[GatewayPundit] Former MD Police Commander and Dana Bash Fantasize that UnitedHealthcare CEO “Orchestrated” His Own Assassination.
CNN’s Dana Bash indulged in conspiracy theories during a Friday segment of CNN’s Inside Politics, more like Inside the Loony Bin, when her guest, former Maryland State Police Commander Neill Franklin, suggested that United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson “orchestrated” his own assassination.
Franklin’s only evidence: “[The shooter] knew too much about where he was going to be at a specific time.” As Franklin explained how the assassin couldn’t have possibly known where Thompson would be, Bash justified the claims, pointing out that “he knew.” Wouldn’t any assassin likely know where their target would be at a specific time?
Surely, it’s possible, but what a stretch!
The Gateway Pundit reported on Wednesday morning that Brian Thompson was murdered outside of the Hilton Hotel. He arrived before 7 am for a conference when he was shot at multiple times by a masked man who police say was waiting for him to arrive. The fact that the assassin was waiting for Thompson “is what is really digging at me as a former criminal investigator,” said Franklin.
WATCH:
Bash: Do you think that they know who he is? Do You think that they have his identity?
Franklin: It's a good chance. It's a very good possibility, with these new photographs, that they already know who he is. It's a very good chance of that. But also, I want to say something else that I know these criminal investigators are looking into as it relates to motive. There have been times when people have orchestrated their own demise for certain reasons. We know that there was some— and I'm not saying this is the case, but as an investigator…
Bash: Like, for insurance purposes?
Franklin: Absolutely. Insurance purposes, maybe they fear some type of investigation down the road, maybe they want to leave their family in a good light. But there have been cases where people have orchestrated…
Bash: You're saying it in a nice language, you're saying, you're saying that it is a possibility that he hired somebody to kill him?
Franklin: Absolutely. It cannot be ignored. And this is what is really digging at me as a former criminal investigator. This guy knew too much about where he was going to be at a specific time. There's no evidence that I've seen of him— when you look at the timeline of him coming to that area outside of the Hilton and where he was outside of the Hilton, it's a very small window, very small window. It's not like he was roaming around, we have video of him roaming around, going from one door to the next, to the next, trying to figure out where he's going to be at a specific time.
Bash: He knew.
Franklin: He was there. He was laying in wait. Who would have that specific type of information as to what sidewalk he was going to be on?
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Dana Bash says stuff that the three letter agencies put on her script. What she doesn’t say is truth.
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It turns out that the insurance company who's CEO was murdered last week is in some hot water already with the DOJ, or so I'm told. This insurance company has THE highest denial rates, over 30%. They own a large part of big pharma, they also own urgent clinics and hospital groups. Oh, and also responsible for over 25% of medicare/medicaid. They are giants! So how is this playing out. The accusations are that they deny and delay claims targeting hospital groups and large doctors offices. When they start to go under, they buy them. A business model of sorts.
So there is the background, or conspiracy theory so far. The shooter, that is getting so much press is being called an amateur by the news and that he is moments away from capture. We will see. While he may or may not be a professional shooter, he has thought this out and playing it better than anyone. First, this CEO has 24 hour security, the shooter found a gap, only pros know how to do this. He used a silenced small caliber weapon, like the pros. He did it in the open, under camera surveillance, he knew he was being video taped. He even left messages on the shells he left behind, probably causing the jams. What amazes me is his thought out trail of clues, like an easter egg hunt. He stayed in a hostel that had working cameras, did not hide from them. He only wore his mask enough to make the police work at it. He went to Starbucks right before, anyone knows his movements will be backtracked. He again left some clues, if they were good clues, finger prints and DNA he would have his name in lights by now. He left his backpack, purposefully leaving another clue. Now is on a bus out of town that stops at every po dunk city on the way out. He is dust in the wind.
They might eventually catch up with him. I assume the NYPD will find a body somewhere and attribute it to suicide and close the case. But what he had done is made this a media event like DB Cooper. The press cant let it go. In the way the press works, they will dig into background, like they are doing. The facts of how corrupt the insurance company is will surface on its own, like it is happening now. The new CEO of the insurance company knows this as well, he is calling for the media to drop the hype. The shooter has effectively given his one lone voice a national bullpen for the abuses in the system. Kinda like Batman!!
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/\ Thanks for the data dump Pan. I take it we still don't have anything at all on the 6 Jan pipe bomb fella ?
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The stupidity of the MD Police Commander tells me everything I need to know why MD is such a 3rd World Shithole. And if you think UNH claims denial is solely on them and not DRs and creative billing, well, MD is the place for you.
