Louder with Crowder - Syria Has Fallen: Should The US Intervene?

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00:04:08.000 Also, Assad is gone now, so Syria is seeing a little bit of a shake-up.

00:04:13.000 A little bit of a change up there.

00:04:14.000 I know it's hard to care because you think, hey, they've never gotten it right, you know, throughout all of human history, but we'll get through some fact and fiction out there right now.

00:04:25.000 There's a lot of fake news circulating, a lot of takes that are simply inaccurate, and hopefully I'll help you out with that.

00:04:30.000 So at some point today, probably when we're talking about jihadists, terrorists, and, you know, the religion of non-peace, you'll see this on YouTube. 0.94

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00:04:42.000 Captain Morgan, CEO. You know what?

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00:04:48.000 No, we have a CEO. I mean, that's...

00:04:51.000 It's not the same thing.

00:04:53.000 But I'll post a list of your hobbies and address.

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00:04:56.000 How are you?

00:04:57.000 I am officially sick.

00:04:59.000 Yeah?

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00:05:00.000 I thought I was sick last week.

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00:05:02.000 I had probably like a mild cold.

00:05:04.000 Whatever my wife had, I got.

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00:05:07.000 Cold?

00:05:08.000 I actually was sick, but I was helping my wife.

00:05:11.000 How are you?

00:05:12.000 I'm not sick.

00:05:13.000 So let's try and keep it that way.

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00:05:19.000 All his dates at jfierstein.com. 0.98

00:05:23.000 And he looks like a rapist in that picture. 0.95

00:05:26.000 Hey, looks can be deceiving or accurate. 0.99

00:05:29.000 Yes, exactly.

00:05:30.000 In this case, I don't know.

00:05:31.000 It's good to stay ambiguous.

00:05:32.000 Yeah, that's a sick photo.

00:05:34.000 That's what I see.

00:05:35.000 Let me see it again.

00:05:35.000 Let me see that stache.

00:05:37.000 Yeah, you like that?

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00:05:38.000 The ladies like it. 1.00

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00:05:54.000 You look like you're out on bail.

00:05:56.000 Yes.

00:05:57.000 I have been for eight years.

00:05:59.000 All right.

00:06:01.000 Speaking of cheeks, Rosie O'Donnell went, she did a TikTok post because, you know, they hate the X, so they decided to go to a platform that's the largest holder in the company is Communist China.

00:06:15.000 So, Rosie O'Donnell went to TikTok to, I say, she says possibly herpes, spoiler alert, she has herpes, but It is.

00:06:25.000 Somehow, somehow, something, something, something.

00:06:27.000 It's the fault of MAGA Trump voters.

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00:06:31.000 Well, hey, everybody.

00:06:32.000 It's Friday all day, as my Nana would say.

00:06:35.000 And look what I have on my lip. 1.00

00:06:36.000 Such a stupid saying. 1.00

00:06:37.000 Everybody's been saying, you have herpes, you have herpes, all this time. 1.00

00:06:40.000 And I never had a cold sore in my life.

00:06:43.000 And now I have a cold sore.

00:06:44.000 And it makes me think that perhaps this weird pimple that had a tiny little head was a cold sore, too. 0.52

00:06:51.000 On your nose?

00:06:52.000 And so I talked to my doctor today, and I did a video telehealth.

00:06:55.000 She gets in there.

00:06:56.000 And they said that it's not a cold sore, it's some reaction to the sun.

00:07:03.000 Now, I did sit in the sun yesterday, but I had sunscreen on.

00:07:07.000 Unless it's a coffin.

00:07:08.000 I will let you know tomorrow if I do, in fact, have herpes.

00:07:11.000 Do you have sunscreen on your lip?

00:07:12.000 Some of the taunting from the MAGA people in the last couple of weeks.

00:07:18.000 Couple of weeks.

00:07:19.000 Hasn't it been fun, ladies and gentlemen?

00:07:20.000 To be standing in direct opposition to everything he is and represents.

00:07:28.000 And always have been.

00:07:30.000 And...

00:07:31.000 Tough guy.

00:07:32.000 Always will be.

00:07:33.000 Ah, okay.

00:07:34.000 Everything he represents and the people, you mean like freedom of speech, the right to keep and bear arms, low taxes, you know, economic protectionism, and we're getting screwed on international business.

00:07:45.000 I don't know what that means.

00:07:46.000 They're just so vague.

00:07:47.000 You know, this, obviously, this is MAGA. What?

00:07:52.000 What?

00:07:52.000 Do you take accountability for anything ever?

00:07:55.000 How about, let's start with your haircut.

00:07:58.000 Anything?

00:07:58.000 And by the way, you know what she's doing there?

00:07:59.000 The reason she looks that way, it's like every time I take a picture or go and take a driver's license, I make a silly face.

00:08:04.000 So then they go, oh, this is a terrible picture, but I meant to make it terrible, so I don't have to say that I hate the way that I look.

00:08:09.000 There's no way to make it good.

00:08:10.000 Yeah, there's no way to make it good.

00:08:11.000 That's what she does, only it's permanent. 0.98

00:08:15.000 I meant to look stupid and ugly, so I got to take the day off from making a video that no one's going to want to watch anyway? 0.99

00:08:22.000 I liked her Conan O'Brien hair. 0.99

00:08:24.000 Yes!

00:08:24.000 I thought it was nice.

00:08:27.000 By the way, the teasing.

00:08:29.000 Can you believe this?

00:08:30.000 It's the teasing.

00:08:31.000 I don't know if you know this, but Rosie O'Donnell, she's no stranger to teasing and making fun of people. 1.00

00:08:36.000 Remember when she mocked the Chinese on The View, which I thought was funny when she said, Ching chong, ching chong, ching chong, ching chong. 1.00

00:08:41.000 She actually said that?

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00:08:44.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:08:44.000 That's how she could throw it down.

00:08:45.000 2016, she said that Trump, Baron Trump had autism, right?

00:08:51.000 She defended the child murderer Casey Anthony.

00:08:53.000 She's insulted conservatives, Christians for very long. 0.89

00:08:55.000 Don't forget when she berated Tom Selleck when he was on her show because he appeared in an NRA ad.

00:09:01.000 Like, look, I get that you want to tie everything to Donald Trump because orange man bad, right? 0.53

00:09:06.000 I understand all that.

00:09:07.000 But people teasing you online?

00:09:09.000 I haven't checked my at replies in close to a decade because it's what you expect.

00:09:14.000 I'm certainly not going to develop genital warts because of it. 0.98

00:09:19.000 Where you don't have genitals. 1.00

00:09:22.000 The good news is it has a happy ending. 0.89

00:09:25.000 She appears to be just fine.

00:09:28.000 Yep, everybody.

00:09:28.000 It's a cold sore.

00:09:31.000 There you have it.

00:09:32.000 Stress can do horrible things.

00:09:34.000 That's not stress.

00:09:35.000 Why are you stressed?

00:09:37.000 Herpes.

00:09:37.000 A lot of reasons.

00:09:39.000 Oh! 0.60

00:09:39.000 Let me guess. 0.60

00:09:40.000 Something, something, something Trump. 1.00

00:09:41.000 Is it because people replied to your stupid TikTok video? 1.00

00:09:45.000 I don't know. 1.00

00:09:46.000 There are things to be stressed about, you know, worse than that, like war, or, you know, even just being eligible for the draft.

00:09:51.000 Don't worry, you don't have to worry about that.

00:09:52.000 Stillbirth, miscarriages, cancer.

00:09:55.000 But people leaving at replies.

00:09:57.000 This is how fragile. 0.98

00:09:58.000 Let it never be said that women are as robust as men, because even the most angry lesbians are incredibly fragile. 1.00

00:10:05.000 Brightside.

00:10:06.000 Looks like she's actually perfect for her upcoming role right now as Nosferatu. 1.00

00:10:09.000 So she's going to be doing that pretty well.

00:10:10.000 Good for her.

00:10:13.000 I come to the herpes.

00:10:15.000 Herpes is forever.

00:10:17.000 All right, we're going to get on to Assad because we have a lot to get to with Assad, but it's about the last week before the Christmas shipping, so cridershop.com if you want to get it in time, right?

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00:10:50.000 Great plug, Gerald.

00:10:51.000 All right.

00:10:54.000 The good news is, look, there's good news here.

00:10:58.000 Look, we're not at war here, Gerald.

00:11:00.000 You and I were on the same side.

00:11:02.000 But it's time.

00:11:03.000 The good news is, there's going to be another war in the Middle East. 1.00

00:11:06.000 Oh good, yes.

00:11:07.000 And I know you're saying it ever stopped.

00:11:09.000 No.

00:11:10.000 But it's just kind of a different version of war.

00:11:14.000 And then maybe we'll be getting involved as it relates to our foreign policy here.

00:11:18.000 And let me ask you this.

00:11:19.000 You think the United States should get involved with what's going on in Syria and Assad?

