The wretched awfulness of Taylor Lorenz and the Left (12-10-2024--Hour1)

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[00:00:28] So we are now learning a whole lot more about the murderer of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Luigi Nicholas Mangione.

[00:00:48] We brought this information to you yesterday as it was breaking that he had been arrested, that he had been identified.

[00:00:55] And now we are learning a whole lot more about him because he helpfully wrote a manifesto that he put in his backpack that he had with him while at the McDonald's in his stand against corporations or something.

[00:01:13] Yes. 26-year-old Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, a life of luxury and privilege he lived.

[00:01:30] He was arrested yesterday in the killing of Brian Thompson.

[00:01:35] Mangione remained in jail in Pennsylvania, according to the Associated Press, where he was initially charged with possession of an unlicensed firearm.

[00:01:45] Forgery, which is weird. Wait, don't they have strict gun laws in New York City?

[00:01:49] Why didn't that stop this killer? So weird.

[00:01:55] Also charged with forgery and providing false identification to police.

[00:02:00] And by late evening, prosecutors in Manhattan had added a charge of murder.

[00:02:06] He is expected to be extradited to New York.

[00:02:09] He was arrested in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

[00:02:14] By the way, his mother had reported him missing in mid-November.

[00:02:22] He was recognized by a McDonald's customer who notified an employee.

[00:02:28] Police were called to the McDonald's in Altoona, which is about 230 miles west of New York City.

[00:02:36] Cops arrive and they find Mangione sitting at a table in the back of the restaurant wearing a blue medical mask, of course, and looking at a laptop.

[00:02:49] They ask him for ID and he gives them a fake ID.

[00:02:53] The fake ID.

[00:02:56] The very one that he used at the Manhattan hostel where he stayed and where he flirted with a clerk at the hostel.

[00:03:08] And she asked to see his face and he pulled his mask down and that's how we got the image of his face.

[00:03:15] And when an officer asked Mangione at the McDonald's whether he had been to New York recently, quote,

[00:03:22] he became quiet and started to shake.

[00:03:28] He was carrying a gun like the one used to kill Thompson.

[00:03:33] As I mentioned, the same fake ID.

[00:03:37] He had a passport.

[00:03:39] He had other fake IDs.

[00:03:41] He had about $10,000 in cash, including like $2,000 in foreign currency.

[00:03:48] And he had a three-page handwritten document that shows, quote, some ill will toward corporate America.

[00:03:56] And now apparently the manifesto has leaked.

[00:04:03] Where he goes into great detail about the neuropathy that his mother was suffering from.

[00:04:13] And how she had gone to various specialists and they couldn't figure out what was wrong, what was causing it, how to get her relief.

[00:04:23] Doctor after doctor after doctor.

[00:04:25] And so this is the insurance company's fault.

[00:04:29] No indication that the family that is very wealthy was bankrupted by any of this.

[00:04:36] She got all of the different treatments that doctors had recommended, one of which was like a $180,000 back surgery,

[00:04:46] which another doctor, the third opinion doctor, had told her, not necessary.

[00:04:51] We have identified the issue and your back surgery that the second doctor suggested.

[00:04:57] Well, it might be necessary because there's some sort of nerve pinching thing going on there in the spine and we can do surgery to relieve it.

[00:05:05] And a third doctor said, no, that's not going to work.

[00:05:08] This is all, of course, the fault of Brian Thompson.

[00:05:13] That she got three opinions, three different doctors prescribed all sorts of meds.

[00:05:20] Her quality of life suffered, no doubt about it.

[00:05:23] She's in pain, no doubt about it.

[00:05:29] The manifesto claims, he makes the claim that he has acted alone.

[00:05:35] And he says, quote, to the feds, I'll keep this short because I do respect what you do for our country.

[00:05:41] To save you a lengthy investigation, I state plainly that I wasn't working with anyone.

[00:05:48] And then he did say, I do apologize for any strife or traumas, but it had to be done.

[00:05:55] Frankly, these parasites simply had it coming.

[00:06:01] He is the grandson of a wealthy, self-made real estate developer and philanthropist.

[00:06:09] Mangione is a cousin of a current Maryland state legislator.

[00:06:14] Mangione was valedictorian at his uber elite Baltimore prep school.

[00:06:19] Where his 2016 graduation speech lauded his classmates' incredible courage to explore the unknown and try new things.

[00:06:30] Like murder.

[00:06:31] He went on to earn, I added that last part.

[00:06:35] He went on to earn undergrad and graduate degrees in computer science in 2020 from the University of Pennsylvania.

