Elizabeth Warren sympathized with people who cheered an insurance company CEO’s assassination
Image parody depicting Luigi Mangione being identified at McDonald’s. (Patriots.win)
One of the biggest stories over the past few days involved the assassination of Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare. Luigi Mangione, 26, approached Thompson and fatally shot him before making his escape. “Deny,” “defend,” and “depose” were written on bullet casings recovered from the scene. Many actually cheered this act, and sympathized with Mangione. After the latter was identified at McDonald’s and turned in, many flooded this establishment with negative reviews. Senator Elizabeth Warren made a statement empathizing with both Mangione and those who cheered his act.
From New York Post:
“The visceral response from people across the country who feel cheated, ripped off, and threatened by the vile practices of their insurance companies should be a warning to everyone in the healthcare system,” Warren (D-Mass.) told the Huffington Post in an interview.
“Violence is never the answer, but people can only be pushed so far.”
In a subsequent statement, the Massachusetts senator added: “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.”
Last Wednesday morning, a gunman shot Thompson, 50, in the back of his head outside a Sixth Avenue hotel.
UnitedHealthcare is the largest private health insurance provider in the US.;
Since then, authorities have apprehended tech whiz Luigi Mangione, 26, as the suspected assassin.
Investigators have speculated that Mangione may have had a grudge against the healthcare industry as evidenced by an X-ray photo on his X account and the fact that he had books involving chronic back pain on his Goodreads account reading list, sources previously told The Post.
Strikingly, an outcry of netizens has cheered the slaying of Thompson, ripping into the US healthcare system. This included former Washington Post media journalist Taylor Lorenz taking “joy” in the killing.
“This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they lose faith in the ability of their government to make change, lose faith in the ability of the people who are providing the health care to make change, and start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone,” Warren added to the outlet.
Additional Reading:
King, R. (2024, December 11). Elizabeth Warren outrageously sympathizes with UnitedHealthcare CEO killer: ‘People can only be pushed so far’. New York Post. Link.
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I would expect nothing less from Fauxcahontas. She’s a gibbering halfwit.
^THIS^ “You didn’t hear me right the first time, what I actually meant to say, and did say tho you didn’t hear me say ’cause I didn’t say was I don’t know what to say since I have been so oppressed because of my native american heritage. Who are you going to believe…your lying ears or my lying mouth?” Skrunt!
Lots of bloggers out there have lots of “theories” on this case. Some have it as a plot by nut jobs, some as a hit because he was fixin’ to spill the beans on the corruption of the insurance companies, others that by him using a “silencer/suppressor” on a “ghost gun” paving the way for more restrictions on such devices. I personally think dood had some help and he f*cked up big time by not tossing the weapon and not getting further away from the scene…if he in fact is the one that actually did the deed. Don’t know, weren’t there. An insurance company is a for profit entity and the less claims they pay out, the more profit they make.
I’ve started to develop a theory that to many of these politicians think they are leaders by virtue of their election to office. And thus their voice and opinion means something. Liawatha and her compatriots in the legislative branch were elected to represent their constituents and not lead them, and their representation exists only for their State or district. IMO I don’t want or need to hear from them.
She’s always looking to get her feathers ruffled.
I completely understand people’s frustration and anger with the American insurance system. Obamacare was going to fix it, and only succeeded in pissing even more people off and reducing access to healthcare because many medical facilities won’t deal with it. My sympathy ends when some privileged dickhead decides that the answer is murder or violence. Game over, Luigi.
((Queue up Mario for Nintendo Game Over theme))
I think you don’t mean what you wrote – your sympathy for the people impacted by our shitty healthcare system surely didn’t end because someone murdered someone from that system, you just don’t excuse the murder, right?
Because that’s entirely understandable. The woeful problems with our healthcare system, and the countless lives impacted -and ended- because of it remain, even if civilized society can agree that murder isn’t the right solution.
My sympathy ends for that particular instance, not in total. Excuse the murder? I’m not sure how you managed to extract that from my post.
I was just checking, and making sure I understood — I think we’re on the same page.
The way it was worded, it sounded like you had sympathy for people angry and frustrated with the American insurance system -a general statement, applying to a lot of people, not just the gunman- so when you said your sympathy ends when someone commits murder, it wasn’t clear to me you were just talking about sympathy for the gunman. That’s all.
Luigi admired the Unabomber. Shows how incompetent he is. Of course in the eyes of War-ren the faux Indian squatter this guys is a hero to her TDS group of followers. Big bad corporate America. My thought on the matter is: Quit voting for liberal policies like affordable care. It’s not affordable after the government gets in volved. They dangled a carrot in front of insurance companies to make big profits by being able to deny care in the ACA.
The Left cheered when a man was gunned down ? Hmm…
So settling one’s differences with a gun is okay as long as ‘the right people are killed’ is part of the ever moving goal posts? What happened to joy? Love & understanding? Or is just because of all the Leftist Bridge Trolls that swore of men 3 weeks ago are THIRSTING after the suspected shooter?
And if anyone suggested that politicians should suffer a similar fate because of their lies and corruption, she would call for their immediate arrest and prosecution.
I wrote this on YouTube, shortly before the platform took it down via shadow banning:
“If we, as a society, start to sanction and condone murder based on who a person is, what they do, or their politics, then the United States deserves to be destroyed.”
The gif that keeps on giving…..
Nada Indian.