00:11:24.000 You agree with Biden?

00:11:25.000 You agree with Lindsey Graham?

00:11:26.000 Or do you agree with Donald Trump and Vance?

00:11:28.000 It is kind of a binary choice here at this point.

00:11:31.000 We made the right choice, America.

00:11:33.000 Yes.

00:11:34.000 So there's a lot of fiction out there.

00:11:36.000 There are some facts out there.

00:11:38.000 We're going to try and separate that and make all the references available to you so you can kind of understand the timeline.

00:11:42.000 But after over a decade of civil war...

00:11:46.000 In really a short amount of time, with more counterfeit Adidas tracksuits than I've seen in my life, the Assad regime has fallen in Syria in really a matter of days.

00:11:56.000 A momentous day in the Middle East, the family dynasty that controlled Syria for more than half a century is no longer in power, with President Bashar al-Assad having fled the country as rebel forces closed in on the capital, Damascus.

00:12:10.000 Those bullets have to come down, boys. . boys. .

00:12:33.000 I will step on his face. 0.60

00:12:35.000 I love how they took time to steal the chairs. 0.53

00:12:37.000 I know.

00:12:37.000 Like, what are you gonna do?

00:12:38.000 The incoming government's gonna be like, hey, where do we sit?

00:12:41.000 Also, how ballsy is the guy that's honking his horn at the guys with the AK-47?

00:12:45.000 Hey, get out of the street! 0.94

00:12:47.000 Hey! 1.00

00:12:47.000 That's the back lane, asshole! 1.00

00:12:49.000 What? 1.00

00:12:50.000 You didn't see that bumper sticker.

00:12:52.000 I said, honk if you love bullets. 0.98

00:12:53.000 You got some guy with a folding table and $10,000 chairs at his house.

00:12:57.000 There's one guy with an AK in his car ready to go mess stuff up, but he's looking at the HOV lane.

00:13:03.000 I'm not a monster.

00:13:04.000 Sorry.

00:13:06.000 Let me give you a quick timeline. 0.94

00:13:08.000 And it's silly because it's a silly place. 0.98

00:13:09.000 And I mean this, the Middle East is a silly place. 1.00

00:13:11.000 Let me set this up for you really quickly, okay? 0.80

00:13:13.000 It's hard for me to care unless it involves American security directly.

00:13:19.000 This area of the world has never gotten it right.

00:13:21.000 That is because of their ideology.

00:13:24.000 If you and your 21st century very comfortable bubble want to understand it, These jihadists are 13th century religious extremists.

00:13:32.000 They have not changed.

00:13:33.000 They have not evolved. 0.93

00:13:34.000 There has never been a place where Islam has achieved governmental power and not become a corrupt totalitarian regime. 1.00

00:13:41.000 Just give it a decade. 0.86

00:13:42.000 Take any country at any point.

00:13:44.000 It's never worked.

00:13:45.000 So, let's stop trying to fix it.

00:13:47.000 I don't think we should get involved unless it's with the intent of breaking stuff, converting them, subjugating them. 0.99

00:13:54.000 Otherwise, let's stop spending money.

00:13:56.000 But let me give you a quick recap.

00:13:57.000 You can comment below if you disagree.

00:13:59.000 November 30th, that's when the rebel fighters, they captured Aleppo, fun to say.

00:14:04.000 And then less than two weeks later, they captured Damascus, which basically is what ended the Assad regime.

00:14:09.000 It's been there for decades.

00:14:10.000 And Gary Johnson actually offered this take on the situation.

00:14:14.000 Aleppo.

00:14:16.000 And what is Aleppo?

00:14:18.000 You're kidding.

00:14:19.000 No.

00:14:24.000 Aleppo.

00:14:25.000 Yeah, he still doesn't know.

00:14:27.000 I think it's like a medicine.

00:14:30.000 I think he thought it was like an elf in a Christmas story.

00:14:32.000 Oh, Aleppo, he made the doll that warmed Santa's heart.

00:14:35.000 Now, according to the Russian media, yesterday Bashar Elisad arrived in Moscow, so that's what they're saying.

00:14:42.000 The rebels were basically able to take over everything so quickly because some people are making the point that Russia, Iran are busy right now.

00:14:50.000 They have their hands full.

00:14:51.000 They do, yes.

00:14:52.000 They're the only reason he was staying in power in the first place.

00:14:54.000 Effectively, yes.

00:14:55.000 They're kind of propping him up.

00:14:56.000 Exactly.

00:14:57.000 Kind of like the Castros for a while.

00:14:59.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:15:00.000 With all the Soviets. 0.99

00:15:01.000 We do actually have exclusive footage, though, of how Assad managed to escape.

00:15:07.000 Hello?

00:15:09.000 Is anyone there?

00:15:11.000 I think you forgot to make air holes.

00:15:15.000 I have to make pee-pee.

00:15:17.000 You hate to see that, even though, you know.

00:15:20.000 Your humanity gets the better of you.

00:15:22.000 So it's time for a new segment, fact or fiction.

00:15:25.000 That seems way too serious for us.

00:15:38.000 It also seemed like a party.

00:15:39.000 Yeah, it did.

00:15:41.000 It also seemed like a good stinger, and we can make them.

00:15:44.000 I didn't know that we were going to have house music.

00:15:46.000 So, let's go through some things that you may be hearing.

00:15:48.000 All references available at livewithcredit.com.

00:15:51.000 Link in the description.

00:15:51.000 So, is it fact or fiction?

00:15:53.000 The idea that Syria is now free!

00:15:56.000 You may be hearing that.

00:15:58.000 We rule this one fiction.

00:16:00.000 Way fiction.

00:16:02.000 That's fun.

00:16:03.000 So...

00:16:05.000 There's a very strong chance, and by that I mean I would bet my bottom dollar that Syria's probably going to get quite a bit worse. 0.99

00:16:12.000 Way worse.

00:16:12.000 So, HTS, I want to make sure that I have this correct in my pronunciation.

00:16:17.000 If I don't get it correct to terrorists, please forgive me.

00:16:20.000 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, we'll call them HTS. It's a designated terrorist organization.

00:16:26.000 They're very forgiving, by the way, especially for pronunciation.

00:16:27.000 Yes, they are.

00:16:28.000 Look!

00:16:29.000 Look!

00:16:29.000 We get it!

00:16:30.000 It's hard for me.

00:16:31.000 It's like the TH in English.

00:16:32.000 We don't have it!

00:16:35.000 So the group, to give you an idea, who are at the center of a lot of this, they were founded as basically an Al-Qaeda affiliate, Al-Qaeda adjacent for those in real estate.

00:16:44.000 And the ISIS leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, has also played a role in helping to form this group.

00:16:50.000 Which is really weird.

00:16:50.000 ISIS and Al-Qaeda getting together to form a group?

00:16:53.000 I know.

00:16:54.000 Guys, look, look.

00:16:56.000 There's more that we have in common that makes us different.

00:16:59.000 Is that like when Dave Grohl went to the Foo Fighters?

00:17:01.000 Something, yes. 0.95

00:17:03.000 So, this group also, they've been consistently targeting and killing Syrian Christians.

00:17:10.000 You know, the group of people who, when Barack Obama was president, we didn't actually grant asylum.

00:17:15.000 Less than 1%.

00:17:16.000 You may not remember that.

00:17:17.000 We brought in a bunch of military-aged single Muslim males.

00:17:20.000 less than 1% were Christians from the Middle East, specifically places like Syria, who were fleeing persecution, being burned alive in cages.

00:17:27.000 HTS is one of the groups largely responsible for that. - Yeah, and by the way, so there were a lot of Christians celebrating this.

00:17:32.000 You heard them ringing church bells and celebrating.

00:17:34.000 Now, they're the group probably that needs the most prayers right now.

00:17:37.000 They were persecuted under the Assad regime, but not nearly as bad as people think they will be persecuted under a regime that has zero kind of You know, issue with burning Christians in chaos.

00:17:47.000 They have no guardrails.

00:17:48.000 Exactly.

00:17:49.000 They're not going to have any problem at doing that and probably not going to have the world looking on for much of it.

00:17:53.000 So you really need to be praying for Christians and I hope they're either getting out or making sure they're taking the proper precautions. 0.98

00:17:59.000 Let me tell you this.

00:18:00.000 The only language that people like these groups like HTS understand is Vlad the Impaler.

00:18:04.000 Yeah.

00:18:04.000 The only language they understand is barbarism and being more effectively violent.

00:18:08.000 You need to understand this.

00:18:09.000 This is why the Islamic world is as it be and it do. 1.00

00:18:14.000 And there is some good news.

00:18:16.000 There is some good news because the leader of HTS said that actually you needn't worry because as of an hour ago, they're like super moderate now.

00:18:25.000 The group has had affiliations with al-Qaeda, with ISIS, and now you are projecting this image of a moderate A leader and a moderate group.

00:18:37.000 What is HTS right now?

