Dave Rubin (20:44)
People want to jump up and choke us and kill us for being loud. How about we do the same when they attempt to oppress us? I'm tired. Tired. All right. That is, I would say, as close to calls for direct violence as you can get within the confines of the First Amendment right. You are not allowed to call for direct violence to people, but in essence, he is there. And then you wonder again, when we see these mobs, whether they're the BLM mobs or the Hamas mobs or whatever, and they're breaking into stores and they're. They're looting and they're scaring kids and women on the streets and all these things. Well, how did this happen? Well, it's what we just showed you here. The media kind of lies about the story racializes something that shouldn't be racialized. The governor of the state preemptively, before there's a trial, and all the evidence is out there immediately says Daniel Penny is the bad guy. Then you get the father, who sounds like he wasn't such a great father to this homeless person who was threatening women and kids on the subway. You get the father to imply that we better do something. Then you get a giant nonprofit organization that's completely fraudulent. You get the leader. His name is Hawk Newsome, which sounds like that's like the bad guy in my nightmare is Hawk Newsom. It's like half Gavin Newsom, whatever it is. But you get, we're gonna call. We're gonna get out there. And then you wonder why we're endlessly in this strange, toxic place that we Find ourselves. Ourselves. Well, you know what, you know what happens when you, when you do all that? You get all. You get literally hundreds and thousands of confused people out on the street protesting, and they're not even sure why. This was New York City yesterday. What's his name? Jordan Neely. Now, again, nobody is celebrating the death of Jordan Neely, but let's frame it this way. How about this? Let's do a little thought experiment here. If Jordan Neely had gone on that subway that day and punched an old woman, particularly if she was black, you would have never heard of this story. Right? Because the media wouldn't have known what to do with the story because it's a black homeless man, in essence, punching a black woman. They don't know what to do with that. That's why you don't hear about black on black crime in Chicago. It does not fit the narrative. They got what they thought was a perfect story here. Sort of young, good looking, Navy, white guy kills black men. So it's perfect. Imagine if Jordan Neely had killed somebody on that subway. You probably wouldn't. They certainly wouldn't be protesting out there for justice for the dead person on the subway. Right. It would just be a story. It would be like, homeless man kills somebody on subway. We will move on. And nobody would know the homeless person. Nobody would know the name of the homeless person or of the other thing. But this one fits the narrative, so they're running with it. My friend Megan Kelly had, I would say, rather spectacular analysis of the situation. Meanwhile, someone over on Neely side, he's so describing him as the victim. He wasn't the victim, he was the aggressor. He was the criminal on that subway car that day who was seriously threatening other passengers. He had a long history of hurting them. And somebody on his side yelled out in the courtroom, it's a racist country. Hello, madam, or soothe, sir. That's not working anymore. You're going to have to find a new line. I don't know what it's going to be, but the BLM era is officially over. It's over. You had us in some sort of weird psychotic headspin for four or five years and it's done. Trump's reelected and Daniel Penny is acquitted in one of the most leftist jurisdictions in America, despite the fact that he is white and Jordan Neely was black. Yeah, that's right. This thing had nothing to do with race. This had everything to do with the lawlessness of New York City and the defunding of the police. That is pushed by BLM and the progressive people like Kathy Hochul. This is far more. The death of Jordan Neely is far more on them, actually than it is on Penny. So it is justice served that he is now a free man. And of course they will use this. They will use this to increase protests when they want them, get violence out there when they want and everything else. But I think Meghan is completely right. You can directly connect this now to the election of Donald Trump. We are done listening to the mainstream media narratives. The bullshit that you guys have served us for so long almost got us to the precipice of the end of the country. I think that's how close we got just a couple weeks ago. Had the election gone the other way, we would be in deep, deep doo doo right now. Okay? But we're not anymore. And we're not gonna listen to blm, we're not gonna listen to the mainstream narratives, and we're gonna keep telling the truth and we're gonna keep fighting for the good guys and fighting against the bad guys. And I know you guys aren't gonna be happy about it, but you're gonna have to suck it up, cuz we ain't gonna stop. Guys, let's talk about Ledger for a moment and then we'll get to more on the way. The media's reverse reversing the truth as it pertains to the death of Brian Thompson, the CEO of the Healthcare organization. In a world where our digital lives are under constant threat, it's more important than ever to take control of our own security. That's where Ledger comes in. Ledger has been the leading name in hardware wallets for 10 years. Trusted by 7 million users and securing 20% of the world's digital assets. Their new devices, Ledger Stacks and Ledger Flex are a game changer with secure touchscreens that make managing your crypto and logins easier and safer. 