SMUG to DEVASTATED as the 2024 Election Results come in…😀
White-head playing Baby Elephant Walk on the acoustic. Nice.
I don’t think I mentioned it but my wife and SIL headed out to Tallahassee on Friday to attend a trade Show on Saturday and sight-see on Sunday. They stayed at an old antebellum home that was sort of like a boarding house with a common living and kitchen area downstairs but all the rooms had their own baths. The place was pretty big, 3 stories and they were on the second floor but one neat feature was that there was a coffee pot just outside their room so they didn’t have to go down to the kitchen. They got… Read more »