I check Bluesky so you don’t have to On that nice, polite, all-sweetness-and-light social media service, the Usual Suspects are cheering the murder of a health insurance CEO

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A thus-far unidentified gunman waited for 50-year-old Brian Thompson, the CEO of United Healthcare, and shot him to death, in what the New York Police Department labelled a “brazen targeted attack.” Naturally, some of the [insert plural slang term for the anus here] are celebrating the murder of this innocent man, as can be seen in the tweet screen captured at the right. The waste of water and air in the video called the murderer a hero.

In a land of fruits and nuts, in which anyone has the right to say stupid stuff and then put it on TikTok, it’s unsurprising that some deranged guy would celebrate a targeted murder like that. But, what would you say if a well-paid columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, our nation’s third oldest continuously published daily newspaper, and the winner of over twenty Pulitzer Prizes, celebrated the same attack?

Yup, that’s Will Bunch, the hard-left columnist, who skeeted on Bluesky, “In a nation ruled by its oligarchs, the oligarchs become targets for assassination. RIP Brian Thompson of UnitedHealthcare, but this is also, in a weird way, a kind of reality check”. Remember, this was on Bluesky, the Twitter-copying microblogging social media service to which so many leftists have retreated because we evil reich-wing conservatives were allowed to post without censorship again, a place of courtesy and decorum. If you follow the link and check the comments, you’ll see that a lot of the denizens of Bluesky think just the way Mr Bunch does.

At least as of this writing, Mr Bunch has not posted a column in the Inquirer on this subject.

Then there was the lovely Taylor Lorenz, the former Washington Post reporter, who doxxed Chaya Raichik, the previously anonymous creator of Libs of TikTok, who also fled to Bluesky because there were too many meanie-hoonies on Twitter, some saying harsh things about her. She skeeted:

People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering. As someone against death and suffering, I think it’s good to call out this broken system and the ppl in power who enable it.

Isn’t saying about the murder that “People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs” a justification on her part for the murder of Mr Thompson? Isn’t the lovely Miss Lorenz telling her readers that “these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering” an incitement for other people to go out and shoot other insurance company CEOs?

Unlike Mr Bunch’s skeet, Miss Lorenz restricted comments to those people she follows on Bluesky.

Don’t listen to what the left tell you about Bluesky; go and see for yourself. When the left tell you that Twitter is mean and hateful, they’re actually telling you what they do themselves on that sweetness-and-light site.

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3 thoughts on “I check Bluesky so you don’t have to On that nice, polite, all-sweetness-and-light social media service, the Usual Suspects are cheering the murder of a health insurance CEO”

  1. First, to be clear, I’m not condoning the murder of this guy. I don’t know him, he could be a saint and could have been working diligently to reform health insurance. I don’t know and it’s irrelevant to my point.

    I’m not saying he deserved to be executed or that the assassin isn’t an evil douchebag who should be punished to the fullest extent of the law…he is and he should.

    But…

    I’m not getting why so many on the right seem to be reflexively defending the health insurance industry. I have three forms of health insurance. I have Tricare from being retired military, I have the VA from being a veteran and I have a very expensive health care policy that’s provided by my employer. Of the three, the very expensive health insurance is by far the worst.

    Their purpose is not to provide health care, their purpose is to try to weasel out of paying for health care in any way they possibly can to maximize their profits.

    As much as the VA gets badmouthed, that’s the best place for me to get care. The down side is that it’s so overpopulated that it takes FOREVER to get an appointment so if it’s something more urgent than “it might get taken care of within a year if you’re lucky”, I have to rely on my civilian insurance and Tricare, but if I have time to wait an interminable amount of time for an appointment, I’ve always been very satisfied with the care I get from the VA.

    So, my point is, although I don’t think assassinating people is a defensible act, I can certainly understand the anger against insurance companies. Anyone who’s ever had a loved one die because the insurance company wouldn’t authorize a specialist visit, referral or expensive treatment regimen; anyone who’s been financially devastated because the insurance wouldn’t pay a legitimate emergency care claim over some technicality understands completely why some people would harbor ill will toward that industry.

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