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[00:00:28] And you can find me on Twitter, at Pete Kaliner, which is where I do a lot of the wet work when I interact with the leftists and Marxists and dregs of society. No, I'm kidding. They're all over on Blue Sky now. They all migrated over there. So, it's true, though.
[00:00:51] In fact, this, the murder of this UnitedHealthcare CEO, Brian Thompson, has really smoked out the murderous Marxists. Ironically enough, a lot of them are already on my Twitter list that I created. Team baby beheading rapists. I made a list. That's the name of the list. And so after October 7th, in the massacre of all of the,
[00:01:22] Israelis, I started putting people onto this list, you know, so I could easily identify them. And I think there's like, I got, there's over 200 of them on that list at this point.
[00:01:34] At some point, I did kind of like stop doing it because there just became so many. It was hard to keep track of it all. And then, of course, you know, you're like, oh, who is this person? In fact, like this guy right here who just said, yeah, yeah. Todd from the mountain is his, let's see.
[00:01:52] Let me check and make sure he may already be on my list. Let's see. Add and remove Todd from lists. Oh, no, he's not. Okay. So, let's add him to team baby beheading rapists. Boom. He's on it. 282 members now on that list I have created.
[00:02:09] Um, because I said Marxists want you dead. Marxism is a nihilistic religion. That's the point. It, it destroys everything.
[00:02:27] This pursuit of a utopian, uh, society is only, uh, in their view is only, uh, attainable when you destroy all of the imperfect. But what is imperfect? Us. Us. It's pretty simple to understand. Marxism, communism, very simple to understand.
[00:02:50] It is, uh, a religion of envy and jealousy and destruction. Um, and that's why it's got a body count of over a hundred million people to its name.
[00:03:02] So, they're looking for the assassin of this CEO, uh, right there on the streets of Manhattan, uh, who was gunned down while he was, uh, about to enter, uh, a hotel where the annual shareholders conference was, uh, going to be held.
[00:03:19] He was going to be, uh, joining the conference at like 8 a.m. And this person, the assassin, uh, sat outside late in wait.
[00:03:26] And when the, uh, when Brian Thompson, uh, approached the hotel doors, the assassin pulled out a gun and shot him from behind and killed him.
[00:03:37] And apparently now the police have, uh, released some information or at least NBC News and ABC News is reporting that they have it confirmed that on some of the shell casings, there were written deny, defend, and depose.
[00:03:52] Written on, I'm assuming that was on three different shell casings.
[00:03:57] I don't know if you can fit all of that on a single shell casing unless you write really, really small or something.
[00:04:02] I don't know.
[00:04:03] But there is a performative nature to this.
[00:04:07] And that to me screams leftist.
[00:04:10] It does.
[00:04:12] It screams to me leftist.
[00:04:16] And if you go back, as Jim Garrity has at, uh, National Review in a, uh, in a post today, murder in Manhattan.
[00:04:28] He goes through some of the, um, some of the stories and threats that have been, uh, surrounding UnitedHealthcare for, uh, the last year, roughly.
[00:04:39] So I mentioned this in the last hour that back in July, 11 people were arrested, uh, at a protest, uh, over the company's allegedly improper refusals to authorize or pay for care.
[00:04:53] The people that were arrested, uh, were part of a protest organized by People's Action Institute.
[00:05:01] Um, they denounced UnitedHealthcare for dominating the privatized Medicare market.
[00:05:10] The privatized Medicare market, which is really weird.
[00:05:13] I thought Obama had fixed all of this.
[00:05:15] Didn't Obamacare fix all of this like 15 years ago?
[00:05:20] That was the, I thought the whole point of it.
[00:05:22] But what is the Medicare market?
[00:05:25] Are they talking about like supplemental policies?
[00:05:29] Is that what they're talking about?
[00:05:32] There's another recent crime against the company, probably unrelated, but maybe not.
[00:05:40] Hackers breached the computer system of a UnitedHealth Group subsidiary and released ransomware after stealing somebody, uh, somebody's password.
[00:05:52] So there was a massive data breach.
[00:05:54] The hack, probably not related to Thompson's murder, but if one of those shell casings had indeed been inscribed with deny, defend, depose.
[00:06:09] Right?
