What Praising The UnitedHealthcare Shooter Says About America
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🗓️ 13 December 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
The murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson has sparked a massive reaction online that’s veered into support for the alleged shooter, with an outpouring of sympathy on social media. This week we also saw a jury acquit Daniel Penny, a Marine veteran who killed a man named Jordan Neely using a chokehold on a New York Subway train. The verdict prompted a similar outpouring of support for Penny on the right. Suffice it to say, it was a big week for vigilantism. Atlantic staff writer Ali Breland explains what it all says about our political discourse.
Later in the show, California Attorney General Rob Bonta joins us to discuss how the state is ‘Trump-proofing’ its progressive laws.
And in headlines: President-elect Donald Trump is Time magazine’s ‘Person of the Year,’ President Biden made history by commuting the prison sentences of nearly 1500 people and pardoning another 39, and the federal government says don’t worry about all of those drone sightings over New Jersey.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Friday, December 13th. |
| 0:04.0 | Ooh. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm Jane Koston, and this is What Today, the show that has never claimed to be a billionaire, |
| 0:10.9 | unlike President-elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle East advisor, who also happens to be |
| 0:15.8 | the father of Tiffany Trump's husband. |
| 0:18.5 | It turns out that the company that's been most frequently associated with him, |
| 0:22.3 | Bullos Enterprises, isn't his. |
| 0:25.0 | Homest Among Us hasn't gotten a job because we kind of implied we were super rich |
| 0:29.0 | and also our kid married the president's daughter. |
| 0:31.4 | It happens. |
| 0:42.4 | On today's show, the White House addresses the drone sightings in the New Jersey night sky, |
| 0:44.3 | and Biden begs your pardon. |
| 0:45.6 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:52.0 | After the murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, there was a massive reaction online. |
| 0:55.3 | And the reaction was, for many people, both on the right and the left, one of, well, support for the alleged shooter. While most people made it clear |
| 1:01.1 | that murder is bad, because it is, there were tons of comments, tweets, posts, and Instagram |
| 1:05.9 | captions describing how many people sympathized with someone who, in their view, stood up to |
| 1:10.3 | the injustice of the |
| 1:11.1 | American health care system the only way he could. And the takes continued after the arrest of |
| 1:15.8 | the alleged murder suspect, Luigi Mangione. As one commenter put it on a video from the |
| 1:20.6 | right-wing outlet Daily Wire about the shooting, quote, everyone is angry at these insurance |
| 1:25.2 | companies. Another commenter wrote, |
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