Luigi Mangione has been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and is being held in Pennsylvania pending extradition to New York City. He is also alleged to have written a manifesto that details his grievances with the company.
00:00:00.000Well, yesterday, Luigi Mangione, who is the alleged of the UnitedHealthcare CEO, he had been arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and he was brought into the courthouse in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, where he immediately began shouting at the press, It's not totally clear what he is saying here, but here is video of him emerging from a police car and being ushered into the jailhouse where he is being held pending his possible extradition to New York.
00:00:27.000He apparently is fighting that extradition.
00:00:29.000Here's what it sounded like yesterday.
00:00:33.000So what he appears to be shouting there is it's an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience.
00:00:46.000It's not exactly clear what he is talking about right there.
00:00:51.000What is the insult that you've been arrested when the evidence is pretty clear that you were the person who shot to death Brian Thompson as UnitedHealth executive?
00:01:02.000What exactly is the insult to the lived experience?
00:01:04.000Is the idea that if you've had a bad experience with a health insurance company, this means that you now get to murder the head of the health insurance company?
00:01:10.000By the way, not even clear in this particular case that the alleged shooter's health conditions had anything to do with UnitedHealth.
00:01:53.000And it is worth exploring because it is a window into the mind of people who tend to believe that because the world is filled with problems, this means you get to shoot people.
00:02:01.000Which is unfortunately a growing sentiment on the left and even some parts of the right.
00:02:07.000So here is what the alleged shooter actually wrote.
00:02:10.000Quote, to the feds, I'll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country.
00:02:13.000To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone.
00:02:18.000Some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience.
00:02:21.000The spiral notebook, if present, has some straggling notes and to-do lists that illuminate the gist of it.
00:02:25.000My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering, so probably not much info there.
00:02:29.000I do apologize for any strife of traumas, but it had to be done.
00:02:32.000Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.
00:02:35.000A reminder, the U.S. has the number one most expensive healthcare system in the world, yet we rank roughly number 42 in life expectancy.
00:02:42.000United is the, and then it's handwritten, so indecipherable, largest company in the U.S. by market cap behind only Apple, Google, Walmart.
00:02:50.000It has grown and grown, but has our life expectancy?
00:02:52.000No, the reality is these blank have simply gotten too powerful, and they continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it.
00:03:01.000Obviously, the problem is more complex, but I do not have the space, and frankly, I do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument.
00:03:07.000But many have illuminated the corruption and greed decades ago, and the problem simply remains.
00:03:11.000It is not an issue of awareness at this point, but clearly power games at play.
00:03:13.000Evidently, I'm the first to face it with such brutal honesty.
00:03:16.000There are a couple of key lines here that are quite amazing in this manifesto.
00:03:20.000Obviously, the problem is more complex, but I do not have the space and frankly do not pretend to be the most qualified person to lay out the full argument.
00:03:27.000In other words, he didn't have a solution for any of the health insurance problems in the country.
00:03:31.000And those problems are quite real because the United States has a very heavily subsidized and regulated health care system.
00:03:41.000Insurance, as we mentioned yesterday on the show, would imply that you are making a bet with the insurance company that something bad might happen to you and the insurance company is betting that it will not happen to you.
00:03:51.000That is obviously not how healthcare works in the United States.
00:03:53.000Because no company in their right mind would bet that, for example, you won't need a checkup next week.
00:04:01.000It's health coverage that is provided at discount based on government subsidy and also based on collective risk pooling.
00:04:10.000That's actually how the system works, and the system doesn't work particularly well in a lot of ways.
00:04:13.000It works better than many of the other systems, including nationalized health care.
00:04:16.000But the point there is that the alleged shooter himself He's angry at a system that he says he does not fully understand and he has no proper solutions for.
00:04:25.000And by the way, he happens to be wrong on the merits.
00:04:27.000So when he says that the United States has the most expensive healthcare system in the world, but we rank roughly number 42 in life expectancy, there's an excellent thread from a person named Jeremy Kaufman laying out some of the statistics with regard to the United States healthcare system.
00:04:41.000And the point that he makes is that healthcare spending in all countries tracks income.
00:04:44.000In other words, the more people get rich, the more they spend on healthcare.
00:05:10.000It is almost a straight line, arithmetic correlation here.
