Luigi Mangione, the suspect arrested for the UnitedHealthcare assassination, is a throwback to turn-of-the-last-century anarchists. All that’s missing is a Screamin’ Sicilian frozen pizza novelty mustache.

Noticed

I am delighted that Jack D has joined the campaign to update the definitions of certain words to modern realities.

See the following comments by Jack D :

The third wave, which is where the Men of Unz are stuck, is that the Southerners dindu nuthin (WNs are a form of wigger).

https://www.unz.com/isteve/deconciliation/#comment-6320862

The Men of Unz are really wiggers in that regard.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/oak-park-vs-austin/#comment-6805502

This is why I say that WNs are wiggers.

https://www.unz.com/isteve/my-new-column-on-the-jewish-donors-strike-in-the-ivy-league/#comment-6314847

Of course, I was saying this, and using the correct definition of the term, many years before Jack D, so he is late to get on the train, and is just adopting what I invented. But it is good that he has joined the cause, which increases awareness of the correct, new definition of this word and others.

Remember that I wrote two songs years ago to strengthen the cultural depth of this meme :

i) “Little Shop of Wiggers”
ii) “The Marriage of Wigger-O”

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Luigi Mangione looks like Steve’s kind of guy:

Maybe he should have started a leather book publishing company instead of choosing to assassinate assholes.

Can he dunk?

Yacht rocker Daryl “Captain & Tennille� Dragon (1942-2019) might have been able to pull of that album cover.

Enrico Buffett.

What are you talking about, doesn’t exist?

That’s Doc Severinsen.

time for a million people to get Penn and Penn State confused yet again. been a while, we were due.

Italian genotype confirmed, couldn’t avoid flirting with the wait staff before making his hit. a bit sloppy in execution.

arrest details still kinda fishy tho. he had ALL the evidence WITH him, days later? fitness guy eating at a McDonald’s?

Steve’s 50,000 person NYPD missed him.

according to what i’m reading, a pale person in the US has like a 50% chance now of being identified just by DNA if at least a 3rd cousin is in the database somewhere.

Democrats will be working on reducing that rate of course. suddenly, Muh Privacy.

Ironic, that your 150k subscribers was made possible by people who have the opposite worldview you do (Elon, Tucker, etc).

When the Fading Establishment you prefer was in control, they throttled you.

Steve will die rich, mark my words. And he’ll use the money modestly, because for all his Americanness, Steve is a German-(perhaps)Scandinavian, without philistinism sometimes associated with this “race” & blessed with the largeness of mind.

Playo Swayde

Paco Only

Luigi Mangione’s grandfather was a developer pal of Pelosi’s father. Whatdya know.

Going with the 70’s and its specifically for the yacht rock genre…

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Mangione.
That name rings a bell. Actually it blows a trumpet. 1978…….”Feels So Good”.*

Santa, I want a time machine this Christmas so I can go back to the ‘Good Old Days’ [TM].

*Mangione’s “Feels So Good” and Herb Albert’s “Rise” were both big hits in the late 1970’s and got much airplay on pop and adult contemporary radio. This nation had much better tastes back then.

Steve probably thinking of Chuck Mangione, a musician (trumpet player and composer) known for light jazz.

Not clear at this point if the suspected assassin is a relative of the musician. Mangione is a common Italian surname.

The shooter is apparently a student of the Unabomber. Apparently a super bright kid, who possibly went nuts later on. Drug influence maybe?

As usual, those who knew the suspect have said that he always seemed 100% normal.

Apparently from a prominent family in the Baltimore area. I think his grandfather owns a controlling interest in a country club (Turf Valley in Howard County), and another relative is in the State legislature. He himself was valedictorian at Gilman School Class of 2016. Gilman is probably the best private school in the Baltimore area. This guy is smart and capable. Graduated with a degree in computer science and was working as a data engineer in northern California.

The only question now is whether the Feds or the State of New York will charge him. It matters because the Feds have the death penalty.

More information:

What We Know About Luigi Mangione, “Person Of Interest” Arrested In UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting

William Kirk discusses Michigan SM 1134, a bill, which if enacted in to law, would ban colored firearms. But other parts of the bill suggests that this law will ban much, much more.

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William Kirk discusses the recent response brief filed by the plaintiffs in the Snope v. Brown MD assault weapon ban which points out the complete distortion of otherwise clear rules of law, which has taken place in the lowers courts.

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The Supreme Court denied cert in the Spirit of Aloha case.

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The Biden and Obama administrations were not shy about launching civil rights lawsuits targeting places they didn't like over a variety of issues.

The incoming Trump administration should consider doing the same on the Second Amendment. An easy and non-controversial place to… https://t.co/i0RmCMAhPf

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) December 9, 2024

The DOJ is pushing new gun control rules under the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Enhanced NICS checks for under-21 buyers, unauthorized use of NICS for ammo background checks in NY, and more overreach.

What else will Biden's DOJ try to push through before the inauguration?…

— AmmoLand News (@AmmoLand) December 9, 2024

Do you want to get shot?

Because that's how you get shot. https://t.co/IuZbELJ1ay

— Fenið�•� Ammunition (@FenixAmmunition) December 9, 2024

People love to hate on them big bad insurance companies–premiums, fine print, claims. But AFAICT they do exactly what you’d expect–try and keep premiums > costs+claims.

The plain fact is someone is going to ration you. You get this much, but not that. Not clear to me there’s some big win having that be one big government bureaucracy as opposed to a bunch of competing insurance bureaucracies. You hear from Britain all the complaints about the NHS. From Canada about people having to go down to the US to get their surgery in a decent timeframe–or at all.

My Medicare Advantage provider at least seems to be able to deliver a bit more–some dental, silver-sneakers–for less, with a decent giveback. There are, of course, limits, but overall seems like they think they can deliver more coverage for less than the Medicare allotment amount.

I do think this is all arguable. And personally, I just can’t get very excited about it. I can live with insurance companies. I could happily live with a government run “AmeriMed”–in a cohesive, “we’re all in this together” nation.

Our “elites” are literally destroying the American nation, trashing the American Dream, making war on the American people and our posterity with their toxic minoritarian nonsense and immigration insanity. And some guy is all hot and bothered by … medical insurance. LOL. Talk about blindness.

Anyway, if you really do not want to have your care rationed by anyone–private insurer or the government–there is one way you can do it and get all the medical care you want:

So not obviously a loser. Rather this Luigi guy is smart and apparently worked out to get fit. Could presumably find himself a quality gal, have a family and a really nice life.

Seems like just another–extreme–case of the “smart people can convince themselves of anything”. Which we see in spades across our elites.

You noticed, too?

“Luigi Mangione, Sr.�

How is that funny?

The increasing popularity of Steve on Twitter, the recent win by Trump and the acquittal today of Daniel Penny are all signs of increasing resistance to BLM style activism. Large numbers of people are getting tired of the liberal coddling of Blacks and their incessant offering of excuses for Black misbehavior.

Trump did a little better among Blacks than Republicans normally do but still only got about 13% of the Black vote. Blacks, with their tendency towards high levels of crime and welfare usage, will never be part of a Republican party coalition that represents White middle class and working class interests. It will continue to harm the Democrat party in future elections by being seen as the party overwhelmingly supported by Blacks.

It would be a mistake by the Republicans to try to push their percentage of the Black vote up by actively pandering to Blacks. If they do so, they will not only lose some of their White voters but also some of the Hispanic and Asian voters who have recently started voting for them.

Once again, communism is proven to be the philosophy of the murderous, amoral 1%.

Mangione was a rich, handsome, privileged, silver spoon Ivy league kid seduced by communism because he grew up wealthy and had no idea about what earning money entailed, or what blue collar means. He also likely had IQ differences and racial differences ruthlessly waterboarded out of him by his elite institutions and their appendages and replaced with the class-based communism he espoused.

He, guilt-ridden over his privilege and brainwashed, struck out at people like him who didn’t feel such guilt. SO this in many ways was 1% on 1% violence.

No proof or evidence the guy he targeted was anything more than a vague political target (think Taxi Driver)– nothing specific the CEO did that was evil, just typical communist rambling complaints.

Communists: more evil than Nazis. Proven again.

I could happily live with a government run “AmeriMed�–in a cohesive, “we’re all in this together� nation.

Go down the list of countries– nations– with “universal healthcare”, and note their demographic profiles at the inception of those programs.

One list I saw, maybe on Wikipedia, showed the pioneer in this area was Germany, in 1941. Hmm…

Mangione. That name rings a bell. Actually it blows a trumpet. 1978…….“Feels So Good�.

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Sure beats the Boston Marathon killer kid.

Looks like Peter Brady.

If somebody has a “manifesto”….

It feels so good, indeed, but it is worth noting that ol’ Chuck hasn’t had a hit in 45 years

Nobody’s commented on the $1,700 gun he used? And where was that pic taken, Costa Rica? Must be a rich kid, or else funded by an org.

That took some balls for the McDonald’s employee to call 911 on this guy. Because he doesn’t really look like the guy in the earlier photos. But it sounds like they have the right perp, if their story about what was in his backpack holds up. As for the anarchists calling the McD’s employee a “rat,” let’s remember these are the same people who would have eagerly ratted out a J6 grandmother for standing near the Capitol, or publicly shamed a vaccine refusenik in the summer of 2021. They are absolute rats, if the target is right.

Preliminary unverified rumor:
Born to wealth
Great, smart, hardworking kid
Valedictorian
Then he gets injured and the insurance company rejects his claim for dealing with post-surgical treatment (longterm pain?)
If this is true it predicts for both
Conventional educated liberal
And
Delay Deny Defend
Also
If he did really fail to exploit the almost full week of police confusion and then walk in to a freaking McDonald’s then I fully rescind all of my already highly conditional and balanced admiration. This kid pulled off the perfect political agitprop stunt, against a deserving “victim,” refocusing societal attention on the FACT that America does not have a health care system and people are dying and having their lives ruined because of it, and then threw it away out of arrogance.
Imagine the assassination of Trotsky (which is conveniently also possibly the best movie of a decade of kick-ass movies) being blown open because the Soviet moonchild who kept his silence for years decided to try out Whattaburger.

“One list I saw, maybe on Wikipedia, showed the pioneer in this area was Germany, in 1941. Hmm… ”

United Kingdom 1948 Hmm…

OT — Disregard the anti-gun psyop, recall the subway chaos — Hero Penny Vindicated — Pop Culture As Secret History — Check out The Incident, debut of Meshiach of the Jewish people Martin Sheen — GO AHEAD AND BE MAD JEWS, HIS NAME IS SHEEN — Crime on a NYC subway —

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Does anyone who commits murder watch Dateline? They would at least get some pointers about the obvious stuff (like, don’t take your cellphone with you).

He certainly could have planned it better. Probably shouldn’t have worn the same outfit the whole time he was in NYC. And that one single time he showed his face allowed him to be ID’d. And it was really dumb to keep the gun and the fake IDs.

Who was he calling on a cellphone just before the murder? Does he have an accomplice? Or was he just checking voicemail?

And now he’s headed for the state pen.

The mask thing probably didn’t matter. I imagine our AI borg overlord has us down to the eyebrows, especially if we have fulsome sexy Guido eyebrows. At least he’ll have his choice of the juicy prison penpal ladies.

Can the influencers get “jury nullification” across fast enough? Time will tell!

There has occurred a slide downward, see photo above. New meaning will now attach to “I did it my way.� I am very sorry to see this, because I am old, and have fond memories of the cool, commendable Italian guys in my high school; not to mention the black-eyed Italian girls, mother actually serving me cannoli, while the father…the father I imagined having me killed; of course I realized I was only writing a screenplay in my head, but what a way to go that would have been.

pale person in the US has like a 50% chance now of being identified just by DNA

Per Razib, enough American whites are now databased so that ~100% are findable by forensic DNA genealogy.

Blacks and browns were catching up, partly voluntarily commercially, and partly involuntarily through arrests, evidence sweeps, etc.

As you say, it came to Establishment attention that non-white perps might soon be as findable as white perps, which of course cannot be allowed, so they implemented police database purges and privacy rules on commercial outfits. Now blacks and browns are maybe only half as findable as whites. Lower probability for recent undocumented arrivals, so illegals can more easily get away with crimes, which has the convenient side effect of making the illegal crime rate appear lower than it is.

Dirk Dangler

pic.twitter.com/fsMH37DhHQ

— schizo (@tulpapilled) December 10, 2024

Cue: Sailing by Rod Stewart

X profile for the anarchist(ic) health-insurance CEO shooter:

https://twitter.com/PepMangione
https://twitter.com/PepMangione

N.B: The total number of mentions of the word “Sailer” in his tweets is: zero.

Lots of mentions of Jonathan Haidt, Peter Thiel, Tim Urban, Richard Dawkins, “Andrew D. Huberman, PhD,” and probable-Mossad-asset known as Mike Benz.

Also a re-tweet or two from Richard Reeves who wrote a book in favor of men’s rights and against the #ToxicMasculinity idea.

Luigi Mangione was troubled, according to some of his tweets by artificial intelligence and its implications for the eroding of human agency, ideas he says he developed in high school already, around the mid-2010s.

Luigi Mangione
@PepMangione

Have you seen the movie Idiocracy? It predicts the opposite of what you suggest: the overall dumbing down of humanity with the entire bell curve shifting left due to reproductive dynamics.
It’s obviously satire, but I’ve always worried that’s the direction we are heading.

Apr 25, 2024

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The above was in response to:

Jash Dholani
@oldbooksguy

Apr 24

Current Era is a mass extinction event for normies. Tradition existed for the average person’s psychic protection and without it they’ll reliably go crazy. In 500 years humanity will be a much more extreme species with the middle of the bell curve completely eradicated

Current Era is a mass extinction event for normies. Tradition existed for the average person's psychic protection and without it they'll reliably go crazy. In 500 years humanity will be a much more extreme species with the middle of the bell curve completely eradicated https://t.co/t7bsiK3ge4

— Jash Dholani (@oldbooksguy) April 24, 2024

The health-insurance CEO shooter’s most-recent Twitter activity was to step into a discussion on why Kenyans win most marathons and similar ‘HBD’ topics:

Joshua Rainer
@JoshRainerGold

Jun 5[, 2024]

Approximately 60% of major marathon events in the last 30 years have been won by Kenyan runners from the Kalenjin tribe.

At only .08% of the world population, this should be impossible.

Chris Sn*der
@ChrisSn84413920

Jun 6

I think it shows that race is a ridiculous concept and people pretty much reflect geography.

Humans adapt to their environment and their bodies adjust physically to their specific needs

After a few more replies like this from ChrisSn84413920 (using the name Chris Sn**er, 1000 followers) and others, the discussion had shifted to a long, content-lite comment on Eskimo adaptation to the Arctic. The health-insurance CEO shooter wrote, in reference to Chris Snyder’s latest argument:

Luigi Mangione
@PepMangione

such blatant chatgpt lmfao
10:56 AM · Jun 6, 2024

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Absolutely, Eskimos, or more appropriately referred to as the Inuit, reside in the Arctic regions from Alaska to Siberia, and they certainly experience a seasonal environment. The Arctic's climate is characterized by long, cold winters and short, cool summers. The Inuit people…

— Chris Snyder (@ChrisSn84413920) June 5, 2024

This exchange shows, at the least, that the health-insurance CEO shooter was following and reading through the thread, and likely many others like it.

ChrisSn84413920, if he is a real person) says he regards himself as a “centrist anarchist.”

Most of all the shooter seems interested in Silicon Valley “techbro” scene.

Luigi Mangione was troubled

Indeed. I’ve been flippant in this thread about his situation, but it’s a bad thing when lives go awry.

Instead of “elites”, why not adopt the term Jewish power?

“will never be part of a Republican party coalition that represents White middle class and working class interests.”

Hmm, tell me more about this science-fiction Republican party that represents white interests, far away on distant planet Xargrox-C15 in the Jmzdaaa System.

I completely agree with this picture

The advertisement speaks for itself)

And I thought 150K was a pre-anouncing of a fundraiser…

Lol! Blacks are the biggest vigilantes going. Wtf is he talking about. 🤣 They are blasting away every F’in day all over the White Western World. Not just blasting away but stabbing, assaulting, raping, robbing,stealing. Looting , on and on and on.

Is there a reason you posted the Twitter address twice?

We still have no idea why Mangione hung around NYC for a week. Nor how and why he had any idea the US Healthcare CEO would be in midtown at that time. There are very few CEOs Americans know-Musk, Tim Cook, Bill Gates, Bob Iger, Jamie Dimon, Pinchar . This guy is very educated and tech savvy, but absent something else, why this guy, why then?

