Bill Burr Says ‘Rabid Dog’ Billionaires Need to Be ‘Put Down’

Luigi Mangione may be in prison, but Bill Burr isn’t about to let kleptocratic billionaires feel safe in the streets.

Ever since a hooded gunman shot down UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Midtown Manhattan back on December 4, 2024, Burr has been among the many Americans who refuse to let the media paint the country’s ongoing class warfare as a one-sided conflict started by the working and middle castes. Burr, who has long avoided taking sides in the widening political divide separating the stand-up community in favor of indiscriminately hating both the Democratic and Republican parties, seems to have found the lone political figure whose agenda matches up with Burr’s values: Mangione, Thompson’s alleged shooter and an anti-billionaire icon.

During yesterday’s episode of The Monday Morning Podcast, Burr responded to a write-in from a fan who is struggling to support her two kids as a single parent, and he used his fan’s depressingly common struggle as a launching pad for yet another rant that will probably earn him a cease-and -esist letter from UnitedHealthcare once they get to the B’s on the list of critics they're trying to sue.

As Burr does every week, he devoted much of yesterday’s podcast to reading fan mail and responding to questions, choosing to highlight the struggle of a single mother to keep her children engaged with the world around them while she works hard to keep food on the table. Though the woman wrote in to bring up the gender divide in sports — a usual Burr rant subject — her story struck a chord with the comic who chose to sound off on the political divide (and its architects) instead. 

“The amount of people that are struggling out there because of these fucking billionaires, and they got us all arguing liberal and conservative, we gotta stop doing that,” Burr lamented. “I am so tired of hearing about people going to bed worried about what’s going to happen next week. There is so much fucking money in this country, and there is so much work being done.” 

Burr further opined, “If you work a whole fucking week at a job, you should be able to pay your fucking rent. You shouldn’t have to go out and get another fucking job and still be struggling. It’s bad for the country because the kids don’t see their parents, and they’re not getting the upbringing they need.”

Burr grew even more disgruntled with the state of the country and those running it through their checkbooks, exclaiming, “These fucking billionaires! They need to be put down, you know? Like fucking rabid dogs. They’re rabid with fucking greed, and just going out and just dividing everybody.”

“The fucking epitome of this time right now, like how divisive we are that the Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America, and people get excited,” Burr continued. “Like, how the fuck does that help your wallet? It’s an empty gesture, and then it’s also like a racist gesture. That’s (Trump) saying ‘Fuck Mexicans’ without saying it. Like, who has a fucking problem with Mexicans? What is the real problem? This is such an ugly fucking time.”

As ugly as the country’s current state may be, Burr should be careful with such inflammatory rhetoric directed at racist, reactionary billionaires and those who profit off of division while working people struggle. He’s not going to fit in with the rest of the Joe Rogan Experience guests if they think he’s going to murder them.