WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.040 --> 00:00:03.399 Five minutes after good afternoon. I'm John Caldera in for 2 00:00:03.439 --> 00:00:06.080 a vacationing Mandy Connell. Give me a call three oh three, 3 00:00:06.240 --> 00:00:08.720 seven to one, three eighty five eighty five. So I've 4 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.880 had this brilliant idea. The NFL is all about equity. 5 00:00:14.679 --> 00:00:17.280 You see them talking about diversity. You see it on 6 00:00:17.320 --> 00:00:19.600 the helmets, you see it on the sidelines. You see 7 00:00:19.640 --> 00:00:24.199 all these little slogans. Well, that's that's wonderful. That's wonderful. 8 00:00:24.280 --> 00:00:29.000 They have rules such as, if you're going to hire 9 00:00:29.199 --> 00:00:34.840 a new coach, you have to have to interview a 10 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:39.560 coach of color. That's right, you have to. You have 11 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:42.079 to look at someone who is a minority to be 12 00:00:42.159 --> 00:00:47.399 your head coach. It's it's the rule. Even if there's 13 00:00:47.719 --> 00:00:50.920 no one you want to hire of color, it doesn't matter. 14 00:00:51.679 --> 00:00:55.479 So my thought was this, you know what, if the 15 00:00:55.600 --> 00:01:03.399 NFL truly leaves in diversity, then it should have some 16 00:01:03.479 --> 00:01:08.359 sort of racial goals for who's on the field, that 17 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:16.319 is their team. Every team should represent the same percentage 18 00:01:16.359 --> 00:01:22.840 as as the American society. You know, maybe in Denver, 19 00:01:23.400 --> 00:01:27.599 since it's for Colorado, we take with Colorado statistics and 20 00:01:28.519 --> 00:01:32.920 we have to have X number of Caucasian players. The 21 00:01:33.000 --> 00:01:41.359 next would be what like twenty percent Hispanic players and 22 00:01:42.040 --> 00:01:47.959 maybe seven percent black players. That would be the way, 23 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:53.640 that would be the way we should we should mandate it. 24 00:01:53.959 --> 00:01:58.920 Hollywood has something called diversity writers. A diversity writer is 25 00:01:58.959 --> 00:02:01.400 a contract writer that says, if you're going to do 26 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:04.280 this movie, and you want me to start it, you're 27 00:02:04.319 --> 00:02:08.800 going to have to hire so many minorities throughout the 28 00:02:08.960 --> 00:02:12.599 entire process. Means we need a certain number of minority 29 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:17.080 makeup artists and stuntmen and line producers and gaffers and 30 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:22.520 lighting guys and sound guys and prop masters because we 31 00:02:22.599 --> 00:02:28.159 want to we want more equity. Well, since the NFL 32 00:02:28.199 --> 00:02:32.800 seems to be buying into that every place but on 33 00:02:33.039 --> 00:02:38.919 the field, my simple suggestion is they do it on 34 00:02:38.960 --> 00:02:45.400 the field. There has to be a racial proportion on 35 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:51.960 the field that matches American society at large. How could 36 00:02:52.039 --> 00:02:56.680 you not support this idea? What are you a bigot 37 00:02:57.080 --> 00:02:57.719 or something? 38 00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:58.479 Three? 39 00:02:58.560 --> 00:03:02.159 Or three seven to one three five? Let's go to 40 00:03:02.199 --> 00:03:08.599 the phones. Hey, Mike, welcome, you're with John Kelderol Well, Mike, you. 41 00:03:08.560 --> 00:03:12.919 Can hear me, I can hi, So you know, as 42 00:03:12.960 --> 00:03:15.080 the topic of equity comes up, and actually I like 43 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:19.919 the idea of people reimbursing for they're paid education when 44 00:03:19.919 --> 00:03:21.039 they make a ton of money. 45 00:03:21.360 --> 00:03:22.240 But today. 46 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.840 Equity is not equity. It's the reinvigoration of segregation. It's 47 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:32.000 let's be different and be called out separate. And I 48 00:03:32.039 --> 00:03:35.159 think it's the worst movement. It's more divisive now than 49 00:03:35.199 --> 00:03:38.840 it's ever been because it's segregate us and let us 50 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:42.439 blm all these things. Let's be different and be called 51 00:03:42.479 --> 00:03:45.439 different and be separated. That's what is brewing. 