00:05:15.000That as you make more money, you spend more money on your healthcare, which of course makes sense because you care very deeply about your healthcare.
00:05:37.000The real price of healthcare increases actually slower than incomes in cross-sectional analysis.
00:05:43.000So as income in the United States increases, so does healthcare price, but slower than income increases in the United States.
00:05:50.000Not only that, You can see in surgical prices that there is correlation between income and the price of surgery, for example.
00:05:58.000Because again, as people make more money, they also demand more money as the inputs on labor.
00:06:03.000If you are a surgeon in the United States and the average income is $80,000 a year, you're going to make more money than in a country where the average income is $40,000 a year.
00:06:28.000In other words, the market mechanisms continue to function in the sense that as people make more money and as they spend more money, the costs go up.
00:06:37.000Most importantly, the idea that profits are radically high in health services is not true.
00:06:44.000Profits in health services are actually lower than in many other areas of the American economy.
00:06:51.000So if you look at hospitals and nursing and residential care facilities, the profits are somewhere in the neighborhood of 2% to 5%, somewhere in that neighborhood.
00:07:02.000If you look at construction, they're way higher than that.
00:07:06.000Profits are really, really high in manufacturing, for example, but they're not particularly high in the healthcare industry, again, because of regulation and subsidization.
00:07:15.000So why exactly is it that we spend so much money, but we get so little input in terms of our health expectancy rising, our life expectancy rising?
00:07:22.000Well, number one, there is in fact a law of diminishing returns when it comes to healthcare spending.
00:07:40.000So, for example, the cross-sectional relationship in terms of how much you spend on care and the outcome is totally flat.
00:07:48.000So, the life expectancy in, for example, Israel and Luxembourg is totally the same, but the health expenditure per capita Is wildly different.
00:07:59.000Israel is spending about $2,500 health expenditure per capita.
00:08:05.000And the life expectancy in Israel is about 82 and a half years.
00:08:08.000Same exact life expectancy in Luxembourg, except they're spending $6,500 per capita.
00:08:13.000Because it turns out, no matter what you do with medicine, you simply can't prolong life beyond a certain point on average.
00:08:19.000So what's the big problem in the United States?
00:08:21.000Why does the United States have a lower life expectancy?
00:08:44.000We have a huge diet metabolic problem in the United States.
00:08:49.000In fact, it has almost a six-year decrease in life expectancy in the United States thanks to diet and metabolic because we're real fat in the United States.
00:08:58.000Okay, so none of this is to ignore the problems in the healthcare system.
00:09:01.000It is to point out that whenever anyone suggests that there are easy solutions and they are only barred by the evil of greedy health insurance companies, they are lying.
00:09:23.000So, I have to say, Bill Burr is an a**hole.
00:09:26.000So, Bill Burr, I used to really enjoy his work.
00:09:30.000I mean, on occasion, I still enjoy his work.
00:09:32.000He's a comedian, which means he's very hit or miss.
00:09:33.000His Red Rock special, for example, hilarious.
00:09:36.000I used to be, I'm such a Bill Burr fan that I actually bought a ticket for me and my wife and two of our friends to go see Bill Burr at the Hard Rock Casino down here in Hollywood, Florida.
00:09:45.000And I have to say it was one of the worst shows I ever saw in my life because he got up there and Bill Burr has become woked.
00:09:51.000He has become woked, I assume, because his wife is very much on the left.
00:09:55.000Over time, I think he became embarrassed that many people on the right thought he was very funny.
00:09:59.000And so he decided that he was going to start woking it up.
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00:12:27.000The audience was not laughing at his jokes because his jokes were basically about how Floridians were a bunch of anti-gay racists.
00:12:34.000And Floridians were like, that's not true.
00:12:37.000There are a lot of gay people who live down here and a lot of Hispanics and black people who live down here.
00:12:40.000And in fact, the room is filled with Jews.
00:12:43.000And so he actually got so frustrated, he ended up cutting his show early and walking off the stage.
00:12:49.000And the reason was he was totally disconnected from the audience.
00:13:01.000He is proclaiming that he is very happy that CEOs are walking around in fear for their lives.
00:13:08.000Now, you do get some extra points for being a comedian in today's day and age, meaning that we will tend to give you some more leeway to say edgy things because you're trying to be funny.
