The Auron MacIntyre Show - The Strange Deification of Luigi Mangione ｜ 12⧸19⧸24

As soon as the shocking video of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson s assassination went public, the left began turning the murderer into a folk hero. Before the shooter s identity was even known, progressives celebrated the act, inventing fictional backstories to glorify the killing as a form of noble revenge. Now that Luigi Mangione has been apprehended, late-night comedians are swooning over him, and progressive fanatics are even tattooing his image on their bodies.

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00:00:14.740 As soon as the shocking video of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson's assassination on a New York City street went public,

00:00:23.060 the left began turning the murderer into a folk hero.

00:00:25.880 Before the shooter's identity was even known, progressives celebrated the act,

00:00:30.920 inventing fictional backstories to glorify the killing as a form of noble revenge.

00:00:36.160 Now that Luigi Mangione has been apprehended, late night comedians are swooning over him

00:00:41.040 and progressive fanatics are even tattooing his image on their bodies.

00:00:45.180 The justification for this disturbing behavior is the claim of obscene profits made by corrupt healthcare companies.

00:00:52.540 Yet these very same progressives attacked anyone who questioned the COVID-19 vaccine

00:00:58.320 while pharmaceutical companies were making record profits.

00:01:02.080 The disturbing truth is that the left harbors a deep appetite for political violence

00:01:06.920 and celebrates anyone who harms its perceived enemies.

00:01:11.320 From the very start, Thompson's murder stood out as bizarre.

00:01:15.300 The video, which showed a calm, methodical killer shooting Thompson in the back,

00:01:19.580 made it clear that it was no random street crime.

00:01:22.980 Authorities launched a manhunt that ended when customers recognized Mangione

00:01:27.700 at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

00:01:31.400 Police took him into custody without incident.

00:01:34.220 The fallout has been equally strange.

00:01:36.940 The Altoona Police Department received death threats for arresting Mangione,

00:01:41.320 and the McDonald's location was flooded with negative online reviews.

00:01:44.920 Meanwhile, false claims circulated, including a fabricated story that UnitedHealthcare

00:01:50.780 had denied Mangione coverage for a critical back surgery.

00:01:55.000 Progressives seized on this narrative,

00:01:57.340 desperately twisting the assassination to fit their political agenda.

00:02:01.700 Mangione had a broad online presence,

00:02:04.580 but it did little to align him with any mainstream political movement.

00:02:09.080 Far from being a desperate victim driven to violence,

00:02:11.860 the alleged assassin came from a wealthy family,

00:02:14.860 attended an elite private school,

00:02:16.760 and earned an Ivy League diploma.

00:02:19.040 While Mangione harbored a deep hatred for the healthcare industry,

00:02:22.760 he also appeared to have a general disdain for much of the modern world.

00:02:27.160 Progressives may have cheered his alleged choice of targets,

00:02:30.700 but Mangione hardly fits the image of a working class,

00:02:34.300 revolutionary, spurred to action by dire circumstances,

00:02:38.660 no matter how much the left wishes to believe otherwise.

00:02:40.940 Conservatives must recognize that one doesn't need to be a violent Marxist revolutionary

00:02:48.300 to see that America's healthcare system is broken.

00:02:52.120 Americans pay exorbitant amounts for healthcare.

00:02:55.760 Companies in the industry are often predatory,

00:02:58.540 constantly looking for ways to cut costs and deny coverage.

00:03:02.300 The system itself is a bureaucratic nightmare,

00:03:05.120 seemingly designed to frustrate patients into abandoning claims.

00:03:08.740 Ballooning costs can destroy the financial future of anyone facing a medical emergency.

00:03:15.520 Now, government interference in the industry and the added strain

00:03:19.100 caused by large-scale illegal immigration as individuals use the system without contributing to it

00:03:25.280 are major factors in this crisis.

00:03:28.900 However, these factors alone can't fully explain the disastrous state of healthcare in the United States.

00:03:36.560 People are angry for a reason.

00:03:39.280 If conservatives dismiss this frustration by labeling anyone who points out the problem a Marxist,

00:03:46.180 they'll make a grave error.

00:03:48.360 The problem isn't a lack of legitimate reasons to be angry with the state of the healthcare industry.

00:03:54.880 The problem is that progressives use this grievance as a thin pretext for political violence.

00:04:01.160 The left has no problem with healthcare corporations earning obscene profits when it serves a leftist agenda.

00:04:09.920 During the pandemic, pharmaceutical companies pushed vaccines that failed to prevent infection or transmission

00:04:16.380 and caused harm to some patients.

00:04:19.140 These companies made record profits and were granted immunity from legal liability for any harm their products caused.

00:04:26.860 Progressives never pushed back against these practices.

00:04:29.340 Instead, they demonized anyone who questioned them.

00:04:32.800 They tried to make vaccines mandatory, destroyed the careers of doctors who spoke out,

00:04:37.720 censored medical facts, and smeared critics as science deniers.

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00:05:11.460 When generalist Christopher Ruffo exposed footage of hospital officials boasting about profits from child transition surgeries,

00:05:20.000 surgeries that make patients dependent for life, progressives ignored it.

00:05:24.220 They didn't turn on the healthcare establishment.

00:05:26.720 Instead, they continued to push for the mutilation of children and attacked anyone who opposed their gender jihad.

00:05:33.380 If conservatives resorted to violence against a doctor profiting from these surgeries,

00:05:39.760 or a pharmaceutical CEO earning money from faulty vaccines,

00:05:43.980 the left would have immediately labeled them deranged terrorists.

00:05:48.620 While real issues exist within the healthcare industry,

00:05:53.040 the left holds no principled stance against providers or pharmaceutical companies profiting from misery.

00:05:59.560 Progressives have no objection to corporations earning record profits or receiving legal protection after causing harm,

00:06:07.820 as long as it serves their agenda.

00:06:11.200 Let's be honest, for most of the left, morality boils down to hating whoever the media tells them to hate,

00:06:17.940 with no concern for applying a consistent standard.

00:06:21.420 When a deranged assassin shot at Donald Trump, celebrities told progressives to cheer.

00:06:26.700 So they did.

00:06:27.400 And when the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was assassinated,

00:06:30.940 celebrities once again signaled progressives to cheer.

00:06:34.460 And they did.

00:06:35.500 It really is that simple.

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The Auron MacIntyre Show - December 19, 2024

The Strange Deification of Luigi Mangione ｜ 12⧸19⧸24

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