52 00:03:45.759 --> 00:03:51.280 So I believe identity politics in America is the most 53 00:03:51.800 --> 00:03:54.759 dangerous social movement of our time. 54 00:03:55.240 --> 00:03:56.280 Absolutely, that. 55 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:01.280 We have a society that we have built over the 56 00:04:01.319 --> 00:04:05.000 course of two hundred and fifty years where you are 57 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:11.000 who you make yourself, that you come from, wherever you 58 00:04:11.080 --> 00:04:15.439 come from, and through your talents and yes, a certain 59 00:04:15.479 --> 00:04:20.160 amount of luck, you create your own biography. And you're 60 00:04:20.240 --> 00:04:24.000 not your skin color, you are not your genitals, You're 61 00:04:24.040 --> 00:04:27.360 not what you think your genitals should be. You are 62 00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:31.279 what you create yourself. And identity politics turns that on 63 00:04:31.959 --> 00:04:35.759 its head and says, no, you are your skin tone, 64 00:04:35.920 --> 00:04:38.920 you are your genitals. You are what you do in bed. 65 00:04:39.240 --> 00:04:44.519 That's who you are, not your accomplishments, not what you create. 66 00:04:45.560 --> 00:04:51.240 It's this, and furthermore, we will give you extra societal 67 00:04:52.079 --> 00:04:58.959 prestige points depending on how many victim boxes you can choose. 68 00:04:59.519 --> 00:05:01.839 So if you're a woman, you can say, oh, I've 69 00:05:01.879 --> 00:05:04.480 been discriminated as being a woman, but I'm also a 70 00:05:04.480 --> 00:05:06.920 black woman. Oh that's good. Then it's two. Well I'm 71 00:05:06.959 --> 00:05:10.199 a black woman who's a lesbian, Well that's three. While 72 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:14.199 I'm a left handed black lesbian. Well that's four. Well 73 00:05:14.240 --> 00:05:16.600 I'm also in a wheelchair. Well that's five. And what 74 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:22.240 you end up doing is people's status increases by how 75 00:05:22.319 --> 00:05:28.519 much they claim victimhood, rather than your status increasing by 76 00:05:28.600 --> 00:05:33.199 your accomplishment, by what you've created, exactly. And I just 77 00:05:33.279 --> 00:05:35.879 find that fact that to be so un American and 78 00:05:36.000 --> 00:05:40.759 so dangerous and so cancerous to the human soul. 79 00:05:41.720 --> 00:05:44.920 Amen, we have a society where you can work hard 80 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:47.360 and do whatever you want and stop using your race 81 00:05:47.439 --> 00:05:53.199 as a crutch. And actually it's only aggravating whites at 82 00:05:53.199 --> 00:05:57.639 this point because of exactly what you're talking about. And 83 00:05:58.560 --> 00:05:59.959 you know what, you have the right to go out 84 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:01.759 out and work hard and do what you want and 85 00:06:01.879 --> 00:06:05.120 exactly make your biography about what you do and. 86 00:06:05.120 --> 00:06:08.360 Not your crutch, so right now, mind you, that doesn't 87 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:11.560 mean we don't work to make sure everyone has a 88 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.920 shot at writing their own biography. It doesn't mean we 89 00:06:15.000 --> 00:06:18.480 stand for anything that puts hurdles up in front of it, 90 00:06:18.519 --> 00:06:22.800 and we've got a history full of hurdles. But to 91 00:06:22.879 --> 00:06:26.720 turn it into say you are, imagine what that does 92 00:06:26.800 --> 00:06:31.240 to a poor child's mind. You go, you are a 93 00:06:31.279 --> 00:06:35.360 black kid, so you're already born a victim, and it 94 00:06:35.439 --> 00:06:40.160 is so systemic you have no choice but to embrace 95 00:06:40.199 --> 00:06:43.959 your victimhood. What exactly the hell does that do to 96 00:06:44.040 --> 00:06:47.800 a child's soul, to their self esteem, to their sense 97 00:06:47.800 --> 00:06:50.839 of self, to their ability to self direct a life. 98 00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:55.800 It is sick. It is child abuse. 99 00:06:56.360 --> 00:06:58.399 And who wants to be granted a job based on 100 00:06:58.439 --> 00:07:01.279 affirmative action. You weren't the best applicants, you weren't the 101 00:07:01.319 --> 00:07:03.639 best resume, but we had to talk to you and 102 00:07:03.759 --> 00:07:04.879 we got to do something now. 103 00:07:05.240 --> 00:07:10.079 And yeah, it's imagine going, imagine going to your black 104 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.519 doctor and going, hmmm, are you here because you're good? 105 00:07:15.120 --> 00:07:18.079 Or is it here because you're your skin and color? 