00:18:41.000 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is one of the factions in the region, just like all the others.

00:18:46.000 Now we're talking about a larger project.

00:18:48.000 We're talking about building Syria. 0.91

00:18:51.000 Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is merely one detail of this dialogue, and it may dissolve at any time.

00:18:57.000 It's not an end in itself, but a means to perform a task confronting this regime.

00:19:03.000 Once that task is complete, it will transition to a state of governance, institutions, and so on.

00:19:10.000 Oh, okay.

00:19:11.000 So they're planning, yeah, institutions, perhaps a democratic process.

00:19:15.000 There we go.

00:19:15.000 He'll step out of the way.

00:19:16.000 Yes, that sounds nice.

00:19:18.000 Oh, I'm getting word.

00:19:19.000 It's time actually for a Polymarket check-in.

00:19:22.000 It looks like there will be a 0% chance of this happening. *laughter* That went zero fast.

00:19:35.000 Not one bet.

00:19:38.000 Not one.

00:19:40.000 Even Buster Douglas at 42-1 odds had like...

00:19:44.000 One.

00:19:44.000 Even HTS is like, we're not going to even try.

00:19:46.000 No, no, no.

00:19:47.000 Well, we don't want to get caught from insider trading.

00:19:49.000 Haktua coin, right?

00:19:52.000 So she's going to be fitted for an orange jumpsuit. 0.56

00:19:55.000 Maybe.

00:19:56.000 So they're saying, ah, we're going to step down.

00:19:58.000 This will be more.

00:19:58.000 And this is why, look, I don't want to say I'm hopeless.

00:20:00.000 I just don't care.

00:20:01.000 I just don't care enough about these places unless it directly involves the security of American citizens.

00:20:07.000 Let them fight. 0.98

00:20:08.000 And if we think it gets to the point where it's a threat to us, Destroy them. 0.99

00:20:12.000 That's my point of view. 0.68

00:20:13.000 Either all in or all out.

00:20:15.000 Really, I'd love to...

00:20:16.000 We'll take your chats later.

00:20:17.000 That's my opinion.

00:20:18.000 And when they say they're going to be somewhat moderate or creative...

00:20:21.000 The reason I don't believe them...

00:20:23.000 I just...

00:20:24.000 Is it...

00:20:25.000 Where have we...

00:20:26.000 I feel like we've heard this before.

00:20:28.000 Women will be afforded all their rights... 1.00

00:20:31.000 Whether it is...

00:20:33.000 The guy looking at him like, don't you say it?

00:20:35.000 ...or other activities because women are a key part of society... 1.00

00:20:39.000 And we are guaranteeing all their rights within the limits of Islam. 0.97

00:20:45.000 These scenes have caused outrage around the world.

00:20:48.000 Young Afghan women turned away from universities after the Taliban banned them effective immediately.

00:20:54.000 The latest decree to crack down on women's rights and freedoms.

00:20:59.000 After 14 months of hijab order, the hijab was not observed.

00:21:04.000 They were wearing makeup and wearing dresses, like they were going to a wedding ceremony.

00:21:11.000 Who could have called this but thousands of people who've been there over the last 20 years?

00:21:15.000 Yes, exactly.

00:21:16.000 Who could have called it but everyone?

00:21:19.000 For those who don't remember, that was the Taliban, by the way.

00:21:21.000 Like, no, yes, we're going to have gender studies.

00:21:23.000 Very good, yes.

00:21:23.000 You know, we get it.

00:21:24.000 They won't have to ride in the backseat.

00:21:27.000 They'll be able to drive.

00:21:29.000 They're buying it!

00:21:31.000 They believe it!

00:21:32.000 We will holster our stones.

00:21:34.000 Yes, exactly.

00:21:36.000 I carry inside the waistband.

00:21:37.000 Appendix carry.

00:21:38.000 Good place for limestone.

00:21:39.000 Now!

00:21:40.000 Let's go to...

00:21:41.000 Of course this is still happening.

00:21:43.000 This is going to keep happening.

00:21:44.000 Of course.

00:21:44.000 War is going to keep happening.

00:21:45.000 War in the Middle East is like Rosie's herpes, okay? 0.56

00:21:48.000 It's forever.

00:21:49.000 Yes, it is.

00:21:50.000 It keeps on giving.

00:21:50.000 Just lurking.

00:21:51.000 At least I like the security of having a constant.

00:21:53.000 Now, let's go to this.

00:21:54.000 Is this fact or fiction?

00:21:56.000 You're hearing this on social and you're hearing this in the media.

00:21:58.000 Oh, this may be good for the region.

00:22:01.000 The truth is...

00:22:04.000 Kind of mixed.

00:22:06.000 Let me explain this to you.

00:22:08.000 It does hurt Iran's ability to spread terror, but it does open up some other potential chaos. 0.80

00:22:12.000 And again, this is why it's just not a situation where you want to get involved.

00:22:15.000 So Assad-Syria, it was a pretty important link in Iran's, what they called the Shia Crescent, right, which was...

00:22:22.000 It connects Iran to Lebanon through Syria.

00:22:24.000 So now it's going to be harder for them to support Hezbollah and Hamas.

00:22:28.000 Yeah, but for now.

00:22:29.000 For now.

00:22:30.000 Yes, I know.

00:22:30.000 What do you think?

00:22:31.000 Iran's going to go, darn. 1.00

00:22:33.000 Yes. 0.99

00:22:34.000 They're going to find another way.

00:22:35.000 Of course.

00:22:36.000 They're going to work with whoever becomes the main leader there.

00:22:39.000 Right.

00:22:39.000 Which, again, I don't want to leave you with a hopeless message.

00:22:41.000 But the good news is, if you're in the United States of America, it probably won't affect you that much.

00:22:45.000 And I know you're going to say, that's so selfish.

00:22:47.000 Look at all the suffering going on in the world. 1.00

00:22:48.000 And to those I say, if you are a Democrat, shut up. 0.98

00:22:52.000 Because you're complaining about patriarchy and you're complaining about women's rights here in the United States where women aren't allowed to go to college or even come forward with accusations of rape. 1.00

00:23:01.000 So, yeah, yeah, we're enjoying sitting up here in our ivory tower because we live in the Western world.

00:23:05.000 Thank God.

00:23:06.000 You condemn the Western world, so...

00:23:08.000 Let's look outward.

00:23:09.000 What is the rest of the world like?

00:23:11.000 Oh, here we go.

00:23:12.000 Syria and all the Middle East. 0.95

00:23:14.000 You want to do Africa next? 0.98

00:23:15.000 Here's the thing.

00:23:17.000 Potential power vacuum could be created here.

00:23:19.000 You have a bunch of groups who have an interest in Syria right now.

00:23:22.000 You have HTS, you have ISIS, you have the Kurdish forces.

00:23:24.000 You know, they made a comeback after the gassing, so good for them. 0.99

00:23:27.000 You have Turkey, you have Iran, you have Russia.

00:23:31.000 No one knows how this plays out.

00:23:33.000 Yeah.

00:23:34.000 So, let it play out.

00:23:36.000 Okay.

00:23:37.000 Either destroy them or let it play out. 0.60

00:23:39.000 Yeah.

00:23:40.000 By the way, anybody who says, and I know I've gotten some notes over here, and this is a fair point, like Iran doesn't really play well with some of these guys. 1.00

00:23:46.000 It's true.

00:23:47.000 But that has never mattered.

00:23:48.000 That has never mattered.

00:23:50.000 Right. 0.59

00:23:50.000 You find a way or you kill them or you replace them or you put somebody else in power or you pay them enough or you do whatever you have to do and they will find a way to work the thing that they have been doing this entire time, which is funding Hezbollah. 0.59

00:24:00.000 Right. 0.97

00:24:01.000 Which is sending rockets, which is doing everything that they've always done.

00:24:03.000 This is not going to change anything.

00:24:04.000 It may make it harder.

00:24:05.000 It may make them take a pause for a minute.

00:24:07.000 It may cost a little bit more money, but they're going to do what they're going to do.

00:24:10.000 Right.

00:24:11.000 Good.

00:24:11.000 Next one.

00:24:12.000 Fact or fiction?

00:24:13.000 That the United States, and this is where you see the swamp, the Democrats, I don't know where code pink is, and the rhinos out there.

00:24:20.000 To use the terms, I hate using those terms, but these are the terms that you understand.

00:24:22.000 The United States has to do something, has to intervene.

00:24:25.000 No, that I will definitively state as fiction.

00:24:28.000 I think that the only interest the United States should have in Syria is stopping any type of terror threat to us.

00:24:35.000 If it doesn't exist right now, it's none of our business.

00:24:38.000 We've never gotten it right.

00:24:41.000 Rebuilding?

00:24:41.000 I don't know if you know this, we rebuilt a lot.

00:24:43.000 Afghanistan, Iraq, by the way, a little bit in Syria.

00:24:47.000 Worked like a charm.