[00:06:42] Not Penn State.

[00:06:43] UPenn.

[00:06:45] site of the pro-Hamas demonstrations.

[00:06:49] Right?

[00:06:50] Ivy League school.

[00:06:53] Mangione's family put out a statement saying,

[00:06:55] Our family is shocked and devastated by Luigi's arrest.

[00:06:59] We offer our prayers to the family of Brian Thompson and we ask people to pray for all involved.

[00:07:06] Mangione worked for a time for the car buying website Trucar.

[00:07:09] Left that job in 2023.

[00:07:14] The previous year, in 2022, for the first half of the year, he lived at Surf Break, a co-living space at the edge of Waikiki in Honolulu.

[00:07:25] Like other residents of the shared penthouse.

[00:07:29] Catering to remote workers.

[00:07:32] Mangione underwent a thorough background check.

[00:07:34] Nothing came up on that.

[00:07:36] R.J. Martin is the founder of Surf Break.

[00:07:39] And he said he had learned Mangione had severe back pain from childhood that interfered with many aspects of his life.

[00:07:47] From surfing to romance.

[00:07:51] Which I'm assuming he's talking about of the sexual nature.

[00:07:57] He went surfing with R.J. once, but it didn't work out because of his back.

[00:08:03] But they did go rock climbing together.

[00:08:06] So I guess you can not surf, but rock climb.

[00:08:10] With the kind of bad back that Mangione had.

[00:08:13] He left Surf Break to get surgery on the mainland.

[00:08:17] And then later returned to Honolulu and rented an apartment.

[00:08:21] But then R.J. Martin stopped hearing from Mangione about six months to a year ago.

[00:08:28] He kind of just dropped off the face of the earth.

[00:08:33] After his arrest, negative online reviews for McDonald's restaurants in Altoona, Pennsylvania started piling up Monday.

[00:08:46] This is how the sick and depraved leftists reward citizens who call the police on murderers.

[00:08:59] The McDonald's, they're hitting McDonald's restaurants in Altoona.

[00:09:05] Not just the one where Mangione was apprehended.

[00:09:09] They're just, people are just entering Yelp reviews of one star to any McDonald's in Altoona.

[00:09:17] Negative comments rolled in for at least five different locations listed in Altoona on the Yelp website.

[00:09:25] One star is the lowest ranking, by the way, on Yelp.

[00:09:28] Saying things like, this fast food restaurant houses a traitor.

[00:09:32] Or, the working class has betrayed humanity.

[00:09:36] Other reviewers said, oh, we found rats.

[00:09:40] Very large rat behind the counter.

[00:09:44] The bad online reviews for the McDonald's franchises in Altoona followed a similar reaction against the Upper West Side Hostel,

[00:09:51] where officials believe the suspected killer stayed during his time in New York City.

[00:09:57] Same thing.

[00:10:03] Particular derangement, I do not understand it, that leads people to become enamored with psychopaths.

[00:10:13] And that's what this guy was.

[00:10:15] He is.

[00:10:15] That's what he is.

[00:10:16] He's a psychopath.

[00:10:18] And for some reason, there are women attracted to him.

[00:10:24] He's so cute.

[00:10:25] He's buff.

[00:10:26] Like the Boston Marathon bomber.

[00:10:30] So, we get to be treated to this garbage.

[00:10:36] And I guess we are doomed to suffer through the garbage that is Taylor Lorenz.

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[00:11:45] Alright, so this is David Raboi.

[00:11:50] Raboi?

[00:11:51] I don't know how to pronounce it.

[00:11:52] Raboi?

[00:11:53] R-E-A-B-O-I.

[00:11:57] Ray Bois?

[00:11:59] Anyway.

[00:12:01] He points out that the celebration of this killer is a milestone in the left's radicalization process because it is a shift from one kind of target to another.

[00:12:16] Nobody had heard of this guy, Brian Thompson.

[00:12:19] Nobody knew his name.

[00:12:19] His slaying is now being justified by virtue of his position in a company rather than for a public thing that he had specifically done.

[00:12:34] The left's move from individual targets to a class of targets is significant here.

[00:12:43] And this is reflected in comments made by a former Washington Post writer, tech, quote, journalist, and I use that term very loosely, Taylor Lorenz, who made her career combing through posts on social media, listening in on the social media spaces and chat rooms and such,

[00:13:10] and then publishing things that people say or just their mere presence in a chat room in order to destroy them.

[00:13:18] She is also perpetually masked and a sociopath.