106 00:07:18.759 --> 00:07:19.759 And that exactly that. 107 00:07:19.759 --> 00:07:24.000 Only perpetuates racism. All right, thanks for the call. We're 108 00:07:24.040 --> 00:07:27.519 on the same page. I appreciate it. I say we 109 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:33.800 we demand parody, equitable racial parody on the Denver Broncos team, 110 00:07:34.240 --> 00:07:36.759 and then we'll see how they do tomorrow. I'm John Caldera. 111 00:07:36.839 --> 00:07:39.319 Three oh three, seven to one, three eight five, eight five, 112 00:07:39.439 --> 00:07:43.160 keep it here. You're on KOWA eighteen minutes after good 113 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:47.160 even good evening, good afternoon. I'm John Caldera. All right, 114 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:52.240 I I enjoy I hate to say it, watching Saturday 115 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:57.639 Night Lives Weekend Update. They're socialist hacks, I get it, 116 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:01.480 but they're often pretty funny and I enjoy it and 117 00:08:02.920 --> 00:08:06.439 tuned in to watch it. Sad I watch it on YouTube, 118 00:08:07.040 --> 00:08:12.600 and I watched it and something really struck me. The 119 00:08:12.600 --> 00:08:17.160 host of the fake newscast did one of his fake stories, 120 00:08:18.279 --> 00:08:24.480 and then he went into a joke about the killer 121 00:08:24.639 --> 00:08:29.759 of the United Healthcare CEO. You know this terrible assassination 122 00:08:29.879 --> 00:08:34.080 that happened in Manhattan just a little while ago. And 123 00:08:34.120 --> 00:08:39.679 what was weird about it was he put up the 124 00:08:39.720 --> 00:08:45.279 picture of the killer and said the guy's name. But 125 00:08:45.399 --> 00:08:51.080 before he could get his joke out, the crowd erupted 126 00:08:51.600 --> 00:08:56.440 in applause. Let me say this again. The crowd erupted 127 00:08:56.639 --> 00:09:04.279 in applause and excitement in what I took as support 128 00:09:04.759 --> 00:09:10.799 for this murderer. It was really perverse. So let me 129 00:09:10.840 --> 00:09:13.240 see if I can play this this FORO. You listen 130 00:09:13.279 --> 00:09:17.000 to it as he as he finishes one joke and 131 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:21.879 then he's gonna go in and go to the next one. 132 00:09:22.240 --> 00:09:26.399 This last joke has Trump and Musk and P Diddy 133 00:09:26.399 --> 00:09:27.440 in it. Let's listen in. 134 00:09:31.799 --> 00:09:39.559 Luigi Mangi, Yeah, yeah. 135 00:09:39.159 --> 00:09:40.039 Definitely woo. 136 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:46.759 You're wouing for justice, right, Luigi Mai dropped his extradition 137 00:09:46.879 --> 00:09:47.960 fight and was flown. 138 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:48.960 From all right, let me let me just do that 139 00:09:49.000 --> 00:09:53.960 one again because I just found that so bizarre and weird. 140 00:09:54.799 --> 00:09:58.159 You you hear the crowd's reaction as if, you know, 141 00:10:00.600 --> 00:10:03.519 as if some famous star just sat down next to 142 00:10:03.600 --> 00:10:07.919 him and you know, and they were all excited. So 143 00:10:08.200 --> 00:10:12.080 Scarlett Johansson happens to be the guy's wife sat down 144 00:10:12.240 --> 00:10:14.360 next to him. I'm sure the crowd will go, wow, 145 00:10:14.519 --> 00:10:18.919 look this is someone we love. Yay, And that's exactly 146 00:10:19.519 --> 00:10:23.559 what I heard from from this. Let's skip through that 147 00:10:23.600 --> 00:10:35.080 part here. Oh what did I do? I hit something else? Good? Gosh, good, golly, 148 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:41.159 miss Molly. Anyway, that's what I found so very bizarre. 149 00:10:44.240 --> 00:10:45.919 Let's see I can do this again. 150 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.360 Here, Donald Trump get re elected president and Elon Musk 151 00:10:50.399 --> 00:10:54.799 appoint himself co president. I listen to this next year, 152 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:59.000 next cheer. Here we will see all three of those guys. 153 00:10:59.000 --> 00:11:00.919 Atl's fifth anniversary. 154 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:03.279 That's funny, all right? Here comes the what it got me? 155 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:06.440 Luigi Mangione? 