With morbid and grotesque glee, former Washington Post journalist and leftist extremist Taylor Lorenz cheered the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in a Bluesky post on Wednesday. A post that was followed up with a stream of posts both from her and others justifying the cold-blooded murder and a thinly veiled suggested that the CEO of Blue Cross Blue Shield Association should be targeted for death too.
Lorenz’s comments about killing healthcare industry CEOs started with a quoted post from the left-wing More Perfect Union reporting that “Blue Cross Blue Shield in Connecticut, New York and Missouri has declared it will no longer pay for anesthesia for the full length of some surgeries.”
To that report, Lorenz darkly commented: “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”
She even admitted that she associates with others who want to see CEOs murdered in targeted killings when she shared an image of a smiling anthropomorphic star giving two thumbs up with balloons touting “CEO DOWN,” adding: “Woke up to see this spammed in my group chats.” She also shared a variant of the imagine which celebrated “Healthcare Executive DOWN!”
Her post was followed up with a slew of reposts hyping unhinged and demonic comments about the assassination. “Every day companies like this look millions of suffering, injured, sick and dying people directly in the eye and tell them to go fuck their mother,” one post said.
She also reported a comment from leftist reporter Ken Klippenstein, who proclaimed: “Today we remember the legacy of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson” with a graph purporting to show UHC denied 32 percent of claims.
“People have very justified hatred toward insurance company CEOs because these executives are responsible for an unfathomable amount of death and suffering,” Lorenz tried to excuse the death porn she was sharing.
Despite all the posts cheering and justifying the Thompson’s murder, she tried to suggest she wasn’t for it. “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,” she said.
Hours later, Lorenz responded to another story about Blue Cross Blue Shield with the picture and name of CEO Kim A. Keck. Reminder, this was the same story she commented: “And people wonder why we want these executives dead.”
Some five hours later, possibly because people were calling her out, Lorenz added a comment suggesting that what she actually wanted was for “people learn the names of all of these insurance company CEOs and engage in very peaceful letter writing campaigns so that they stop ruthlessly murdering thousands of innocent Americans by denying coverage.”
Lorenz’s post with the imagine of the BCBS CEO appears have since been deleted. But the internet is forever and NewsBusters has the screenshot.
In a Thursday post, Lorenz all but admitted that what she and others were engaging in was “calls for violence” when she huffed:
So glad to see Fox News and LibsofTikTok condemning violence against healthcare CEOs. As we all know, the only acceptable calls for violence are against random gay teachers and trans people.
If it wasn’t clear enough that Lorenz wanted to see those CEO dead, how about this headline from her Thursday article justifying the glee: “Why ‘we’ want insurance executives dead.”
“No, that does not mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate,” she insanely argued.
She tried to wash herself of her obvious calls for violence by suggesting she was using the “royal ‘we’”:
Let me be super clear: my post uses the royal "we" and is explaining the public sentiment. It is not me personally saying "I want these executives dead and so we should kill them." I am explaining that thousands of Americans (myself included) are fed up with our barbaric healthcare system and the people at the top who rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering, and death on millions of innocent people.
Our friend and former Washington Examiner journalist Jerry Dunleavy explained Lorenz’s latest antics best in this X post: “Taylor Lorenz sees an opening in the Dirtbag Left money printer machine apparatus and she is very focused in her efforts to secure that bag.”
Taylor Lorenz sees an opening in the Dirtbag Left money printer machine apparatus and she is very focused in her efforts to secure that bag. pic.twitter.com/ood5uSfKkp
— Jerry Dunleavy IV 🇺🇸 (@JerryDunleavy) December 5, 2024