[00:13:24] She's got a sub stack and a podcast and all of that.

[00:13:27] But she was employed by the Washington Post and I believe also the New York Times at one point.

[00:13:33] She was the latest whiz kid phenom, although she's like 70 years old.

[00:13:37] I'm kidding.

[00:13:38] She's only like 50.

[00:13:39] But she pretends to be some child, like hanging with the kids in the high school with the skateboard slung over her back, Steve Buscemi style.

[00:13:47] Hello, fellow students, you know.

[00:13:51] So.

[00:13:53] In the wake of this murder, she said.

[00:13:56] She felt joy.

[00:14:00] And then Piers Morgan asked her to come on the program last night.

[00:14:04] It did not go well.

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[00:14:35] Taylor Lorenz.

[00:14:38] This woman made her career.

[00:14:41] Destroying other people's lives, working for legacy media outlets as a, quote, tech journalist, where she would eavesdrop in on chat rooms and such and then publish things that are said in chat rooms and say, oh, well, Pete was in that chat room and he didn't say anything.

[00:15:00] And then unleashing left wing mobs against people to tear them apart.

[00:15:05] That's what she did.

[00:15:08] And after the murder of this United Health Care CEO in New York City, she posted up onto Blue Sky in her little safe space in the echo chamber, highly censored for leftists.

[00:15:20] She said that blue in a blue cross blue shield decision to stop covering anesthesia for the full length of certain surgeries.

[00:15:29] Remember that story?

[00:15:30] That headline really wasn't the whole story, but that headline was making the rounds.

[00:15:34] And she says, and people wonder why we want these executives dead.

[00:15:37] She also posted and retweeted or reposted celebratory graphics after the murder.

[00:15:50] She appeared on a program called Uncensored with Piers Morgan.

[00:15:55] This is his program on YouTube last night.

[00:15:59] And as I said, it did not go well for her.

[00:16:02] I'm just curious why your first reaction would be to his cold blooded execution.

[00:16:09] And people wonder why we want these executives dead.

[00:16:12] And then you later commented with people giving a lot of blowback.

[00:16:16] I'm not alone, you said.

[00:16:18] Healthcare executive down with party balloons was on an expose that you commented on.

[00:16:24] Why would you be in such a celebratory mood about the execution of another human being?

[00:16:31] Aren't you supposed to be on the caring, sharing left where, you know, you believe in the sanctity of life?

[00:16:38] I do believe in the sanctity of life.

[00:16:41] And I think that's why I felt, along with so many other Americans, joy, unfortunately, you know, because it feels like...

[00:16:48] Joy? Serious?

[00:16:49] I mean...

[00:16:49] Joy in a man's execution?

[00:16:51] Maybe not joy, but certainly not empathy.

[00:16:55] Because again...

[00:16:56] We're watching the footage.

[00:16:57] How can this make you joyful?

[00:16:59] This guy's a husband, he's a father, and he's being young down in the middle of Manhattan.

[00:17:05] Why does that make you joyful?

[00:17:06] The thousands of Americans that are being murdered.

[00:17:07] So are the tens of thousands of Americans, innocent Americans, who died because greedy health insurance executives like this one push policies of denying care to the most vulnerable people.

[00:17:21] And I...

[00:17:22] The many millions of Americans that have watched people that I care about suffer and in some cases die because of lack of healthcare.

[00:17:29] So should they all be killed then?

[00:17:31] Should they all be killed, these healthcare executives?

[00:17:33] Would that make you even more joyful?

[00:17:35] Uh, no, that would not.

[00:17:37] But why not?

[00:17:37] And, uh...

[00:17:38] Why are you laughing?

[00:17:39] I think...

[00:17:41] Because...

[00:17:41] Here is.

[00:17:42] Because it doesn't...

[00:17:42] It wouldn't fix the system.

[00:17:43] You seem to find the whole thing hilarious.

[00:17:45] I find your question funny.

[00:17:47] A bloke's been murdered in the street.

[00:17:49] I don't find it funny at all.

[00:17:50] I don't find it funny that tens of thousands of Americans die every year because they are denied life-saving healthcare from people like the CEO.

[00:17:58] Now, I want to fix this system.

[00:18:00] You're right.

[00:18:00] We shouldn't be going around shooting each other with vigilante justice.

[00:18:04] No.

[00:18:04] I think that it is a good thing that this murder has led to America, or really the media elites and politicians in this country paying attention to this issue for the first time.

