2024-12-13
24 分钟It's Friday, December 13th.
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I'm Jane Coston, and this is what a day.
The show that has never claimed to be a billionaire.
Unlike President Elect Donald Trump's incoming Middle east advisor, who also happens to be the father of Tiffany Trump's husband.
It turns out that the company that's been most frequently associated with him, Boulos Enterprises, isn't his homest among us hasn't gotten a job because we kind of implied we were super rich and also our kid married the president's daughter.
Happens on today's show.
The White House addresses the drone sightings in the New Jersey night sky, and Biden begs your pardon.
Let's get into it.
After the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week, there was a massive reaction online.
And the reaction was from many people, both on the right and the left, one of, well, support for the alleged shooter.
While most people made it clear that murder is bad because it is, there were tons of comments, tweets, posts and Instagram captions describing how many people sympathized with someone who, in their view, stood up to the injustice of the American health care system the only way he could.
And the takes continued after the arrest of the alleged murder suspect, Luigi Mangione.
As one commenter put it on a video from the right wing outlet Daily Wire about the shooting, quote, everyone is angry at these insurance companies, another commenter wrote.
If you've never lost someone or been plunged into debt because of them, you can't possibly understand.
That sentiment was mirrored by Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio Cortez.
She told a CBS News reporter Thursday that while she condemned violence, she believed that the ways that some healthcare companies behave towards patients can be acts of violence, too.
This is not to say that an act of violence is justified, but I think for anyone who is confused or shocked or appalled, they need to understand that people interpret and feel and experience denied claims as an act of violence against them.
People go homeless over the financial devastation of a diagnosis that doesn't get addressed or, you know, the amount that they're going to have to cover with a surprise bill and things like that.
This week also marked the end of the trial of Daniel Penny, who killed a black homeless man with a history of mental illness named Jordan Neely using a chokehold on a New York City subway train.