156 00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:16.559 Drop? What what was that? What was that? People are 157 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:28.399 screaming in support of a murderer? Does? Does that not 158 00:11:28.960 --> 00:11:33.559 scare you? Let me add to this. Here's an AP story. 159 00:11:34.960 --> 00:11:42.360 Most Americans blame insurance profits and denials alongside the killer 160 00:11:42.919 --> 00:11:48.559 in the United Healthcare CEO death poll fines. Here's the 161 00:11:48.600 --> 00:11:52.399 story from the AP. Most Americans believe health insurance profits 162 00:11:52.720 --> 00:11:59.600 and coverage denials share responsibility for killing of United Healthcare 163 00:11:59.679 --> 00:12:04.919 ce although not as much as the person who pulled 164 00:12:05.120 --> 00:12:14.320 the trigger. According to a new poll, What upside down Bizarro? 165 00:12:14.600 --> 00:12:21.159 Violent world? Are we living in? The health insurance companies 166 00:12:21.279 --> 00:12:25.039 are responsible, but not as much for the killing of 167 00:12:25.080 --> 00:12:33.320 this person whoa But it just gets weirder. In a 168 00:12:33.360 --> 00:12:37.320 survey from narc at the University of Chicago, about eight 169 00:12:37.879 --> 00:12:41.879 in ten US adults, eighty percent of us said the 170 00:12:41.919 --> 00:12:46.200 person who committed the killing. This guy named Luigi Mangione, 171 00:12:47.879 --> 00:12:51.559 the person who committed the killing, has quote a great 172 00:12:52.039 --> 00:12:58.440 deal or a moderate amount of responsibility for the December 173 00:12:58.559 --> 00:13:12.000 fourth shooting. Xxcuse me, I've seen the videotape. This one 174 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:19.080 individual pulls out a handgun, shoots this man several times 175 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:25.919 in the back, and he has a moderate amount of 176 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:32.480 responsibility for the shooting of Brian Thompson. And then they 177 00:13:32.480 --> 00:13:38.919 go on. Despite that. Some have cast Luigi Mangione, the 178 00:13:39.000 --> 00:13:42.120 twenty six year old suspect charged with the murder, as 179 00:13:42.200 --> 00:13:46.879 a heroic figure in the aftermath of his arrest, which 180 00:13:46.919 --> 00:13:51.919 gave rise to an outpouring of grievances about insurance companies. 181 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:57.159 Police say the word delay, deny, and depose were scrawled 182 00:13:57.200 --> 00:14:01.159 on the ammunition investigators found at the scene, echoing a 183 00:14:01.200 --> 00:14:07.320 phrase commonly used to describe ensure tactics to avoid paying claims. 184 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:20.559 Is this how we deal with things? Now? This is 185 00:14:20.600 --> 00:14:27.480 a outburst, a temper tantrum, going after a single person 186 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:36.720 for for costs of health care? Might I try something else? 187 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:43.279 The cost of healthcare has been piling up ever since Obamacare. 188 00:14:44.000 --> 00:14:49.279 Obamacare causes health insurance companies to be smack dab in 189 00:14:49.320 --> 00:14:52.360 the middle of what they must cover and what they 190 00:14:52.399 --> 00:14:59.639 cannot cover. And if somebody shot Obama in the back 191 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:03.919 and the ammunition casings said deny to pose and delay 192 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:08.440 on it. Do you think that guy would be getting cheers. No, 193 00:15:08.720 --> 00:15:12.480 he'd be condemned the way he should be. This is 194 00:15:12.600 --> 00:15:16.519 truly perverse. Help me understand it. Three oh three seven one, 195 00:15:16.639 --> 00:15:19.519 three eight five eighty five. I'm John Caldera in for Mandy. 196 00:15:19.879 --> 00:15:22.120 Keep it here, you're on cue b bump, bump, bump bump. 197 00:15:23.600 --> 00:15:28.559 I'm waiting for this to turn into something. Oh, Van Morrison, 198 00:15:30.240 --> 00:15:38.360 there we go. My favorite concert film is The Band's 199 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:45.559 Last Waltz, and Van Morrison plays on it and he 200 00:15:45.600 --> 00:15:50.200 seems like a real jerk. Neil Young plays in that 201 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:54.240 concert as well. I never really liked Neil Young, and 202 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:56.279 he had something hanging out of his nose for his 203 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:02.000 