[00:18:15] You mentioned you couldn't understand why somebody would feel this reaction when they watched a CEO die.

[00:18:21] Why?

[00:18:21] It's because you have not dealt, it sounds like, with the American healthcare system in the way that millions of other Americans have.

[00:18:28] I've dealt with the healthcare system in various ways in America.

[00:18:31] I don't think it's perfect by any means.

[00:18:33] But the idea that I would view it as something...

[00:18:36] Have you been denied life-saving?

[00:18:37] Hang on.

[00:18:37] The idea that I would view it as something joyful that a man who's just a healthcare executive has been executed in the street, I find completely bizarre.

[00:18:47] Mm-hmm.

[00:18:48] Not joy, she clarified.

[00:18:49] But not empathy.

[00:18:52] And notice what she did there.

[00:18:54] She pivoted away from the individual to the system.

[00:18:58] Right?

[00:18:59] It's systemic.

[00:19:00] It's a problem with the system.

[00:19:02] And I'm glad that now people are paying attention for the first time.

[00:19:06] Now, Taylor, maybe you've been too wrapped up in, you know, destroying people's lives on social media.

[00:19:11] But we've been aware of the problems in the medical system for quite some time.

[00:19:16] In fact, I don't know if you're aware of this, but about 15 years ago,

[00:19:19] there was a huge push to make a whole bunch of changes in the medical insurance, health insurance industry, Obamacare.

[00:19:27] And supposedly, that was supposed to fix it all.

[00:19:31] But I guess it didn't.

[00:19:33] Okay.

[00:19:34] Don't say I'm joyful.

[00:19:35] You said you were feeling joyful.

[00:19:38] Yeah.

[00:19:39] I take that back.

[00:19:40] Joyful is the wrong word, Pierce.

[00:19:41] You think?

[00:19:42] As I clarify.

[00:19:43] Yeah.

[00:19:44] You think joyful is the wrong word?

[00:19:46] Yeah.

[00:19:46] Sure.

[00:19:47] I'd say it is.

[00:19:47] It's a vindicated celebratory because, again, it feels like justice in this system when somebody responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of Americans suffers the same fate as those tens of thousands of Americans who he murdered.

[00:20:00] All right.

[00:20:01] So she takes it back.

[00:20:02] I take that back.

[00:20:03] She takes it back.

[00:20:05] He had a very good question there, though.

[00:20:08] Should they all be killed?

[00:20:09] Right?

[00:20:10] Fair question.

[00:20:12] Good question.

[00:20:14] Why not when she says no?

[00:20:15] Why not?

[00:20:17] Wouldn't that bring more attention to this problem that you say is so systemic?

[00:20:23] Wouldn't that be worthy of more celebration, as you say?

[00:20:28] Because she said, well, not OK, maybe not joyful.

[00:20:31] I take that back.

[00:20:32] But celebratory, which is completely unlike joy.

[00:20:35] Right.

[00:20:35] Or something.

[00:20:37] And then later on, she tries to cover because Piers keeps hammering her over the use of her word joy.

[00:20:47] And then she says, oh, well, you interrupted me.

[00:20:50] That's I wasn't going to say that.

[00:20:51] I was going to say something else.

[00:20:53] So rather than saying I take it back, now she pivots to say that you interrupted me.

[00:20:57] And what I was going to say was something else.

[00:21:01] Was something different.

[00:21:02] It was joy that we're having the conversation now.

[00:21:05] And that's crap.

[00:21:07] We know what you meant.

[00:21:09] You posted it.

[00:21:10] You wrote a blog post about it.

[00:21:15] You are identifying an entire class of individuals that are operating legally within a system.

[00:21:23] That they've done nothing illegal.

[00:21:26] This guy did not do anything, as far as we know, illegal.

[00:21:30] He's running a company operating within the law that is set by politicians who, by the way, if we get your single payer solution, quote unquote, those are the people that will be making the decisions.

[00:21:41] And when you get denied for care, then you get denied access.

[00:21:47] Then.

[00:21:49] Would you still be celebrating?

[00:21:51] When people start going around assassinating others?

[00:21:56] This is the destruction of a of a free and high trust, open society.

[00:22:02] Rarely do I use that kind of language against a person.

[00:22:05] But she really is wretchedly awful.

[00:22:08] And has been for many years.

[00:22:11] I'm glad more and more people are now starting to realize this.

[00:22:15] But she gives voice to a strain of thought and behavior.

[00:22:22] On the, quote, elite left.

[00:22:26] That's her tribe.