00:24:48.000 They tend to hate us for the rebuilding.

00:24:49.000 They hate us for the bombing.

00:24:50.000 They hate us for the rebuilding.

00:24:51.000 Why are we doing anything?

00:24:52.000 And by the way, I don't want to hear people take this and extrapolate it out.

00:24:55.000 They're saying, oh, they're going to export terrorism.

00:24:57.000 We can't let it become a hotbed for terrorism because that would be grounds to go into, I don't know, half the world and make sure that we have a presence there.

00:25:04.000 If we do something in places like this, it has to be specific threats in-out and that's it.

00:25:09.000 Done.

00:25:09.000 Not like military going in in full force.

00:25:11.000 I'm talking like six guys dropping in, doing the thing, and getting out.

00:25:16.000 Yes.

00:25:16.000 That's the kind of thing I'm talking about.

00:25:18.000 You know what helps, by the way, with stopping the exporting of terror?

00:25:21.000 Having border security and having a travel ban from hotbeds for terrorism.

00:25:26.000 Sorry, that was racist.

00:25:27.000 Yeah, that's true.

00:25:28.000 So instead, we should spend billions of dollars on sending our troops into foreign countries.

00:25:31.000 We don't want to have a wall and don't want to have a ban from countries that, well, yeah, they happen to be Muslim because they've never gotten it, right? 1.00

00:25:38.000 That would be racist.

00:25:39.000 Let's just leave the borders wide open.

00:25:41.000 Let's the 20 million undocumented aliens come into this country in the last three years and hope for the best. 1.00

00:25:46.000 And then while we're also paying for Ukraine to wage war with Russia, well, sorry, Russia and Ukraine in war.

00:25:52.000 I don't want to say Ukraine's the one waging war, but you get the point.

00:25:54.000 Paying hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:25:55.000 Let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars more to go into Syria and and to repeat iraq or let's just make sure we're safe and let's start enforcing the laws that we have here instead you have former vice president biden respect the office saying that the united states needs to and will be active in rebuilding the i don't want to be i don't want to be uh i don't want to be coarse the that is syria as we all turn to the question of what comes next The

00:26:25.000 United States will work with our partners and the stakeholders in Syria to help them seize an opportunity to manage the risks.

00:26:34.000 We will engage with all Syrian groups, including within the process led by the United Nations, to establish a transition away from the Assad regime toward an independent and independent, I might say it again, sovereign Syria.

00:26:50.000 The United States will do whatever we can to support them, including through humanitarian relief to help restore Syria after more than a decade of war and generational brutality by the Assad family.

00:27:04.000 Yeah, it's just never-ending.

00:27:06.000 How about no humanitarian relief at this point?

00:27:08.000 How about nothing?

00:27:09.000 How about no war and no relief? 1.00

00:27:11.000 Handle your own crap. 0.99

00:27:13.000 Is there a good group of freedom fighters there? 1.00

00:27:15.000 Like a good group?

00:27:16.000 No, I mean like a good group that would set up like a government of, by, and for the people?

00:27:20.000 Yeah, you know what you would have to do?

00:27:21.000 If there were modern crusaders.

00:27:23.000 And I mean that.

00:27:24.000 If you had a Christian group who were just as extreme and willing to eradicate Islamic terrorism in that region, that would be the only group that you could support. 0.99

00:27:32.000 People would say, oh, how good?

00:27:33.000 Yep, sorry, it's my litmus test.

00:27:34.000 And you know what?

00:27:35.000 Considering that those Christians there are actually burned alive simply for their faith, that would be the group to support. 1.00

00:27:39.000 There's no large enough group that could actually wage any kind of a civil war there.

00:27:43.000 So, outside of that, again, look to every country in that cesspool of filth and sadness, the world, Middle East, the Arabic world. 1.00

00:27:53.000 Find me one that's gotten it right.

00:27:55.000 Which is why I disagree with Lindsey Graham, but, you know, you probably saw that coming.

00:28:00.000 He even went as far as saying that we probably need some ground operations there to handle ISIS. He said, I appreciate the air shrine and ISIS terrorists in Syria, but it will not be enough.

00:28:10.000 We have to ensure that the roughly 50,000 ISIS prisoners in northeastern Syria, being primarily held by Kurdish forces, are not released.

00:28:23.000 Hey, you first, Lindsey. 0.99

00:28:26.000 Put on some body armor.

00:28:27.000 Get out there.

00:28:28.000 Get your dirty work done.

00:28:29.000 Hey, surprise, surprise.

00:28:30.000 Lindsey's in favor of war. 0.99

00:28:31.000 Okay, fine.

00:28:32.000 Well, that's where the boys are.

00:28:35.000 Full steam ahead.

00:28:37.000 Ring, ring, ring.

00:28:38.000 Goes the trolley.

00:28:39.000 Clang, clang.

00:28:40.000 Ding, ding, ding.

00:28:40.000 Goes the bell.

00:28:43.000 I'll be in the mess hall baking cookies for the boys.

00:28:46.000 So here's the good news.

00:28:49.000 Luckily, President Trump, some people call him former president, incoming president, I call him President Trump, in advance, they both basically signaled that the United States should completely stay out of it.

00:28:58.000 Hey, there you go.

00:28:59.000 One of these things is not like the other.

00:29:01.000 Also, he did, Donald Trump, President Trump, use this to pressure Russia into some peace negotiations.

00:29:07.000 Again, the art of the deal.

00:29:08.000 He said, Assad is gone.

00:29:11.000 He has fled his country.

00:29:13.000 His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer.

00:29:21.000 Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now.

00:29:24.000 Very weak.

00:29:25.000 A lot of people say how weak they are, sad.

00:29:28.000 One because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success.

00:29:34.000 Likewise, Alinsky and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. 0.89

00:29:38.000 There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin.

00:29:43.000 I know Vladimir well.

00:29:45.000 Very well.

00:29:46.000 This is his time to act.

00:29:48.000 China can help!

00:29:49.000 The world is waiting!

00:29:53.000 So...

00:29:55.000 My favorite part was the Brady Bunch.

00:29:57.000 Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:29:58.000 Her boyfriend, George Glass.

00:30:01.000 Oh, Jan.

00:30:02.000 You love to lie.

00:30:04.000 We caught you.

00:30:06.000 Marsha's fine.

00:30:07.000 Now, we're back at...

00:30:10.000 I think you know where we are.

00:30:11.000 We're really...

00:30:11.000 We're back at the...

00:30:12.000 It's time to repatriate. 0.79

00:30:14.000 That's where I think we are.

00:30:18.000 There's Syrians in other countries, too.

00:30:20.000 In Netherlands.

00:30:21.000 Yeah.

00:30:22.000 And in Sweden.

00:30:28.000 Syria must be empty. 1.00

00:30:30.000 So let me get this straight. 0.99

00:30:43.000 You're fleeing a country that is a shithole, has always been a shithole and always will be a shithole, really that entire region of the world. 0.92

00:30:48.000 And so in claiming you are entitled to asylum to not even the nearest neighboring nation, but any nation you want to go, you go there and you want to instate the kind of government that you just fled? 0.99

00:30:59.000 And the only people dumb enough to play this game are those in the Western world dealing with their crippling white guilt? 0.97

00:31:08.000 How about, no, how about go back, fix your own country? 0.99

00:31:11.000 And we certainly are not going to, hey, you know, and even more, if you come here, first off, full stop, just go back to your own country, but we're not going to adapt to you, you adapt to us.

00:31:20.000 That means you don't get to yell Allahu Akbar, voice any kind of support for Sharia law.

00:31:25.000 Not because it's a First Amendment issue, but we're talking about something that cannot be juxtaposed with the Constitution, with freedom of speech.

00:31:32.000 Islam is a system of laws.

00:31:34.000 It's a political prescription.

00:31:36.000 Just as much as it is a religion.

00:31:38.000 That's the big difference between Islam and Christianity, and it is an active threat to the Western world. 1.00

00:31:44.000 You don't open your doors to that.

00:31:46.000 Let's start with here at least reinstating the racist travel ban.

00:31:49.000 Remember from Donald Trump, it was seven countries, including Syria, by the way.

00:31:53.000 Maybe that was a good one.

00:31:53.000 Yeah, maybe that was a good one.

00:31:56.000 Where are you guys at this point?

00:31:57.000 Hey, leftists.

00:31:58.000 So, let me ask you this.

00:31:59.000 In one hand, this is what we're presenting.

00:32:02.000 Don't get involved.

00:32:03.000 Don't wage war, but don't rebuild.

00:32:06.000 No humanitarian effort.

00:32:07.000 Let them handle it.

00:32:08.000 On the other hand, you have go in, ground operations, airstrikes, drone strikes, try and help with the peaceful transition of power, and because of the fallout, bring in tens or hundreds of thousands of people from the third world who have a vested interest in destroying us. 1.00

00:32:26.000 Which one do you want?

00:32:28.000 Don't get involved.

