CEO Lives Matter. This is the rallying cry you're hearing from politicians, the media, and executives around the world in the wake of the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

These people want to distance themselves completely from the death and destruction that their policies and jobs create.

So of course the pearl clutching elite need their proverbial punching bag to tamp down on the

class warfare bubbling beneath the surface.

And that person of late is Taylor Lorenz.

There is something deeper, a sickness that is going on in our political class, best exemplified

by the absolute nut job,

Taylor Lorenz.

Moving on to the assassination of a CEO who ran a health insurance company in America,

and the disturbing and brazen attack in New York City was caught on camera,

but one journalist refused to dance around the issue and instead blatantly advocated for the death of insurance executives.

Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz wrote this, why we wanted insurance executives dead.

Former Washington Post reporter, he won't believe this. Taylor Lorenz called Thompson's murder joyful.

This guy's a husband, he's a father, and he's being young down in the middle of Manhattan.

Why is that making joyful?

So are the tens of thousands of Americans that be murdered. 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.

Taylor Lorenz, journalist at user mag, author of Extremely Online.

Thank you so much for joining me on the Empire Files.

Thanks for having me. So Taylor, there's been a tidal wave of takes against you for your recent, what you said

recently about this, for saying, quote, and people wonder why we want these executives

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