entire performance, so I just couldn't watch anything other than that. 204 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:07.960 But it was the best concert film ever. Oh the Band. Hey, 205 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:11.000 I'm John Caldera. Give me a call. Three or three 206 00:16:11.039 --> 00:16:13.759 seven one, three eight five eighty five. I just gave 207 00:16:13.799 --> 00:16:18.960 you the poll numbers that eighty percent of Americans think 208 00:16:19.000 --> 00:16:25.480 that the killer is moderately responsible for the killing. Oh 209 00:16:25.519 --> 00:16:28.679 my god, no wonder we're so messed up when there 210 00:16:28.759 --> 00:16:35.559 is absolutely no accountability for personal actions and that when 211 00:16:35.600 --> 00:16:37.519 you have a disagreement, you can just go ahead and 212 00:16:37.759 --> 00:16:42.039 shoot somebody in the middle of the street. Remember when 213 00:16:42.399 --> 00:16:46.440 Trump said, Hey, I'm president, I could shoot somebody in 214 00:16:46.440 --> 00:16:50.120 the middle of the street and still have immunity. And 215 00:16:50.240 --> 00:16:54.519 technically he's right. While he's president, doesn't mean that there 216 00:16:54.519 --> 00:16:56.519 won't be a political fallout and doesn't mean he won't 217 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:59.960 be arrested afterwards, doesn't mean he won't be impeached and removed. 218 00:17:02.559 --> 00:17:10.599 But here people are happy that this CEO is assassinated. 219 00:17:12.240 --> 00:17:14.599 I played for you a clip from Saturday Night Live 220 00:17:15.240 --> 00:17:19.039 when the weekend Update guy merely put the picture of 221 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:21.279 the killer on and said his name, and the crowd 222 00:17:21.319 --> 00:17:26.400 went wild, like like they just saw Eric Clapton walk 223 00:17:26.440 --> 00:17:30.000 on stage. All right, let's go to some phone calls. 224 00:17:30.000 --> 00:17:34.400 Three h three seven to one, three eighty five, eighty five, 225 00:17:35.200 --> 00:17:36.839 Hey Van, welcome. 226 00:17:38.599 --> 00:17:44.880 Hi John. I agree too that it is absurd that 227 00:17:45.039 --> 00:17:49.799 we think the killer is not responsible. It made me 228 00:17:49.839 --> 00:17:56.279 think of when there's a shooting with the gun gun 229 00:17:56.319 --> 00:18:00.599 control people point to the gun to the gun seller 230 00:18:00.960 --> 00:18:04.640 into a gun manufacturer as to blame. 231 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:09.119 Yeah, it's the same sort of craziness. Listen to this 232 00:18:09.160 --> 00:18:13.680 from the AP story. About seven in ten adults, seventy 233 00:18:13.720 --> 00:18:18.039 percent of us say that denials for health care coverage 234 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:23.079 by insurance companies or the profits made by health insurance 235 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:28.839 companies also bear at least quote a moderate amount of 236 00:18:28.920 --> 00:18:35.319 responsibility for the man's death. Younger Americans are particularly likely 237 00:18:35.400 --> 00:18:39.720 to see the murder as the result of a confluence 238 00:18:39.759 --> 00:18:45.279 of forces rather than just one person's actions. This is 239 00:18:45.440 --> 00:18:49.599 terrifying to me. This is terrifying that we have raised 240 00:18:49.720 --> 00:18:55.039 our kids to believe that people aren't solely responsible for 241 00:18:55.079 --> 00:18:58.880 their own actions. But there's some sort of societal justification 242 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.359 if if you don't like the company you're doing business with. 243 00:19:07.359 --> 00:19:10.000 I help me, help me understand this. I mean, this 244 00:19:10.079 --> 00:19:13.079 is this is when I say terrifying. I'm I'm not 245 00:19:13.920 --> 00:19:18.880 over saying that for for effect. When people think, oh, yeah, 246 00:19:18.920 --> 00:19:23.240 he's you know, he's mostly responsible for that, but the 247 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:29.319 guy's own company is moderately responsible for his death. 248 00:19:30.839 --> 00:19:37.559 Wow, lack of personal accountability is touching all aspects of 249 00:19:37.599 --> 00:19:39.160 our lives. 