Observation; the Mangione family almost certainly grew up in the same Baltimore Italian neighborhood as Nancy Pelosi’s family.

Hey, don’t underestimate the power of food.

Some time back there was one of these guys hiding out in the woods of circa WV. He was caught loading up with junk food at a convenience store.

Is this a deliberate attempt to misread Hail’s comment? He didn’t say the kid was “troubled.”

Evidently denial of claims or preauths under the late CEO did increase significantly from under 10% to 21% something like that.

So it was the ol shareholders > customers dynamic.

Other than that I tend to agree with you on insurance. Medicare is awesome.

If a billion Chinese think something is right, it is right for China.

Yes, I tried the first as “Twitter dot com” and the second as “X dot com.”

We learn, this fateful day of Syria Collapse +4, that either Dr. Ronaldinho Tiberius Unz (or an associate thereof) has set “X dot com” to auto-convert to “Twitter dot com.”

Right, the manifesto. And dog-eared copy of Catcher in the Rye. And autographed photo of Jodi Foster. The political assassin starter kit.

How big of a threat is jury nullification? Any difference in a Fed vs. state trial?

I support jury nullification, though not in this case. (Yes, I afford him the presumption of innocence.)

The societal impact of this sucks and will be another stimulus in the direction of turning America into a banana republic. There will be more murders like this, cheered on by the deranged left as this one was. There will be even more demonization of corporate America, and perhaps we will see salvos against the insurance industry, as there are lots of articles lately about the use of AI to more efficiently analyze claims and prevent doctor overcharging, for example. (I’m not saying that insurance companies are above reproach, but they’re in a difficult position with the effective nationalization of health care and using “insurance” as basically another income redistribution system as was the theory of Obamacare. But the MSM and grandstanding politicians don’t provide sober analysis, much less rational discussion of the tricky tradeoffs.)

Your average corporate executive whom no one has heard of will now need an entourage of security. Buy stock in armored car makers and security companies!

Did Mangione read or follow Sailer?

Sailing was by Christopher Cross, not Rod Stewart.

“Cue X song� trope on every comment a little stale bud.

Not out of the range of someone doing this for the first time. An individual’s bandwidth is quickly filled with focus and details.

Also the thrill seeking angle. Carrying evidence around is more juice for the thrill mill.

Some of them aren’t Jewish, and many, many Jews aren’t elite. Really, that term only works in an extremely different situation like Tsarist Russia, where the Jews are truly alien. The first thing an American afraid of Jewish power would have to confront is that modern American culture is deeply Jewish, so he is too, certainly from the point of view of traditional Christian European culture.

And he is right to do so.

As I predicted in an earlier post on this Web site, the Manhattan assassin was nabbed within a few days, having made the fatal mistake of sitting down in a fast food emporium while not having disposed of his false ID documents or his weapon.

I had also predicted a short list of possible motives including that he was a nutcase.

Although I have not been able to complete a full history and physical on this gentleman, it appears that he meets the criteria for the DSM V diaggnosis of “batshit crazy NOS.”

To be more specific, I would suggest a diagnosis of late onset paranoid schizophrenia/tortured genius based on:

1. Apparently left his job a year ago.
2. History of being arrested in Hawaii for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
3. Apparently an admirer of the Unabomber.
3. Walking around carrying a handwritten manifesto of some kind.
4. Carrying $10,000 in cash on him.

These items although meager, suggest a history of mental deterioration and socially isolated and erratic and eccentric behavior over the last year. Whether he had been involved with mental health services, or was a client of United Health Care yet remains to be seen.

He comes from a wealthy family, but where is his home, his car, his girlfriend?

I would also like to commend the Macdonalds employee who spotted him and called the police. She showed excellent clinical observation skills, and hopefully will get the $50,000 FBI reward and use it to undergo some kind of clinical training where she will be better rewarded.

Joe, the CEO assassination will advance gun control exponentially. As I type this, corporate websites are purging photos of executives, corporate hdqs are adding airport level security.

The elites of the elites never cared about black violence destroying urban neighborhoods, making their own employees, customers and 401k investors live in constant anxiety. They could have used their influence to demand a crack down on black crime, eliminating the majority of gun crime, but they didn’t because it didn’t affect them.

This kid didn’t stand a chance of getting away with the murder. He will spend the rest of his life in prison (rightly so) while the national average time spent in prison for murder is 15 years. Imagine if the govt/elites had the same determination to solve and punish the perpetrators of the other 20,000 murders per year, we would have livable cities overnight. They could solve 99.99% of violent crime, given the extensive surveillance in our cities and neighborhoods. But a store clerk getting robbed and murdered, too bad so sad.

Now they are feeling some anxiety and will push through more ineffective gun control. Corporate equity will be raided to provide security and more stock options to compensate the corporate leaders for their increased anxiety, all at the expense of the commoner’s 401ks. Blacks will still have guns, violent criminals will continue to be released in communities to victimize families while at the same time padding the pockets of lawyers, bail bondsmen, pawn shops and worthless government bureaucrats, but law abiding whites will be disarmed.

All of what you describe, or at getting at, or perceive in this character, is, I think, reducible to the Anarchist archetype. He fit it, he embraced it. The murder of the health-insurance CEO was (obviously?) a political act by an Anarchist terrorist. (The audacity of the act earns it its capital letter.)

The Anarchist movement, or wildcat acts of self-radicalized anarchists, haunted the political scene in the West between, when, at least the 1880s and 1920s. There was always question of overlap with mainstream leftists, workers-union movements, socialists, social-democrats, doctrinaire-communists, and others. The most morally serious of the socialists hated anarchists as pointless destroyers and often mentally not-altogether there.
Anarchism was always s a different thing for wanting to to violence to the state as a vanguard to revolution and liberation, in pursuit of an idealized notion of some absolute sovereignty of the individual.

The Anarchists had considerable phenotype overlap with the Bolsheviks and some other later “communist”-type movements. (In the mid- and late-20th century, hatred of “communism” and “Marxism,” where it existed, was I think more often really hatred of anarchism more than the economic principles espoused by socialist ideologues.)

The Anarchist archetype popped back up in the late 1960s and 1970s in a serious way, but lost some of its hardened edge, the kind of willingness to use outright terrorism like the Bolsheviks had (or like Israel does today). The “radicals” of the late-1960s and 1970s, of course, somehow steadily over the society, which must have undermined any basis for a sustained anarchist movement. (The takeover happened in no small part for ethnopolitical reasons; it wouldn’t have happened on a fully-NW-European-Christian-based population-stock.)

Anarchism has been mostly politically inactive for a long time. A nuisance at most; more usually, a lifestyle choice; or even a kind of joke. But the people cheering for the shooter show that there really is a constituency for anarchism; although very few would become cadre members of anarchist bands themselves, the instinct is there.

The mask thing probably didn’t matter. I imagine our AI borg overlord has us down to the eyebrows,

I remember seeing an article from the deep COVID era about how facial recognition outfits were trying to figure out how to identify a person from just the top half of their face – because, after all, in the “New Normal” people would be wearing masks all the time in perpetuity. Nothing would be permitted to interfere with surveillance – not in the panopticon that our technocratic masters have planned for us.

Honestly, I have mixed feelings about this event. On the one hand, murder is bad, and this guy shot down a total stranger in the back, a pretty dirty thing to do. On the other hand, there are any number of powerful people (not this particular guy) that, if I woke up and found out that they had gotten their head ventilated the previous day – honestly, all I could manage would be a Jerry Seinfeld like “That’s a shame.”.

I think maybe one reason that some people have expressed sympathy for this murderer is a vague, instinctive desire to see somebody somewhere get away with something in our highly surveiled, highly digitally connected society – the realization that a society in which you can not get away with a crime is a society that isn’t really free.

Penn

I understand he was born in 1998 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020.

Yes, May 2020. His final semester was disrupted, mostly cancelled, by edict of the Corona-Panic of the early 2020s. The Panic was then its cruelest phase: lockdowns, social distancing, and all the unpleasantness and misery.

Shortly after his commencement ceremony came the George Floyd riots and the anti-White pogrom that began in mid-2020 and continued for quite a while. Being 21 (or 22 by then), the George Floyd riots, breaking 2.5 months of inhumane “lockdowns” must have been absolutely invigorating to such a person, whether or not he supported the movement or not. The lesson was: seize control of destiny by bold political acts, including looting and arsons; anarchistic activity to shout to the world: “I exist!”

So the Corona-Panic and the Race Panic that followed from it, must have had effects on Luigi Mangione, the health-insurance CEO shooter, who was then in his early twenties. He was 21 when the Corona-Panic began in early 2020. Five years later, he emerged as a comic-book character and kills a CEO in an act of anarchist terrorism.

He underwent at least two years of major social disruption during the Corona-Panic, including his final semester at college and an endless-seeming period of nothingness and pointlessness (the most important value in human life and endeavor is not transmitting a flu-virus! work from home! don’t meet people! stay inside!). Even by 2023, society was still not quite back together in full. It is said sometime in 2023 he quit his job and “went dark.” His mother reported him missing, and he only resurfaced at that McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania.

The early 2020s were littered with tragedies, victims of the Corona-Panic, most of whose names were never know. Many of the unlucky ones are today dead from drug-overdoses or the like; and we also see it in the fall in live-births and many other indicators. I wonder if Luigi Mangione ought to be counted among the victims of the destructive powers of the Corona-Panic of the early 2020s.

A Shoshone girl known as Hawk Tuah
makes whoopee for wampum in Coeur
d’Alene. But to bribe her,
you must pay in cyber
coin, and that alone, for this hooer.

They could solve 99.99% of violent crime

They could probably stop 99% of car accident deaths but they don’t. A close friend’s friend was killed by an unregistered driver in a stolen car last year. The killer had outstanding warrants for everything from evading police to stealing cars. What does that tell you?

Good comment, but I would just add that top executives have long had security. This one was apparently walking a NYC sidewalk by himself, but he didn’t have to. Careless.

The CEO of my father’s company had security over 40 years ago. In 1980 I watched his driver practice evasive maneuvers with the stretch limousine: Slamming on the brakes for a hard stop, then accelerating backwards, then slamming the brakes again and pivoting perfectly around 180 degrees with loud tire squeal, then zooming the other way. It was cool.

You couldn’t drive into headquarters unless your name was on a list and the guard let you in, 40 years ago.

These guys live with fences and cameras around their properties, and they have for a long time. They are targets. Maybe not all of them, but the risk is not new for anyone with wealth and a public profile. Add the healthcare mess and anger to the equation, and you see why the guy was a fool to just walk around Manhattan unprotected.

modern American culture is deeply Jewish

That is debatable. Although it really depends on definitions.

It’s true Jews are perhaps the most-important single ethnopolitical element in the USA’s main power-centers. Their heavy presence in the Biden admin shows it, for one thing.

But Middle America has few or no Jews in it. Outside forces engage in a long-run gatekeeping and managing process to manipulate these Middle-America people. It is the management of a distinct population. A lot of the power of the often-hysterical forms of anti-Trumpism you see are actually people thinking “the long-managed and cordon-sanitaire‘d Middle America people out there are off the reservation.”

In other words, I think the situation in Tsarist Russia and the situation in the USA are not as far off as you do. The question is what the ethnopolitical grouping in question thinks/feels on the same question.

I wonder if Luigi Mangione ought to be counted among the victims of the destructive powers of the Corona-Panic of the early 2020s.

I dunno. We all lived through it, though perhaps persons who were at a particularly vulnerable stage of their personal and social development were more affected.

Having done a bit more research, apparently Mangione suffered from chronic back pain as a result of an unspecified injury, and this pain was exacerbated by activities such as rock climbing and surfing while in Hawai’i. After leaving Hawai’i it seems he had surgery on his back and sent a friend images of Xrays showing metal screws in his back.

I don’t know what to make of that. It is not unknown for people who have chronic backpain to become dependent on narcotic painkillers. Could he have had his drugs cut off by doctors or an insurance payer. Was the surgery successful?

At least he will get free health care now for the rest of his life, though it may be a bit rough and ready, and there won’t be any handouts of narcotics from the prison medical department. There are many people in prisons with chronic back pain, mostly as a result of having been shot by police.

As regards anarchists, there are actually plenty of people who believe in smaller government, less government, no government, or some form of anarchy by degrees.

I’m not a person who really believes in less government.

I was in Haiti a few days after the major earthquake of 2010 and it was pretty shocking to sees burning bodies smoldering in the streets (people would burn them so they were not eaten by roaming pigs) and to be able to clamber over the rocky remains of the cathedral where many people died without any kind of yellow tape in evidence.

Yesterday in Haiti, there was a witchhunt and massacre in which 180 elderly people were murdered because a gang leader believed his child (who died) had been made sick by witchcraft.

I would rather have a government any time.

… the father I imagined having me killed; of course I realized I was only writing a screenplay in my head, but…

LOL. I love it.

Similar memory: When I was dating an Italian American woman, we went to Florida and visited her retired parents. They had owned a small pasta factory in Brooklyn where my girlfriend grew up. Of course!

After our arrival and some pleasantries, her father and I went to the sunporch to talk. After we sat down, his first words, in that same gruff voice you would imagine in a Godfather movie, were…

“What are you, a Swede?”

Dinner was of course pasta, and he watched the way I ate it.

You seem to believe, on the basis of no proven facts, that this guy has done something.

Having done a bit more research, apparently Mangione suffered from chronic back pain as a result of an unspecified injury, and this pain was exacerbated by activities such as rock climbing and surfing while in Hawai’i. After leaving Hawai’i it seems he had surgery on his back and sent a friend images of Xrays showing metal screws in his back.
I don’t know what to make of that. It is not unknown for people who have chronic backpain to become dependent on narcotic painkillers. Could he have had his drugs cut off by doctors or an insurance payer. Was the surgery successful?

Some years back in my town a white drug addict robbed a pharmacy and ended up fatally shooting four people. His wife was the getaway driver. Her main defense at her trial was that she was nearly out of her mind at the time because of the agonizing pain of a tooth abscess, and drove her husband even though she normally would have rejected the idea. While the defense didn’t work and she got a life sentence, as did her husband, I wonder if there is something to the idea that severe pain can cause a person to snap and do things they otherwise wouldn’t have done. As far as we know at the present Mangione’s withdrawal from mainstream society occurred around the same time as his back went really bad.

Shouldn’t they be called Guns of Color??

NO, Sailing was Rod Stewart in the 1970s, 1975-1976 before Sailing by Christopher Cross in 1980. Sailing by Rod Stewart is a CLASSIC, rated WAY ABOVE the song by the same name by Christopher Cross.

I used to go out on the fantail of the old USCG Gallatin ( last I heard the old girl became part of the Nigerian navy) with my 1980s Walkman and play smooth songs that have now been characterized as Yacht Rock (Music.) Often I would drag my mattress out on the fantail and gaze at the stars as the 378 foot cutter drifted over the smooth Caribbean waters. Others soon joined and our Commander, a real prick forbid camping out on the fantail because of safety hazards. Some of my favorite “chill tunes� back then were in no particular order: I would fire up an Arturo Fuente Canones and chill 🥶

Europa by Santana
It Keeps You Running by The Doobie Brothers
Sailing by Rod Stewart
The First Cut Is The Deepest by Rod Stewart
What A Fool Believes by The Doobie Brothers
Voyage To Atlantis by The Isley Brothers
Summer Madness by Kool And The Gang
Give It Up by K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Please Don’t Go by K.C. & The Sunshine Band
Sharing The Night Together by Dr. Hook
I’ll Have To Say I Love In A Song by Jim Croce ( I want my Greatest Hits by Jim Croce and Bad Company back, Donna)
Into The Night by Benny Mardones
Trinidad by Eddie Money

Gawd, I could be here forever

Is this a deliberate attempt to misread Hail’s comment? He didn’t say the kid was “troubled.�

Hail wrote “Mangione was troubled�, but left out a comma later in the sentence, causing me to miss the “by�. Given Mangione’s alleged actions and writings, both meanings of “troubled� apply—don’t you agree?

Joe, the CEO assassination will advance gun control exponentially.

Now they are feeling some anxiety and will push through more ineffective gun control.

So… which is it? Will the gun control be “exponential� or “ineffective�?

