{"id":244,"date":"2024-12-13T10:43:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T10:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=244"},"modified":"2025-09-27T23:43:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T23:43:51","slug":"wsj-luigi-mangiones-senate-explainers-warren-and-sanders-tell-us-why-killing-ceos-is-understandable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"WSJ: “Luigi Mangione\u2019s Senate Explainers. Warren and Sanders tell us why killing CEOs is understandable.”"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Progressive wing of the Democrat Party. Long may they flounder. Here's another post I put up yesterday  WSJ: "Is Murdering Healthcare CEO's Justified?<\/a> on this point.<\/p>\n

If you think sympathy for the devil in Luigi Mangione is confined to the fever swamps of Reddit, consider comments by Sen. Elizabeth Warren.<\/a><\/p>\n

Did she mean a warning not to shoot someone? Not quite.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe visceral response from people across this 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,\u201d she said, as quoted by HuffPost. \u201cViolence is never the answer, but people can be pushed only so far. This is a warning that if you push people hard enough, they . . . start to take matters into their own hands in ways that will ultimately be a threat to everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Translation: Violence may be wrong, but it\u2019s explainable by the U.S. healthcare system. And copycats may be coming for the same reason. Oh, and how about passing Medicare for All?<\/p>\n

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders also used Thompson\u2019s murder to opine that the \u201canger at the healthcare industry tells us is that . . . you cannot have people in the insurance industry rejecting needed healthcare for people while they make billions of dollars in profit.\u201d<\/p>\n

As an explanation of Mr. Mangione\u2019s alleged act, this is factually wrong and morally benighted. We don\u2019t know if Mr. Mangione was denied care or even what his specific healthcare complaint was, apart from a general loathing for the system. Perhaps he blames health providers for his back pain, but that isn\u2019t an explanation for murder.<\/p>\n

Murder can\u2019t be rationalized, and a society does so at its peril. …<\/p>\n

The right response to the healthcare assassination came from John Fetterman, the Pennsylvania Democrat, in the same HuffPost story. He criticized what he called \u201cvile\u201d social media posts for celebrating an \u201ca\u2014 that\u2019s going to die in prison.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you gun someone down that you don\u2019t happen to agree with their views or the business that they\u2019re in, hey, you know, I\u2019m next, they\u2019re next,\u201d Mr. Fetterman added. \u201cAnd people want to celebrate it. It\u2019s twisted.\u201d It certainly is.<\/p>\n

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The Progressive wing of the Democrat Party. Long may they flounder. Here's another post I put up yesterday  WSJ: "Is Murdering Healthcare CEO's Justified? on this point. If you think sympathy for the devil in Luigi Mangione is confined to the fever swamps of Reddit, consider comments by Sen. Elizabeth Warren. Did she mean a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7052,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/7052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}