250 00:19:39.759 --> 00:19:43.759 And I hate to say this, but I I know 251 00:19:44.079 --> 00:19:48.200 it to be true in my bones. There are single 252 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:54.200 payer healthcare advocates, government controlled healthcare advocates who are rubbing 253 00:19:54.519 --> 00:19:58.559 their hands at this murder. They're going here, we go 254 00:19:58.880 --> 00:20:05.119 just as we planned. Because what happens is they create 255 00:20:05.759 --> 00:20:11.039 these laws that make private businesses look like the bad guys. 256 00:20:11.799 --> 00:20:16.480 So they put in they put in Obamacare takes away 257 00:20:16.519 --> 00:20:20.400 pre existing conditions and using Medicaid money to do this, 258 00:20:21.079 --> 00:20:24.839 forces insurance companies to accept all this stuff, which means 259 00:20:25.799 --> 00:20:28.640 it's going to cost us a lot of money. And therefore, 260 00:20:28.720 --> 00:20:35.400 who's going to get blamed Not Obama, not Congress, not 261 00:20:35.559 --> 00:20:41.319 the government for creating this system, but the healthcare companies, 262 00:20:41.359 --> 00:20:46.160 which are now basically just utilities run by the government. 263 00:20:46.160 --> 00:20:48.640 There's no not that big of a difference between United 264 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:54.880 Healthcare and Excel Energy. They're basically close to monopolies, and 265 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:59.599 it's created by government policy. Now, if these people who 266 00:20:59.599 --> 00:21:04.240 are pulled we're more economically and politically intuned, maybe they'd 267 00:21:04.279 --> 00:21:11.279 say that, yes, the shooter is mostly responsible, but Obama 268 00:21:12.039 --> 00:21:15.960 deserves at least a moderate amount of blame for this. 269 00:21:16.480 --> 00:21:19.880 None of them say that it's the company. Let me 270 00:21:19.880 --> 00:21:24.200 give you one more case in point Colorado has something 271 00:21:24.279 --> 00:21:28.839 called a hospital bed tax. We never got to vote 272 00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:31.519 on it, so they call it a fee. By calling 273 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.079 it a fee, Sorry about that van who lost you 274 00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:39.119 by calling it a fee. People didn't have to vote 275 00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:41.440 on it. So when you go to a hospital, you 276 00:21:41.480 --> 00:21:44.279 are paying an extra tax when you stay over at 277 00:21:44.279 --> 00:21:48.599 a hospital. And this tax, which they like to call 278 00:21:48.839 --> 00:21:54.039 a fee, is used to pay for Medicaid for Obamacare, 279 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:58.960 so your cost at the hospital goes up. But by now, 280 00:21:59.000 --> 00:22:02.039 listen carefully, this is right. So you didn't get to 281 00:22:02.119 --> 00:22:06.559 vote on this tax increase. The Colorado legislature passed it. 282 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:11.200 Governor hicken Luperter signed it into law, knowing full well 283 00:22:11.240 --> 00:22:14.960 it would never pass at the ballot box. And when 284 00:22:15.000 --> 00:22:20.160 you get your hospital bill, by law, they cannot line 285 00:22:20.200 --> 00:22:25.079 item that tax. So you're looking at your hospital bill 286 00:22:25.240 --> 00:22:28.880 and you go, man, this is expensive and there's nothing 287 00:22:28.880 --> 00:22:33.039 that says yes, this five percent here, that's a government 288 00:22:33.119 --> 00:22:36.400 tax that you didn't get to vote on. No, there's 289 00:22:36.440 --> 00:22:43.240 nothing there on your invoice. By law, hospitals need to 290 00:22:43.359 --> 00:22:48.799 hide this bed tax in your bill. They cannot line 291 00:22:48.839 --> 00:22:52.440 item it. Instead of mandating that at be there, they 292 00:22:52.480 --> 00:22:55.039 mandate they hide it. So who are you angry at 293 00:22:56.279 --> 00:22:59.119 and you get out of the hospital and the cost 294 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:01.400 is outrageous. You look at the bill. Who do you 295 00:23:01.400 --> 00:23:04.640 get angry at. You don't get angry at the Colorado 296 00:23:04.759 --> 00:23:08.640 legislature and the single payer advocates there and the guys 297 00:23:08.640 --> 00:23:12.640 who want government control of healthcare. No, you get angry 298 00:23:12.640 --> 00:23:17.920 at the hospital, but they're not the ones that cause 299 00:23:18.000 --> 00:23:22.200 that increase. So you might go out and assassinate the 300 00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:27.799 head of the hospital instead of assassinating the politician who 301 00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:30.359 made it happen. And no, make it clear, I'm not 302 00:23:30.440 --> 00:23:42.000 advocating that, but that's how devious, deceptive, duplicitous