Bad Time by Grand Funk
Wait For Me by Hall & Oates
Smooth Operator by Sade ( probably Dirk Dangler’s theme song)
Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me by Eddie Money
Careless Whisper by George Michael (post Gallatin but chill song)
She Believes In Me by Kenny Rogers
Lady Blue by Leon Russell

Okay, enuff for now. Time to go Drift Away by Dobie Gray

My 81 year old mother’s house was burglarized while she was a church on a Sunday morning in July. The ring went off and my wife, who also monitors it, called me while I was working about a suspicious person messing with the camera, she called 911 while I hustled to my mom’s house. Deputies and I missed the thugs by 2 minutes. When the deputies saw the footage of the couple (white male and female) they identified them and showed be the guy’s informant id picture.

10:30 that night, a narcotics deputy called my mom, (she was staying at my house because she was terrified). He started gaslighting my mom telling her the couple were good people and they thought someone who had assaulted a friend of theirs was staying at my mom’s house. They had returned the stolen items (except the ring cameras they had destroyed) and were real sorry. The pos didn’t realize my mom had her phone on speaker. I asked the officer if he had them in custody, he got pissy and finally agreed to arrest them.

They were charged with two felonies and bond was set at $30,000. The bondsman revoked the bond for non appearance which the judge immediately reduced to $15,000 which they posted. The guy has since been arrested for stealing a chainsaw at a farm building, having stolen credit cards on him when arrested, stealing a handgun from a vehicle and pawning it and possession of meth. He is still out on bond. He has no source of income but has a private attorney. The system keeps this asshole on the street so he can keep robbing people to pay his attorney, bail-bondsman and keep inventory in the pawnshops.

My recently widowed mom will never recover. She afraid to stay in her rural home of 50 years. This is how the criminal justice system works in a red county. I can’t imagine the situation in blue areas. The whole system is fucked.

I wonder if there is something to the idea that severe pain can cause a person to snap and do things they otherwise wouldn’t have done. As far as we know at the present Mangione’s withdrawal from mainstream society occurred around the same time as his back went really bad.

Could be. With these things there tends to be a chicken-and-egg issue. It is not uncommon for people to kick up a row in doctor’s offices, because they cannot get narcotic pain killers, but it is harder to figure out if the injury preceded the dependence on pain killers. Often such people have a chronic history of not following instructions on dosage of pain killers.

Immediately after back surgery it is very probable that the patient would be prescribed powerful painkillers for at least a period of time, and then weaned off them.

New information is coming out about Mangione by the minute, so difficult to keep up. Now a friend has said that after the back surgery he was still in a lot of pain and was experimenting with magic mushrooms and “other psychedelics” for pain management.

Once you are going that route, then all bets are off regarding his sanity.

All a bit of a mystery, because he was apparently able to travel long distances in a bus, was walking around New York for some days, was able to make his escape running or walking quickly and then ride a bicycle and then get in and out of taxis in spite of crippling back pain.

Judging by the rate at which new information is emerging, there will be more to come.

My mistake, I didn’t think Careless Whisper came out until 1987 or so, great song but no doubt I would have lost some cool points being nailed with a Wham/George Michael cassette back then and even called a “fag.� lol.

… be rich.

Rush Limbaugh said he paid much less when he paid in cash for medical services rather than use insurance.

But I recall a document concerning the Brazilian military attaché that I came across; the government purchased private health insurance to cover him in the USA. Even though the Brazilian government could certainly pay his medical bills, it just bought insurance like the rest of us peons.

Nobody’s commented on the $1,700 gun he used?

What gun would that be?

How did immigration make Luigi’s life any worse, objectively? Mass immigration doesn’t hurt well-off high-ability whites (or people of other races) much, and I don’t see why Luigi rationally should have cared much about it from a perspective of self-interest. Not everyone is as extremely tribalistic on behalf of “normie whites” as you are.

Judging by the rate at which new information is emerging, there will be more to come.

A bold prediction!

Nobody’s commented on the $1,700 gun he used?

Where did you see that? The reports I read all describe his weapon as a “ghost gun”, something 3D printed. But that is probably just MSM ignorance and fear mongering.

He should’ve dumped the weapon, no matter how much it cost.

“modern American culture is deeply Jewish.” You have described our deplorable situation in a nutshell.

In my whole life the number of Jews I have known I could count on the fingers of one hand. Growing up if I thought about Jews at all, it was as Bible people like Babylonians or people from the land of Goshen, no longer in the world, if they ever really were, probably just imaginary people like the wizard of Oz or other storybook characters.
To this day, if I didn’t read sites like this I would never have heard of words like “goy” and “shiksha” and all those other Jewish words that it seems like only Jews and anti-Jews know.
I’m sure it’s possible that I have known more Jews than I think I have because in our interactions the subject of ethnicity or religion never came up, but where I live now I doubt there is a Jew living within a hundred miles of me, maybe 200 miles. Probably there are some in the state university town.
But whenever I read or watch the news, the bad stuff always seems to involve Jews somehow: hate against us Christian whites, discrimination against whites, foreign wars we have no business being involved in, riots, whatever it is there seem to be Jews behind it and non-Jews in high positions seem afraid to cross them.
I don’t understand it.

I have noticed on social media sites a lot of the comments supporting the killer are newly created accounts that post once or twice. Has all the appearance of a bot farm trying to push a narrative that people so hate insurance executives they are just waiting to provide support or acquit on a jury. Did someone angling for an insurance CEO position hire a bot farm to discourage other applicants?

So… which is it? Will the gun control be “exponential� or “ineffective�?

Both. The most restrictive gun control is in communities with the most gun violence. Maybe “gun laws� would be a better term.

In the mid- and late-20th century, hatred of “communism� and “Marxism,� where it existed, was I think more often really hatred of anarchism more than the economic principles espoused by socialist ideologues.

I assume it was a natural reaction of those who respect the past and the people of the past and the systems of life they arrived at through practical, as opposed to theoretical, application and experience. Where do such rules/lessons as ‘tragedy of the commons’ come from but from adaptations derived from practical experience which in turn become informal ‘laws.’ Communists/Leftists have no respect for the past or the people of the past.

The racial disparity in gun-related homicide: a problem that must be discussed so it can be solved.

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— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) December 9, 2024

Back when I worked in emergency rooms I came across a fair number of patients who displayed very erratic unusual behavior (viz they didn’t just scream) when they were admitted with severe pain. For the most part such people were partly or wholly immobilized and most are in some form of shock so they didn’t attack anyone, but they said and did some very peculiar things. Granted acute pain is different from chronic pain, but I can well imagine that severe chronic pain could have a deep impact on the victim’s sanity, especially when it comes to things like idee fixe (you see a lot of that in ERs).

I believe you are thinking about Eric Rudolph who bombed the 1996 Olympics, a lesbian bar, and others. He eluded a mult-state man hunt for years hiding in the wood of Appalachia. He was caught dumpster diving by a rookie cop in Murphy, North Carolina, on May 31, 2003 behind a Save-a-Lot convenience store.

He is now doing four consecutive life terms at the SuperMax in Florence, Colorado.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Rudolph

“Luigi Mangione Sr.”

That is pretty darn funny.

I don’t know.

But it is.

The first thing an American afraid of Jewish power would have to confront is that modern American culture is deeply Jewish, so he is too, certainly from the point of view of traditional Christian European culture.

Not so Jewish as to favor open borders. Nor even to the point of singling out White gentiles from the past as the cause of Black kids failing to learn algebra.

I would rather have a government any time.

Not sure Haiti is the best example here. That gang leader could soon be the legitimate gov’t head, organizing witch hunts with organizational help from the IMF.

If I had to parachute from orbit, with the landing choice between Haiti with a gov’t or Norway with anarchy, I’d take Norway.

Was it really a Station Six, or just a brand with a poorly matched suppressor? $1700 is quite doable for a single guy making at least $100K and (I’m guessing) no student debt.

Also, a single round to the back dropped a healthy 200+ pound man and killed him. (The bullet to the right calf probably temporarily paralyzed the leg). 9mm is plenty adequate firepower for just about anything you’re likely to face. It is the correct balance of firepower, cost and handling for most shooters.

I understand he was born in 1998 and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in May 2020

Speaking of the class of 2020 (and why a bright fellow would do such a thing), I was just over at First Things, where they have a conversation with Brady Stiller on his new book about Chesterton. Somehow it all seems perfectly connected:

Your Life Is a Story: G.K. Chesterton and the Paradox of Freedom
Paperback – March 18, 2024
by Brady Stiller (Author), Dale Ahlquist (Other Contributor)

Brady Stiller was the valedictorian of the University of Notre Dame class of 2020, graduating with a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and theology. He earned a master’s degree in nonprofit administration from the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. He was the first researcher to study materials of the G.K. Chesterton Collection at its new home at the Notre Dame London Global Gateway in the U.K. He also had a role in founding the Chesterton Academy in Covington, Louisiana.

Germany, in 1941. Hmm…

United Kingdom 1948 Hmm…

NHS was their Interstate Highway System!

Perhaps driven mad by his injury and resulting loss of sexual function?

Seemed to lack common sense in execution of his crime. Or was getting eventually caught intentional? Could have gone to greater lengths to conceal his identity (tinted glasses, no cars) and destruction of evidence (eg, burn the backpack, drop the gun in deep water).

“Sailing” was by Christopher Cross, not Rod Stewart.

Someone had a really crappy sound system!

“Goin’ Up the Country” was by Canned Heat, not Olivia Newton-John. “Whole Lotta Love” was by Led Zeppelin, not Perry Como or Andy Williams, albeit they all charted about the same time. (1969 was more diverse than people remember.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailing_(Sutherland_Brothers_song)

The first single from the album, “Sailing” was an international hit, notably in the UK, where it was number one for four weeks in September 1975. It returned to the UK chart in 1976 and, with less success, in 1987. “Sailing” remains Stewart’s biggest single hit in the UK, but was not a top 40 hit in his newly adopted US homeland.

Whole Lotta Love was OWNED by Patty Smyth ( Scandal) on the old David Letterman Show in or about 1987. She made that song her OWN.

the REAL status hierarchy.

Hot Rod’s “Sailing� is a Celtic masterpiece, Christopher Cross song, “Sailing� is pretty wimpy. I knew Gerry Cooney was in trouble when he mentioned this 1980 song in an article before his 1982 Super Fight with Larry Holmes. Rod does the best version of The First Cut Is The Deepest even topping the Queen Of Covers Linda Ronstadt. Another song that has been covered by many from rock, soul, pop and even country is If Loving You Is Wrong, I Don’t Want To Be Right. Rod did a terrible job with this classic, best version IMO is done By Leann Rimes. Popped a bubble in the Odyssey 2001 spaceship with Ruby while grooving to the Luther Ingram version. Hey, what’s love got to do with it, Ruby baby.

Cue: Help by Tina Turner

Some thoughts:

a) This photo looks suspiciously like it may have been Photoshopped. Just sayin’

b) When I saw this photo earlier, and smaller, it led me to the thought that he might be gay. How many computer nerds have six packs like that? It takes tons of gym time and even then, not common.

Also, no mention of girlfriends, exes, spouse, etc. Isn’t social media usually full of those, when they exist? So this absence seems a possible “tell.”
If that photo is real then he’s looking pretty gay.

c) As to b) above, why no family or parental interview or comments yet (another omission). A traditional Italian family might not be so close to their gay/nerd son. Again, just an odd observation about something not yet reported upon.

d) b) above may also account for why he doesn’t seem to be much concerned about being in prison for life. Maybe he thinks it will be “okay” for him.

e) Note to all of his lefty fanboy admirers: Shooting someone in the back is a coward’s behavior. Not some symbolic “hero” for justice.

Soon enough, that big Hawaiian smile there will be but a distant memory. Dumb-ass,,,

I think his mommy and daddy owned a series of nursing homes so talk about the pot calling the kettle black. Dude, you obtain a six pack at the dinner table not by exercising. A six pack is more for show than go. Try doing about 10 sets of 10 reps on barbell standing overhead presses and reverse grip pull-ups and tell me how sore your abs are for days. Strong abs vs. Calvin Klein abs. Lol. Those guys with waspy waists and six packs are usually not necessarily the fittest, certainly they don’t have the strongest abs or core.

One odd reported “fact” about his supposed “gun” (semi auto pistol).

They keep reporting that it was a ‘ghost gun” (i.e. no serial number) and was “possibly” made via a 3D Printer (used in light manufacturing).

This seems ridiculous. Do such “guns’ even exist? With usable barrels?

Sure maybe an upper receiver, but springs and tiny screws, etc.?

The Narrative Press seems obsessed with “ghost guns ” which supposedly will let shooters run amuck.

What a joke. They already do! Serial numbers aren’t that useful unless you have a firearm which can be reliably linked to a specific crime. This guy was carrying around his Murder Gun!

So hardly a genius. He behaved like those dusky perps on local TV who get caught in a stolen car two hours after a hit. Why is he supposed to be “brilliant”?

There are thousands of regular semi autos around that fire normal 9 ml ammo.

Can you even make a short rifled pistol barrel that won’t crack or blow up on a 3D Printer? Why would you bother?

More Media fantasy conjecture…

OT: Wikipedia is a vile POS Exhibit #2804: I tried searching for Daniel Penny on Wikipedia and got as a recommendation The Killing of Jordan Neely. There is a request to change the title to The Death of Jordan Neely that is under discussion. I could not get past the second paragraph.

Thanks for the reply. Yes, the gay element crossed my mind. For one thing, most straight (normal) men don’t obsess that much over their appearance and “six packs.” It takes a lot of focus to get a “six pack,” and most women don’t give a shit.

Most women don’t even want a muscle man. They want a fit, proportional (preferably tall and proportionally large in all respects 😉 ) self-confident man who shows promise of all the things a female needs in the father of her children.

We here, of all places, know this.

So, it immediately struck me that something was not actually normal about this apparently dunk-worthy, Mediterranian, swarthy-publisher-type, guy.

The theorists will wonder if anything else was afoot. I will too. The only reason I don’t wonder very much is because the particular assassination does not actually go against the powers that be. It actually is an assassination of a useful doofus.

My bet is on a crazy man shooting a jerk, but I could be wrong.

Again, thanks for your reply.

On an episode of “Elementary,” the killer modified his first bullet for lower power with a printed gun, but used a normal bullet for the second hit of his accomplice, and the gun exploded. Sherlock found a piece of the gun embedded in an apple that the killer hadn’t cleaned up.

Can steroid use bring on schizophrenia like pot does?

PS: I hope you will Noticeâ„¢ how long it is taking for Steve to allow my replies to get through to you and other readers.

(I wrote my reply to you a long time ago today, and it still is invisible.)

I remember when my comments appeared immediately, even before the editing window closed. Readers could literally read what I was writing… That was cool.

Times have changed.

I have expressed serious disagreements and doubts about Steve and the powers that be, and as a result, times have changed.

Plus, of course, I no longer send him cash.

Here’s a Liz who praises Donald Trump:

Documentary Uncovers British Deep State That Deposed Prime Minister In 44 Days

Thanks,

It appears he lived in Hawaii prior to the shooting which might explain the photo someone posted of him shirtless. (The first thing that pic made me think was “What if Lou Ferrigno had a nephew who was a Nigerian bodybuilder who hung out with Juicy Smullet?”

Further, it appears he had a significant back injury and posted an xray photo of a torso with a plate and pins installed in the lower back.

The shooter also links to a book by Dr. Stuart McGill. McGill is very well known in serious weightlifting circles as one of the gurus of biomechanics and how they apply to weightlifting. Sailer might find him interesting as some time ago McGill noticed that one of the big reasons eastern Europeans seem to dominate power lifting competitions is because they naturally have shallower hip sockets which facilitate better hip flexion as well as an overall more efficient squat stance to optimize bearing heavy loads. McGill has a ton of videos and interviews on yt.

Lots of speculation above about his motives and worldview. He’s not an anarchist. I would be willing to bet that he was very supportive of a great many laws and how they were selectively enforced. I’m guessing he had a massive sense of entitlement and is a borderline narcissist. But people are determined to cram this guy into their own personal boogeyman suit so they can proclaim “SEE!?!?!? I told you!”

” But the people cheering for the shooter show that there really is a constituency for anarchism; ”

Disagree. Many assassinations (I’m not sure Thompson’s killing is an ‘assassination’) like Lincoln’s, were celebrated not because a constituency for anarchism, but because the assassinated was seen as a tyrant or an invader. Caesar’s assassination was celebrated and defended as preserving the Republic, not endorsing anarchy.

Fair or not, Thompson represented an institution that profited from human suffering and exploited its own immunity from most government oversight. Insurance companies basically operate with impunity. It’s not capitalism when law requires its purchase and there is no practical way to reconcile grievances with a provider. In that sense, I would say the insurance companies represent a form of anarchy more so than Thompson’s killer. In this case Mangione is more of a vigilante.