[00:06:11] Right?
[00:06:11] Well, note that UnitedHealthcare Group, quote, has already been hit with at least six class action lawsuits accusing it of failing to protect millions of people's personal data from last month's hack of Change Healthcare,
[00:06:25] its payment processing unit, with more lawsuits likely to come.
[00:06:31] Deny, defend, depose.
[00:06:35] Deny, defend, depose.
[00:06:37] So it sounds to me like those words would indicate sort of a highlighting or maybe even a mockery of the PR strategy used by United.
[00:06:53] Right?
[00:06:53] First, you deny, I guess, claims or maybe deny wrongdoing, deny any responsibility, deny accountability.
[00:07:04] Right?
[00:07:05] So deny and then defend.
[00:07:08] So either in court maybe if you're being sued for the hack or maybe you defend your actions if you've denied coverage to somebody.
[00:07:18] And then there's depose and that obviously means going into court and getting people on the record for stuff.
[00:07:25] So it doesn't seem random, but it does kind of seem disconnected.
[00:07:35] You know?
[00:07:36] It doesn't make a lot of sense.
[00:07:38] Once again, indicating to me, leftists.
[00:07:41] Right?
[00:07:43] And then there's another potential crime laid out by Crane's New York Business back in April.
[00:07:51] United Health Group Chairman Stephen Hemsley and three senior executives netted a combined $101.5 million from stock sales made over four months leading up to when the public became aware of a federal antitrust investigation.
[00:08:07] So these guys sold their stock before the public was alerted to a federal antitrust investigation.
[00:08:18] The sales occurred between October 16th, a week after the nation's largest health insurer reportedly received notice of the Justice Department probe,
[00:08:29] and February 26th, the day that Bloomberg News and others published stories about the investigation.
[00:08:36] Okay?
[00:08:37] So they found out in October, and then four months later, the news gets told to all of us.
[00:08:42] And in the interim, these executives sold their stock.
[00:08:47] The stock dropped after the investigation became reported.
[00:08:51] Right?
[00:08:51] The DOJ is reviewing whether UnitedHealth's acquisitions have consolidated its position in some markets in a way that violates antitrust laws.
[00:09:00] Brian Thompson, on February 16th, so 10 days before Bloomberg did its report, Thompson had exercised options and sold shares netting him $15 million, according to Bloomberg calculations.
[00:09:17] Garrity concludes, politics attracts its share of crazy people.
[00:09:21] The news media attracts its share of crazy people.
[00:09:26] And the internet attracts its share of crazy people.
[00:09:29] If you write about politics on the internet, you are at the center of a three-ring Venn diagram of industrial strength crazy.
[00:09:39] Or as I call it, my habitat.
[00:09:42] No, I'm kidding.
[00:09:43] That's not my habitat.
[00:09:44] But it could be.
[00:09:45] But that is true.
[00:09:47] And look, ideas are not responsible for the people that adhere to them.
[00:09:52] Okay?
[00:09:53] So I don't blame an idea for the actions that somebody who purports to or espouses that idea.
[00:10:01] I don't do that.
[00:10:02] An idea stands on its own merit when challenged and argued for and against.
[00:10:08] But whatever this person's intent was, it was obviously to send a message of some kind.
[00:10:15] And to me, it screams of leftist activism.
[00:10:22] Some deranged leftist.
[00:10:24] And if you look at the way Marxists are responding to this, it is more evidence in support of that theory.
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[00:11:40] Joseph sent me a Pete mail saying,
[00:11:42] I heard you talk about a list.
[00:11:44] Can I please be on it?
[00:11:45] I hate not being included in lists.
[00:11:47] Pretty please.
[00:11:49] By the way, I only caught the end of it, so I don't know what the list is.
[00:11:54] I hope it's nothing bad, though.
[00:11:56] Well, it's a list of Hamas sympathizers.
[00:11:59] So, yeah, I'm happy to add you to the list if you would like, Joseph.
[00:12:06] The Hellion sends me a message on Twitter.
[00:12:10] I think someone pretty powerful got mad about this guy selling his stock for $15 million two weeks or so before the DOJ announcement.
[00:12:19] The other stuff is a misdirect.
[00:12:21] Someone that got denied coverage would likely be middle class or lower, probably really expensive to hire a hitman.