big government 303 00:23:42.519 --> 00:23:49.359 progressives are. And it's not by accident, it's by plan. 304 00:23:49.720 --> 00:23:51.839 And that's why I say there are people rubbing their 305 00:23:51.839 --> 00:23:56.319 hands together in excitement about this murder because their plan 306 00:23:56.759 --> 00:24:02.960 is working. People are frustrated with companies that are just 307 00:24:03.039 --> 00:24:05.640 doing what the law requires them to do now instead 308 00:24:05.680 --> 00:24:10.519 of those who passed the outlandish laws. You remember, though, 309 00:24:10.559 --> 00:24:16.480 don't you, that Obamacare was gonna save you money. You 310 00:24:16.519 --> 00:24:23.039 remember the great promise of if you like your health 311 00:24:23.039 --> 00:24:26.160 care provider, you can keep your healthcare provider. If you 312 00:24:26.240 --> 00:24:28.720 like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. And we 313 00:24:28.880 --> 00:24:33.440 are going to make healthcare what what's the magic word affordable? 314 00:24:34.319 --> 00:24:39.079 It was called the health Care Affordability Act, the American 315 00:24:40.599 --> 00:24:49.680 health Care Affordability Act. Wow. So not only are people 316 00:24:50.720 --> 00:24:54.960 just delightfully ignorant of why the costs are so high, 317 00:24:55.759 --> 00:24:58.160 but this has been staged in such a way that 318 00:24:58.200 --> 00:25:02.880 you get angry at the companies, not the bureaucrats, not 319 00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:08.720 the politicians who create the system. And now seven and 320 00:25:08.960 --> 00:25:16.160 ten say that the insurance companies bear at least a 321 00:25:16.480 --> 00:25:20.599 moderate amount of responsibility for this murder. Younger Americans are 322 00:25:20.640 --> 00:25:24.000 particularly likely to see the murder as a result of 323 00:25:24.039 --> 00:25:28.839 a confluence of forces, rather than just one person's action. 324 00:25:32.480 --> 00:25:35.680 Let me continue from the ap story. Americans under thirty 325 00:25:35.720 --> 00:25:38.359 are especially likely to think a mix of factors is 326 00:25:38.359 --> 00:25:41.880 to blame for Thompson's death. They say that insurance company 327 00:25:41.920 --> 00:25:48.680 denials and profits are about as as responsible as Thompson's 328 00:25:48.799 --> 00:25:55.920 killer for his death. Remember, these are the people going 329 00:25:55.960 --> 00:25:59.079 to be taking care of you in the home. Americans 330 00:25:59.480 --> 00:26:07.519 under thirty are likely to say the insurance company is 331 00:26:07.960 --> 00:26:13.039 as responsible as the guy who pulled the trigger. No 332 00:26:13.240 --> 00:26:17.039 wonder they love gun control laws, No wonder they want 333 00:26:17.079 --> 00:26:24.480 government control of everything. From birth until death, because individuals 334 00:26:24.720 --> 00:26:31.559 are not responsible for their own actions, that the company 335 00:26:31.599 --> 00:26:37.279 this guy worked for was as responsible as the murderer himself. 336 00:26:38.920 --> 00:26:43.160 Now I get it. Every generation thinks the next generation 337 00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:52.559 has messed up values. But these are dangerously messed up values. 338 00:26:54.680 --> 00:26:57.079 Three h threety seven one three eighty five eighty five 339 00:26:57.119 --> 00:27:00.559 seven to one three eighty five eighty five continue on 340 00:27:01.119 --> 00:27:04.559 young people reading from the ap story. Young people are 341 00:27:04.680 --> 00:27:09.759 also the least likely age group to say a great 342 00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:13.400 deal quote great deal of responsibility falls on the person 343 00:27:13.400 --> 00:27:19.400 who committed the killing. Only four in ten say that. 344 00:27:23.519 --> 00:27:28.880 Sixty percent of people under thirty don't believe that the 345 00:27:29.000 --> 00:27:33.599 killer has a great deal of responsibility for the murder 346 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:39.720 he committed. No wonder, no wonder that people in the 347 00:27:39.759 --> 00:27:44.200 studios watching Saturday Night Live's Weekend Update when they saw 348 00:27:44.319 --> 00:28:01.920 this guy on the screen cheered in crazy excitement. Yeah 349 00:28:01.720 --> 00:28:13.519 did you hear that? How else do you explain that? Yeah? 350 00:28:13.680 --> 00:28:17.880 Yeah, definitely wo you're wooing for justice? 351 00:28:18.000 --> 00:28:18.160 Right? 