The Panic was then its cruelest phase: lockdowns, social distancing, and all the unpleasantness and misery.

He underwent at least two years of major social disruption during the Corona-Panic, including his final semester at college and an endless-seeming period of nothingness and pointlessness

… littered with tragedies, victims of the Corona-Panic, most of whose names were never know. Many of the unlucky ones are today dead …

the victims of the destructive powers of the Corona-Panic of the early 2020s.

And the winner of the Covid Melodrama Award is … yes, our own Hail!

Geez. Take a deep breath. Yeah, they little dictators did a lot of stupid stuff. Including stuff–killer beaches!, killer golf!, killer parks!–that was just nuts even within their own context of fighting the pandemic. And yeah, the kids some places had to do class online and the bars were closed for a year.

But seriously–though they would have likely to–they didn’t stop anyone from hanging out with their friends. You could hop in the car and drive anywhere you wanted. Or fly–and for cheap! (Man those were the days for flying! Cheap fares. Empty seats. Laying down and napping enroute. Sadly, we’ll never see those days again.) And no one turned off anyone’s precious cell service. People had their faces jammed in their phones … as per usual.

There was no decade with no jobs. No one had to queue up in a bread line just to have something to eat. And no one hauled your ass to boot camp and then sent you half way around the world for a few years where other people would try to kill you.

The “cruelty” and “misery” was … you couldn’t go clubbing for one year.

Seriously if this is anyone’s idea of “misery”, what the heck happens to these precious flowers when there is some actual stress and strife.

Christopher Cross had a hit with the song Sailing in the US, but Rod Stewart had a hit with it in the UK and the rest of the world.

However they were two different songs. The Stewart version was more famous.

Neither of them wrote the song.

I’m going with the name William Manor Jardine, or Doctor BJ for short. By the way, William Manor Jardine was the secretary of agriculture for the Calvin Coolidge administration.

Altoona is where I wound up in the spring of 2020 after leaving Rockville in Maryland on foot. Previous to that, I had gotten booted off Amtrak somewhere in Colorado, picking up a ticket for Disorderly Conduct. (Which, I would argue, I rather got for rectifying another passenger’s disorderly conduct. But anyways…) That ticket was about to come due when I got to Altoona. I had no money, and needed to make some in a hurry to pay the fine. Well then, that little city with the funny name Altoona, very characteristic of Pennsylvania from what I could tell, is where I learned what it is like to be a day laborer. What I can say about that is this: being one of those is actually pretty fun.

I got hired by three different people by standing on the median, flying a sign that said “Looking for work.� One guy had a crew that was shoveling gravel. Another guy had a lawn care service. And there was a woman and her daughter who were “ripping� a house. These, the woman and her daughter, more took pity on me than actually needed an extra hand; there seems to be plenty of goodwill in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania for men who don’t mind begging for work.

What else can I say? Chiefly that being a day laborer is much, much easier than being a pilgrim. After I got kicked off Amtrak, I walked from Holly, Colorado to Champion, Wisconsin, to the shrine of Our Lady of Good Help up there about fifteen miles north of Green Bay, making the trek in five weeks flat, not once letting any of the many drivers who stopped to ask if I wanted a ride give me one. I must say it was exceedingly difficult to enjoy being on those hallowed grounds as sore and cold as I was by the time I got there. But any Catholic in this country who has not needs to go there, to the Shrine of Our Lady of Good Help, (now called the Shrine of Our Lady of Champion). I am very proud I worked as hard as I did to get there. The route I took is a good twelve hundred miles. And I finished strong by walking more than sixty on the last day. Shoveling gravel was a vacation compared to that.

What else did I learn in Altoona? I learned that folks will trust a man who does not work on Sunday with their pride and joy as if he was family. In a way, then, I guess I could say I learned a lot in Altoona.

As for the subject at hand, these kinds of things always bring out Steve’s unfortunate schtick. Which, I would say, seems like the way he always dumbs himself down; and, boy oh boy does the coarse language make people sound stupid. Be better than that, Steve.

What though is there to learn from Mr. Luigi? Eh, maybe all there is to say about him and what he did is that the world is a strange place and evil gets called good all the time these days.

Nevertheless, I am reminded of what a seminarian from Notre Dame I sat next to on the train back from the Shrine the first time I went there told me when I had sounded a note of pessimism about the state of the Church and also about the world in general. This young man had graduated from the famous magnet school in Fairfax, Virginia that they call TJ, and he quoted from the Lord of the Rings to me, the line when, in the face of despair, the character says, simply, “There’s some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.â€� Indeed. It seems like I found good people everywhere I went.

How did I make it home? After I was able to pay the fine, just in time as it turned out, a guy who was looking to hire a painter was so impressed by something I said that he gave me a couple hundred dollars on the spot for nothing because, he said, he had been blessed by it. Blessed by what I had said, I mean. I wish I could remember what that was but I don’t. All I recall is that I was talking in general about the tour of small-town America I had been on. Anyways, with that money I was able to buy a ticket to Johnstown and from there back to DC.

And that is the story of the time I spent in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 2020.

One other thing I learned in Altoona is that pretty much anyone who needs to hire a hand off the street seems to agree with my father, who has always said that good help is hard to find.

Which reminds me: walking all the way from Venezuela would be mighty hard work. Yep, mighty hard work indeed.

Federal judge Reed O’Connor in the Northern District of Texas has rejected a plea agreement between the USA and Boeing on the grounds that the proposed selection of a monitor provision was against the public interest.

William Kirk discusses the recent decision by the Supreme Court to NOT accept review of Wilson v. Hawaii at the current time due to its interlocutory nature.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board has come out in support of the Supreme Court granting cert to hear the Snope v. Brown AR-15 ban case out of Maryland.

The article claims that Lizotte "founded a company called TACLABS to produce machines that can microstamp firing pins quickly and efficiently as well as software to create and store the microstamped codes."

Cool. So where are all these mass produced firing pins he claims are so… pic.twitter.com/EanBYeHhei

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NY has removed the requirement for a NY state drivers license on their carry permit forms!

This is a direct result of GOA's legal case with our plaintiff, Newsmax's @CarlHigbie!

The fight isn’t over, but Americans are that much closer to being safer in NY. pic.twitter.com/HKkKHl7Loz

— Gun Owners Foundation (@GunFoundation) December 10, 2024

I would take a middle ground on the impact of the lockdowns. It was probably worse than you think for a young person. Honestly, some of my favorite restaurants were closed to indoor eating for way over a year. It was stupid!

Pretty much all music concerts were shut down for at least a year. All kinds of events that young people engage in that we don’t think about we shut down because one out of 1 million teenagers might get the sniffles. And of course, high schools and grade schools were shut down for a long time all over the country. Teachers unions loved it.

Actually, vacation plans were destroyed for most people for over a year. Remember for a while you might get stuck in quarantine due to some local jackass rule.

Hopefully it didn’t warp too many of them though. But it is still shocking that all these years later Walmart is no longer open 24 hours a day. Neither are a lot of the big grocery chains. It continues to inconvenience everyone.

The BATF generally considers one part of a firearm to be the firearm. It’s usually the part that contains the fire control group. In the case of a pistol, it’s most often the grip frame; in an AR, it’s the lower receiver.
There’s been a cottage industry of folks making 80% finished receivers and selling them to individuals. Those individuals then go on to do the last 20% of the work to turn them into a functioning part. Usually with varying degrees of success. One can also find the files required to print out such parts online.
Every other part of a gun is freely available for sale online or in stores; barrels, trigger groups, magazines, etc.
I believe the government position is that citizens are allowed to make one gun a year for their own use without becoming a “manufacturer.� I am NOT by any means competent to speak on the legal aspects of such activities, but that’s my general understanding of what comprises a ghost gun.
That would explain why the pistol he used jammed so much. Many such ghost guns are poorly made and liable to malfunction.

That’s what a fool believes.

This nation had much better tastes back then.

Sure about that?

Cross wrote the song he sang. Stewart’s was a cover of a Sutherland Brothers’ tune. I don’t remember the latter song at all; was it even released in the US? Naturally, the Cross song would be the first to come to mind to an American, as it got ubiquitous airplay. Trinity may have been abroad at the time; his comment history doesn’t have telltale Imperial spellings, though.

The things you learn looking other stuff up… Cross employed Nicolette Larson as a backup singer. She was married to drummer Russ Kunkel, whose first wife, Leah (Cohen) Kunkel, was the kid sister of Mama Cass. Leah just passed away two weeks ago, 50 years after her sister. She gave up music to practice law.

Richard B. Spencer on Luigi Mangione, the health-insurance CEO shooter:

Luigi is emblematic of the Ivy League graduate of the current year. I’m not suggesting that most of them are violent; they obviously are not; they’re not nearly that interesting! I am asserting that the admissions process selects for the “High-IQ Midwit.”

It’s much like forming a basketball team with freakishly tall midgets or a philosophy department based on readers of Matthew Yglesias. They are smart yet not deep. They imagine “innovation” as a new band-aid on cancer. They will come up with new epicycles on epicycles, while not fundamentally questioning anything.

They possess moral fervor only about the most bourgeois dilemmas imaginable: Inequality in the health-insurance industry is a perfect example. Competent managers of the current regime? Maybe … maybe they’re not even that anymore. They seem to be losing their justification, not to mention their faith in themselves.

To be fair, as a violent, ideologically driven terrorist, Luigi had some potential here and there. But he ultimately sounds like a HuffPo columnist from 2009. He’s a cringe midwit and idolizing him is cringe.

On the scale of dangerous, politically impactful psychopaths, he’s above Thomas Crooks (low bar) but well below Osama bin Laden, Ted Kaczynski, or Vladimir Lenin.

Richard B. Spencer contrasts Luigi the shooter vs. Brian Thompson the CEO:

Brian Thompson:

> fun to be around, if a bit of a douche
> genetic line secured through children
> did his best as a pawn in a corrupt system for which he is not responsible and which there is no political will to reform.

Luigi Mangione:

> grown man who listens to Taylor Swift
> “manifesto� doesn’t reach op-ed length
> can’t differentiate between correlation and causation
> a little *too* Italian…
> thinks his normie opinions are edgy or unusual
> praises Catholic Church for appealing to plebs
> aspires to read *Infinite Jest*
> constantly whines about back pain
> becomes a gym bro for the six-pack but is a terrible athlete
> believes in “AGI�
> rich parents got rich by owning a chain of rest homes, not doing something cool
> class suck-up who became valedictorian though extra-credit points
> shoots a defenseless man in the back
> gets arrested at a McDonalds
> becomes violent over a middle-class ideal of universal health insurance

Sources: One, two, three.

Richard B. Spencer has also analyzed the manifesto and declared it highly wanting. It is a “Midwit Manifesto,” he jokes, adding that “Luigi deserves the chair on the basis of his manifesto alone.” And: “Not gonna lie, boldly declaring that you are a lone wolf suggests that you are part of a conspiracy.”

(All quotes from Richard B. Spencer; no comment so far from former navy secretary Richard V. Spencer, but you never know.)

When I saw this photo earlier, and smaller, it led me to the thought that he might be gay. How many computer nerds have six packs like that?

This is the most baffling part of the gay thing. All that work for, as Andrew Dice Clay would say, balls on the chin?

If we speak of about two centuries’ worth of Leftism now, ever since serious socialist movements began to emerge (pre-Marx) in the second quarter of the 19th century, I don’t know that it’s necessarily true that Leftists have no respect for the past.

Better framed, the question should probably be, Who has more or less respect for “the past” (which past?): modern Leftists and modern Rightists? There are lots of forces on the Right (or the nominal Right), too, who are for ethnocultural dispossession, or don’t care about it, or make no real moves to safeguard it. Then you have the great irony, often commented around by the Sailer commentariat over the years, that the nominal-Leftist regimes of the Soviet bloc were better at ethnocultural-preservation than their Western counterparts. So who really was the Left and who the Right, in the end?

In the age after Jewish emancipation, during and after the process by which Europe’s Jews (and eventually others) fully entered mainstream intellectual life, a radically different intellectual tradition and ‘Weltanschauung’ and ethical code were brought in, and for many reasons drifted to Leftism. Their influence on Leftism was as you say, and almost necessarily so.

its a weird situation pic.twitter.com/EMBf9OlR9B

— Chad 🇺🇸 (@prepchad) December 11, 2024

Well, I was in Glasgow in 1985 a good nine to ten years after Sailing by Rod Stewart was a HIT in America and abroad. I remember this song received tons of air play in America. It didn’t crack the top 40 in America but you had to really be out of the loop not to have heard this song back in the Seventies when it came out. One Stewart’s best IMO, even if it was a cover. His best? Yet another cover, by far the best version of The First Cut Is The Deepest. Hell, I heard this song in a strip club, the stripper must have been a Rod Stewart fan because her next song was I Was Only Joking. I tipped the girl a twenty ( good tip for just dancing on stage in 1986) and told her I really enjoyed her music selection. Not the type of music one would expect in a strip club for sure.

As for
Sailing vs. Sailing
Stewart by a unanimous decision

People’s lost their jobs. And went on blacklists forever. People were cancelled permanently. People ended up on the street. Families broke forever. Just for starters.

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It’s topical.

If he did really fail to exploit the almost full week of police confusion and then walk in to a freaking McDonald’s then I fully rescind all of my already highly conditional and balanced admiration.

J., the guy destroyed two lives and two families; his and his victim’s. As far as shining a light on the medical insurance industry and all it’s sins, this dude’s one act won’t amount to a hill of beans. He’s a fuckin’ punk who shot a guy in the back and he’s going to get punked in jail as well he should. If he think’s he’s got back problems now.
Why did he go to a McDonalds? Free wi-fi and cheap food. It wasn’t anymore complicated than that. The guy was good at planning out a supremely pointless assassination but he got hungry and he was on the run. He would’ve been better off committing suicide but he was probably too much of a narcissist so decided to destroy someone else’s existence as well as his own.

I get that people are running w/this list as a sign that he’s just a puppet or a brain-washed patsy set up by deep state operators, but what’s the purpose of killing the CEO of United Healthcare? How does that help the deep state? I know the conspiracy theorists will always have an answer for any question but I gotta go w/Steve’s phrase, “Occam’s butterknife.” The guy was a fuckin’ nut who thought he was bringing meaning to his life but has only brought more sorrow to himself, his family and his victim’s family. He should spend the rest of his days in a cell.

“In the age after Jewish emancipation, during and after the process by which Europe’s Jews (and eventually others) fully entered mainstream intellectual life, a radically different intellectual tradition and ‘Weltanschauung’ and ethical code were brought in, and for many reasons drifted to Leftism.”

Some wag once observed that if you snatched some typical smelly Leftist runt away from his Occupy campsite for an hour and asked him to describe what he pictured *his* own life would be like, after the Revolution, he’d tell you he reckoned he’d be busy penning fiery op-ed columns for the Party newspaper, or sitting in a romantic cafe debating the finer points of Revolutionary theory with his fellow firebrands… he’d *never* imagine himself as a slightly better-paid night-shift worker in a fish-canning plant. As always, human beings require three vital things in order to survive: food, shelter, and to feel important.

George Bernard Shaw was an old-fashioned pre-Marxism Fabian Society socialist of the reform-not-revolution type; he was a meliorist without a head for the ground game, a sort of Dorothy Day manque. And yet Marx himself never wrote anything as funny or as well-observed or as true (because funny and well-observed) as Major Barbara, Saint Joan, or Androcles and the Lion. Shaw knew all about what Marx did not: actual human beings.

If the fundamental debate question of our time is, as Steve points out, Lenin’s “Who?/Whom?”, Shaw instead answered the even more basic question, the one asked and answered in the background on that Pink Floyd record — Q: [unrecorded] “Why did you do it? A: [recorded] “Why does anyone do anything?”

The reason Marx took such a grip on the post-emancipated Jewish imagination was because Marxism proposed a model of future Revolutionary society which included a central indispensable role for good old intellectual middle-manning: the Jews as usual would re-make the world with themselves on top as intellectual vanguards, commissars and cadres, bravely speaking for the proles without actually having to *be* the icky proles. Conveniently in charge of all the arguing and loftily running things, while the pesky goyim did the scut-work. In other words, after the Revolution, Jews would get to stay in the family business: the slave trade. Plus ca change.

Of course, the UK has “closed the loop” by integrated “assisted dying” into its National Health Service.

Just like Canada with its MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying).

Once the State takes financial responsibility for everybody’s medical expenses, it is never very long before it starts killing people.

Not to save itself money. No no no.