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[SteynOnline] ~Yesterday world leaders gathered in Paris for the re-opening of Notre Dame, five years after it was engulfed by flames. The guest of honour, somewhat surprisingly, was Donald J Trump, who was seated between M Macron and his missus. The "president-elect" will not take office for another month-and-a-half but he is already a bigger deal than any of the actual presidents, princes or prime ministers in attendance and for the most part they were happy to treat him as such.
As to the non-Trump aspects of the observances, there was, I thought, a palpable absence of the divine. As you may recall, "terrorism" was ruled out even as the building was still burning - and yet no plausible alternative source of the fire has been offered in the years since while the deliberate targeting of other churches has continued uninterrupted day after day after day. Here is what I wrote (and broadcast) in the immediate wake of the inferno:
Twenty-four hours after Notre Dame de Paris began to burn, there is better news than we might have expected: More of the cathedral than appeared likely to has, in fact, survived intact - including the famous rose windows, among the most beautiful human creations I've ever seen. The "new" Notre Dame will be mostly high up and out of sight, which is just as well given that modern man prides himself on having no smidgeonette of empathy with his flawed forebears and thus the chances of historic recreation of the animating spirit of 1160 are near zero.
There is an architectural debate to be had, I suppose, about whether a reconstructed twelfth-century cathedral requires nineteeth-century appurtenances such as its spire. But the minute that starts you risk some insecure dweeb like Macron, on whose watch the thing went up in smoke, getting fanciful ideas about bequeathing to posterity some I M Pei pyramid on the top of the roof. France's revolution, unlike America's, was aggressively secular, and it ultimately found expression in the 1905 law on the separation of churches and the state. Since then the French state has owned the cathedral, and thus it will be Macron who ultimately decides what arises in its place.
Beyond that are the larger questions: When the iconic house of worship at the heart of French Christianity decides to mark Holy Week by going up in flames, it's too obviously symbolic of something ...but of what exactly? Two thousand churches have been vandalized in the last two years: Valérie Boyer, who represents Bouches-du-Rhône in the National Assembly, said earlier this month that "every day at least two churches are profaned" - by which she means arson, smashed statutes of Jesus and Mary, and protestors who leave human fecal matter in the shape of a cross. This is a fact of life in modern France.
As it is, there is no shortage of excitable young Mohammedans gleefully celebrating on social media. In 2017 some inept hammer-wielding nutter yelling "Allahu Akbar!" had a crack at Notre Dame, and a couple of years before that the historian Dominique Venner blew his brains out on the altar to protest same-sex marriage. I love France but, in recent years, it's hard not to pick up on the sense that it's coming apart - and that, when the center cannot hold, the things at that center, the obsolete embodiments of a once cohesive society, are a natural target.
In addition, the authorities' eagerness to assure us that it was an accident at a time when such a conclusion could not possibly be known - and when their own response to the emergency was, to put it politely, somewhat dilatory - was itself enough to invite suspicion: "Sure, it might be an accident. But, even if it weren't, they'd still tell us it was..."
So, precisely because Paris is full of people who would love to burn down Notre Dame four days before Good Friday, it seems bizarrely improbable that it should happen by accident: that a highly desirable target should be taken out by some slapdash workman leaving a cigarette butt near his combustible foam take-out box - the lunchpack of Notre Dame - and letting the dried-out twelfth-century timbers do the rest.
Yet that surely is as perfectly symbolic as anything of a desiccated Christendom and its careless stewardship of its glorious inheritance. On Tucker's show last night I wondered aloud about the Parisians weeping in the street: What were they mourning? The loss of great architecture? Beautiful artwork? Magnificent music in an acoustically perfect space? Or were they mourning something greater, the loss of some part of themselves?
[AmericanThinker] Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory, we have a clearer picture of how Barack Obama (and through him, President Biden) destroyed his party and with it many of our institutions. We now have a leader and a plan to restore their strength. Much has been written about why the Democrats suffered such a devastating loss in the election, but I’m inclined to place great weight on the views expressed by Adam Mill in Chronicles Magazine, who argues persuasively that the Democrats’ decision-making process doomed their chances, a process unlikely to soon change.
“Democrats don’t have leaders, rather they have ‘facilitators’ who balance the many competing demands of their disparate coalition, leading to a rigid script of talking points,” he argues. To keep on message is the key autocratic aim of the party, so any “single deviation from the script endangers the entire enterprise.” This explains as well as most theories why Kamala Harris’s rare public interviews devolved into bafflegab word salads. Why in the absence of good sense, the party left the border open, supported pornographic books in public school libraries, “fought for abortion of viable fetuses up until birth, and demanded free sex surgeries for illegal immigrants in custody.”