[00:12:29] So I don't know if this is a murder for hire.
[00:12:33] Yesterday, before we heard about the letters or the words written on the shell casings,
[00:12:44] I honestly, my first, and this is just from, you know, covering news for as long as I did.
[00:12:50] I was a reporter.
[00:12:51] And just honestly, most often, you are, if you are going to be killed, you are most likely to be killed by somebody you know.
[00:13:02] And a lot of this stuff is personal vendetta.
[00:13:07] Remember, wasn't there like a Silicon Valley guy who got murdered?
[00:13:11] Remember that?
[00:13:13] And everybody thought that it was an assassination.
[00:13:16] It was, you know, all these nefarious things or whatever it turned out to be, like his roommate or something.
[00:13:22] I don't know if it was his roommate, but it was like somebody he knew.
[00:13:25] It was a personal grudge.
[00:13:27] It was a grievance, right?
[00:13:27] And the first thing I said yesterday was I would not be surprised if this was some sort of a love triangle kind of thing.
[00:13:37] Then I started hearing, oh, no, this guy knew what he was doing.
[00:13:40] He clears the jam on the gun.
[00:13:42] But then I've heard other people say, yeah, but if anybody who has experience with this gun,
[00:13:47] they would know that they have to cycle it and whatever.
[00:13:51] So I don't know that this is that this was a hired assassin.
[00:13:59] If it was, then OK, then we'll follow that evidence wherever that leads.
[00:14:05] But right now, there isn't any evidence to support a conclusion that this was some sort of trained professional assassin who then got onto a rental bike,
[00:14:18] you know, that has a docking station and, you know, around town.
[00:14:21] Those things.
[00:14:22] That seems kind of weird.
[00:14:24] That's part of your getaway plan is to ride a bicycle.
[00:14:28] Like, why wouldn't you have a car?
[00:14:30] You know, you'd be on foot.
[00:14:33] So, yeah, I don't know if it's.
[00:14:39] OK, so the hellion says I probably watch too much TV.
[00:14:42] That's that's possible.
[00:14:44] I don't know.
[00:14:47] Nobody knows at this point.
[00:14:49] There's a lot of speculation.
[00:14:52] The suspect was apparently trained in firearms to some degree.
[00:14:57] He successfully cleared a jam in the gun.
[00:15:00] He also managed to get away after shooting somebody during, you know, the morning hours right before like 7 a.m., I think it was.
[00:15:10] He also managed to get away suggesting a well-planned getaway, says Dominic Pino at National Review.
[00:15:19] This was not random violence by a disturbed individual or street crime in an unsafe neighborhood.
[00:15:24] This was a targeted hit that somebody had to pay for and plan in the center of one of the most vital business districts.
[00:15:31] See, I would submit that the getaway vehicle being one of those rental bikes indicates that this is a leftist.
[00:15:40] This is somebody who is probably local.
[00:15:44] I mean, think about it.
[00:15:45] Like, like what's self-respecting right winger is going to use, you know, like a ride share or public transit?
[00:15:54] That's like that.
[00:15:58] If you're building that into your plan, your escape plan, like I know I'm going to swipe a credit card or use a PayPal account to rent a bike like that.
[00:16:08] Obviously, they've got to be tracking that down.
[00:16:10] How did they pay for the bicycle to then ride away?
[00:16:14] And then they went to a Starbucks.
[00:16:17] I don't think that's what a professional would do.
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[00:16:51] So I read a couple parts from Dominic Pino over at National Review headline murdering CEOs is evil in case anybody needed a refresher on that.
[00:17:04] But the natural human reaction to the murder of this United Health CEO.
[00:17:12] He says the first natural reaction is to be horrified that a husband and a father of two was murdered.
[00:17:20] Again, I don't mean to state the obvious, but apparently a not small portion of our society might need to hear this.
[00:17:30] This was a human being.
[00:17:32] No matter what he did for a living, no matter if you disagree with the industry, you disagree with insurance companies, you disagree with his actions as the CEO of an insurance company, whatever.
[00:17:47] The guy was still a husband and a father to two.
[00:17:51] And he was murdered.
[00:17:52] He was murdered.