00:13:18.000And it's not clear to me here that Bill Burr is attempting to be funny.
00:13:21.000This is just his actual political opinion.
00:13:22.000He's not saying anything funny or insightful here.
00:13:24.000Here is Bill Burr yesterday explaining that he is perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full-time security because they fear they might be shot because, after all, they're murderers, too.
00:13:35.000I don't believe that Bill Burr holds the same standard for comedians.
00:13:38.000There's an argument that's been made by the left.
00:13:40.000It is a crap argument when made about comedians, and it's a crap argument when made about CEOs.
00:13:44.000The argument goes something like this on the left.
00:13:46.000People like Bill Burr mock the vulnerable.
00:13:49.000They mock the marginalized, and thus they are a danger to the vulnerable and the marginalized.
00:13:54.000So presumably, Bill Burr should have to live in fear of making a joke.
00:13:58.000Bill Burr should have to live in fear because he doesn't know who he's damaging.
00:14:01.000In any case, here is Bill Burr openly cheering The murder of a UnitedHealth executive because he says CEOs should live in fear if they don't act in the way that he would have them act in a system that he has no fixes for, by the way.
00:14:18.000You know what's annoying me about this kid who killed this CEO is none of these news programs are talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general public about this because of how these insurance companies treat people when they are at their most vulnerable.
00:14:35.000After we've all given them our money every month and now we finally need you and all you do is deny us.
00:15:25.000He's saying you should live in fear if you're the CEO of a company and that company does things that Bill Burr deems to be bad, to be bad things.
00:15:33.000Now, we have laws on the books, for example, that prevent things like fraud.
00:15:37.000We have laws on the books that prevent things like embezzlement.
00:15:40.000We have laws on the books that punish criminal activity.
00:15:43.000If you don't like the system, and many people don't, the proper response to that system would be legislation.
00:15:49.000In a democratic republic, the way that you fix problems is you have open discussions of the details of those problems, and then you try to craft regulatory or legal fixes.
00:15:57.000You do not say that it is a good thing that CEOs should live in fear of their lives because Bill Burr deems them morally inferior.
00:16:04.000Bill Burr doing his blue-collar class routine act is a bunch of horseshit.
00:16:08.000Bill Burr is worth $14 million, and he makes his money making crap movies for Netflix at this point.
00:16:14.000Again, this basic idea, if we're going to have a functioning country, you can't justify the murder of people who run their businesses legally in ways with which you disagree.
00:16:24.000It is one thing to disagree with them.
00:16:26.000When you start justifying them living in fear or suggesting maybe they should be murdered, I'm just wondering what the limiting principle here is.
00:17:03.000I don't care what complaints you have with the health insurance company.
00:17:06.000The notion that the solution to those complaints is the murder of the executives.
00:17:12.000If you're living in a tyrannical society where you didn't have any legal correctives to any of this, and you had no alternatives in terms of Medicaid, which does exist, and you had no alternatives in terms of other health insurance programs, then you can make the argument in a full-scale monarchic tyranny that assassination is a proper response to this.
00:17:30.000But that's not the system in which we live.
00:17:32.000And promulgating that lie leads to greater violence.
00:17:34.000It leads to justification of all violence.
00:17:37.000Unfortunately, it's not just Bill Burr.
00:17:39.000It is so many members of the elite of our society.
00:17:43.000People who are fine living with private security as they make millions of dollars saying things on TV. It's not just Bill Burr here.
00:17:53.000So Jimmy Kimmel last night decided that he would do an entire segment celebrating the good looks of the alleged shooter.
00:17:59.000Here he was last night, gleefully chortling over how good-looking the alleged shooter is.
00:18:04.000I'm old enough to remember when there was widespread national outrage over Rolling Stone running on its cover a picture of the Boston Marathon bomber that made him look particularly handsome or something.
00:19:54.000Here is a University of Pennsylvania professor who should, in fact, lose her job.
00:19:59.000You should not be teaching students if your attitude toward murder is that it is a net good because you don't like the healthcare system as it currently stands.
00:20:08.000By the way, I'm just wondering to what extent we get to extend this logic when it comes to government-run systems.
00:20:13.000So how would people feel about people just assassinating the heads of the National Health Service in Great Britain, for example?
00:20:18.000I have a feeling these same people would be a little upset about it.