[00:22:27] That's who she hangs with.

[00:22:30] This woman still is masking.

[00:22:32] She's still wearing masks and trying to shame other people for not wearing masks.

[00:22:39] She was on Piers Morgan last night on his show.

[00:22:42] Sorry.

[00:22:43] She was on his show last night.

[00:22:46] And she said that.

[00:22:49] Her reaction was joy.

[00:22:52] And he does then cut her off.

[00:22:53] He interrupts her.

[00:22:55] And at first she says, I take it back.

[00:22:58] And then she tries to say that.

[00:23:00] No, no, no.

[00:23:00] I was going to say joy at the conversation that we are now having.

[00:23:04] Not at the murder of this man.

[00:23:07] But when Piers asked her, well, should we just then.

[00:23:11] Like promote murders of other health insurance CEOs.

[00:23:16] And she's like, oh, no, no, of course not.

[00:23:18] Well, why not?

[00:23:19] What's the what's the philosophical standard?

[00:23:22] Right.

[00:23:22] What's the principle?

[00:23:23] What's the outer edge here that you are you're testing?

[00:23:28] She didn't have an answer for that because, of course, she did it.

[00:23:31] She just reverts back to this collectivist, neo-Marxist idea of systemic problems.

[00:23:37] See, when it's the system, that's the problem that I'm not advocating anything that one individual should suffer or anything they should do.

[00:23:48] No, no, no.

[00:23:49] It's the system.

[00:23:50] Would you like to apologize for using the word joy?

[00:23:54] Again, if you take the word joy completely out of context from the word that I said it.

[00:23:58] It wasn't taken out of context.

[00:23:59] Would you like to apologize?

[00:23:59] It was.

[00:24:00] Would you like to apologize?

[00:24:01] I'm so glad you just played the clip.

[00:24:02] Yes or no?

[00:24:03] You just played the clip that showed that I said I feel joy because.

[00:24:06] And that's right when you cut me off.

[00:24:08] Do you want to apologize?

[00:24:08] So let me tell you why I feel joy.

[00:24:10] I feel joy because people like you who are rich and powerful and on TV and have all the access to all the health care privileges in the world are finally being forced to pay attention to the barbaric health care system.

[00:24:20] That murders tens of thousands of innocent Americans.

[00:24:24] And that is what I feel joy in that people like you are forced to confront those systemic problems.

[00:24:29] That's what I'm joy.

[00:24:30] Yeah, I knew it would be my fault as well at some stage.

[00:24:33] There you go.

[00:24:34] So she also comes from a life of privilege.

[00:24:38] Wealthy parents.

[00:24:39] I don't know if she went to an Ivy League school, but I if I had to guess, I'd say, of course.

[00:24:44] As did this assassin, this coward who shot a man in the back, murdered him in cold blood and is now being celebrated by leftists.

[00:24:53] They had the money.

[00:24:54] They've got there was a pool at at a college, a whole aquatic facility named after this family.

[00:25:03] Like that's the kind of money they have.

[00:25:05] OK.

[00:25:07] The murder of Brian Thompson has been met in certain quarters with two disgraceful responses, one explicitly grotesque, the other implicitly so, says Charles C.W. Cook at the National Review.

[00:25:19] The explicitly grotesque response has been to openly cheer his death on the grounds that he deserved to die.

[00:25:25] This reaction has come largely from figures on social media who believe themselves to be proto revolutionaries.

[00:25:31] The implicitly grotesque response has been to declare that one is against assassination, but that one comprehends it.

[00:25:41] I understand.

[00:25:42] And maybe even sympathizes with it.

[00:25:44] Nevertheless, this reaction has been much more broadly on display than the other, having appeared in outlets such as CNN, CBS News, New York Times, as well as in the Twitter feeds of academics at Columbia.

[00:25:57] Because, of course, and elsewhere within the mainstream press.

[00:26:01] Not only the Washington Post has found the decency to condemn the killing without reservation.

[00:26:05] There is no justification, the paper's editorial board said, for taking a life in this manner.

[00:26:13] Condemnation of it is the prerequisite to a functioning civil society.

[00:26:18] The Post concludes by observing this violent attack on one man is really an attack on society itself.

[00:26:25] And that is correct.

[00:26:28] That is correct.

[00:26:30] That is correct.

[00:26:30] Because everybody has grievances.

[00:26:33] And what then would prevent me from following the same path if I have grievances?

[00:26:41] Right?

[00:26:42] Or you.

[00:26:43] Or everybody.

[00:26:43] All right.

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