It’s all about the State’s benign merciful attitudes towards its populace. Rather like a farmer’s attitude toward his cattle.

a puppet or a brain-washed patsy set up by deep state operators

“It is funny how all these basic-b*tch liberals came out in support of a killer revealed to be an anti-woke tech bro who got MK-Ultra-ed by the Thiel network.” — Richard B. Spencer

(In response to Emma Vigeland, a left-wing U.S. podcast host, declaring her solidarity with the shooter; Vigeland adopted the shooter’s “hooded” look.)

Tom Woods, writing December 10, on the health-insurance CEO shooting:

All over social media we’re seeing people discussing Brian Thompson, the slain CEO of UnitedHealthcare, with comments like, “I don’t favor wanton murder, but….”

We are then treated to little lectures on high CEO salaries, as well as the seeming arbitrariness of the various insurance companies’ decisions.

These companies are the outgrowth of interventions into the health care market extending back to World War II.

As for why they’re screwed up, the reasons are legion. But a teensy-weensy bit more important than allegedly greedy CEOs is that if you even think about using your actuarial tables, the Department of Justice will sue you. So start there. You have to run your business arbitrarily. That is actually the law.

And I know, all the morally superior people you run into on Facebook, if they ran a health insurance company, would never deny anything. Right now none of them do a damn thing to help people, but I’m supposed to believe that if they were all healthcare CEOs they would of course be different from all the rest.

Sure they would. Talk is cheap. They have no idea how this screwed up industry works in the first place. But they are convinced that they, being the modern Mother Teresa, would do things differently.

In direct primary care offices you can get very inexpensive care administered efficiently and with very high customer ratings, because you deal neither with the government nor with insurance.

That’s what American healthcare would have looked like if we hadn’t started tinkering with it in the 1940s, thinking we could improve on market outcomes.

What we have instead is this monstrosity of inhuman regulation and requirements and red tape and paperwork and coercion.

Within that kind of system, you are going to get these kinds of companies. Don’t like those companies? Then start repealing all your beloved regulations that gave them birth.

Yesterday in Haiti, there was a witchhunt and massacre in which 180 elderly people were murdered because a gang leader believed his child (who died) had been made sick by witchcraft.

How can this be? Conan O’Brien has assured me that Haiti is not a shithole country.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp3zw2dpqgpo

“Luigi Mangione, Sr.�

How is that funny?

I don’t know.

But it is.

Funnier would be if the shooter, Luigi Mangione (b.1998) had signed his own name as “Luigi Mangione Sr.”

As far as know, the shooter is childless and (therefore) has no son bearing his name–a Luigi Jr.–which would make a hypothetical signing of his name as “Luigi Sr.” something aspirational. Steve Sailer suggested the shooter expects to get many marriage proposals while in prison.

Did Mangione read or follow Sailer?

The best answer: Probably not. (More precisely stated: No evidence.)

Luigi Mangione (@PepMangione)’s social-media account made a grand-total of zero mentions of Steve Sailer, despite Sailer’s snowballing Twitter presence by the tail-end of the 2010s and the early 2020s when Luigi was active there. (He disappeared completely from activity there around July 2024, the same time he stopped contacting his family and his mother reported him “missing.”)

Some major figures that Luigi Mangione’s twitter account did mention and interact with (in the Twitter sense; replying, retweeting, whatever), with some frequency:

– Jonathan Haidt,

– Peter Thiel,

– Tim Urban (blogger),

– Richard Dawkins,

– “Andrew D. Huberman, PhD,â€� and

– Mike Benz.

(NOTE: Mike Benz is a probable-Mossad-asset who, for several years in the late 2010s, pretended to be an Alt-Right personality. When later confronted about this, Mike Benz says all his racialist discoursing was a front, an ‘op’ to move discourse away from criticism of one particular ethnopolitical group and one particular Middle-Eastern state. Strangely, Mike Benz received zero social penalty for his years active as a “racist” Alt-Righter, after claiming it was an infiltration operation. Somehow he gets away with this, falls backward into success, and is hugely promoted on venues like Tucker Carlson, who, not being all-powerful, is also subject to being hit with influence-operations.)

These are the top six I noticed, from browsing his tweets. Elon Musk may have ordered the account restored, after an underling had initially being deleted it hours after the McDonald’s arrest. It’s interesting that three of these six top figures Jewish, one of whom is likely a Mossad asset (see above).

The two songs have different titles at least according to YouTube. One is ‘Sailing’ by Christopher Cross, the ubiquitous one, and the other is ‘I Am Sailing� by Rod Stewart that I just heard for the first time and I listen to Rod from time to time. I have no recollection of hearing the Stewart song before.

It’s the Arthur Kwon Lee psyop that I find concerning.

Fascinating and helpful reminiscences. Thanks for that.

Here is one of the few times I received Actual Very Lucid Spiritual Advice (viz not vague half-arsed mystical drunk-guy mumbo jumbo) from a homeless guy.

I was out walking very late at night in a part of Los Angeles that isn’t very walkable, after a very long frustrating day. As a habit, I try to keep at least a few spare bucks ready to hand for the inevitable homeless people you come across in a day’s wanderings, I don’t like to stiff anyone completely if I can help it.

But after midnight, after about my sixth and final homeless guy for the day, I was close to where I was going when I saw yet another one sort of slumped on the street ahead of me, right in my path. I paused, thinking Ah fuck, not again, I’m too tired for this, and considered crossing the street at a different crosswalk to avoid him. Then I reconsidered and thought, nah, I better, so I gave him a buck or two as I passed.

To my surprise he got up and followed me. In my experience if you give a homeless guy like a twenty he will often follow you to thank you out of sheer surprise, but for just two bucks, no it had to be something else, so I stopped to hear what he had to say. He was more lucid than I would have guessed. He said…

“I saw what you did back there. You were about to ignore me, which was understandable, but then you thought better of it and you came back and helped me out. So now I want to give you something in return. It’s the answer to a question that has been bothering you for a while.”

He then really did come through; without any prep, he gave me a specific tailored answer to a specific problem that had indeed been wearing me down, not some general well-meaning all-purpose blather like you could get reading Maya Angelou. It was not precise enough to be uniquely personal, but precise enough to be fairly targeted. Even if he only pegged me down to one out of say thirty or so types, it was still a good effort, worth two bucks.

Give all your money to HHCLA (look it up, laggards). Mark Casanova is a prince among men.

That is quite an epic! Merry Christmas and God Bless.

I think the correct technical term is failed state.

There is no real definition of a shithole country, although many people enjoy visiting the chateau country of France.

Haiti is an exaggerated version of the typical Caribbean island.

Many of the best educated and most capable people leave and move to the United States, Canada, France, Spain, and the UK to study and often to live.

This leaves behind a rump population of persons who are less successful in education, and who are often barred from getting visas overseas because they have local criminal records.

Haiti is a particularly bad case because not only does it not have an elected government, but it is also virtually impossible to have legitimate elections there. It is also stuck with a dreadful outdated Constitution which can never be reformed without a revolution.

It is just a thought but it is possible that the intense exercising required to build the prominent abdominal muscles might have been the cause of the lower vertebral dislocation that caused his back pain problems.

Medical sources cite this as one possible cause of this type of back pain.

Yes, an interesting analysis, and I can’t say I disagree with any of it.

What hasn’t yet been discussed is whether Mangione is psychotic. In my opinion there is a more than 50% chance that he is psychotic, and will soon be put under the care of a psychiatrist.

Interesting comment.

The Anarchist archetype popped back up in the late 1960s and 1970s in a serious way, but lost some of its hardened edge… Anarchism has been mostly politically inactive for a long time.

Can’t help but think it is partly from living in a more complicated society. Those who would have been staunch Anarchists in the past today, after offering up a screed against The Man, whip out their cell phones and start floating. Part of them suspects they can’t have the Cloud if the eschaton is immanentized; and they really don’t want to build or fix modern cars et al, so they have to keep some of the current system around.

But it is still shocking that all these years later Walmart is no longer open 24 hours a day.

My local Kroger was open 24 hours a day for years. Problem was that it was so lightly staffed that shop lifting was too easy. A cashier told me that people just strolled out with stuff.

My local red state Walmart has people at each exit who may want to see your receipt. That’s two employees who add $ to overhead but nothing to productivity.

Wake me up next time you hear about someone convicted of shop lifting.

And the kiddies at the Ivies (Where else?) have a new hero to worship.

Spencer’s analysis is premature and self serving. He is assuming too much about both men, and his need to refer more than once to Mangione as a midwit*, is both insecure and inaccurate. Mangione was clearly intelligent, and to some extent the product of modern education based brainwashing. His real limitation was that he was young and lacked experience and wisdom.

Referring to Thompson as doing “his best as a pawn in a corrupt system” is a laughably dishonest characterization. The man was the CEO of the biggest health insurance company in the country and claim denials increased remarkably during his tenure. Based on this alone Spencer’s opinion should be dismissed outright.

*Spencer is engaging in the Saileresque tactic of automatically associating supposed high intelligence with high moral values. It’s basically a way for him (spencer) to pat himself on the back by putting someone else down. It’s also not true.

How did immigration make Luigi’s life any worse, objectively? Mass immigration doesn’t hurt well-off high-ability whites (or people of other races) much, and I don’t see why Luigi rationally should have cared much about it from a perspective of self-interest. Not everyone is as extremely tribalistic on behalf of “normie whites� as you are.

Depends on how you define “self-interest”.

If that’s “make a buck”–the perspective of the people who push this–then “fine!”

But if your perspective of self-interest includes the sort of nation your children, your grandchildren, your great-grandchildren … inherit, their ability to find a good job; their ability to afford a house in a neighborhood with “good schools”, even the pleasantness of that neighborhood; the overall quality, functionality of the city/area they live in; the orderliness and cohesion of their society, crime, corruption, the nature of the politics, the trash, traffic, physics beauty, etc.; the environment in their nation pollution, open space, parks; the level of prosperity of the nation; its ability to compete with China and stay in the first rank; the whole psychological and social impact of living in a nation or not….

In other words, if you care about anything and anyone beyond “make $$$, now!” then it is a blowout. Immigration is not just the essential question, the only question. What am I leaving behind for my children? The real judgement of a man and of leaders of a nation.

I hate to break the news but although it probably can do with some tinkering around, the basic system that we have in place in this country is about the best that we’re gonna get. Deal with it! People like this Mangione chap, their heads chock-full of “elite education”, still dream the dream of all True Believers: that life really can become a Free Lunch. And when the dream doesn’t come true (and it never does, nor will) they bitch and whine about how unfair life is. Evidently one of them went one step too far.

>people with an issue with death care all but tyrn themselves in
>Oh look! He used a 3D printed gun! We need to do something to make 3D printer incapable of making guns!
>CEOs get a warning in the Whole Society Initiative

Mass-immigration and Third Worldization degrade the culture. AnotherDad is right.

But with this line: “toxic minoritarian nonsense and immigration insanity [while] some guy is all hot and bothered by … medical insurance. LOL. Talk about blindness,” AnotherDad may have underestimated, in this case, the kinds of outcomes that cultural Third Worldization produces. In other words: the Luigi-the-CEO-shooters out there could be second-order effects of immigration-and-nationality-policy-driven Third Worldization, and not a blindness.

Third Worlization, mass immigration of both low-end and higher-end Based Brown Guy archetype (Vivek R.), distort the incentive-structures for every young-aspirant native-born person in the “host” society. Third Worldization distorts reality in ways that can be difficult to envision. There are hard-to-quantify psycho-spiritual effects. These have long since penetrated into the ranks even of those well-insulated socioeconomically.

People acclimate to Third Worldization (– ncluding to the attempts by slick-and-scheming, rent-seeking elite-Diasporics to carve out mini-fiefdom cash-cows of some portion of the host-society, at the expense of the commons. Host-society populations tend to accommodate themselves to this unpleasant reality, which is outside the usual NW-European “frame” for fair-dealing. They adjust towards a worse — less-honest, less-hopeful, less-idealistic — median than had been true for previous generations.

The process creates fertile ground for all kinds of bad actors: including intelligence-agency “influence-op”-type people, or second-rate cynical opportunists, or a range of flavors of “self-radicalization” one might encounter, including at huge social-scale like the neo-religion that people call Wokeness (which is an Third-Worldization accommodationist cult). All of this is enabled and empowered by the Internet.

A hit to an unsuspecting victim is not the same as a hit on someone who is attacking with hostile intent. A 9mm round with an expanding bullet may well be adequate, although men who have seen much gunfighting still tend to prefer .44 and .45 over 9mm and .38.

It’s worse than that. The lockdowns cruelly and needlessly destroyed the livelihoods of millions of people. Such as small business owners (e.g., restaurateurs, caterers, hair stylists, bookstore owners, musicians) and people employed by those establishments (e.g., bartenders, waiters, busboys). The lockdowns legitimized the whole pernicious idea that an insular ruling clique could declare millions of workers “not essential” and basically destroy them without due process of law.

Seemed to lack common sense in execution of his crime. Or was getting eventually caught intentional? Could have gone to greater lengths to conceal his identity (tinted glasses, no cars) and destruction of evidence (eg, burn the backpack, drop the gun in deep water).

Spot on.

Beyond common sense, anyone who has seen even a little of like police/detective drama, would realize there is a bunch of stuff that you must do to eliminate physical evidence and give yourself at least a shot at getting away with a murder. You’d think anyone with a 3 digit IQ, actually planning such a crime these days, would know that and make an effort to do that.

And yet–I don’t really care and haven’t read the new reports, but from the comments here, and from the fact that he’s been arrested–seems like he didn’t do much of any of it. Weird.

Luigi Nicholas Mangione = U nine-inch-salami gigolo

Third Worlization, mass immigration of both low-end and higher-end Based Brown Guy archetype (Vivek R.), distort the incentive-structures for every young-aspirant native-born person in the “host� society. Third Worldization distorts reality in ways that can be difficult to envision. There are hard-to-quantify psycho-spiritual effects. These have long since penetrated into the ranks even of those well-insulated socioeconomically.

You snap me up short, but it’s deserved.

Great point, great paragraph and great comment end-to-end.

The difference between “living as part of a nation” and “being an atom in the sprawling imperial marketplace” is huge. And it is not surprising that the later leads to more alienation, mroe psychosis and even anarchistic behavior. And especially when we are not in a “steady state” but young people can actually see the downward trajectory, and a young man can easily think “fuck it, this place is going to hell, nothing for me here.”

Note: I discourage that response. Young men should take their cue from that lion among men here–kaganovitch. Find a quality gal–admittedly much harder now–and start building a family, a real life, with her. It’s work but rewarding. But there is no doubt our society–hard to even call it a “nation” anymore–is way more alienating. So, it is not surprising that there are more loose cannons out there. I just wish this guy could have found Mayorkas.

And next thing you’ll be telling us how Sirhan shot Bobby.

But it is still shocking that all these years later Walmart is no longer open 24 hours a day.

Walmart had been considering an end to 24/7 store operations some time prior to Covid, at least since 2017 or 2018, but corporate management for some reason was hesitant. Most likely they were concerned about alienating customers. Covid gave them a reason to act.

One thing about when “I Am Sailing� came out is that it hit the charts in the middle of the Disco Era from 1975-1979, Christopher Cross, “Sailing� came out in 1980 when Disco was on its way out. My favorite Stewart songs are the ballads although “Hot Legs� and “Some Guys Have All The Luck� are great tunes. I was only 14-15 in 1975-1976 but I have always been a music junkie. Like I said earlier I saw a stripper performing to “I Am Sailing� ten years later in 1986 in Tampa so I do find it somewhat remarkable that a couple of people here have never heard of this song. I can’t imagine going into Mons Venus in 1990 and seeing “Kaitlyn “ dancing to “Sailing� by Christopher Cross, but I did see the only Black chick in Tanga Lounge do her number to “Swinging� by John Anderson. Still there were alternatives to Disco from 1975-1979, Linda Ronstadt, the Doobie Brothers, the Eagles, Elton John, and other notable acts didn’t drop a disco song like The Stones, KISS, Rod Stewart, Blondie, Queen, etc., well Another One Bites The Dust came out as Disco was on its way out in 1980 so Queen was a little late to the party.

Regardless “I Am Sailing� is a “Celtic Masterpiece “ while “Sailing� is a sappy and somewhat dreary tune IMO.

How big of a threat is jury nullification? Any difference in a Fed vs. state trial?

I predict that he will have a good chance of being found not guilty by reason of insanity or some similar plea. Perhaps he will get time in a mental hospital like John Hinckley.

You read it here first.