00:32:29.000 Ban any immigration from these countries. 1.00

00:32:33.000 Comment below!

00:32:33.000 I think that's a fair point.

00:32:34.000 And Israel's response, Israel doesn't get it right all the time, but their response was like, yeah, we're going to just blow a lot of stuff up that you don't need. 0.52

00:32:39.000 We're going to blow a lot of stuff up.

00:32:40.000 We don't know who's coming into power, and you guys might not play well, so all those munitions depot, those things are gone.

00:32:45.000 Yeah.

00:32:46.000 I wouldn't go there for a little while.

00:32:48.000 Yeah, smart move.

00:32:49.000 Yeah, weapons defense, gone!

00:32:51.000 And they need to rebuild their country, so I say, send them all back, all hands on deck. 1.00

00:32:55.000 There you go, there you go.

00:32:56.000 Build it up, come on, put a tool belt on.

00:32:58.000 Yeah, I mean, look, we'll give them like a Home Depot shopping spree and send them back. 0.93

00:33:02.000 Oh, like that TV show.

00:33:04.000 Yeah, and it's just like my dad used to say when he was a kid, he'd go to a fast food restaurant and if they brought out like a really sloppy, he'd go, look, make mine look like the picture.

00:33:13.000 Okay?

00:33:14.000 That's what they do.

00:33:15.000 Just go back to your country and go, okay, Syria, make this country look like that country and point to any, like, American or Western skyline. 0.96

00:33:21.000 Or one that borders it like Turkey.

00:33:23.000 Yeah.

00:33:24.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:33:24.000 Make your country look like our country.

00:33:28.000 Then we'll consider having any kind of open lines of communication.

00:33:32.000 Beyond that, I don't really have a whole lot to offer on this.

00:33:34.000 Hopefully it's helped you.

00:33:35.000 This has been Factor Fiction.

00:33:36.000 By the way, like I said earlier, don't let tax issues overpower you.

00:33:51.000 Contact Tax Network USA at tnusa.com slash Crowder.

00:33:55.000 A lot of people do their own taxes, don't get any help, and then you get piped.

00:33:59.000 Yeah, and if they have trouble with taxes, they can help you resolve that as well.

00:34:01.000 A lot of people feel like, oh, I just got to pay them.

00:34:03.000 No, there's a lot of negotiating that you can do.

00:34:05.000 Yes, there is.

00:34:05.000 Let these guys call for you.

00:34:07.000 Exactly.

00:34:07.000 My voice gets deep when I'm...

00:34:09.000 Yeah, I know.

00:34:10.000 For some reason you think it's sexy, but it's not.

00:34:12.000 No, it's just annoying.

00:34:13.000 That's what I thought.

00:34:14.000 I've told me that several times over the weekend, very nicely, but you know.

00:34:18.000 It sounds predatory.

00:34:18.000 Well, I've got an inny now, so.

00:34:20.000 Yes, yes, exactly.

00:34:21.000 We all do.

00:34:22.000 I feel like you should be talking over like a CB radio, like, I like a good rain.

00:34:27.000 It washes everything clean.

00:34:29.000 Candy cane.

00:34:30.000 Pink champagne.

00:34:34.000 So this is something I really wanted to get into. 0.89

00:34:36.000 Coming from, or was raised in a country, silly country, Canada, where we had socialized medicine.

00:34:43.000 And the first video that I ever did, where I actually did any type of investigative journalism undercover or on location, was a video on the Canadian healthcare system.

00:34:53.000 Because back in 2009, Michael Moore and all these other liberals were saying that's how we needed to reformat our system to mimic that.

00:35:00.000 You first, Michael.

00:35:01.000 Yeah.

00:35:02.000 And we also said that Cuba was better than the United States.

00:35:04.000 So I disagree with that.

00:35:06.000 But I want to be really clear.

00:35:07.000 I also understand why people believe that our system is broken here in the United States.

00:35:12.000 It absolutely is.

00:35:13.000 My question to you, before I move on and get through some of these historical facts here, And some numbers that may surprise you is why do you think that this system is broken?

00:35:25.000 And how do you think it needs to be fixed?

00:35:27.000 Do you think it's because it's capitalism run amok?

00:35:30.000 Or do you think it's the most heavily regulated industry in the United States and largely subsidized?

00:35:35.000 So, I get it when people talk about a lot of people have been happy, unfortunately, over the murder of the UnitedHealthcare CEO. The search is continuing for this murderer.

00:35:45.000 Although we did just get a hint with, we found out who was in charge of his security.

00:35:52.000 Ah!

00:35:53.000 That checks out.

00:35:55.000 Jeez.

00:35:57.000 But we also have more to report on this.

00:35:59.000 We actually have an exclusive here because you have sent us your tips.

00:36:02.000 tips.

00:36:02.000 We actually have an insider right now at UnitedHealthcare, which brings us to Mug Club Undercover.

00:36:07.000 So just to set this up, a source inside UnitedHealthcare sent us this all-hands-on-deck call discussing the CEO, Brian Thompson, a source inside UnitedHealthcare sent us this all-hands-on-deck call discussing the This is a great question.

00:36:26.000 This comes from an insider there, and we do ask before I show this to you, again, if you see something or if you have any information that could be helpful, send it to lwctips at protonmail.com.

00:36:37.000 That's lwctips at protonmail.com.

00:36:39.000 We're always busy chasing down leads, and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

00:36:43.000 Here they are at United Healthcare.

00:36:46.000 Something, something.

00:36:48.000 All is well.

00:36:49.000 I just want to take a moment to pay tribute to Brian.

00:36:54.000 We've lost a friend, a colleague, a boss, a mentor, a great family man, a dad, somebody who has been incredibly important to many, many people across our organization, and somebody who was pivotal in the development of UnitedHealth Group, and always, always and somebody who was pivotal in the development of UnitedHealth Group, and always, always somebody who could bring a

00:37:17.000 We've also been working hard to make sure that people who feel concerned about security individually, but more importantly, perhaps, for our sites, continues to be reviewed and strengthened to make sure that we have put in place all of the appropriate mechanisms to keep our organization and our people safe.

00:37:38.000 Yeah, I mean, unless you're a client of theirs.

00:37:43.000 And yeah, this is a problem with a lot of health insurance companies.

00:37:47.000 So a lot of people were...

00:37:49.000 Happy about this murder.

00:37:50.000 I am not amongst them.

00:37:52.000 Taylor Lorenz, I guess this person's sub-stack said, why we want insurance executives dead.

00:37:57.000 Reddit actually had to delete threads because they were filled with doctors torching the United CEO.

00:38:03.000 And largely the feedback was praising of the murderer in this case.

00:38:08.000 The hotel or the hostel, I guess, where the assassin stayed, was actually review bombed for cooperating.

00:38:15.000 Hold on.

00:38:15.000 Hostels have reviews?

00:38:16.000 Yeah, I know.

00:38:17.000 I thought it was just like, you know, pay five bucks and hope not to die.

00:38:20.000 I didn't get raped, so it was pretty good.

00:38:21.000 That's pretty nice. 0.92

00:38:22.000 Pretty nice.

00:38:23.000 So these are some of the reviews.

00:38:24.000 They're mad that people are cooperating with the authorities at all, saying, terrible. 0.90

00:38:27.000 Staffs are narcs.

00:38:27.000 No solidarity with their fellow humans struggling to free themselves from an oppressive yoke.

00:38:31.000 Oh, good lord.

00:38:32.000 Let me explain something to you.

00:38:33.000 When you look at the fact that about 15% of all claims are denied by insurance companies, and that pisses people off, and then you understand that UnitedHealthcare actually denies on average 32%, right?

00:38:45.000 Significantly more.

00:38:46.000 That's a lot.

00:38:47.000 And in some cases, necessary medicine.

00:38:49.000 I get it.

00:38:50.000 I get why people are upset and I get why people recognize that the system is broken.

00:38:55.000 But this is terrorism, to be clear.

00:38:57.000 Do we want a world where we just go out and we execute every CEO? And how do you determine which CEOs deserve to be executed?

00:39:04.000 Look, I also think that the anger, the vitriol is aimed partially at the wrong people.

00:39:09.000 These health insurance CEOs are taking advantage of a system that has been set up and subsidized by government.

00:39:15.000 I shouldn't say set up and subsidized.

00:39:17.000 Demanded.

00:39:18.000 By government.

00:39:19.000 If someone was looking for some type of a culprit here, they would look to the people who voted for the Affordable Care Act.

00:39:25.000 And I know they won't because they hear the name and they think it sounds nice.

00:39:28.000 But do you guys understand why health insurance companies in this country have the amount of power that they do?

00:39:35.000 The Affordable Care Act was the biggest kickback that has ever taken place likely in American history for health insurance companies.

00:39:40.000 How has it gotten this expensive?

00:39:42.000 Let's go through a few key facts here.

00:39:44.000 And you can chime in whenever you want, Joe, because I know this is something that you've had to deal with, too.