[00:17:53] In an extrajudicial fashion.
[00:17:56] Now, if you would like to live in a society where extrajudicial killings are a normal course, normal part of our day, that will probably not end well for most people in the society.
[00:18:15] Because you never know.
[00:18:17] You could cross somebody.
[00:18:19] They feel like you have wronged them.
[00:18:22] And then you're dead.
[00:18:25] Right?
[00:18:26] That's and then you end up with a very low trust society.
[00:18:30] I do not advise it.
[00:18:32] OK.
[00:18:33] The second reaction, naturally, is to wonder who planned this.
[00:18:38] And whether they have also planned any other attacks against other executives for this company or leaders of other insurance companies or what.
[00:18:51] Right?
[00:18:51] Like that's these are the natural questions that normal, sane, rational, nonviolent people ask ourselves.
[00:18:59] If you go over onto social media, particularly the Blue Sky app, where all of the leftists retreated because they could not bear to have any of their ideas challenged on Twitter, you will see Marxists celebrating.
[00:19:13] I read some of those posts in the last hour.
[00:19:19] And Dominic Pino concludes his piece by saying socialism is always motivated by envy.
[00:19:27] And often brought about by violence.
[00:19:30] If there is some kind of organized effort to target CEOs with violence to win applause from the public, that ought to fail because the American public would be repulsed by it.
[00:19:43] All of us need to be repulsed by this murder.
[00:19:46] Basic human decency and a commitment to a free society demanded.
[00:19:52] You should not be cheering on the murder of CEOs or anybody.
[00:19:59] That are just walking down the street on their way to work.
[00:20:02] Whether you like them or not.
[00:20:07] Curtis Houck, managing editor at Newsbusters.
[00:20:12] He said, until the left and the elites in corporate media and education admit that their base has a fixation on violence and assassinations of those they disagree with.
[00:20:23] The harassment of Jews.
[00:20:26] Assassination on campus.
[00:20:28] Right.
[00:20:28] Assassinations like the one we just saw.
[00:20:30] Near assassinations like the one on Trump.
[00:20:32] They're going to continue.
[00:20:35] Stephen Miller.
[00:20:37] Writer for The Spectator.
[00:20:40] Noted that James Hodgkinson.
[00:20:42] Remember that guy?
[00:20:43] He almost assassinated nine Republicans on a softball field over health care.
[00:20:48] That's what he was screaming.
[00:20:49] He was a Bernie Sanders volunteer.
[00:20:53] A Bernie bro.
[00:20:55] And as he opened fire poorly on the softball field.
[00:21:00] He was screaming, this is for health care.
[00:21:02] Two days later, you'll recall that Joy Reid over at MSNBC blamed the Republicans for his attack.
[00:21:14] She then got a promotion to a full-time gig hosting her own show.
[00:21:19] Right.
[00:21:20] This is not new.
[00:21:22] There is a fetishization going on.
[00:21:26] On the left of these types of assassination attempts.
[00:21:30] This kind of violence.
[00:21:31] And it is remarkable considering these are the very folks that told us for years that speech that they don't agree with is violence.
[00:21:38] And me saying something is going to make you unsafe.
[00:21:44] And punching Nazis where everybody that disagrees with me is a Nazi.
[00:21:50] Noah Pollack, a writer, contributor over at the Free Beacon, the Washington Free Beacon.
[00:21:56] He says,
[00:21:57] You can draw a straight line from the left justifying and even celebrating October 7th.
[00:22:02] And the left justifying and even celebrating the murder in New York City.
[00:22:08] The nihilist left loves the destruction of its perceived enemies by any means necessary.
[00:22:15] In fact, the more shocking and transgressive, the better.
[00:22:20] And it should also be noted that the modern left are descendants of the French Revolution.
[00:22:28] Ideological descendants of the French Revolution.
[00:22:32] And so the belief there is that violence is justifiable to achieve political ends.
[00:22:41] Another writer named Sonny Wright says,
[00:22:44] Cheering for Hamas, leftists trying to assassinate the GOP presidential nominee twice.
[00:22:48] Now rooting for the murder of Americans who have jobs that they don't like.
[00:22:52] And all the while, media and the, quote, experts have fretted about the specter of right-wing violence.
