DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE: USA Season Finale starring rogue drones, a bumbling government, and Luigi the CEO killer escorted like in a Jason Bourne movie

Well, the United States is ending 2024 like only America can... BIG.

In other words, the season finale for all those who still watch television.

We have the “as usual” government shutdown threat, although I think that might have been averted over the weekend.

The banning of Tik Tok on Jan. 19, 2025 (Some of my friends thought that ban mess was long over, but alas, no.)

So much for free speech and ways to share information.

I personally think, however, most of us will figure out a way to keep TT by using a different VPN.

Oh, and right, there are the drones still riding high in the sky with no explanation (read last week’s column for a somewhat logical take at what this really is). 

What is ludicrous at this point is that our military and government are still pretending not to have a clue.

I mean seriously people! 

Someone mentioned on social media about the United Healthcare death. 

“They are perp walking Luigi like he is Jason Borne,” the person said.

It does actually look unbelievable at the intended publicity from his security detail. 

Luigi Mangione – the one who shot the United Healthcare CEO.

What is remarkable is how no one seems to care. 

The attitude I’ve encountered has been mostly off the record because some people do not want to appear insensitive is “oh well,” followed by people finally feeling comfortable to talk about how the healthcare system has “murdered” someone they love with the “Deny, Defend, Depose” narrative.

And then there’s the AI factor in healthcare these days determining healthcare denials and getting it wrong about 90% of the time.

They had security on this guy like he was a superhero. There’s something more to that little story though – pay attention. 

Take note they’re also charging Luigi with terrorism. If he’d shot someone else on the street that day, like me or you, it would not have been a terrorism charge. 

If they charge him with terrorism, it can then be First Degree Murder.

And the reason they want that charge is because it carries a sentence without the possibility of parole. 

Shut this dude up because more people are pointing to Luigi as having opened the window to a very ugly view of denial and deaths that many say could also be called “murder.”  

Although there was news that Thompson was being investigated by the Department of Justice for insider trading prior to his death (and Pelosi was involved), the only thing debunked was the Pelosi piece of that intel. 

The New York Post reported Thompson sold shares worth $15.1 million ahead of the investigation opened. 

In addition, Thompson and three other UnitedHealth Group employees “sold a combined $101.5 million in shares,” the outlet reported (nypost.com/2024/12/04/us-news/slain-unitedhealth-ceo-brian-thompson-was-facing-doj-probe-for-insider-trading-report).

It’s true that back in February 2024, United Healthcare suffered a major cybersecurity hack affecting as many as 100 million customer’s data. 

Pelosi, on that same day, bought a few million dollars of Call Options in Palo Alto Networks – the company set to investigate the breach – and she bought it prior to it being announced the company would be doing that job. 

She made $11 million on that deal, and some say this United Healthcare CEO might have passed on that information before it was made public. 

We will never know. 

And talking about millions of dollars, the US International Finance Corporation announced a $1 billion financial initiative to support conservation of the Ecuadorian Amazon.

This was a result of Joe Joe’s tour there, while meanwhile not a thing is being down in Western North Carolina. 

And the fact they are still finding bodies, the dead count is embarrassingly far from the truth, and there are many people still sleeping in tents in the snow – well you do the math and go ahead and ask why everyone thinks Western North Carolina is fine.

It is not.

A Georgia Court of Appeals disqualified Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis from the election interference case against Trump and a dozen others. 

The new ruling means it will be up to the prosecuting attorneys council in the State of Georgia to find another prosecutor to decide on the case and whether to take or let it go. 

My guess is they are going to let it go. 

Fani has already had too many skeletons come out of her closet – I don’t think there’s room to rattle many more.

Congress is also attempting to jam through a 40 percent pay increase from $174,000 to $243,000 even though in any other job the wise employer would have fired most of these employees by now. 

And what about the Congressional Hearing where Missouri Senator Josh Hawley revealed what everyone already knows in the case Missouri vs. Biden. 

This case confirmed that the White House, FBI, State Department and CDC have all “been meeting with the social media companies for years now and giving them direct commands what to censure and take down and naming specific accounts, specific speech they want repressed and threatening the social media platforms if they don’t do it.” 

The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals said on the record “remarkably, the social media platforms all complied.”

And talking about keeping the news off the news stations every afternoon and evening – did you know we might be closer to nuclear war than we have ever been – right now with Joe Joe at the helm. 

Tucker Carlson reminded those watching his channel that Joe Joe’s America has launched missiles into Russia and killed at least a dozen soldiers. 

Has mainstream reported that tidbit? 

That means basically that the US is in an undeclared war with Russia that American’s didn’t vote for – and certainly do not want. 

Carlson said, “Because of the fact that the US military is killing Russians in Russia right now, we are closer to nuclear war than any time in history.”

There’s also no one working behind the scenes to keep the country safe either. 

Anthony Blinken, the current Secretary of State, cutoff contact between Russia and the US two years ago.

And of course, with all that in mind, they’re determined to keep the fearmongering going so the sheep stay in line.

NATO got involved urging nations to shift to a “wartime mindset” because of threats from Russia.

Fear, fear and more fear – and more money for the industrial military complex.

Remember, fear breeds the energy these people need to keep the chaos spinning.

And on another note, the Supreme Court ruled Robert F. Kennedy Jr. the winner in a case against all the pharmaceutical lobbyists. 

The ruling by the Supreme Court confirmed the damage caused by COVID mRNA gene therapies is irreparable. One person noted “Nuremburg Code is now valid.”

And did you know according to MSN, NASA scientists have detected a parallel universe ‘next to ours’ where time runs backwards (www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-scientists-detect-parallel-universe-next-to-ours-where-time-runs-backwards/ar-AA1vNXoF).

I was chatting with someone the other day, and he laughed and said since we know Congress and Senate do not read all those thousand page bills before they’re voted on and often passed, and since we know there’s so much politics involved in all that goes into it, can we put term limits in one of those bills limiting lobbyists from running our country? 

They’ll never notice until it’s too late and they realize they forgot to read page 1,233 that night.

Rita Cook is a freelance writer for The Ellis County Press. She can be reached at rcook13@earthlink.net.