00:39:47.000 So key fact number one.

00:39:50.000 Just going through the Affordable Care Act.

00:39:53.000 It forced, the ACA forced everyone to buy insurance.

00:39:56.000 So right away, imagine if you were a business.

00:39:58.000 Anyone out there?

00:39:59.000 A business owner?

00:40:00.000 Small business owner?

00:40:01.000 Let's say you own a diner.

00:40:02.000 Imagine if the government said, everyone has to get lunch at your diner.

00:40:07.000 Would you consider that a boon for your business?

00:40:09.000 Probably!

00:40:10.000 You'll love it.

00:40:11.000 Probably!

00:40:11.000 So that's what happened.

00:40:13.000 A lot of people, because it started with the single-payer option, thought, oh, this is going to be socialized healthcare.

00:40:17.000 Ultimately, it ended up being a giant greasing of the palms of the insurance company.

00:40:21.000 So anyone who was not insured had to get insurance or pay a tax.

00:40:27.000 Now, Donald Trump eliminated the mandate on a federal level, but a lot of states, they still have penalties for non-compliance like New Jersey, California, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, D.C. And by the way, the damage was already done at that point.

00:40:36.000 So you had to pay an exorbitant tax or you were forced to get insurance.

00:40:39.000 Because a lot of people were not getting insurance before that.

00:40:42.000 A lot of people were young people who opted to not pay for insurance because they assessed the risk.

00:40:48.000 Now, everyone has to get insurance.

00:40:50.000 So you're talking about a record number of people who have to purchase insurance.

00:40:53.000 Okay.

00:40:54.000 Now, that may not necessarily be bad.

00:40:57.000 Because you say, okay, well, there are more people, so it's a bigger pool, so that should reduce the cost.

00:41:02.000 Here's the thing, key fact number two.

00:41:04.000 The ACA forced insurance to cover everyone with pre-existing conditions.

00:41:09.000 Bingo.

00:41:10.000 So now everyone has to buy insurance.

00:41:12.000 And insurance has to accept everyone, including those who may have self-induced diabetes because they've lived on a diet of Funyuns and Code Red.

00:41:24.000 So you don't have just a bunch of new, young, healthy people joining in, lowering the overall risk pool.

00:41:29.000 You have a guarantee that these people joining now will increase the cost.

00:41:34.000 That's right.

00:41:35.000 Where have I heard something like this before?

00:41:37.000 Everybody should own a home and you can't turn anybody down for a home loan.

00:41:40.000 How did that work out?

00:41:41.000 Exactly.

00:41:42.000 That seems like the same playbook that everybody should be able to do this.

00:41:45.000 We already had, by the way, most people don't know this.

00:41:47.000 You already had pre-existing condition pools.

00:41:50.000 If you had a pre-existing condition, that sucks, right?

00:41:52.000 You had to go into what they call the risk pool in your state, which is more expensive because it's filled with people that have higher risk.

00:41:58.000 You try to mitigate it to some degree by putting healthier people in there, but you don't screw the healthier people to take care of the people with pre-existing conditions.

00:42:06.000 And people are like, oh my gosh, you have to have some kind of healthcare.

00:42:08.000 Emergency rooms.

00:42:09.000 That's a really bad thing to use, but it was the ultimate fallback.

00:42:12.000 They can't turn you down.

00:42:13.000 If you have to go in for something, you can go to an emergency room.

00:42:16.000 That's what we've talked about with illegals. 0.98

00:42:18.000 They use that kind of as healthcare, and it's way too expensive.

00:42:21.000 They don't need to do that.

00:42:22.000 People thought that this was an easy solution.

00:42:23.000 The general public, like, this is a great idea.

00:42:25.000 It's a terrible idea.

00:42:27.000 It's like having no fire insurance for your house.

00:42:29.000 It's like forcing every single driving insurance, car insurance, to cover people who have suspended licenses.

00:42:36.000 Yeah, I'll just wait to get insurance until after the accident or after my home burned down.

00:42:40.000 And that's what a lot of people did. 1.00

00:42:42.000 That's stupid. 1.00

00:42:42.000 Exactly. 1.00

00:42:43.000 So what you saw with this, again, everyone has to buy insurance, and insurance you have to accept everyone with every condition no matter what, no matter how much it offsets the cost.

00:42:50.000 What happened is they decided to offset the cost by obviously increasing premiums and deductibles, but also by denying far more claims.

00:43:01.000 You actually saw three in four providers were actually surveyed, said that denials have gone up dramatically.

00:43:05.000 They've even created denial algorithms.

00:43:07.000 In other words, they're going to cut costs somewhere.

00:43:09.000 And then we also see, fast fact here, key fact number three.

00:43:14.000 When you marry, everyone has to buy insurance. 0.98

00:43:18.000 You have to cover every single person.

00:43:20.000 They go, oh my gosh, that's going to be crazy.

00:43:22.000 Is there any limit to how much we can raise expenses?

00:43:25.000 Absolutely not.

00:43:26.000 Charge whatever you want.

00:43:27.000 Good to me!

00:43:29.000 So, what did we see?

00:43:30.000 Under Obamacare, premiums went up by 80%.

00:43:32.000 Deductibles went up by over 50%.

00:43:34.000 And I believe this is really only the first couple of years.

00:43:36.000 I was about to say, I can give you my example.

00:43:38.000 Yeah, they've gone up hundreds of percentages since then.

00:43:41.000 In the course of a year, I think I went from paying $90 to about $400 for a health savings account plan that had a $3,000 deductible that then went to a $6,000 deductible.

00:43:52.000 Nothing about me changed.

00:43:53.000 Yes.

00:43:53.000 Well, you know what else happened, too, is 70% of counties in the United States...

00:43:58.000 Basically, we're left with no more than two insurers, meaning one or two insurers.

00:44:02.000 No competition.

00:44:03.000 A big reason for this is mergers and buying and acquiring.

00:44:07.000 And so there's significantly less competition than there used to be, and costs are higher.

00:44:11.000 And here is another one.

00:44:12.000 None of this happens, by the way.

00:44:14.000 The same thing when you're looking at the housing market.

00:44:16.000 The same thing when you're looking at airlines and CEO pay.

00:44:19.000 The same thing when you're looking at American auto manufacturers.

00:44:22.000 If you look at a business and you go, hold on a second, hold on a second. 0.99

00:44:25.000 Their business really sucks.

00:44:27.000 Customer satisfaction is an all-time low. 0.94

00:44:30.000 And their CEOs are getting hundreds of millions or tens of millions of dollars, especially if you're looking at an industry that's struggling to be profitable.

00:44:37.000 If you see that, guaranteed government subsidies.

00:44:40.000 Guaranteed bailouts.

00:44:41.000 Because it occurs nowhere in nature.

00:44:43.000 See, I get it.

00:44:44.000 So the key fact here is unlimited government bailouts.

00:44:47.000 We'll go through that, but let me explain to you.

00:44:49.000 This is a problem with the current capitalist system.

00:44:53.000 And I'm a free enterpriser through and through.

00:44:55.000 But, for example, if you look at UnitedHealthcare, okay, they have all this red tape and all these government policies they have to navigate.

00:45:00.000 And they ultimately are looking for either government money or to increase, to squeeze out more profit for their shareholders.

00:45:06.000 There's a big difference between healthcare that we used to have where the actual healthcare providers, doctors, nurses, practitioners, were largely in charge of determining the care versus today, it's administrators and it's red tape.

00:45:18.000 And these people, when your company that provides goods or services Is not beholden to the satisfaction of those receiving the goods or services, the consumer.

00:45:30.000 But really, this person providing goods and services has a fiduciary duty exclusively to shareholders to squeeze out as much profit as possible.

00:45:38.000 That is now a warping of the free enterprise system.

00:45:41.000 And I get it.

00:45:42.000 Nothing has created more wealth in history than equities.

00:45:45.000 But we do have a problem, and it gets really, really bad once you involve government intervention.

00:45:49.000 I think that's the key.

00:45:50.000 Once you create too big to fail.

00:45:51.000 Yeah, I really do think that is the key to the health.

00:45:54.000 These companies, we have to have for-profit medicine to some degree.

00:45:57.000 They have to be able to make a profit.

00:45:59.000 I get it.

00:45:59.000 It puts people in a precarious position, but doctors and nurses typically do a great job of balancing that as long as the corporate people aren't pushing too hard.

00:46:07.000 I get it.

00:46:07.000 It's gone to administrators too much.

00:46:08.000 But the government going into this industry has caused all of, not all, The vast majority of the problems that we're facing right now.

00:46:16.000 Right.

00:46:16.000 We know that just by paying cash versus not paying cash.

00:46:19.000 The cost goes dramatically down.

00:46:21.000 Do you understand how many people we could cut out of this industry if we didn't have to have people specializing and coding stuff properly to get paid by Medicare or Medicaid or any health insurance company?

