Bill Burr Goes Full A**hole

I used to enjoy Bill Burr’s work.

On occasion, I still do. He’s a comedian, which means he’s very hit or miss. Once upon a time, I was such a fan that I actually bought tickets for me, my wife, and two of my friends to go see him.

It turned out to be one of the worst shows I have ever seen in my life because Burr has become woke. Over time, I think he became embarrassed that many people on the Right thought he was very funny, so he decided he was going to go woke.

The show I saw was so bad that he got frustrated with the audience. The audience was not laughing at his jokes because his jokes were basically about how Floridians were a bunch of anti-gay racists. And Floridians reacted badly because that’s not true. There are a lot of gay people who live in Florida and many Hispanics, blacks, and Jews live there as well.

He ended up cutting his show early and walking off the stage. The reason was, he was totally disconnected from the audience.

That disconnect has continued. Not long ago, he appeared on Bill Maher’s show where he declared solidarity with the pro-Hamas students on campuses.

Now, he is proclaiming he is very happy that CEOs are walking around in fear for their lives.

We tend to give comedians more leeway to say edgy things because they’re trying to be funny.

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But it’s not clear to me that Burr is attempting to be funny. This week, he explained that he is perfectly fine with CEOs having to live with full-time security because they fear they might be shot. Because, after all, they are murderers too.

Burr openly cheered the murder of the UnitedHealthcare executive because he says CEOs should live in fear if they don’t act in the way that he would have them act — in a system that he has no fixes for, by the way.

He stated:

You know what’s annoying me about this kid who killed this CEO? None of these news programs are talking about the incredible lack of empathy from the general public about this because of how these insurance companies treat people when they at their most vulnerable, after we’ve all given them our money every f***ing month, and now we finally need you and all you do is deny us…

You know, I gotta be honest with you, OK? I love that f***ing CEOs are fucking afraid right now. You should be! By and large, you’re all a bunch of selfish greedy f***ing pieces of s***; and a lot of you are mass murderers. You just don’t pull the trigger. That’s why it looks clean.

What he said is truly evil. He’s saying you should live in fear if you’re the CEO of a company that does things that Burr deems to be bad or wrong.

Now, we have laws on the books, for example, that prevent crimes like fraud and embezzlement. We have laws on the books that punish criminal activity. If you don’t like the system, and many people don’t, the proper response to that system would be legislation. In a democratic republic, the way to fix problems is to have open discussions of the details of those problems and then craft regulatory or legal fixes.

You do not say that it is a good thing that CEOs should live in fear of their lives because Burr deems them morally inferior.

Bill Burr’s blue collar class routine act is a bunch of horses***. The man is worth $14 million, and he makes his money creating crap movies for Netflix at this point. If we’re going to have a functioning country, you can’t justify the murder of people who run their businesses legally in ways with which you disagree.

It is one thing to disagree with executives. You can call them whatever you want. But to start justifying that they should live in fear or suggesting that they should be murdered? What is the limiting principle here?

The alleged shooter in this case was echoing Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber. The Unabomber suggested that if you were, for example, an oil executive, maybe you should be murdered, because after all, there were externalities to the oil industry.

Why not the banking industry? Maybe Burr doesn’t like the banks. After all, that bank denied grandma her loan. So, with his logic, maybe the CEO of the bank should be tracked down and murdered.

This is full-stop evil. It is evil. I don’t care what complaints exist with the health insurance company, the notion that the solution to those complaints is the murder of the executives is sick. If you were living in a tyrannical society with no legal correctives or alternatives in terms of Medicaid — which does exist — and no alternatives in terms of other health insurance programs, then an argument could be made for there to be a full-scale monarchic tyranny.

But that’s not the system in which we live. And promulgating that lie leads to greater violence. It leads to justification of all violence.

It’s not just Bill Burr. It is also Jimmy Kimmel, who decided last night to devote an entire segment celebrating the good looks of the alleged shooter. He said,

So many women and so many men are going nuts over how good-looking this killer is. There’s a huge wave of horny washing over us right now. It’s like when one of the guys you work with says, ‘I had a dream about you last night.’ When it’s the FedEx guy with the big muscles and the rolled-up sleeves, you’re like, ‘Ohh.’ But if it’s the bald IT guy wearing Crocs with black socks, you’re on the phone with HR.

He continued:

It’s kinda that same dynamic. … I have never experienced anything like this. These are screengrabs of actual exchanges between our members of our staff and their friends, relatives, whatever.

I’ve changed the names to protect the guilty. Lorraine C. asks, “Do you guys think the United Health Care Co killer is hot?” Friend replies, Yes, I love Luigi. I think he’s gay though. … And one more from a young woman in our segment department. “Texting all my friends in New York that I hope they get called to jury duty.” “God, I want to do jury duty so bad.”

Hilarious, hilarious stuff. Glorifying the alleged murderer of the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

What a delight these people are.