00:20:20.000Here is the University of Pennsylvania professor dancing on TikTok to the murder of the United Health Executive.
00:20:27.000Do you hear the people sing, singing the song of anger?
00:20:33.000Says, I've never been prouder to be a professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
00:20:35.000Well, well, not rocking her head to Les Mis.
00:20:48.000Apparently the McDonald's, where the police caught the alleged shooter, has now been flooded with negative Yelp reviews because the basic idea is that you should not report murderous criminals if you spot them in public.
00:20:59.000Meanwhile, some TikTokers are threatening to beat up McDonald's workers.
00:21:03.000Here's one trans TikToker threatening to beat up a McDonald's worker.
00:21:07.000They caught the guy that killed the UHC CEO. For such a professional hit, it's kind of weird that the gunman didn't leave the US. The guy that reported it was a McDonald's worker.
00:21:18.000I would never advocate for violence on my page.
00:21:23.000But, it would be pretty funny if we beat the shit out of him, and then when he went to the hospital, that if he was out of network and had to pay a huge bill, I think that would be funny.
00:21:40.000Oh, well, then you're not advocating for it, obviously.
00:21:43.000Over in New York, signs have been appearing with pictures, wanted pictures, of CEOs.
00:21:48.000With Brian Thompson's face crossed out because, of course, he has been murdered.
00:21:52.000Here is some footage of wanted posters of various members of the healthcare industry.
00:21:59.000Again, wanted posters with their faces on them, presumably to be murdered.
00:22:03.000This is all insane, especially considering that when it comes to health care, that is a complex problem requiring a complex solution.
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00:24:25.000Okay, now, how widespread is this sentiment?
00:24:29.000Well, I mean, it's widespread enough that it has made its way over into the political segment of the body politic, the overtly political.
00:24:36.000You have the cultural commentators who are sort of tangentially interested in the issue to the extent that they don't know enough about it to say.
00:24:42.000And then you have people whose actual profession is to supposedly understand the issues, being gleeful about the murder.
00:24:48.000Joy Reid, again, the least joyful person ever to be named Joy, and that includes Joy Behar.
00:24:53.000She is gleeful that people are supporting the UnitedHealth CEO's alleged shooter.
00:25:00.000Something a bit unexpected has happened following the murder.
00:25:04.000A reaction not of universal horror that a 50-year-old father of two and husband was shot dead in public, but rather of, and I don't want to call it glee, but let's just say not unhappiness.
00:25:15.000Especially online, where the Internet sleuths who often dedicate themselves to tracking down people accused of racist behavior in public places, criminals, including January 6th fugitives, and more, have been actively refusing to help.
00:25:31.000Donald Trump Jr., son of our incoming ruler, went on his ex-Twitter page and did the patented Internet Do Your Thing post.
00:25:37.000And the reaction was mostly, yeah, no.
00:25:41.000Other popular conservatives like Ben Shapiro and anti-woman zealot Matt Walsh saw their mentions go up in flames when they tried to attack quote-unquote evil liberals for celebrating the murder of a CEO, with some of their supporters replying that they had gotten it wrong.
00:25:57.000Indeed, instead of universal condemnation, what we have seen and many of us have heard both on and offline has been a barrage of stories of Americans' awful experiences with insurance companies.
00:26:09.000Stories of claims denied, of people who've gotten sicker or even died because insurance companies like United refuse to pay claims.
00:26:17.000Let's just be clear, there's a real hatred for these companies that is unfurling on social media right now and also in real life too.
00:26:26.000Okay, and part of the reason for that hatred is because you have suggested no proper solutions.
00:26:29.000By the way, Obamacare was supposed to solve all this, remember?
00:26:34.000Barack Obama, that guy was supposed to have fixed health care, you recall, and it got worse because of the subsidization and over-regulation.
00:26:42.000Meanwhile, the White House refuses to answer if the Biden administration disagrees with the alleged shooter's reported manifesto regarding quote-unquote profit over people, which again has been a talking point of the left for a very long time.
00:26:52.000The suggestion that the profit margin is really the problem in the health care industry.
00:26:56.000As we went through with regard to the charts, There are a wide variety of healthcare systems.
00:26:59.000When it comes to spending per capita, the bottom line is that as income goes up, so does healthcare spending.