00:46:30.000 You just go back to a cash system and people taking care of themselves and having catastrophic insurance just to make sure you don't go bankrupt if something bad happens?

00:46:37.000 Yeah.

00:46:37.000 What a better system that would be.

00:46:39.000 But no, we have to have government involvement and we have to have people pushing for even more government involvement.

00:46:42.000 Well, let's look at the government bailouts and the subsidies.

00:46:45.000 So just, for example, in 2020, the CARES Act, right?

00:46:47.000 That was $2 trillion.

00:46:47.000 Now, it didn't go directly to health insurance companies, but it did benefit them by, for example, allowing them to just postpone expensive medical procedures indefinitely, right?

00:46:54.000 Because of COVID, yeah.

00:46:55.000 Thanks, COVID. Of course, there was taxpayer-funded COVID tests, vaccines.

00:46:59.000 Oh, I hate those tests.

00:47:00.000 Unholy alliances between insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.

00:47:03.000 They're not looking out for your best interests.

00:47:05.000 It's just too much money on the table, especially when there are trillions of dollars in government funding out there.

00:47:12.000 Sorry, your tax dollars, while you were forced to lock down and lose your business.

00:47:15.000 2016, Obamacare, there's $170 billion in bailouts to insurance companies to keep them on the exchanges.

00:47:23.000 So, we had bailouts on top of waste.

00:47:26.000 I don't know if you remember this, but Barack Obama spent over $2 billion on the healthcare exchange website that didn't even work. 0.95

00:47:30.000 Well, that sucks.

00:47:31.000 We go back to 1995. You had a $364 million bailout of the Los Angeles County healthcare system by Bill Clinton, right? 0.93

00:47:38.000 Part of it was basically to prevent firing of union workers or rendering it non-profitable.

00:47:42.000 They're the best among us, Stephen.

00:47:44.000 They would go to their work no matter what.

00:47:45.000 Right.

00:47:45.000 So you have all of these bailouts.

00:47:47.000 You have bailouts.

00:47:47.000 And this is a great, especially during COVID, right?

00:47:49.000 It's the greatest wealth transfer that has occurred in modern American history.

00:47:52.000 It occurred because of the government.

00:47:54.000 It occurred because of mandates.

00:47:56.000 Your tax dollars, $2 trillion, while your business was shut down.

00:48:00.000 Or while, maybe at the same time, you had to pay your mortgage while someone else was granted rent forgiveness, and so you lost your property.

00:48:05.000 You were paying and funding for insurance companies to get kickbacks, for pharmaceutical companies to get kickbacks.

00:48:13.000 When your store was closed down, your tax dollars ensured that those who could lobby to make sure Walmart and Costco could stay open...

00:48:22.000 Their business was safe.

00:48:24.000 Where Amazon saw increases in revenue, depending if you use the annual number, the total number, hundreds of billions of dollars annually while you lost yours.

00:48:32.000 Your money, if you were worried about, you're doing it for the greater good, hey, we're a nation who takes care of someone when they're down.

00:48:38.000 Well, I hope you find solace in the fact that during COVID, when you were shut down and your savings account was irreparably damaged, you were paying for very wealthy billionaires across this country and their lobbyists.

00:48:49.000 Which brings us to key fact number five.

00:48:52.000 The lobbying that you see.

00:48:54.000 The lobbying that you see from health insurance companies.

00:48:57.000 Again, these are not doctors.

00:48:58.000 Very different.

00:49:00.000 These are people who have companies and are looking to squeeze out a profit.

00:49:04.000 And by the way, the biggest center of their business model is making sure that they are on the right side of government.

00:49:09.000 Because when those bailout dollars start flowing, they're first in line.

00:49:13.000 Health industry as a whole, their lobbying is up 70% since the year 2000. Dang.

00:49:19.000 70%.

00:49:20.000 Jeez.

00:49:20.000 Insane.

00:49:21.000 7 of the top 10 lobbyists on the Inflation Reduction Act were pharmaceutical or health insurance companies.

00:49:26.000 Think about that.

00:49:27.000 7 of the top 10 lobbyists on the Inflation Reduction Act were pharmaceutical or health insurance companies.

00:49:34.000 Hey, what do you need to keep lobbying for?

00:49:37.000 What point is hundreds of billions over time not enough?

00:49:42.000 This is when people, when people no longer have faith in their system, and I'm not a Bernie bro, not a socialist, but you want to know how you end up with some kind of a guillotine situation, is when people who are suffering, who are getting their claims denied, who are seeing their premiums go up, who are seeing their deductibles go up, they're seeing this, they're seeing the worst service they've ever seen in their life, and a company that is more profitable than ever.

00:50:03.000 How does that happen?

00:50:05.000 Nowhere else you go, this restaurant, if it sucks and I hate it, I don't go back.

00:50:09.000 They lose money. 0.99

00:50:10.000 The coffee shop, they started serving crappy, I don't go there.

00:50:13.000 For some reason, they're more profitable than ever?

00:50:17.000 Than ever?

00:50:18.000 That's when people feel like they're completely powerless and you end up with terrorism in the streets.

00:50:26.000 And so it's not lost on me, but we need to be really clear about where the problem stems here in the United States.

00:50:32.000 And you cannot have this awful, this giant, this leviathan, this hungry beast that is the health insurance industry without constant, never-ending Supplies of federal dollars, taxpayer dollars.

00:50:47.000 This goes to a key fact here, number six.

00:50:50.000 The administrative costs that are just growing out of control.

00:50:53.000 This is something that we're seeing in the healthcare industry.

00:50:56.000 Just since the 1970s, the administration costs have gone up 1,115%.

00:51:03.000 Jeez.

00:51:04.000 Must be healthy.

00:51:05.000 No, this is the number.

00:51:06.000 Oh, sorry, the number of administrators.

00:51:07.000 This is not the increase in cost.

00:51:08.000 The number of administrators has gone up.

00:51:10.000 Sorry, I'm sorry.

00:51:11.000 I misremembered.

00:51:12.000 From the 1970s.

00:51:13.000 I want to make sure I have this.

00:51:14.000 This is from Health Affairs.

00:51:15.000 Jeez.

00:51:17.000 1,115%.

00:51:19.000 Contrast that with physicians.

00:51:21.000 It's only increased by 200%.

00:51:22.000 That's insane.

00:51:24.000 That shows you everything I was just talking about.

00:51:26.000 It's people coding.

00:51:28.000 I'm not talking coding like programming computers.

00:51:30.000 I'm saying making sure that you get your government payments because it's coded correctly.

00:51:34.000 There's an entire field of this. 0.95

00:51:36.000 It's ridiculous. 0.98

00:51:37.000 It's such wasteful hiring. 0.95

00:51:39.000 And Americans are spending a huge amount on healthcare in this country.

00:51:42.000 And it's hard to compare those costs because in other countries where it's socialized, you're paying an astronomical amount on income taxes, sales taxes, right?

00:51:49.000 Everything is more expensive.

00:51:50.000 But in this country, it is a broken system.

00:51:52.000 It absolutely is a broken system.

00:51:53.000 And by the way, it's a system that requires employers to provide insurance, and so you're also limited in the kind of insurance that you can provide for your employees.

00:52:00.000 I think if we...

00:52:02.000 If we allowed employees, if we allowed people to pick their own healthcare, if we allowed insurance across state lines, if we allowed people to have a relationship with their doctor, with their care providers, if we put the power back in the hands of the consumer and the doctors and the care providers, and limited the power of insurance companies as much as possible, we've talked about HSA accounts, we've talked about catastrophic insurance, there are obviously health exchanges out there, health sharing programs.

00:52:27.000 These are all tools moving toward a solution.

00:52:30.000 But, you are right.

00:52:32.000 You are right if you are angry to understand that those in D.C. have no interest in reforming this because of the lobbyists, because of the money coming in.

00:52:38.000 And yes, it's a revolving door of favors from these lobbyists to government and then government back to these industries.

00:52:46.000 But before you just blame a CEO and shoot a man who has a family, look at the people who enable this systemic corruption.

00:52:53.000 It's the same people who say, we need to send hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine and we need to put boots on the ground in Syria.

00:52:59.000 It's the same beast that we are feeding.

00:53:02.000 Yeah.

00:53:02.000 And it's incredibly sad.

00:53:04.000 That man did have a family.

00:53:05.000 Yeah.

00:53:06.000 And I don't know that he was the supervillain either.

00:53:08.000 From all accounts, I think somebody told me he worked his way up in that company from a very, very low position and made a lot of successful decisions.

00:53:18.000 Great.

00:53:19.000 Maybe he made some bad decisions.

00:53:20.000 But here's the thing.

00:53:21.000 What do you think is going to replace him?

00:53:23.000 It's just like in Syria. 0.69

00:53:24.000 It's like, yeah, you toppled Assad.

00:53:25.000 Great.

00:53:25.000 Now what?

00:53:26.000 That's no plan.

