Socialist Nathan Robinson, a complete useless leech on the ass of society, posted himself. Quote. Live your life in such a way that people will be sad when you die. That was above a screencap of a New York Times headline that said torrent of hate for Health Insurance Industry Follows CEO's killing. [00:00:17] That piece from The New York Times is all about people who apparently were perfectly fine with the murder of Brian Thompson on the streets of New York City. In a development that I'm sure a lot of people did not expect. Members of Ben Shapiro's own audience have been, well, lashing out against [00:00:34] Shapiro and his commentary following, you know, the assassination of UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson. Now his own fans are calling him out for being completely out of touch with nearly all Americans who do absolutely hate our broken health care system. [00:00:51] And so he published a video titled The Evil Revolutionary Left Cheer's Murder. Now, right off the bat. He's making a mistake by thinking that it's only people on the left who have been cheering on the murder or assassination of that executive. [00:01:07] Fact of the matter is, a lot of people across the political spectrum have been either sharing that they feel no empathy for Brian Thompson, or even going so far as to celebrating it. And if you take a look at the thumbnail for the video, you know, he has an image of Taylor Lorenz, who also, you know, [00:01:25] was explaining why it is that people are celebrating this or why people would want a United health Care CEO dead. Shapiro went well beyond just condemning messages of joy or mockery about the shooting. [00:01:41] That alone is totally understandable. In fact, we have done that ourselves. I don't ever want to encourage violence or murder. I don't think that's the way to solve the issues that we're having with our health care system. But he went to some extreme lengths to defend Thompson and the screwed up [00:01:58] predatory system he was a major player in. - Take a. - Look. Unfortunately, bubbling under the surface of all this is something very serious. Really serious. What is that serious thing? The revolutionary left is creeping into the mainstream. The shooting of Thompson has unleashed a wave of evil from members of the left. [00:02:15] Thompson was not a criminal. He wasn't even an advocate of death the way. For example, abortion or euthanasia advocates are. Brian Thompson's great sin, according to these people, is that he was the head of a company that exists within a mixed private public health care framework, and that he did his job because that's how health insurance actually works. [00:02:32] Some things are covered and some things are not. And you may not like the application of the coverage and it may be bad. That is not an excuse for murder. So in case you missed it there, according to Ben Shapiro, reproductive rights activists are more responsible for killing people than a company that routinely [00:02:48] denies claims for health care coverage. In fact, United Health Care specifically has been found to reject anywhere between 32% to 33% of claims. Keep in mind. Understand what that means, guys. Okay. That is a ton of people who pay into the system, pay their, you [00:03:07] know, monthly payment to UnitedHealthCare. And then once they need that health insurance company to provide coverage for life saving procedures, they're denied. That's unacceptable. And I can understand the rage people are feeling at this broken system. [00:03:22] He also hilariously suggests that Bernie Sanders criticizing the system is a form of stochastic terrorism. This is why socialist leech scavenger lingo used by people like Bernie Sanders. If you want to talk about stochastic terrorism, if you want to talk about rhetoric that leads to a higher possibility of violence. [00:03:41] When you suggest that everything in American life is unfair and bad and rigged by the system, when you suggest that, and then you suggest that anybody who does business is merely an apparatchik of that system, the result is a support for revolutionary violence. You're raising that temperature. It's going to stop bubbling. [00:03:57] It's going to start bursting out into the open. So I'm uncertain as to what Ben Shapiro expected after he put this video out. I mean, I don't think I even expected that he'd get the backlash that he's received from his own audience members. But the backlash was swift. So I'm going to give you a few examples. [00:04:12] One of his viewers writes, this isn't a left versus right issue. It's the working class versus the wealthy. And that's probably why you're trying to pretend it's something it's not. Another person writes as a conservative, I'm sick of rich elitists destroying the family unit. [00:04:27] Quite literally. I'm proud the left and right have united. I may not vote the same way, but damn it, I can agree we are tired of being pushed around. Another person writes, according to Ben, I went from Trump voter to revolutionary leftist in the span of a month. [00:04:44] Another person writes hate to break it to you, buddy, but it's not just the left who is sick of this. One other viewer says, imagine being so blatantly in the wrong that you managed to unite two opposing ends of the political spectrum during one of the most divided periods in recent memory. [00:05:00] Another person writes I'm not buying this left versus right crap anymore, Ben. I want health care for my family. There's more. Those are just a few examples. So this is something that we've been talking about a lot. There is this populist sentiment among voters [00:05:16] on both sides of the political aisle. So guys, first of all, told you the populist right wing is real. It's not imaginary. They're not all evil, racist, sexist. ET cetera. Whatever you're hearing on other shows. Okay, so look at them rebelling against the Daily Wire. [00:05:32] It's amazing. It's never happened before in my lifetime. So Anna and I have been telling you that this is bubbling. Not after the election. We started telling you before the election. I started going on all those shows before the election. Right. And so I did the populist plank on tight.com before the election. [00:05:49] So it's real. And it is to me, it's super exciting. It's not about Trump. It's about, hey, can we find unity and real agreement with right wing and left wing populists? And the answer appears to be yes. So now Daily Wire to me is the epicenter of old right wing media. [00:06:08] So I've broken down before how Ben frames almost every issue from the perspective of an incredibly wealthy person or a giant corporation. He will say things like, you know, a person wants to start a business and they've got $20 million and you know, you can't let them. [00:06:25] I'm like, how who has $20 million that they're starting a business with? Why are we even having this conversation? Because he thinks from a rich person's perspective and his own audience is getting tired of it. Okay. And I give you 100 examples of that. But interestingly, this is really important. What is the second thing Daily Wire is known for? [00:06:40] Matt Walsh, Michael Knowles. ET cetera. Culture wars. What do culture wars do? They divide us. So hey dude, remember it's the really the trans people that are the problem. And you know, immigrants is a complicated question, but immigrants are the problem. Look down. Look down at the people who have less power than you. [00:06:58] Right. And our answer is no. Brothers and sisters, look up at the people who have more power than you. Those are the people who are actually fixing the rules and fixing the situation. So we live under corporate rule and are their indentured servants for the rest of our lives. [00:07:14] And that is what the revolution is about. It should never be violent. It should never be physical, because that will delegitimize the movement. But he's worried about a populist revolution, and he's that. And that's the one thing he's right about, because we're coming. I want to go to the last graphic here because I think this is important. [00:07:31] I just realized your entire business model requires that us normal folk hate each other. Exactly. Let's not feed into that 21,000 likes on that comment. So people are waking up. And I think that while it is totally okay to condemn violence and murder, which we [00:07:47] do, and we agree with Ben on that, we do not agree that the health care system is all hunky dory and we all need to sit down and shut up. All right. If we're the ones leading the revolution, I'm super happy about it. Left wing populist, right wing populist. Come here. Let's do an actual revolution against corporate rule in this donor class. [00:08:04] Don't listen to anyone in right wing or left wing media who tells you, oh, no, the establishment Republicans and Democrats are the answer. And this current system is wonderful and nothing should fundamentally change. He sounds like Joe Biden when he says that. All right. We've got a lot more of this in the bonus episode for our members. [00:08:21] Tyt.com/team. If you want to join or hit the join button below on YouTube. We'll see you there. Thanks for watching The Young Turks. Really appreciate it. Another way to show support is through YouTube memberships. You'll get to interact with us more. There's live chat emojis, badges. You've got emojis of me Anna John Jr. So those are super fun. 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