Far-left Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) appeared to justify the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson by first decrying the “violence” but then qualifying that remark by claiming people can only be “pushed so far,” as though the killer had no real alternative. Warren made her ghastly remarks during an appearance on left-wing lunatic and serial race-baiter Joy Reid’s MSNBC show on Tuesday.
Host Joy Reid said: “So, we’ve been talking a lot about [murder suspect] Luigi Mangione, the case about the UnitedHealthcare CEO. People are very angry at UnitedHealthcare, I think, for a good reason, denying care, and the whole system. And we were just talking in the previous block, killing a CEO is not the way you change. You have to regulate them, right? And so, we’ve got attempts to try to rein in some of these big businesses. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was your creation, the Trump administration wants to get rid of it. That is like protecting people from, like, credit card fraud. What happens if that goes away?”
Without a hint of irony or ever mentioning that she, as a member of Congress, is in large part responsible for the mountains of regulations piled on the healthcare and health insurance industries by she and her colleagues, Warren, ever the socialist, responded: “So, look, terrible for individuals, but stop and think, overall, about the social contract. Part of the deal in how we’ve kept this democracy, this economy, this country on a fairly steady path for more than 200 years has been that those at the top pay a little more in taxes, are a little less rich than they otherwise might be, and everybody else at least gets a chance.
“And what happens, when you turn this into the billionaires run it all, is they get the opportunity to squeeze every last penny. And look, we’ll say it over and over, violence is never the answer, this guy gets a trial, who’s allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth[care]. But you can only push people so far, and then, they start to take matters into their own hands,” she added after mouthing, unconvincingly, that ‘violence is never the answer.’
Reid responded, “They start to take — yeah.” Warren continued — again, without a hint of irony — that the solution is more regulations on the healthcare industry. “We need regulation, in part, to rein those guys in. And you know where this is coming big time ahead of us? Is on taxes, that, the big boys, just like you said, their plan is to rush through this tax plan right at the beginning of 2025, get themselves a bunch more tax breaks, and then put the real burden of running this country on ordinary, hard-working families,” she said.
Perhaps Warren didn’t get the 2024 election message that a majority of Americans don’t view her or her party as particularly friendly to “ordinary, hard-working Americans” after a Democratic congressional majority and the Biden-Harris regime passed massive spending bills at the beginning of their term that a boatload of economists said led to some of the highest inflation in decades. She obviously is lying about the “tax cuts only for the rich” rhetoric because it’s been well-documented that the Trump-era tax cuts benefited more than 85 percent of ‘ordinary’ Americans.
But the really disgusting part about what she and the worst host on TV implied — excusing the murder of Thompson, who leaves behind a wife and two children for any reason — is beyond the pale. Warren should be censured by the incoming Senate and Reid taken off the air, though we’re not going to hold our breath waiting for either of those things to happen.