00:53:28.000 That's just calling for chaos.

00:53:29.000 Do you think the person behind him that's going to come in and be the CEO is going to be better?

00:53:34.000 They're in the same system.

00:53:35.000 If you want to really change this system, then fight to change the system. 1.00

00:53:38.000 Don't be an idiot and go and shoot somebody for no reason. 0.99

00:53:41.000 But you want to know, hey, what can you do as far as changing the system? 1.00

00:53:43.000 If you're in a small business, maybe all of you and the employees can get together and say, hey, we don't want you to provide health insurance.

00:53:48.000 Just give us a credit so we can go and purchase our own health care.

00:53:52.000 We've had that here where we had it at one point, but you had some people going like, well, I want the business to provide health, which we do here.

00:53:57.000 But I tell you what, it's more expensive.

00:53:59.000 And people could get better healthcare if they decided to go out and purchase their own healthcare.

00:54:02.000 But that's not how the system works, and you have many people who feel as though they're being wronged if you don't do that.

00:54:06.000 So we provide healthcare, which is, of course, tied up with red tape, and options are limited because that's a system that we have.

00:54:12.000 But people need to fundamentally change them up, and we do.

00:54:14.000 We provide health insurance here.

00:54:16.000 It sucks compared to what you could go get individually if you just took a credit.

00:54:20.000 Most people don't want to do it.

00:54:21.000 Just like saving for your own retirement.

00:54:23.000 Sure, yeah, okay, you can rely on Social Security, you can rely on a 401k, but you could also go out and invest yourself in an index fund And have a far greater yield.

00:54:32.000 People like the idea of personal freedom, but not personal accountability or responsibility.

00:54:37.000 And we have a system that is predicated on that.

00:54:39.000 I can tell you on the opposite side, the guy who signs the fronts of checks, not the backs of them, it's something you have to do.

00:54:44.000 Or people get mad.

00:54:46.000 People could have better healthcare if they were willing to take a credit, go out and purchase their own.

00:54:50.000 But a lot of people don't want to.

00:54:52.000 And so that puts a lot of power in the hands of these companies, where in 70% of American counties, you have one or at most two options for health insurance.

00:55:02.000 That's who your employer has to pick. 0.59

00:55:04.000 Doesn't that suck?

00:55:06.000 There's no way out of it until we change our mindset. 1.00

00:55:09.000 We're a very unhealthy country, and it's not because we're idiots. 1.00

00:55:13.000 We've farmed that out to somebody else. 0.99

00:55:15.000 We've looked at the government's responsibility to make sure that we're taken care of health-wise. 0.99

00:55:19.000 That's moronic. 0.99

00:55:20.000 And you know what else? 0.99

00:55:21.000 We have a health system in this country that doesn't take into account actual preventative care.

00:55:25.000 In other words, if I say, hey, I do blood work every, I would say, three times a year, right?

00:55:30.000 You do it to try and make sure to check your high cholesterol can run in the family.

00:55:33.000 You do this, you go get a physical.

00:55:35.000 Well, it's not covered because it's not medically necessary, but it's the kind of thing that would lower overall rates.

00:55:39.000 We don't take that into account at all in our system.

00:55:42.000 It's about treating the symptom.

00:55:43.000 Oh, and by the way, all sizes are beautiful.

00:55:45.000 You can be healthy at any weight.

00:55:47.000 Thank you.

00:55:50.000 Always thinking of the other guy.

00:55:52.000 Yeah, there needs to be a change, but if people think the change is going to be a socialized system, take this and give it steroids. 1.00

00:55:59.000 Well, look, just look at COVID. I think that has been the biggest eye-opener for the medical profession for most Americans that I can think of.

00:56:06.000 I think people looked at it and go, wait a minute, these are the people that we were trusting?

00:56:09.000 These are the people that said, these are the heroes?

00:56:11.000 They didn't know what they were doing?

00:56:12.000 They were doing stuff inappropriately?

00:56:14.000 They were recommending things that really didn't even work, that they knew didn't work for 100 years?

00:56:17.000 Right.

00:56:18.000 Are you kidding me?

00:56:18.000 These are the people we're supposed to trust?

00:56:19.000 Hold on, hold on.

00:56:20.000 Maybe the emperor has no clothes.

00:56:22.000 Maybe that's true.

00:56:23.000 Maybe doctors aren't gods. 0.59

00:56:26.000 Maybe hospitals aren't always these benevolent institutions that are always looking out for me.

00:56:30.000 They're looking out for themselves and trying to make a profit.

00:56:33.000 Okay, got it.

00:56:34.000 Maybe now that the blinders have been lifted, we can actually make some changes with RFK going in there and being a Tasmanian devil to some degree.

00:56:40.000 Not that he's going to make all the great changes that we need to, but he is at least going to be crazy enough to try.

00:56:45.000 People have seen my doctor on the show, Dr. Troy.

00:56:47.000 We need to have him back on with another What's Up Doc segment.

00:56:50.000 He's not cheap.

00:56:50.000 He's what they call a concierge doctor.

00:56:52.000 He's not even in the state.

00:56:53.000 But it's thousands of dollars a year as a membership that you pay.

00:56:55.000 I can get him on the phone.

00:56:57.000 And he actually asks me questions and makes sure that he'll call me up to check.

00:57:01.000 I mean, make sure that I'm in good health.

00:57:03.000 Hey, time to do some blood work.

00:57:04.000 Hey, maybe it's time to, we want to put a heart rate monitor on you. 0.88

00:57:07.000 Hey, we want to see how you're recovering from surgery.

00:57:09.000 He actually cares about that because he has an incentive to keep his patients healthy because he has a direct relationship with them.

00:57:17.000 It's a wonderful thing.

00:57:19.000 A lot of people just aren't aware that that actually exists out there.

00:57:22.000 Because you go, well, I need the insurance because what if I have a procedure that's $150,000?

00:57:25.000 Well, that's true.

00:57:26.000 That is catastrophic insurance.

00:57:27.000 And the reason those rates have inflated beyond control is because of the fact that insurance companies will pay it.

00:57:32.000 There's no actual market rate that is being established in health care today.

00:57:37.000 And by the way, we're going to move on and talk about Donald Trump's NBC interview, which is a lot of fun.

00:57:41.000 But none of this happens without you.

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00:57:51.000 Rumble Premium is Mug Club.

00:57:52.000 We're going to announce this week the new mug for Rumble Premium.

00:57:55.000 Members, $99 a year, or $9.99.

00:57:59.000 It's a great Christmas gift.

00:58:00.000 You can gift it, and you get everything ad-free as well.

00:58:02.000 You want an alternative to YouTube, you have it.

00:58:04.000 By the way, for those out there with some people complaining, on mobile, it may look like on this channel, all the content is Rumble Premium.

00:58:12.000 It's not.

00:58:12.000 All the free content is still free, and there's the additional content.

00:58:15.000 You just need to update your app.

00:58:17.000 You'll see on desktop it labels Rumble versus Rumble Premium, but some people felt like, is everything?

00:58:21.000 No.

00:58:21.000 They're going to fix it this week.

00:58:23.000 Yeah.

00:58:23.000 It just looks like that if you're on the mobile app, so that's going to be updated.

00:58:27.000 You can still click the videos, and it will play, even though it has a lock.

00:58:30.000 It says premium only.

00:58:31.000 That's not the case.

00:58:33.000 And for those of you who are former Mug Club members, right, we're still broadcasting there, but we have a video up.

00:58:37.000 We'll give you another one on how to convert your account to Rumble Premium at no extra cost.

00:58:41.000 And you get everything else there.

00:58:42.000 You get Dr. Disrespect.

00:58:42.000 You get Barstool Sports.

00:58:44.000 They have live sporting events, so it's going to be expanding quite a bit here in the new year.

00:58:47.000 It is the Bet It All on Black.

00:58:49.000 Or Red.

00:58:50.000 Doesn't matter.

00:58:51.000 Let's go to...

00:58:52.000 Green?

00:58:53.000 What?

00:58:54.000 Bet It All on Green.

00:58:55.000 Is it green?

00:58:56.000 There's two of them, right?

00:58:57.000 Oh, okay.

00:58:58.000 No one calls it green, though.

00:59:00.000 Rebel's green, though.

00:59:01.000 Oh, that is green.

00:59:02.000 I don't know gambling.

00:59:04.000 You don't want to call them a zero. 0.72

00:59:06.000 I'm a degenerate.

00:59:07.000 I'm just going to say, go Irish before we leave. 1.00

00:59:09.000 Donald Trump did go on Meet the Press with this broad Kristen Walker.

00:59:15.000 Welker. 0.99

00:59:18.000 Anyway, Donald Trump gave an interview with NBC's Meet the Press and this bitch yesterday morning. 1.00

00:59:25.000 This Sunday, return to office. 0.99

Louder with Crowder - December 09, 2024

Syria Has Fallen: Should The US Intervene?

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