[00:23:01] It's crazy how overlapping the, I just oppose Israel because I want peace.
[00:23:08] And the, yay, I'm glad this father was murdered for being a healthcare executive.
[00:23:13] It's amazing the overlap of those two demographics, right?
[00:23:17] You'll find a watermelon emoji in like 75% of these nut jobs account profiles.
[00:23:24] If you don't give them what they want economically, namely you paying for their free stuff, right?
[00:23:32] They want you dead.
[00:23:34] You are either part of our revolution or you are an obstacle to the revolution, so you must be discarded.
[00:23:44] We shall be unburdened by what has been, shall we say.
[00:23:49] And then, if you defend yourself against their violence in the blue hellhole cities, you end up in jail.
[00:23:56] Like Daniel Penny.
[00:23:58] That we talked about in the first hour.
[00:24:01] If you don't like the healthcare or health insurance system, A.G. Hamilton writes,
[00:24:07] then you should advocate for changes for it.
[00:24:10] You don't justify murdering random people who work in the industry.
[00:24:13] Right?
[00:24:14] There's a reason that communists managed to murder 100 million people in the 20th century while pretending to be the good guys.
[00:24:21] Their ideology always leads to the same place.
[00:24:25] It basically requires destruction and justifying violence against those they disagree with.
[00:24:31] And that is exactly correct.
[00:24:33] Let's head on over to the phones here and speak with Tom.
[00:24:35] Hello, Tom.
[00:24:36] Welcome to the show.
[00:24:37] Thank you so much.
[00:24:38] I appreciate it.
[00:24:39] Yes, sir.
[00:24:39] I will be very brief.
[00:24:41] Number one, I am so, so very sorry to hear about the loss of the United Health CEO, Mr. Brian Thompson.
[00:24:48] And I am a United Health member.
[00:24:52] And it's a wonderful company.
[00:24:54] Wonderful company.
[00:24:55] And I pray that they catch the perpetrator who did that.
[00:25:01] Because no one has a right to take someone else's life.
[00:25:04] You know that and I know that.
[00:25:06] And I just hope that these judges, should they catch him and other people who are doing these heinous crimes, that they will prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law.
[00:25:19] I didn't vote for Trump.
[00:25:21] But one thing I like about him, he believes in law and order.
[00:25:25] And I pray that these judges will start skipping their lunch break, putting these people where they need to be, whether it's in the death chamber or jail forever.
[00:25:37] And quit tapping people on the wrist because America was strong because justice wasn't delayed.
[00:25:44] And justice delayed is just denied.
[00:25:46] And I just pray for the family.
[00:25:48] And thanks for letting me say that.
[00:25:50] God bless you.
[00:25:50] Tom, I appreciate it.
[00:25:52] I don't.
[00:25:52] So I don't believe New York State has the death penalty.
[00:25:55] So even if they catch this person, most would be life in prison.
[00:26:00] Okay.
[00:26:01] Yeah.
[00:26:01] But we'll see.
[00:26:02] I don't know how you expect stuff to change as you have a society that is becoming increasingly unmoored from religion because that's a self-policing code of ethics there.
[00:26:15] And as a society moves away from the self-policing, it's going to have to rely more and more on government to do this.
[00:26:22] But if you have people in government that are unwilling to apply these codes, I don't know how that society is a peaceful, high-trust society, which we have all enjoyed heretofore.
[00:26:40] So environmentalist Marxists have apparently killed millions of people.
[00:26:45] From air pollution, of all things.
[00:26:48] It's science.
[00:26:49] The panic following the meltdown at Chernobyl, 1986, resulted in about 400 fewer new nuclear power plants being built across the world.
[00:27:01] Fewer clean nuclear power plants led to increased air pollution from fossil fuel-fired plants.
[00:27:07] That extra air pollution killed far more people than the meltdown.
[00:27:11] By several orders of magnitude, according to a new study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
[00:27:18] Whoops.
[00:27:19] Did I do that?
[00:27:20] Yeah.
[00:27:21] The environmentalist leftists who blocked nuclear energy from coming online caused more burning of fossil fuels, leading to the deaths of millions of people over the last 50 years.
[00:27:35] Good job, leftists.
[00:27:36] All right, that'll do it for this episode.
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