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Chapter 1: What happened to the UnitedHealthcare CEO?
Alrighty, folks. Well, yesterday, Luigi Mangione, who is the alleged shooter 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. He apparently is fighting that extradition. Here's what it sounded like yesterday.
So what he appears to be shouting there is it's an insult to the intelligence of the American people and their lived experience. It's not exactly clear what he is talking about right there. What 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, this UnitedHealth executive?
What exactly is the insult to the lived experience? Is 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? By the way, not even clear in this particular case that the alleged shooter's health conditions had anything to do with UnitedHealth. Like nothing.
In fact, it is unclear by whom he was insured. What we know, as we discussed yesterday on the program, is that this particular person Mangione, he had had some sort of surfing accident where he had a really bad back injury that apparently left him in crippling pain. And he had a surgery that is very often unsuccessful that implanted a series of pins in his spine.
And he presumably was having some sort of fights with some health insurance company, but that is totally unclear. And he did leave a manifesto. His manifesto is very short. It's 262 words.
And 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, which is unfortunately a growing sentiment on the left and even some parts of the right.
So here is what the alleged shooter actually wrote, quote, to the feds, I'll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country. To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. This was fairly trivial, some elementary social engineering, basic CAD, a lot of patience.
The spiral notebook at present has some straggling notes and to-do lists that illuminate the gist of it. My tech is pretty locked down because I work in engineering, so probably not much info there. I do apologize for any strife of traumas, but it had to be done. Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming. A reminder, the U.S.
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Chapter 2: Why did the alleged shooter feel insulted?
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And Floridians were like, that's not true. There are a lot of gay people who live down here and a lot of Hispanics and black people who live down here. And in fact, the room is filled with Jews. And so he actually got so frustrated, he ended up cutting his show early and walking off the stage. And the reason was he was totally disconnected from the audience. Well, that disconnect has continued.
You'll remember that he appeared on Bill Marshall, where he declared solidarity with the pro-Khamas students on campus. And now... He is proclaiming that he is very happy that CEOs are walking around in fear for their lives.
Now, 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. And it's not clear to me here that Bill Burr is attempting to be funny. This is just his actual political opinion. He's not saying anything funny or insightful here.
Here is Bill Burr yesterday explaining that he is perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full-time security because they have fear they might be shot because after all, they're murderers too. I don't believe that Bill Burr holds the same standard for comedians. There's an argument that's been made by the left.
It is a crap argument when made about comedians, and it's a crap argument when made about CEOs. The argument goes something like this on the left. People like Bill Burr mock the vulnerable. They mock the marginalized, and thus they are a danger to the vulnerable and the marginalized. So presumably, Bill Burr should have to live in fear of making a joke.
Bill Burr should have to live in fear because he doesn't know who he's damaging. In any case, here is Bill Burr openly cheering against 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.
You know what's annoying me about this kid who killed the 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. After we've all given them our money every month and now we finally need you and all you do is deny us. And then these...
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Chapter 3: What does the alleged shooter's manifesto reveal?
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. Hobswam's theory,
which historians continue to debate, rested on a fairly specific Marxian analysis of power and economic relationships in agrarian societies, but 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.
So what exactly is the theory? Well, the theory basically suggests that that social banditry attracts popular attention and support in rural environments where the state is weak, where peasants' longstanding prerogatives were eroding in the face of economic change, and where inequality was rampant.
So that means that if you then commit individual acts of violence, you are rebelling against some sort of evil system. The problem, of course, is that that is not how the United States works.
The 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.
The argument here is that we don't have effective government with regard to this stuff, and that's why things aren't changing. Well, we have more regulation on the healthcare industry than virtually any other industry in the United States. We have more subsidization of the healthcare industry than literally any industry in the United States, bar none.
Medicare and Medicaid comprise a huge chunk of our budget every single year in the United States. And that's leaving aside state costs. But 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.
You shouldn't tolerate that particular argument when it comes to the supposed racial injustice of the United States. You should not tolerate that argument when it comes to the economic system of the United States. And you shouldn't tolerate that argument when it comes to the health system of the United States either.
Again, no one is denying people's bad feelings about health insurance companies, many of which, again, I think are fully understandable. But 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. It's truly ugly. Okay, meanwhile, the Daniel Penny trial is now over. The fallout, of course, is not.
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