352 00:28:21.000 --> 00:28:24.160 All right? You know, I get a late night parody 353 00:28:24.200 --> 00:28:29.440 show is made to have off color jokes. I'm not 354 00:28:29.519 --> 00:28:32.000 I'm not making anything about that. It was the reaction 355 00:28:32.960 --> 00:28:36.240 even before they heard any joke of seeing this guy's 356 00:28:36.279 --> 00:28:43.240 picture and the excitement that they have for him. It's 357 00:28:43.880 --> 00:28:51.480 bizarre looking at a protester holds up a sign awaiting 358 00:28:51.519 --> 00:28:54.759 the arrival of the killer for his arrangement at a 359 00:28:54.920 --> 00:29:02.039 Manhattan criminal court, and the sign says innocent and proven guilty, 360 00:29:02.279 --> 00:29:08.559 saying that he really didn't do it. Other ones holding 361 00:29:08.599 --> 00:29:19.240 up signs that say deny, defend, depose. Yeah, just so 362 00:29:19.359 --> 00:29:30.759 you know, your healthcare costs are gonna go skyrocketing now, 363 00:29:31.000 --> 00:29:35.480 insurance companies, maybe they'll pay out more. What does that 364 00:29:35.559 --> 00:29:41.319 mean that you're gonna get charged more? What I love 365 00:29:41.519 --> 00:29:46.960 about the left, What I truly admire about the left 366 00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:51.160 is how long term oriented they are compared to the right. 367 00:29:51.920 --> 00:29:58.119 The right sees victories in terms of the next election. Hey, 368 00:29:58.160 --> 00:30:01.839 Trump won We he's gonna solve everything. Oh no, he's not. 369 00:30:03.079 --> 00:30:07.119 Even if Trump was as powerful as a king in 370 00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:10.079 four years, he is not going to reverse the course 371 00:30:10.240 --> 00:30:16.480 of eighty years of a socialistic torrent coming down since FDR. 372 00:30:17.279 --> 00:30:20.079 You're not going to in four years be able to 373 00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:24.759 undo the societal change and the governmental takeover of nearly 374 00:30:24.799 --> 00:30:27.559 every aspect of our lives in four years. But you know, 375 00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:29.880 people think that, and that's it's a good start. Don't 376 00:30:29.880 --> 00:30:34.359 get me wrong, I'm happy, But the left thinks in 377 00:30:34.440 --> 00:30:43.279 terms of decades Obama passed Obamacare. They're not stupid. They 378 00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:48.119 knew full well it was only a step towards single payer, 379 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:56.200 government run healthcare Allah Canada. It just takes time, and 380 00:30:56.240 --> 00:30:58.920 they keep pushing, and they keep pushing, and now the 381 00:30:59.039 --> 00:31:02.640 architects of that plan and looking at this going here 382 00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:10.799 is our useful idiot, as good looking young man who 383 00:31:11.319 --> 00:31:19.200 kills healthcare executives because they're parts of the evil private 384 00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:26.079 healthcare system. It couldn't be working out better for healthcare 385 00:31:26.200 --> 00:31:33.680 socialists who take the very wonderful long view of societal 386 00:31:33.759 --> 00:31:36.480 change three or three seven to one, three eight two 387 00:31:36.559 --> 00:31:42.240 five five seven to one three talk and am I 388 00:31:42.319 --> 00:31:47.039 wrong on any of this? Is someone brave enough to 389 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:51.880 tell me that, you know, really, the healthcare companies do 390 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:54.759 bear irresponsibility? 391 00:31:54.799 --> 00:31:55.000 Here? 392 00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:05.119 Can can you make that argument coherently? And if you do, 393 00:32:05.559 --> 00:32:13.799 if you believe that healthcare companies deserve responsibility partial responsibility 394 00:32:14.839 --> 00:32:20.200 for this cold blooded murder shooting someone in the back, 395 00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:27.319 then will you use the same logic and say that 396 00:32:29.279 --> 00:32:37.680 governmental mandates in insurance cause this murder too, or is 397 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.640 it just one of these things. You see it the 398 00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:45.880 way you see it, and you'll never never change. We 399 00:32:45.920 --> 00:32:50.240 are on a path to government controlled healthcare. We basically 400 00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:57.480 have government controlled healthcare. It's just that it is contracted 401 00:32:57.519 --> 00:33:01.400