You cannot underestimate the value of coming from a wealthy family who can afford crafty lawyers and expert witness psychiatrists who will toe the line when you are in the dock charged with murder or attempted murder.

But it is still shocking that all these years later Walmart is no longer open 24 hours a day.

Wow, I had no idea that was the case. I though it was just my local branch that had decided to do this, because I knew of another branch that closed at night in Jacksonville, FL before the pandemic, because it was in a high crime area.

It was a great convenience for customers, especially those who worked shifts, and usually all the staff on the night shift were engaged in stacking shelves and arranging displays, with only one person on a cash register for the odd customer who wandered in.

Are they now going to stack the shelves during the daytimes, blocking the aisles with fork lifts?

In addition to crime issues, having customers in stores 24/7 makes merchandise packout slower and more complicated.

Haiti is a particularly bad case because not only does it not have an elected government, but it is also virtually impossible to have legitimate elections there.

From what I understand, while Port-au-Prince is anarchic the second city of Cap Haitien is more stable, with local authorities able to maintain a degree of control.

“Medicare is awesome.”

Lol. Medicine [sic] is a hoax. Excepting surgeons, of course.

Health = diet + movement. Period.

The rest is superstition and placebo �

Thanks. Good to read this guy’s perspective. And agree with much of it.

But it seems to me that a lot of this omits the most obvious cause of the “cost crisis” in medical care:

Technical innovation: Docs can simply do a heck of a lot more for you than in 1945.

Back then, what–set your broken bone, keep wounds clean, give you the smallpox vaccine, give you penicillin–which as a useful drug was brand new with US mass production for use in the War–if you had a bad infection.

Now, if you get cancer, you expect–instead of just dying–that the docs will roll out an extensive treatment and cure you–and someone else (“the insurance company”) will pay for it. If you have a heart attack, that they can do surgery and unblock arteries–and someone else will pay for it.

For example, I’m an old guy. I’d like to feel and function like I did when I was 20–heck even 50 would be great. There have experiments with circulating young rats blood through old rats and … the old rats “get young”. (I.e. strong indication that aging is not just “wear and tear” but “planned obsolescence”.) Make that therapy effective … I want it! And it should be covered by my Medicare!

Medical care is both labor intensive service. And medical care demand is essentially unbounded.

To cut costs you need to make medical care less labor intensive more efficient–AI docs, robotic tests and scans, etc. etc. But as long as docs can do more, people will want more. There is no end to the demand for health, to feel better.

“Did Mangione read or follow Sailer?”

Maybe. More likely Karl Denninger, who’s advocated m*rder and vi*lence viz doctors et al since the covid hoax and, since this latest m*rder, has gloriously, unapologetically DOUBLED DOWN on his position. ðŸ‘� ðŸ‘� ðŸ‘�

Yes, this is correct, and former Prime Minister Gary Conille did point out that most of the provinces of Haiti are somewhat orderly and that the majority of gang members are classified as children (aged under 18).

However PoP comprises about 8% of the population and there are also other heavily-populated nearby areas like Croix-des-Bouquets (pop 250,000) or Cite Soleil that are gang infested.

However even in the provinces that are deemed to be under control there are massive problems with basic infrastructure. Only 15% of the urban population is connected to piped water, and in rural areas–forget about it.

People have to buy those 5 gallon bottles of purified drinking water and deliver them by motor bike or truck.

Richer people have internet connections via satellite dishes, and even the poor, of course, have cell phones, though they may have difficulty charging them at times so that they can access the bare necessities of life such as Facebook and Whatsapp.

Only 45% of the population has access to electricity, and even then, there are frequent cuts in service. People in rural areas may have to pay to use public charging stations in markets.

So failed state is probably a fair description.

It is also stuck with a dreadful outdated Constitution which can never be reformed without a revolution.

As always, it is hard to tell if you are serious or just taking the piss. I’m inclined to think the latter, as the idea that any of Haiti’s troubles are the result of its constitution is Marx brothers level of absurdity. I do recall, however, that you have a sort of bee in your bonnet regarding constitutions and their ‘chilling ‘effect on legislative fiat. Iirc you were favorably contrasting the Ecuadorian system of a new constitution every decade or so with the US constitution.

I respectfully disagree. The only reason medical care demand is, as you say, “essentially unbounded” is because the entire system has degenerated into a third-party payor system. Before the advent of employer-paid health insurance (which arose in response to WW II era wage and price controls), people generally paid for their own health care, which meant that costs and demand were necessarily bounded.

Unfortunately, it would take a lot of short-term economic dislocation to get back to such a sane model. But if you think about it, that model applies to most everything else you buy, and there is no inherent reason it should not apply to health care.

The problem is during and after Kovid they also stopped or significantly reduced the graveyard shifts being worked by employees specifically tasked with stocking shelves. It’s all done during normal business hours now. So not only can you expect 50% or more of the aisles to be cluttered with employees (and their large carts) restocking shelves from 6am to 6pm, the employees themselves are the lowest common denominator when it comes to efficiency, customer courtesy, sense of awareness, and helpfulness.

“…probably too much of a narcissist so decided to destroy someone else’s existence as well as his own.”

Duncsbaby, sounds about right. I won’t be surprised, given his age and higher intellect, that he is soon diagnosed as schizophrenic. Schizophrenia combined with his attempts at self healing via mushrooms…easy for everything to go forever wrong for a young man of some potential promise.

I used to go out on the fantail of the old USCG Gallatin

USCGC Gallatin. A luxury yacht built during Beatlemania. My units were from FDR’s reign, one from his first term.

( last I heard the old girl became part of the Nigerian navy)

At least she’s still afloat. My units, at least one of which also spent her “retirement” in Africa, now serve as artificial reefs.

But, yeah, serving on a vessel christened for someone from Switzerland must have been neat. I read a lot of Harry Browne in those days.

Stewart’s dooya disco rave was ubiquitous during my time, as was Cross’s “Sailing”. One couldn’t escape them. But Stewart’s “Sailing” doesn’t ring a bell at all. With others, too, evidently.

Which reminds me: walking all the way from Venezuela would be mighty hard work. Yep, mighty hard work indeed.

As a mission of faith, would you be willing to walk all the way to Venezuela from your current location, and also report to us how it goes? I, for one, would be fascinated by your dispatches.

Did someone angling for an insurance CEO position hire a bot farm to discourage other applicants?

Re: bot farm “sympathetic” posts.

I wouldn’t rule out these being from China, N. Korea or Russia, Belarus.

They have paid cyber terms which are used, for among other things, creating discord and dismay, unrest and discontent in the EU and especially the US.

While this seems marginal and crazy, the idea is to sow mistrust and discourage Americans from responding to threats and crises in a rational manner. Push their buttons and see how high they jump.

Paid bot farms are run out of SE Asian places like Burma or Laos and while usually running scams, can be hired by state actors.

While individual real people (mainly young stupid lefty males) might cheerlead for this back shooter, when bots are employed, I would suspect the Usual Suspects.

Our dopey Asian friend is regurge-dumping “conspiracy discourse 101� slop. Any halfway-decent AI program will serve up the same buzzword salad.

Here is Heather Mac Donald on the Penny trial: https://archive.ph/CjngY

I predict that he will have a good chance of being found not guilty by reason of insanity or some similar plea. Perhaps he will get time in a mental hospital like John Hinckley.

Not a bad prediction.

But in NY and I think most places (due to long held Supreme Court rulings) you have to be nearly incoherent and NYC subway nutso to be let off by “insanity”.

This guy did deep planning (though not good) and wrote a “manifesto” and seems highly rational if not nearly totally wrong and immoral.

His lawyers will push this, but likely via plea bargain. Some long term “treatment” in a somewhat minimum-security prison with “counseling” and drugs.

I would guess sentenced to 25 years but parole eligible in 20.

But back shooting a corporate executive in downtown Manhattan is bad for business and the local DAs will be under a lot of heat to Send a Message.

Ted Kaczinski was also a brilliant misanthrope (bomber) and recently died in the Supermax.

Strangely, Mike Benz received zero social penalty for his years active as a “racist� Alt-Righter, after claiming it was an infiltration operation. Somehow he gets away with this, falls backward into success

Sounds like anything but strange in the current era.

But back shooting a corporate executive in downtown Manhattan is bad for business and the local DAs will be under a lot of heat to Send a Message.

Alvin Bragg the Manhattan DA is so absurdly soft on crime all bets are off.

Otto von Bismarck instituted a healthcare plan for German workers in 1883:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismarck_model

This, one big part of the legalization of violence that began under Obama was Democrats convincing themselves that there is no sich thing as deterremce.

“Trinidad by Eddie Money”

Love that song and its intricate guitar work. Eddie Money’s best songs were never played on AOR stations.

Whilst Peter Thiel be creepy he is intelligent and practices conceptual thinking which is how interesting people like Peter and me move forward in the current imposed reality.

whatever it is there seem to be Jews behind it and non-Jews in high positions seem afraid to cross them.
I don’t understand it.

A clue, no idea if it’s true, but seems plausible.

As usual, it depends on who’s committing the crimes. A great white defendant is too good to pass up.

In 1980 I watched his driver practice evasive maneuvers with the stretch limousine:
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Johnny Carson drove himself to work in an ordinary car. He was asked about it and said no need to attract attention to yourself. As a stretch limo would.
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I was once acquainted with the man who ran Reckitt & Coleman’s American subsidiary. If you were going to pick out the twenty most influential people in the Genesee Valley, he’d have been on the list. He lived in an ordinary suburban tract house abutting a golf course and tootled around in a nondescript car. His wife had her gray hair at ear length parted on the side, a pair of women’s browline eyeglasses, periwinkle raincoat, and a gentle smile which revealed a set of discolored English teeth. They were the most unpretentious pair of VIPs you could imagine.

Thompson represented an institution that profited from human suffering
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You going to start shooting doctors too? Prison guards? Masses of people are employed in containing or cleaning up issues which beset fallen humanity. They do useful work. (In the case of his company, providing risk-pooling services).

Richard B. Spencer contrasts Luigi the shooter vs. Brian Thompson the CEO:
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He never met either one.

Most courts take a dim view of jury nullification. It is the jury’s prerogative that dare not speak its name. There have been cases where, during deliberations, when a juror suggests taking that course, another juror rats him out to the judge, and the judge then dismisses the juror for “misconduct.”

Maryland, Indiana, and Georgia are alone among the states in having a constitutional provision purporting to recognize jury nullification. In Maryland, for example, the provision reads, “In the trial of all criminal cases, the jury shall be the judges of law as well as of fact, . . .”

The Supreme Courts in those states have read those provisions out of their constitutions by judicial fiat. See, e.g., Unger v. State, 427 Md. 383 (2012).

Jury nullification also was part of the common law, but beginning in the 19th Century, courts gradually have abolished the practice, and in 1895, the U.S. Supreme Court did as well. Sparf v. United States, 156 U.S. 51 (1895).

Your Google-Fu is abysmal.

“According to various sources, Luigi Mangione, the suspect in the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, has been reported to have suffered from spondylolisthesis, a condition where a vertebra in the spine slips out of alignment.

Here are some key points about Mangione’s reported condition:

Spondylolisthesis diagnosis: Mangione allegedly discussed his spondylolisthesis on Reddit, a social media platform, where he shared his experiences and symptoms.
Symptoms: He described chronic back pain, sleep issues, and fatigue, which worsened over time.
Surgery: Mangione reportedly underwent spinal fusion surgery in July 2023, which appeared to have been successful, as he shared his positive experience on an “Athletic Success Stories� thread on Reddit.
Reddit posts: Mangione’s now-deleted Reddit account revealed his struggles with back pain, sleep apnea, and other health issues, including his experience with spondylolisthesis.
Impact on daily life: He described how his condition affected his daily routine, including his ability to exercise and perform household chores.
It is essential to note that these reports are based on online sources and may not be officially confirmed or medically verified. As the investigation into Mangione’s actions continues, more information may emerge about his health and the circumstances surrounding the shooting.”–Brave AI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spondylolisthesis

I thought the exact same thing. I think he had a beer last night at the Black Hand happy hour with his boy Gavrilo Princip. Sacco and Vanzetti stopped by too.

Could presumably find himself a quality gal, have a family and a really nice life

The story I have heard is that he’s not really interested in that, ifykwim. At least the “gal” part.

Alvin Bragg the Manhattan DA is so absurdly soft on crime all bets are off.

AB is only soft on woke POC crime. Luigi is a white boy. Therefore he is guilty and he’s going down hard.

“I’m guessing he had a massive sense of entitlement and is a borderline narcissist. But people are determined to cram this guy into their own personal boogeyman suit so they can proclaim “SEE!?!?!? I told you!�

JFC, this is EXACTLY what you do.

Love the Tucker blurb.Keep playing that clip around your wife!

None of the people you describe ran a Dow Jones Industrial that was at that time a major force in American manufacturing. But I agree, and I think some of those corporate leaders just ran with the “stretch limo” image. (Even then I thought it was a little funny.)

This was at the very same time my father described to me how leadership was changing from engineer types to lawyer types and financial types. That CEO was a lawyer.

That company at the time was in the news and subject to very big lawsuits involving health (asbestos.) So I think my analogy and my personal experience are actually very, very spot on in this case. When you know you are a potential target, protect yourself accordingly.

How did immigration make Luigi’s life any worse, objectively?

If his ancestors hadn’t immigrated from Italy, right now he’d be enjoying Italy’s National Health Service.

You have any reason to believe that Hinkley wasn’t crazy and that this fellow is crazy? Shooting the president to impress a girl sounds crazy on its face. Shooting a man hated by thousands or a symbol of people hated by thousands to rid the world of him doesn’t sound crazy on its face.

Per your comment re: Carson. I’ve got a friend who by a weird turn of events got to know a top 25 in US billionaire many years ago. This person kept as low a profile as possible including driving a top of the line mid-range GM sedan by themselves. No chauffeur. No envy car. Didn’t want one. Died in their sleep.

LOL, Art, I do believe you’re becoming hysterical. Are there an usual number of books currently past due? Did you run out of ink for your date stamper? You’re starting to sound like Corvanus, with your misrepresentations and attempts lay violent actions at the feet of other commenters.

I never said anything about shooting anyone, but congratulations on recovering from your recent flare up of herpes, and I also understand you’re not beating your boyfriend anymore, at least, not any more than he likes.

It’s not capitalism when law requires its purchase and there is no practical way to reconcile grievances with a provider. In that sense, I would say the insurance companies represent a form of anarchy more so than Thompson’s killer. In this case Mangione is more of a vigilante.

Jackassery. I’d hope folks here are capable of something called “thought”.

First off, what insurance is required? I went for years without health insurance and took the risk/ payment upon myself. If you are willing to pay, or go without services or die–like people did back in the day–you don’t need it. Auto insurance–the liability side–is required in most states … for other drivers. Not that that means the illegal alien who runs into you has it. But there’s the point–that law exists to make sure you–a law abiding driver–are compensated when someone smacks into you.

Insurance companies are regulated by various state and nation laws. And, of course, grievances–the big ones–are “reconciled” all the time–in court. The ambulance chasers are on the radio all the time here in Florida. If insurance regulation is insufficient, that’s a political matter. But if you expect them to pay every claim submitted with no objection, that’s simply a ticket to fraud, various slimy operators looting the system and, of course, higher premium. (I.e. even more parasitism.)

Obviously, people love to hate on insurance companies because the don’t do anything materially productive–like banks. And worse, mostly you pay and pay and pay and pay them and they don’t do anything for you. But that’s actually a good thing–that means your life is going along pretty well. When something actually happens to you and the company is there to pay … that’s goodness. I have the same general feelings. I much prefer real productive labor/enterprises–and don’t love what are essentially bureaucracies. But the concept of “risk sharing” isn’t all that hard to grasp. (Ok, this year I paid for other people’s hurricane, accidents, fires, etc.)

If you want to live without insurance … just do it. But then don’t expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces when something bad happens to you.

I would do the same thing should I ever be in his position. Bezos, T Swift, Musk, and others can’t go anywhere without security.

CDAN says that Fauci has 6 bodyguards all probably paid for by us. How about we put his lying butt in jail where he will be safe?

Industry joke in the ’96 film The Limey. At a fabulous party thrown by record producer Peter Fonda, a gushing young guest asks, “what was Christopher Cross like?” Fonda’s response – “well you know, I just do the contracts.”

“Rush Limbaugh said he paid much less when he paid in cash for medical services rather than use insurance.”