00:27:08.000But the White House, again, has been playing this ugly game.
00:27:12.000Democrats have been playing this ugly game as long as I'm alive.
00:27:14.000The reason health care is bad in the United States or worse than it should be in the United States is because of those greedy health care executives.
00:27:20.000It is amazing, by the way, that this logic is never, ever applied to literally any other area of human life.
00:27:26.000Nobody ever says, you know, the NBA could be even better if they paid LeBron James less.
00:27:32.000It's only with regard to healthcare and other areas that the left cares about that suddenly the profit margin becomes bad.
00:27:39.000Nobody ever suggests that Bill Burr should make less money in his comedy because obviously the profit margin in his comedy is what is driving, it's making his comedy worse.
00:27:47.000Here is Karine Jean-Pierre refusing to condemn the idea that the UnitedHealthcare CEO, the reason UnitedHealthcare denies too many claims is because of their profit margins.
00:28:01.000What would you say to Americans who might sympathize with Luigi Mangione's purported manifesto indicating that insurance companies ultimately care more about their profits than the health of their customers?
00:29:17.000And nobody should be making a but about that point.
00:29:20.000But when it comes to the left, they make that point all the damn time.
00:29:24.000There's a piece over at Politico trying to explain what exactly is going on over here.
00:29:28.000Joshua Zeitz is a Politico magazine contributing writer.
00:29:31.000And he has a piece talking about a particular theory called social banditry.
00:29:37.000He traces that to the Marxist scholar Eric Hobswam in 1959. He suggested that social bandits were sometimes fictional, sometimes real figures who operated outside of the law and were widely revered for their efforts to mete out justice in an unjust world, like Robin Hood, for example.
00:29:51.000Hobbeswam's theory, which historians continue to debate, rested on a fairly specific Marxian analysis of power and economic relationships in agrarian societies.
00:29:58.000But such characters transcended different geographies and times, ranging from the fictional Robin Hood in 14th century England to brutally violent real life outlaws like Jesse James and Billy the Kid in the post-Civil War era United States to Pancho Villa in the early 20th century Mexico.
00:30:14.000Well, the theory basically suggests...
00:30:17.000That social banditry attracts popular attention and support in rural environments where the state is weak, where peasants' long-standing prerogatives were eroding in the face of economic change and where inequality was rampant.
00:30:29.000So that means that if you then commit individual acts of violence, you are rebelling against some sort of evil system.
00:30:35.000The problem, of course, is that that is not how the United States works.
00:30:39.000The reality is that while people might be large-scale upset with insurance companies, and I think for some good reasons because of the regulatory environment, the basic Marxian idea, which is that violence is now justified in a democratic republic because you don't like how a company is doing its business, that is, in fact, as most Marxist materialism is, wrong and also morally wrong.
00:31:05.000The argument here is that we don't have effective government with regard to this stuff, and that's why things aren't changing.
00:31:10.000Well, we have more regulation on the healthcare industry than virtually any other industry in the United States.
00:31:15.000We have more subsidization of the healthcare industry than literally any industry in the United States.
00:31:19.000Bar none, Medicare and Medicaid comprise a huge chunk of our budget every single year in the United States.
00:31:28.000But this, again, this basic idea, and it does tear apart the country, is the idea the system is so broken that murder, individual murder, is the solution to the system.
00:31:37.000You shouldn't tolerate that particular argument when it comes to the supposed racial injustice of the United States.
00:31:42.000You should not tolerate that argument when it comes to the economic system of the United States.
00:31:45.000And you shouldn't tolerate that argument when it comes to the health system of the United States either.
00:31:51.000Again, no one is denying people's bad feelings about health insurance companies, many of which, again, I think are fully understandable.
00:31:59.000But the extension of that to I now have sympathy with the murder of the CEO is a step beyond and has no limiting principle at all.
00:32:16.000The left is super upset over Daniel Penny's acquittal.
00:32:19.000So, Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez had the dumbest take of the day, predictably, since she's not a particularly smart human being.
00:32:25.000She suggested that people who ride subways should fear Daniel Penny, Which is a hell of a statement considering that he literally saved subway riders from a highly drug-addled, deeply mentally ill, violent, threatening homeless person.
00:32:40.000Here's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez finding the stupidest possible take.
00:32:44.000She said that he would do it again, if necessary, if there was a present threat.