By contrast, Donald Trump, who had clear views of his own on significant subjects, met with hostile reporters, political critics, and opponents. “He preserves his own agency.” The consequences of their rigid orthodoxy not only damaged their party, but caused all of us to suffer from their tactics, not the least of which is “a widespread crisis of incompetence within the institutions that sacrificed merit for ideological parity.” The party was riddled with corruption, and it spread throughout the government. As Michael Walsh has long contended, the Democrats “are nothing less than a criminal organization masquerading as a political party.”
A reactionary criminal organization, etc… The nonsense they’ve been pushing is the same old line used since 1968, pushed all the way to the endpoint of possibilities. Donald Trump’s MAGA movement is where all the new ideas are.
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Eighty-three years after the disastrous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor which galvanized our nation to prepare for a long fight and ultimate victory,
After which America quickly demobilized their military. Most of the pre-war FDR big government agencies had dwindled. DC didn't go full internationalist again till the events of 1948 with Soviet subversion around the globe [Czechoslovakia, Turkey, Greece, China, and Berlin airlift]. The price for that 'save the world' mentality costs us the very Constitutional law that we have lived with since the beginning. It was the start of the never ending centralization and concentration of power that we are dealing with today along with the death of classical liberalism that would be compromised by the hard Left in the lust for that power. The world is still chaos and our treasury empty.
[FoxNews] When Trump brings the economy back from the brink, Biden and his Democrat allies will deserve no credit
Democrats have no equals when it comes to taking undeserved credit and evading well-deserved blame. Consider a recent Time article titled "Don’t Give Trump Credit for the success of the Biden Economy." Of course, no one, including President-elect Trump, wants credit for Biden’s dumpster fire economy. That debacle just cost the Democrats an election.
So, what is Time’s piece all about? Well, it is part of an effort to position Democrats to take credit for what even they see as Trump’s coming economic turnaround.
It’s not the first time Democrats have tried to take credit for Trump’s economic success.
Recall that in 2017, Trump inherited a stagnant economy mired in big government muck. He immediately cut taxes, slashed regulations and encouraged domestic energy production. Freed from eight years of President Obama’s oppressive policies, business optimism soared and the economy boomed.
In three years, America’s economy went from stagnating to thriving precisely because Trump reversed virtually every one of Obama’s stifling big government policies and adopted energizing free market policies. Obama nonetheless attempted to claim credit for that success.
NBC News, among other legacy media sources, predictably ran a piece supporting this notion claiming that "Trump didn’t build a great economy he inherited it."
So, here we go again.
The elephant in the room is, of course, our record high federal debt and deficit. While both have been increasing for decades, pandemic spending put those negative trends on steroids.
As a result, four years later, Biden is handing over an economy encumbered by an astounding record high debt of over $36 trillion and a record high annual deficit of $1.8 trillion. And the damage isn’t done. Recently, in just over the last 100 days, the federal debt soared an additional $1 trillion.
With inflation up over 20% since Biden took office, real wages (wages minus inflation) have declined 2.2%. Because real wages are what people live on, consumers are stretched to their economic limits.
Adjusted for inflation, retail sales over the past three year have flatlined. Household debt has reached a record high of nearly $18 trillion. Mortgages, car loans and credit card debt are all at record highs. Credit card and car loan delinquency rates as well as corporate bankruptcies are at their highest levels since the Great Recession. That’s the "success of the Biden economy."
Perhaps most damning, Biden has no plan in place to alleviate this economic pain. As is often the case with Democrats, their one proposal is to increase taxes while they continue spending like drunken sailors – an insult to drunken sailors who at least spend their own money.
Contrary to what you will hear from the Democrats, if you want to increase tax revenue, don’t increase tax rates. Meaningfully increasing tax rates reduces economic growth which reduces tax revenue.
For example, under the current Trump tax cuts, tax revenue hit historic highs of over $4 trillion in each year of the Biden administration. In 2022 and 2024, tax revenue was just under a gobsmacking $5 trillion. None of the naysayers predicted this revenue boom.
The problem is that in 2024 the government spent $6.75 trillion.
Obviously, we don’t have a revenue problem, we have a spending problem. We need to meaningfully reduce spending while we simultaneously increase tax revenue through economic growth.
To accomplish those goals, Trump will undo Biden’s economic policies as he did Obama’s.
To continue increasing tax revenue, Trump will keep the current low rates in place and selectively reduce rates to further encourage economic growth. This worked for Presidents Kennedy, Reagan and Trump (in his first term). It’s the plan for his second term, and it will work – again.
When President Trump brings the economy back from the brink, Biden and his Democrat allies will deserve no credit and, in a rational world, they will get what they deserve.
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[FoxNews] When Trump brings the economy back from the brink, Biden and his Democrat allies will deserve no credit