Usually if you don’t have insurance you pay far more. A few years ago I had a kidney stone and went to an emergency room. They did a cat scan which confirmed it was a kidney stone. Then they gave something for the pain, told me to drink lots of water and sent me on my way. I was there a few hours. I don’t remember the exact number but I got a bill for something like $18,000. Fortunately I had insurance. The insurance price was a much more reasonable number like $1,000 of which my share was something like $200. I am not sure why people think insurance companies are the villain here.

He wanted to get caught.

Besides not trying hard enough to get away, his raving while being led into court was too theatrical.

Noticing made The Federalist’s notable books of 2024. It’s the third of Joy Pullmann’s choices. “I, for one, welcome more of his essays about the architecture of golf courses.” I think she’s being sarcastic.

https://thefederalist.com/2024/12/11/the-federalist-notable-books-of-2024/

If you want to live without insurance … just do it.

Many do. Including some Trump voters.

But then don’t expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces when something bad happens to you.

The rest of them will be sufficient.

Yes, it is that time of the year again, when bills are being pre-filed in Olympia in anticpation of the 2025 legislative session.

William Kirk discusses Florida HB 31, which if enacted into law, would significantly alter Florida’s legislative scheme on firearms by simply removing many of their firearms laws.

2A historian Stephen Halbrook lambastes federal judge.

SCOTUS announces decision in Snope case and more.

Professor Smith recommends 2nd Amendment-related books for Christmas in this video.

He also implicitly is arguing, whether he realizes it or not, that young women aged 18-20 should not be able to effectively protect themselves. Perhaps against stalkers who are "socially awkward loners". https://t.co/YU9qy38CEG

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) December 12, 2024

If you were going to pick out the twenty most influential people in the Genesee Valley, he’d have been on the list.

That sort of sounds like Borat’s sister, the fourth-best prostitute in the village.

“I’d hope folks here are capable of something called “thoughtâ€�.”

You’re only capable of binary thinking.

“If you want to live without insurance … just do it. But then don’t expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces when something bad happens to you. ”

I should be shocked that you gleaned that from what I wrote, but then again, you are the smug pompous asshole that applauded the likes of Fauci and massive Kovid lockdown and mask hysteria.

You’re an establishment sycophant and a clown. Honk honk!

“Auto insurance–the liability side–is required in most states … for other drivers. ”

and WTF does this even mean? Liability auto insurance is required for all drivers, not “other drivers” (LOL)

Only two states don’t “require” auto insurance per say, but can compel a driver to purchase it if that state chooses to and or charge additional annual fees if a motorist doesn’t have it.

It’s no wonder you and jack D love to bicker so much; you’re both well versed in obfuscation or just outright lies.

If I was your attorney I would not advise you to take to the witness stand in your own defense.

I don’t believe he is mentally ill only because he decided to kill someone he believed to be evil, but because there are a number of items in his personal history which suggests that he had been in a pattern of mental deterioration over the last year or so.

Anyway, to make a determination of mental illness an experienced forensic psychiatrist would have to interview him face to face and hear what he has to say for himself, and analyze his thought patterns for disordered thinking or delusions.

It is my opinion (based on many years of experience) that such an interview would end up with the psychiatrist concluding that he was mentally ill.

Of course I could be wrong, but I don’t think so.

“Walmart had been considering an end to 24/7 store operations some time prior to Covid, at least since 2017 or 2018, but corporate management for some reason was hesitant. Most likely they were concerned about alienating customers. Covid gave them a reason to act.”

Many years ago I used to eat in a diner that was open all night. Then they needed to do some construction and they closed in the middle of the night for a while to do the work. This drove home to them how much money they had been losing by staying open all night and they never went back to being open all night.

First off, what insurance is required? I went for years without health insurance and took the risk/ payment upon myself. If you are willing to pay, or go without services or die–like people did back in the day–you don’t need it. Auto insurance–the liability side–is required in most states … for other drivers. Not that that means the illegal alien who runs into you has it. But there’s the point–that law exists to make sure you–a law abiding driver–are compensated when someone smacks into you.

Those laws that require you to buy car insurance are relatively new. The one in California was, I believe, only passed in 2000 or 2001. And yet, prior to that law being passed, responsible people still bought car insurance and irresponsible people did not, just as was the case after the law was passed. Lots of people drove cars in California prior to the year 2000. The World did not end because there was no law that compelled you to buy insurance. But those laws now do give the government another reason to hassle you if they chose.

Those laws weren’t passed because insurance companies care about you. They were passed to insure a larger market for them. They weren’t passed because the public clamored for them. They were passed because insuance companies lobbied and schmoozed (and, perhaps bribed) state legislators to do it.

In addition, I suspect Walmart and Kroger and another big stores suddenly had much more market power as a result of Covid lockdowns. Being open 24 hours a day was something they did to compete with smaller businesses that couldn’t do that.

But after a lot of smaller chains got hurt and many small businesses were destroyed, they had the power to limit their own hours.

They had Monopoly power for a while.

If you were going to pick out the twenty most influential people in the Genesee Valley, he’d have been on the list.

That sort of sounds like Borat’s sister, the fourth-best prostitute in the village

Hey, Xerox and Kodak aren’t what they used to be (nor even there anymore, nor is Jell-O), but they still boast the Eastman School of Music. Do either the real or the fictional Kazakhstan have anything equivalent?

Nobody interpreted Leroy Anderson better than their orchestra. Now that snow is here, how fitting for the Snow Belt:

I’m up to 150k followers on Twitter

I do not understand the willingness of so many social media accountholders (not just you) to spend so much time and effort building up their accounts. Can’t the social media firms close an account overnight for any number of vague, unspecified reasons (e.g. “violation of community standards” whatever that means)?

Is it as simple as the gain outweighing the risk?

Otto made it available, but it took Adi made it universal, according to this list:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_care#History

Norway, Japan, and New Zealand beat him to “universality”, though.

Yes. Small business got slaughtered. Graduate programs shrank. Numerous lives thrown off track or severely disrupted. The lockdowns were a crime against humanity.

If I was your attorney I would not advise you to take to the witness stand in your own defense.

I’m not the guy in trouble with the law.

It is my opinion (based on many years of experience) that such an interview would end up with the psychiatrist concluding that he was mentally ill.

Your experience is providing expert testimony about people you’ve only read about in magazines or news articles? When you are asked this question for the purpose of establishing your expertise by opposing counsel, how do you answer it? You know, of course, that your testimony would never be admitted into evidence in the US, so what is the nature of your purported expertise in evaluating defendants from a distance for the purpose of commenting here?

Fonda’s best line: “People are always gushing on about the romance of The Sixties. In reality, it was all just 1965, and the first part of 1966.”

You underestimate the evil, dehumanizing effect of the lockdowns – the utterly alienating effect of them. I’ve heard lots of stories of young people who were deeply affected by it. I know people I suspect were deeply affected by it (up to and including suicide).

And don’t forget the Summer of George. The George Floyd riots were a direct consequence of the lockdowns. People who have someplace to be in the morning can’t protest and riot for three months straight. People who have someplace to be and something to do don’t feel the need to protest and riot for three months. It was the COVID insanity that enabled the Floyd-Festival.

“10:30 that night, a narcotics deputy called my mom, (she was staying at my house because she was terrified). He started gaslighting my mom telling her the couple were good people and they thought someone who had assaulted a friend of theirs was staying at my mom’s house. They had returned the stolen items (except the ring cameras they had destroyed) and were real sorry. The pos didn’t realize my mom had her phone on speaker. I asked the officer if he had them in custody, he got pissy and finally agreed to arrest them.”

Sounds like the narcotics deputy is personal friends with the perps. There are also coppers I call accessories, who support criminals, and use their positions to further destroy the lives of vics, but they typically support black perps.

More open hours would have been better for Covid, since people at risk could come when few people were there. My Walmart funneled everyone through one doorway instead of four. Stupidity all ’round.

I tried Richard Spencer twice, well, now thrice.

Back when he was Peter Brimelow and Jared Taylor’s very well-paid figurehead, he had a webzine called alternative right. (BTW, if you stuff a neo-Nazi’s pocket with lucre, what does that make you?) He had a podcast, in which he and a crony sat around, chewing the hot brei, for 65 minutes. I made it through five minutes. Richard has stratospherically high self-esteem, but he’s a bore, as was his buddy. (This is why I rarely listen to anyone’s podcasts. Plus, hardly anyone provides new information that I haven’t already uncovered myself, or been provided by my own brilliant, courageous contributors.)

I once tried reading a “thing� Richard wrote on the need for gop in-reach for more White voters, rather than out-reach for more non-White voters. I made it through or three paragraphs, before realizing that it was a plagiary of Steve’s classic late November, 2000 article on the need for gop in-reach.

At that point, I’d read Steve’s brilliant original at least twice, so why would I continue reading Richard’s plagiary?

Cool story Steinbeck, but a little bit sugarcoated ending. Like they say sugar is the worst drug.

Sounds like the narcotics deputy is personal friends with the perps.

I bet they’re paid informants. They narc on their druggie pals and the narcotics officer lets them off to steal to their hearts’ content.

Whose fault is those spiritual tooth trolls? They sound evangelical to me.

Thanks for this. I lost a friend to suicide during those dark times. And I completely agree about the lockdowns enabling the Floyd phenomenon/Summer of George.

Exactly. COVID hysteria was the cause of the George Floyd riots. The lockdowns resulted in civil unrest, which was predicted by many. Shutting down schools, universities, churches, parks and beaches etc.. while forcing people to wear ridiculous masks and avoid all social gatherings resulted in social unrest, increased drug and alcohol abuse, and social isolation and depression for many. With millions out of work and schools closed the only available social interactions permitted were BLM protests. The pent up anger and frustration from the lockdowns resulted in hundreds of riots across America.

>I don’t understand it.
Jesus Christ would say that it is because they are of their Father, the Devil.

It’s not called mal anglais without reason …

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8xm5pem5eo

Banned LGBT veterans to get up to £70,000 in compensation

No, Floyd riots have nothing to do with lockdowns. Blacks are humanoid animals & Democrats are corrupted perverts.

Oh, it does. Shitholes is: Africans+ Islam- with or without oil + Indios + Hindus. Complete and utter shit.

You have raised and then dashed my hopes – I couldn’t imagine Patti Smith doing Whole Lotta Love and was really looking forward to an idiosyncratic take.

But if you want to know where that came from, listen to a 19 year old Steve Marriott – Plant certainly did.

Comments, Steve?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/12/biden-grants-largest-single-day-clemency-in-us-history-with-1500-sentences-commuted

US President Joe Biden has issued presidential pardons to 39 Americans convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 other people.

The White House described it as the most acts of presidential clemency issued in a single day. It has not given the names of the people involved.

Yes, responsible people get health, auto, life and home insurance. When the government requires it, or at the very least compels an individual to purchase it (lenders also require insurance to be bought when obtaining a mortgage or a car loan, home renters are almost always required to purchase renter insurance) we are now talking about something different. The provides can and do gouge their “customers” while at the same time subjecting them to a bureaucratic fun house maze of 3 inch thick booklets, call centers in India, etc.

So the point is, when something is required by law or contract (a non negotiable contract where all the terms are laid out by one party isn’t really a contract, it’s more like forcible servitude), then it allows insurance companies to absolutely inflate the cost of their services because why not? The buyer has to purchase it from somewhere and has no recourse.

Immediately following the Kovid/Floyd disaster my auto insurance rates more than doubled, and I had/have a clean driving record. I had State Farm for almost 20 years up to that point but I dropped them anyway and went to a smaller insurer with slightly better rates. This is not organic capitalism at work. This is just corporatist exploitation.

One can condemn the actions of Mangiano while at the same time understanding why he did it. It’s becoming more apparent that AnotherDad (like ThatWouldBeTelling – where’s he been? I guess Steve stuffed him back into the gimp box until he’s needed to shill for the next health panic) likely worked in the upper echelons of the healthcare industry by the way he just staunchly defends it at every turn.

Insanity defenses are rare. In New York, you have to give advance notice of one and stipulate the contentions in the indictment. The burden of proof is on the defense. There is no analogue in New York law to the ‘diminished capacity’ defenses you could use in California courts fifty years ago.

Spencer is a Nietchzean (I think he prefers “Apollonian”, but he’s still essentially Nietchzan) , and, like most Nietchzeans, has a raging, absurdly overinflated sense of his own superiority. The Vox Popoli crowd go overboard on labeling everyone they don’t like as “Gammas,” but the Gamma type does exist, and Spencer is one of the most flagrant Gamma Secret Kings out there. He can’t abide to be associated with the “midwits” and the common herd, and has to think of himself as an elite; his contempt for the church-going, rural, blue-collar, anti-vax, Trump-voting bourgeoisie is so strong that he supported Biden in 2020 and Kamala in 2024, claiming that the Democrats were more competent and more “elite”, and thus better qualified to run things. Anyone who still thinks the Dems are competent or elite after 4 years of the Biden Follies and Peak DEI isn’t to be taken seriously. Spencer simply uses that pretext to justify his own despicable change of sides; see, he isn’t really trying to suck up to perceived winners, just exercising his Apollonian intelligence in a way us pathetic midwits can’t understand. Spencer is a joke, with no consistent principles other than his need to feed his own self-worship, and should be treated as a joke.

In the aftermath of John Hinckley’s successful insanity defense (he was the guy who shot Reagan as well as Brady, whose name lives on in ignominy because it is indelibly linked to gun control), most states changed their laws regarding the insanity defense and generally made it more difficult for a defendant to succeed.

In Maryland, for example, the insanity defense was changed to a defense of “not crminally responsible.” If a defendant pulls it off, he goes off to the nuthouse instead of prison. Usually for a long time. Still, the nuthouse generally is better than prison. I do not think the average person realizes how brutal and de-humanizing a prison, especially the maximum security kind, can be.

Luigi Sr. actually bears a vague resemblance to Ricardo Montalban

Mayor Fulop has been a vocal advocate of universal background checks…

Unless he means for all 7,233,500, “universal” is a lie. Imagine requiring proof of such a check in order to vote!

There are 7,233,500 adults, (1,532,610 of whom are seniors) in New Jersey.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/states/new-jersey

So that’s what happened to the fellow who dropped his top in Chesapeake Bay. I was wondering.

I don’t remember the exact number but I got a bill for something like $18,000. Fortunately I had insurance. The insurance price was a much more reasonable number like $1,000 of which my share was something like $200.

That $18,000 is a meaningless number.

Your OOP cost might not have been $1,000 if you had paid cash, but it would have been FAR less than the $18,000 number.

The difference is, you have to tell them you are paying cash up front. Then, if you get a bill and you think it’s too high, you can just call them and literally haggle it down. As long as they know you are a cash customer up front, they will do that for you.

If you go in with insurance and something gets denied, they won’t haggle (at least at first) and they’ll tell you to take it up with your insurance provider.

That being said, it’s harder to pay cash and haggle when you are getting treated for an illness or acute condition in the hospital itself, because every little procedure and service just happens in the normal course of treatment and you can’t pick and choose. You also run into the problem that there are several billing entities with their hand in the kitty: the hospital, the “doctor’s association”, the anesthesiologist, etc. That also makes it hard to shop because you have no idea who is going to eventually send you a bill. Personally, that’s the one billing practice that hacks me off the most.

But where you can REALLY save money is if you are shopping for a specific procedure – an MRI, an elective surgery, lab work – and you call around and shop and tell them you are paying cash. They’ll pull out a “secret” price list when you tell them. In fact, shopping has gotten so widespread that many independent MRI and imaging shops now just put the cash price on their website so people will quit calling them.

BTW, you can easily haggle and pay cash at the dentist and optometrist, too.

Unfortunately that is not in the cards right now, nor will it be for the foreseeable future. The dream though is to make it to Columbia, where there is something even more spectacular than the miracle we celebrate today—the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe—a wonder that is literally rock-solid proof of the truth of the One True Faith. https://catholicexchange.com/miraculous-image-lady-las-lajas/

>But then don’t expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces when something bad happens to you.

I take it you stuck with private insurance and refuse Medicare? That is admirable.

Your experience is providing expert testimony about people you’ve only read about in magazines or news articles? When you are asked this question for the purpose of establishing your expertise by opposing counsel, how do you answer it? You know, of course, that your testimony would never be admitted into evidence in the US, so what is the nature of your purported expertise in evaluating defendants from a distance for the purpose of commenting here?

Just because it is an interesting case that people are interpreting from a variety of perspectives. Mine is that I spent decades working in forensic psychiatry settings in various countries.

I have reviewed the full case notes of thousands of offenders, including large numbers of rapists and murderers so I am extremely familiar with psychiatric forensic examinations and clinical psychologist psychometric testing reports.