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Brian Thompson, the 50 year old CEO of United Healthcare who was gunned down in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday, was one of multiple executives at his company who were being investigated by the Department of Justice for insider trading. Thompson was shot and killed in what authorities believe was a brazen targeted attack before he made it to the Hilton Hotel to take part in the company's annual investors conference. The New York Post reported that Thompson and several other executives at UnitedHealth Group are facing a DOJ probe. United Healthcare is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, one of the largest companies in the world. On February 16th of this year, Thompson sold shares worth 15.1 million just two weeks before the public found out about a federal antitrust probe. According to Crane's New York business, the DOJ was reportedly investigating whether UnitedHealth Group violated antitrust laws by making acquisitions that consolidated its market position. Thompson's sale of his shares earlier this year was his first since taking over the company in 2021. According, according to the Post, Thompson, United Health Group Chairman Stephen Helmsley, Chief people officer Aaron McSweeney and chief accounting officer Tom Roos sold a combined 101.5 million in shares. So, okay, so first, let's just address that they were being investigated by the doj. Did they maybe do some things that the DOJ was not happy about, like acquire some other companies and was there some monopolistic practices? Perhaps. But either way, did he sell shares? Did he maybe have insider knowledge and then sell shares before the meeting and all those things? Did he perhaps do a whole bunch of nefarious stuff? Perhaps. I don't know any more than I'm reading to you right there, but the answer to that is perhaps, yeah, perhaps he did. But you cannot, as a citizen of the United States, say that someone's doing some bad things and we'll have more on the motives in just a moment and just go out there and shoot them. We have a legal system for a reason. So let's go a bit more from the Daily Wire here. NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch and Chief Detectives Joe Kenney identified the man arrested in connection with the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson as 26 year old Luigi Mangione. Mangione was arrested at McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania on Monday after an employee at the fast food chain tipped off local police. Mangione is from Maryland and has tied to San Francisco, Kenney said at a press conference. Police believed he attended college in Pennsylvania and most recently lived in Honolulu. The person of interest presented fake IDs to police and was found in possession of what appeared to be a homemade firearm and suppressor, according to authorities. According to Kenney, the gun found on the person of interest was capable of shooting a 9 millimeter round and could have been made with a 3D printer. Mangione is facing a firearm charge in Pennsylvania. A manifesto was also found on Mangion's person after his arrest. Kenny did not go into detail on what was written in the manifesto, but he said it does seem he has some ill will toward corporate America. Mangione has no criminal record in New York, according to authorities. Mangione reportedly showed police officers the same fake New Jersey ID used by a person of interest in the case who was checked into a Manhattan Hostel on November 24, just 10 days before Thompson was gunned down. Okay, so we'll have more on Mangione in just a second. But the point again, I just want to drive it home. Beyond anything else, whatever grievance you have as a person, we all have organizations we don't like. I don't like the people of msnbc. You can't just walk out there and shoot them, right? Like if once we do that, we're shredding any ability to have a functional society. So now a bit more on Mangione and some of his perhaps motives. This is from Colin Rugg knew Luigi Mangione had a back condition that was so bad that having physical relationships with his back condition wasn't possible. The update comes as left wingers are fantasizing about having sexual relationships with Mangione. That's happening all over Twitter because there's some shirtless pictures of the guy he clearly worked out. Police say that they found a 262 page manifesto on Mangione taking responsibility for the murder. According to RJ Martin, the founder