00:32:52.000I just feel like that tells us everything.
00:32:56.000If we do not want violence on our subways, and the point of our justice system is a level of accountability to prevent a person who does not have remorse about taking another person's life.
00:33:14.000Who have engaged in manslaughter or have taken a life accidentally express remorse.
00:33:21.000And so the fact that a person may express no remorse indicates that there's a risk that it may happen again.
00:33:27.000And if we do not want to unleash that level of violence, then we should exert a level of accountability to prevent that from happening again.
00:33:37.000So apparently, he should have been remorseful for attempting to stop a guy who was shouting that he was going to kill everyone on the subway.
00:33:46.000Whoopi Goldberg doing the same routine.
00:33:48.000Here she was yesterday from her very rich and privileged station in American life, suggesting it made her uncomfortable that after his trial, after his acquittal, Daniel Penny went to a bar.
00:33:58.000Apparently, he's supposed to, what, go live in sackcloth and ashes in a monastery somewhere?
00:34:02.000Well, what exactly is he supposed to do after being unfairly targeted and prosecuted for an act of heroism on the New York subway?
00:34:10.000I don't know that seeing them celebrating in a bar...
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00:36:44.000Maybe enough of you aren't and will join us in fighting to end white supremacy.
00:36:48.000I just want to call out the hypocrisy and evil of it all and just continue to hope I won't rely completely on you because I know what's most important is to work with my community and other like-minded allies in the fight for justice.
00:38:57.000They are sick of it and they don't care about it anymore.
00:38:59.000But Democrats keep doubling down on it.
00:39:01.000Here were Democrats in front of the House of Representatives yesterday suggesting the full-scale commutation of all death row sentences because of race or something.
00:39:09.000We should note at this point that the people on death row are literally the worst people on planet Earth.
00:39:19.000It's pretty clear with whom they side.
00:39:22.000Today, on Human Rights Day, we call on President Biden to do the right thing, to use his clemency authority to commute the death sentences of the 40 individuals on death row, to re-sentence them to a prison term, and to save lives.
00:39:43.000State-sanctioned murder is not justice.
00:39:47.000And the death penalty is a cruel, racist, and fundamentally flawed punishment that has no place in our society.
00:39:55.000It is deeply discriminatory and has disproportionately been weaponized against black, brown, and low-income families for far too long.
00:40:03.000It is long past time for President Biden to make good on his campaign promise to address the federal death penalty.
00:40:13.000With 40 days left in his presidency, we must move with urgency and ensure that history never repeats itself.
00:40:55.000But I mean, these are their policies that have clearly not worked, that the people, the general population, are not in support of, yet their egos are too big just to admit that they're wrong.
00:41:10.000Meanwhile, Penny also said, he was asked, you know, would you have gone through this again, knowing that you'd get prosecuted, that you'd have to stand trial?
00:41:19.000The guilt I would have felt If someone did get hurt, if he did do what he was threatening to do, I would never be able to live with myself.
00:41:30.000And I'll take a million court appearances and people calling me names and people hating me just to keep one of those people from getting hurt or killed.
00:41:48.000Well, that seems like the kind of person you want more of on the street.
00:41:51.000Democrats, of course, want apparently more Jordan Neelys on the street and fewer Daniel Pennys on the street.
00:41:56.000And that is not a call for people to die, obviously.
00:41:59.000That is a call for people to be kept safe from people who have serious mental illness, schizophrenia, massive drug problems.
00:42:05.000Liberals have decided to leave on the streets.
00:42:07.000Now, speaking of terrible policy, the Federal Trade Commission under the execrable Lena Khan has now decided that they are going to nix the merger between Kroger and Albertsons.
00:42:18.000The idea being that Kroger and Albertsons are competing with each other and that's what's keeping prices low.
00:42:39.000Alina Khan, who is an anti-market radical, appeared with Hassan Piker, who has now apparently been deemed worthy of decent conversation by the left.
00:42:50.000I mean, he was on Pod Save America the other day.
00:42:54.000And Lena Kahn, the current FTC head, she says that they are going to go after this merger and cancel the merger between Albertans and Kroger.
00:43:04.000In order to increase labor costs artificially.
00:43:07.000Because the idea is if they're a merger, then you can't play the two sides off against one another in attempting to get labor.