of a co living community in Honolulu, Mangione opened up about his back condition during time in the community. His spine was kind of misaligned, martin said, as reported by the New York Times. He said his lower vertebrae were almost like a half inch off and I think it pinched a nerve. Sometimes he'd be doing well and other times not. After a surfing incident. Mangione told Martin he wasn't in a relationship because he knew that that dating and being physically intimate with his back condition was impossible. I remember him telling me that and my heart just breaks. In the 262 page handwritten manifesto, the writer admits to the murder and says that they acted alone to save you a lengthy investigation. I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone. It says the writer lashed out against companies that continue to abuse our country for immense profit because the American public has allowed them to get away with it. Okay, again, so now we're finding out a little bit more. So he clearly had this back pain. It sounds like he was denied certain coverage or services that he wanted. I am not defending anything that UnitedHealthcare did. We will find out more information about that. Is it possible they were denying coverage? And is it possible that healthcare companies in general or insurance companies in general deny benefits? If your house is hit with a hurricane or you have a certain health problem or whatever it might be, are they always doing what is exactly best for the customer? Probably not, right? Can we figure out ways to streamline some of that stuff and make some of that stuff better and more cost effective so insurance companies are more likely to help you get the coverage you need, whether it's for your home or for your health or whatever? Of course. And we should have those conversations and with AI and with DOGE and with so many things changing, hopefully a lot of that stuff will get better. But once you say, okay, I've got a problem, I was denied coverage by this organization, I can just go out there and assassinate somebody, somebody who maybe was doing some other nefarious stuff with insider trading or whatever else. Once you do that, we don't have a functioning society. And in some respects, the reason that we've gotten so close to not having a functioning society is because our culture has been rotten. So now I want to just jump Back to the 22nd clip from the Daily show and listen to the audience booing when Jon Stewart tells them that they arrested the guy who murdered an innocent man in. Well, it wasn't broad daylight. It was at night. It was on video. We can't show you the video because YouTube will take it down. But catching the guy who committed the murder of an innocent man is a good thing. However, this today, they did appear to catch that guy today at a McDonald's in Altoona, Pennsylvania. It's true. Look, I'm sorry, guys. Apparently a bystander at the McDonald's ratted him out. And normally I would say snitches get stitches, but obviously without pre approval, there's really. Okay. So, yeah, John, you've again sort of festered this stuff so Nobody in their right mind should be applauding this. Again, you can have an honest conversation about what do we have to do as it relates to healthcare. And we will dig in and find out more if Brian Thompson did nefarious things or the selling of the shares was untoward or whatever it might be. But once you unearth this thing, and this is what you guys have done with everything, right, healthcare executives automatically are bad and should be shot. White supremacists are everywhere. You've done this with everything and, and it's deeply, deeply dangerous. I want to show you this wild clip. So there is this girl by the name of Taylor Lorenz. I think I've only mentioned her once or twice over the years on the show. She's gone after me many times. She's a lefty, she's got a substack, I suppose, but she was sort of like a mainstream lefty, like one of these people who is always focused on the people of the Internet, what's going on on the underbelly of the Internet from a left wing perspective. So everyone's a white supremacist and a bad guy and everything else. So when I tell you that there are people who are genuinely celebrating that Brian Thompson was assassinated because they don't like American capitalism or how our healthcare works or something else, well, here's a prime example of just that. I do believe in the sanctity of life and I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know, because it feels like serious, I mean, joy in a man's execution. Maybe not joy, but certainly not, no, certainly not empathy, because again, we're watching the footage. How can this make you joyful? This guy's a husband, he's a father and he's being gunned down in the middle of Manhattan. Why does that make you joyful? Americans that be murdered. So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push a policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people. And I, the many millions of Americans that have watched people that I care about suffer and in some cases die because of lack of health care.