00:43:14.000That is not why or how you block mergers.
00:43:18.000That is not what the FTC is designed to do.
00:43:21.000The FTZ is not a unionization project.
00:43:23.000The Federal Trade Commission is meant to prevent monopoly that damages consumers.
00:43:27.000And here they are basically saying, we don't care if it damages consumers to block the merger.
00:43:31.000It's all about us pleasing our union base.
00:43:36.000This decision being blocked, what kind of labor protections does that offer to people that are working at these corporations?
00:43:47.000One thing that our lawsuit alleged was that if this merger goes through, it's going to mean higher grocery prices for shoppers, but it's also going to be worse for the workers.
00:43:58.000And this is the first time that the FTC has ever sought to block a merger, not just because it's going to be bad for consumers, But also because it's going to be bad for workers.
00:44:08.000And especially in recent decades, antitrust enforcers had not really been focused on the worker harms as much, and that's something we've really looked to change.
00:44:19.000So the complaint lays out how previously, when there has been competition between Kroger and Albertsons, that the workers at each store were able to use that competition as leverage when they were trying to bargain.
00:44:35.000And that if you allow these two companies to merge, that leverage that comes from having a potential alternative employer or an alternative store where customers can go if there's a strike, that eliminating that leverage point and bargaining leverage would ultimately be bad for workers.
00:44:53.000That is not the job of the Federal Trade Commission.
00:44:55.000That is a psychotic perspective on economics.
00:44:59.000You're artificially increasing the price of labor by preventing a perfectly market-efficient merger from happening because you want to increase the price of labor.
00:45:08.000That's what she is talking about right there.
00:45:23.000He doesn't need to be confirmed because he's already on the FTC. Ferguson is all for economic efficiency.
00:45:29.000He has vowed to extend his regulatory scope to target social media sites that police conservative voices as well.
00:45:35.000Andrew Ferguson will be an excellent change to the idiocy of Lena Kahn, who is indeed a deeply radical human being.
00:45:41.000By the way, Donald Trump is ready to open up this economy to a boom.
00:45:44.000So yesterday, he promised, via Truth Social, that any person or company investing a billion dollars or more in the United States, quote, will receive fully expedited approvals and permits, including, but in no way limited to, all environmental approvals.
00:46:03.000Streamlining the process of investment.
00:46:05.000I mean, it should be done for everybody.
00:46:06.000I would hope that it happens for everybody.
00:46:08.000But if you're about to sink a billion dollars into the American economy, it seems to me that we should probably rush your approval process.
00:46:24.000The UK government has now announced they are indefinitely banning puberty blockers.
00:46:28.000Remember that time that puberty blockers were considered mandatory medicine?
00:46:32.000It was the only way to prevent your girl from c***ing herself if she wanted to become a boy?
00:46:37.000Well, now the National Health Service, the vaunted National Health Service that we keep hearing so much about from the left, they have decided that puberty blockers for the treatment of gender dysphoria and gender incongruence in under-18s were banned temporarily in May 2024 after the Cass review found there was insufficient evidence to show they were safe.
00:46:52.000Legislation will be updated to make the order indefinite and will be reviewed in 2027. So basically the entire transgender medicine con is now over.
00:47:03.000It's falling apart as well as it should be.
00:47:07.000And again, goes to the heart of an entirely stupid debate that we've been having in the country over the course of the last 10 years, and it is 10 years, in which the left maintained that human beings were such interchangeable widgets, that we were all such blank slates, that a boy could be a girl and a girl could be a boy, and that the true obstacle to happiness was shooting girls filled with testosterone and then chopping off their healthy body parts.
00:47:35.000All of this should be banned immediately in all 50 states.
00:47:38.000That should be a priority, by the way, for the federal government under the brand new Health and Human Services Administration of RFK Jr. This should absolutely be ruled under the HHS mandate as non-usable for under 18. I'd make the case it should be non-usable for everyone because it is bad medicine.
00:47:55.000It has nothing to do with actually solving the underlying problem any more than an ice pick to the frontal cortex solves seizures.
00:48:04.000In any case, the Trump administration is now going to have to look pretty deeply into the DOJ again.
00:48:10.000Just before Trump takes office, it is now being revealed that the Justice Department secretly obtained phone records from two members of Congress and 43 staffers, including Kash Patel, the new Trump pick to lead the FBI, during sweeping leak investigations during Trump's first term, according to a Watchdog report released on Tuesday.
00:48:27.000The new report from the DOJ inspector general raises concerns about how the department tried to root out reporters' sources from a sprawling and bipartisan list of federal employees who had access to classified information because of their job.
00:48:37.000Patel and the two members of Congress are not named in the report, but two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN Patel was targeted, so was Adam Schiff, so was Eric Swalwell.
00:48:46.000Patel was the staffer for the GOP-led House Intelligence Committee at the time.
00:48:50.000Here, yesterday, was the Republican chairman of the Oversight Committee, Mike Turner, slamming the Trump DOJ for spying on the congressmen and staff, including Kash Patel.
00:49:01.000When we say the Trump DOJ, we mean the DOJ as led by Trump appointees.
00:49:05.000But much of this was done at the lower levels of the DOJ. You'll recall it was the same DOJ that was targeting Trump at the time.
00:49:12.000It really shows that he understands the weaponization that has happened of the FBI, the Department of Justice against Americans, and really against our own government.
00:49:23.000I mean, here you have the executive branch, in effect, spying on Congress.
00:49:28.000That weaponization goes right to the heart of really what we expect of the oversight processes.
00:49:33.000I mean, here Congress is doing its oversight, and they access the email records, the phone records of members of Congress and their staff merely because they had access to classified information.
00:49:44.000They were doing their jobs here at Congress.
00:49:47.000That can't be, but we need to have statutes in place that both protect members of Congress and hold these people accountable so this doesn't happen again.
00:49:56.000I mean, if you're wondering why it is that the Trump administration is nominating so many people who are victims of these particular agencies to then lead the agencies, this would be the reason.
00:50:04.000Because sometimes it takes the person who is motivated to actually clean out the deadwood from these institutions.
00:50:10.000Speaking of deadwood inside the institutions, what the hell does our Department of Defense do exactly?
00:50:16.000It's a serious question under Lloyd Austin.
00:50:18.000So apparently there have been drones floating near a bunch of military sites.
00:50:24.000According to Fox News, a top FBI leader revealed the agency knows concerningly little about mysterious drones that have been seen hovering over New Jersey.
00:50:31.000Dozens of drones have been spotted flying near sensitive sites like a military research facility in recent weeks.
00:50:36.000There's also reports that this was happening over in Virginia as well over the course of the last few weeks.
00:50:42.000Some drones as large as SUVs have been spotted hovering in the Garden State skies, as well as smaller, more rapidly maneuverable drones, resembling what's referred to as drone motherships that have been deployed in Ukraine, Russia, and China, according to Fox News contributor Brett Velisovich.
00:50:55.000Here is Representative Chris Smith, Republican of New Jersey, saying that one police officer saw as many as 50 drones hovering around.
00:51:02.000So last night I was on the beach in Island State Park in Ocean County with the sheriff.
00:51:11.000He has been working it every single night.
00:51:14.000He's got his own tethered drones chronicling.
00:51:17.000One of his officers two nights ago saw 50 drones come in off the ocean right there.
00:51:22.000So we thought maybe they'll replicate it.
00:51:24.000They didn't, but we thought it was a possibility.
00:51:27.000Then, last night, we had a number of other people there, including a commanding officer from the Coast Guard, who said that one of their 47-foot motor lifeboats was followed by between 12 and 30 of these drones as they went through the water.
00:51:57.000This is like the most obvious thing in the world.
00:51:58.000You have giant drones that are hovering like motherships with smaller drones that are around them near American military bases.
00:52:04.000And the FBI is like, oh, apparently FAA regulations prevent them from just shooting down or even blocking these drones, which is totally crazy.
00:52:13.000And the power of your federal government, able to raid your house for an IRS regulatory violation, unable to do anything about swarms of drones hovering around our military bases in the United States.
00:52:24.000Here's senior FBI official Robert Wheeler saying the FBI has no idea what's happening here.
00:52:30.000attribute that to an individual or a group yet we're investigating but i don't have an answer of who's responsible for that of one or more people that are responsible for those drone flights but we're actively invest investigating well i'm glad you're actively investigating Your investigations have been so great thus far over at the FBI, and Kash Patel can't get in there fast enough.
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