You may have a different perspective based on your own life experience. That is OK.

They had Monopoly power for a while.

I remember 30-40 years ago my grandmother – back in the days when she was just “senior” and not actually “elderly” (she passed away four years ago) – would occasionally suffer from insomnia and instead of laying in bed all night, she would get up and go grocery shopping at 2:00 in the morning. She said it was great because the store was empty and she could take her time.

30-40 years ago they didn’t have the monopoly power you speak of, so all four of the grocery store chains in our small city were open 24 hours. Now there is Walmart and HEB and neither are open 24 hours.

Cool story. “…for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.”

I stopped giving them cash when I saw a homeless woman use the money I gave her to get drunk on the corner. So instead I started carrying around gift cards, like for McDonalds or Subway.

Being homeless in LA is something of a right of passage for a certain type of my generation. I did it for a season; I should probably right about it some day. I do remember trying to get Steve to come out when I was out there, but, well, alas–he’s not that type (nor my generation).

But yeah, some lucid advice from Steve Sailer to me–that would have been a story worth telling.

Criminally underrated was the blue collar man’s rocker, Eddie Money. I picked up a lot of tunes from frequenting pubs, strip clubs, nightclubs in my younger years. I have already mentioned a couple of strip clubs and the songs I associated them with. A dancer at a dive frequented by The Outlaws Motorcycle Club ( at 18-19, my friends and I would dare ourselves to go there) called Joe’s Cellar usually had 2 strippers dancing maybe once every couple of hours. Had this one stripper there who went under the stage name of “Stara�, she seemed to favor Eddie’s breakout hit, “Baby Hold On To Me.� Money could also play the Saxophone 🎷 which can be heard on his 1979 song, Maybe I’m A Fool and his biggest hit, Take Me Home Tonight. RIP to the Money Man.

Cue: You Really Got A Hold On Me by Eddie Money (cover)

Medicine [sic] is a hoax. Excepting surgeons, of course.

Also vaccines and most especially the Vaxxâ„¢.

More open hours would have been better for Covid, since people at risk could come when few people were there.

In fairness, though, quite a bit of commercial Covid response was driven by staffing shortages. Walmart staffing demographic is extremely susceptible to “I got gubmint money coming in, why go to work?” type of calculus.

The “back pain� preventing any intimacy sounds like it might be horseshit. Possible closet case.

His name is “Sean Connery In Pink With A Wig and False Teeth’ by Rembrandt van Rijn.

The original hangs in a private area of Buckingham Palace.

Those who would have been staunch Anarchists in the past today, after offering up a screed against The Man, whip out their cell phones and start floating

The people in Europe who began calling themselves “Antifa,” a label eventually exported the USA by the 2010s, are today’s nominal anarchists.

How often do we see “Antifa” committing acts in line with the old vision of Propaganda der Tat (“propaganda of the deed”)? The anarchists of the late-19th and early-2oth century were ready and willing to use anti-state terrorism. The best analogue in our time and in our frame-of-reference would be Islamist terrorism.

But Postmodern Antifa in Europe and the USA are, usually, nothing like this. As has been pointed out many times, these groups more usually are shock-troops of the Establishment. Sometimes they can become violent and a general nuisance. But they are always more interested in doing kind of role-playing games.

The Stone Toss comic-artist, soon after he emerged in 2017-18, has gotten a lot of mileage out of the contradictions and watered-down absurdities of today’s anarchists and anarchism-adjacent leftists, a fertile field for satire:

He may be a homosexual, but what a lot of people don’t realize is that surgery, especially back surgery can result in significant peripheral nerve damage.

It’s not out of the question that his surgery damaged nerves that facilitate the function of his sex organ. It seems that losing the ability to have sex as an otherwise healthy 25 year old would be pretty devastating. Now, imagine a sex crazed homosexual (read: mentally ill) losing the ability to bugger anything that moves. A murderer emerging from that mold seems very believable.

I completely tore my distal biceps tendon off my radius a couple years ago. After the surgery to reattach it, I still experience mild neuropathy in my lower forearm and wrist. Pins and needles, tingling, burning, but at least I didn’t lose function.

” The people in Europe who began calling themselves “Antifa,â€� a label eventually exported the USA by the 2010s, are today’s nominal anarchists.

How often do we see “Antifaâ€� committing acts in line with the old vision of Propaganda der Tat (“propaganda of the deedâ€�)? The anarchists of the late-19th and early-2oth century were ready and willing to use anti-state terrorism.”

Today’s antifa are not anarchists. They are enforcers of current state tyranny. There is nothing “anti-state” about their terrorism.

The original antifa of National Socialist Germany were promoters of communism/Bolshevism. They were typical communist revolutionaries, seeking to install a different form of government, not eliminate government.

Patty Smyth not Patty Smith ( Smith was the one with the hairy pits, SMYTH was the former lead singer of Scandal and married John McEnroe.) Even Letterman was taken aback by the outstanding performance by Patty SMYTH of The Led Zeppelin classic as was the audience.

You deserve 30 days in the hole for confusing the two.

Cue: 30 Days In The Hole by Humble Pie

But Postmodern Antifa in Europe and the USA are, usually, nothing like this. As has been pointed out many times, these groups more usually are shock-troops of the Establishment.

Exactly. I call them the Parasite Party’s street fight arm. But that’s not quite right, cause they actually can’t fight very well.

Basically, they are the bureaucratic state’s–“the swamp”, “the blob”–goon squad to attack normies who stand up and object. Make normie opposition and protest both more difficult and cultivate and aura of “violence” and “extremism” around it.

If Pablo Cruise was a real person, THAT is undoubtedly what he’d look like!

I like a lot of Stewarts music, both solo and especially with Faces, but I had never heard this Sailing song before. It is quite interesting (hint hint: deserving of a Steve post) that there is quite a bit of music and/or artists that are popular in one place but not the other. Even among the consensus greats – Beatles, Motown, Stones, Aretha Franklin, Elvis, Michael Jackson-there are songs/albums that hit big in one country but not the other. Can anyone point me to a good observer who tried to explain this phenomenon?

Possible closet case.

Keep in mind that guys with that kind of intelligence often can’t fathom what girls are saying much less thinking. I can’t determine from the internet his birth order compared to his two sisters but I’ve got a friend who makes a convincing case that many behavior questions can be answered by birth order. Was he youngest? Oldest?

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-ap-top-news-elections-james-comey-politics-bdd3b6078e9efadcfcd0be4b65f2362e

Remember, Chris Wray said Antifa is an ideology not an organization. Apparently one where co-ideologues have little difficulty coordinating and suppressing the speech of others (my observation not Wray’s).

24/7 is a lot of costs, risk and maintenance.

Saw him at a casino years ago. He took his daughter on the road with him as a performer and was promoting her which was nice not annoying. Seemed like an easy going guy, the opposite of all those egomaniacs you hear about.

“eastern Europeans seem to dominate power lifting competitions is because they naturally have shallower hip sockets which facilitate better hip flexion”

The Slav Squat is real.

Ethnicity and biomechanics; Steve should be all over this.

Spinal surgery is awful. You should only get it if you are having genuine neurological dysfunction that can be repaired. For that matter, pushing your body in excess of the functional capacity of your joints should also be avoided. You can still get plenty jacked without herniating a disc before you turn 30. I think a lot of these injuries are people getting juiced and building muscle beyond what their skeletons and connective tissue can handle.

There are lots of old athletes who can barely move; another reason to drastically de-scale sports. There’s a clip going around the internet of a truly stupid confrontation between Brett Favre and Mark Gastineau, and they look like just two addled, beat-up old men.

My advice to any athlete would be to maximize NIL earnings in college, five years in the pros, and leave before you get beat up for life.

I talked about this with a cop (a big dyke one😄) and that was her justification for carrying a .45 hand cannon. But she’s a lot more likely to face 300 lb thugs on meth; I just avoid those neighborhoods. But even if I were 300 lbs and on meth I wouldn’t want to get hit by a 9mm.

The balance for accurate shot placement and firepower for me is 9mm. If I need more than that it’s the Civil War and I’m carrying a 12 gauge or 556.

” A dancer at a dive frequented by The Outlaws Motorcycle Club ( at 18-19, my friends and I would dare ourselves to go there) called Joe’s Cellar ”

Are you referring to Joliet? Because there is still an Outlaws outpost on Washington St on the east side of Joliet and The Cellar, as it is known these days, is a still operating strip club in Joliet just south of downtown.

Also, Eddie Money was a cop before he made it big (IIRC).

I agree with much of what you say, but I will state again that I think steroids make a convenient yet misunderstood scapegoat for much of these sports related injuries both during and after careers are completed.

I think the bigger culprit with these chronic sports injuries are pain medications*, because they allow athletes to continue to compete at a very intense and high level while they are still significantly injured, all because they cannot feel the pain that is meant to tell them they need to stop using that particular body part until it is healed.

Favre was addicted to pain meds most of his career, meds he started taking so he could play with injuries, and was most likely not using anabolic steroids. Injuries took a massive toll on his body.

In my experience with studying the thing (activity, sport, competition) known as weightlifting, soft tissue injuries are a much more common issue compared to lower back injuries. Muscles and connective tissues tear a lot more often than discs slip or blow out, because most of the guys at the higher levels of powerlifting have learned that precise form when lifting not only prevents injuries to the back, but facilitates heavier lifts as well.

*This is to include the very high rate of death in the pro wrestling world. The pattern was the same with nearly all of those guys. Getting injured in the ring and being required to work 300 nights a year by their promotion led to the heavy use of pain meds, which led to addiction, chronic injuries, other drug abuse (most of them were using large amounts of amphetamine and cocaine as well), the grueling lifestyle, and then for some chronic obesity played a major role.

Re: Jewish decline

There are currently no Jewish chess grandmasters in the top 20.
Jewish decline appears to parallel the general U.S. decline (although
the U.S. chess grandmasters are still well-represented in the top 20).
Polish chess prodigy Jan-Krzysztof Duda (born April 26, 1998)
currently ranks No.14 worldwide.

I take it you stuck with private insurance and refuse Medicare? That is admirable.

Well, I sure am doing that!

I am 64, on the verge of 65, and I can’t tell you now many different mailings and proposals and sales and marketing garbage I have been receiving for the past several months!

I recently received in the mail an entire book from “my” government, titled Medicare and You 2025. Okay, but a month or two earlier, I received a form from “my” government telling me to sign — with a witness — if I elected not to have “Part B” of Medicare. I have until sometime before my 65th birthday to sign it — with a witness — and return it.

It is not even clear where that form came from! Ostensibly from some government office, but how the fuck am I supposed to know?

During all of this, I have been receiving countless marketing mailers from private salesmen offering me their oh-so-helpful services to select my best medical insurance from “my” government in my old age. I think, “What of my ageing counterparts who are not as savvy, not as intelligent, not as energetic and not as able to figure out all of this shit?”

Well I know: They are the suckers. They are the targets of all of this evil marketeer business.

I had no idea how evil and convoluted this shit is.

I have all the fucking medical coverage I need. Fuck the government. Fuck it. It is filled with retarded, mouth-breathing parasites.

lol now they’re trying to get out of paying the McDonald’s person the reward money.

but if they had called the FBI or NYPD instead of just calling 911 like they did, the guy would have been gone.

it’s unbelievable what the US has become. the authorities trying to fink on the citizens they asked for help, just the health insurance companies finking on their customers, Republican politicians finking on their voters.

If you don’t mind, I’d like some information about Catholic ritual. You seem to be a devout, knowledgeable Catholic so I thought you might be able to explain the five portals/doors that Pope Francis will open on Christmas Eve this year.

I was not even aware that there was a Rod Stewart song with a title similar to “Sailing” until this thread, and I listened to a lot of music at the time.

“Ethnicity and biomechanics; Steve should be all over this.�

You’re conveniently neglecting to mention the fulcrum—Marxism.

https://www.mirasafety.com/blogs/news/the-history-of-the-slav-squat?srsltid=AfmBOopGSPfcx-Ev0rwORagIDbOvXUORZ6mp0mIomuL3qtHEuuhpXSRr

—Pinpointing an exact year for the Slav Squat’s birth has been compared to nailing Jell-O to a wall–an impossibility. However, experts on the subject believe that the phenomenon was created during the heyday of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe known as the Warsaw Pact.

The grand scheme of socialist projects and centralized planning overlooked a basic staple of city life: public seating. Parks and other places where people gathered were missing benches. Endless stretches of avenues and recreational real estate had no place where people could sit (there was, however, always an overabundance of party propaganda posters plastered everywhere).

In this landscape, the Slav Squat would have offered a practical solution–a way to rest weary legs, share cigarettes with comrades, obscure the dreariness of communist life with a bottle or two, and contemplate the finer points of Marxist theory, all without the need for pesky benches funded by the ever-suspicious capitalist world.

The lack-of-benches theory has its skeptics, though. Yugoslavia, a socialist federation known for its relative prosperity and, one would presume, a decent supply of park furniture, was full of Slav Squatters.

Whether or not the world-renowned and beloved Slav Squat emerged from this crucible of necessity, it emerged as a testament to human ingenuity and the ability to find comfort in the most unexpected places.—

Remember, Chris Wray said Antifa is an ideology not an organization.

In other words, a starfish, not a spider. They’re actually more dangerous

I am shocked, shocked I tell you that the Feds have been lying about how many undercover agents were there at the January 6th “insurrection.”

Rest assured that none of them did anything wrong. Some of them did, you know, go into the capitol, but that’s different than the Deplorables who did the same thing and are now in jail. One of their agents had his travel expenses paid by the FBI.

Everyone at FBI HQ needs to be fired Stat, or else put in a windowless room with no duties, no phone, and no internet access.

BREAKING: The FBI had 26 confidential human sources at the Capitol on January 6, including four who entered the Capitol building and 13 who entered the "restricted area" around the Capitol, according to a just released DOJ Inspector General reporter. pic.twitter.com/Zq9ftlp7Q6

— Greg Price (@greg_price11) December 12, 2024

Republican Senators Tillis and Cornyn boast about enacting 2022 gun control law.

William Kirk dicusses the very dangerous arguments being offered by the State of Washington in support of our magazine ban passed a couple of years ago.

The latest from the federal judiciary in the case against Illinois’ gun and magazine ban with the Southern District of Illinois federal judge issuing an amended final judgement and permanent injunction against the law, but acknowledging the stay on the injunction pending the outcome in the appeals court.

They always insist they "respect the Second Amendment", yet they call for bans on America's most popular rifle, and now they are suing America's most popular handgun, even though their own police forces use it.

The goal for them remains the same as ever: ban all guns. https://t.co/uMsfxGezxs

— Kostas Moros (@MorosKostas) December 12, 2024

Thought for the day.

Glock switches are made for Gen 3 Glocks and Gen 5 Glocks have a block that prevents the installation of a switch.

The only reason Gen 3 Glock 19’s are still produced by Glock is because of California’s stupid roster law…

So therefore @NewJerseyOAG… https://t.co/8B8zpuycZl

— New Jersey Firearms Owners Syndicate (@NJFOSyndicate) December 12, 2024

“Smith was the one with the hairy pits”

I have a friend who saw Smith out on the streets of New York in the late seventies and went up to her and said he liked her music. He said she responded by hugging him. That sounds ok but I think I would have preferred a hug from Debbie Harry instead.

No, Floyd riots have nothing to do with lockdowns. Blacks are humanoid animals & Democrats are corrupted perverts.

Wow, you’re such a humane and enlightened guy. Ever consider the possibility that black people are – you know – people? And that their personalities and behavior lie along a continuum, as is indeed the case for most peoples? That there are good ones and bad ones, just as is the case for Whites? I’m not saying there aren’t differences in the aggregate. But you’re making a pretty sweeping statement there, Gauleiter.

There are always black lowlife criminals who get in tussles with the law and wind up dead as a result. They don’t result in three-month long paroxysms of riots, vandalism, and mass-insanity.

Something different happened in 2020. Society broke. Society was, purposefully, broken.

Unsurprisingly, our resident annoying idiot, Corvinus, is a lockdown-enthusiast.

Maybe he wears a gimp-mask too.

The Slav Squat is more generally the “Asian squat”. It promotes ankle and hip flexibility

The #1 thing I’m teaching my kids in regards to exercise is:

STRENGTHEN the mobility you NATURALLY have, BEFORE you lose it.

I lost a ton of mobility due to knee pain and avoidance, so I’ll also show you 2 ways around this… pic.twitter.com/UI2sGNd6Hh

— KneesOverToesGuy (@kneesovertoesg) December 11, 2024

“pearls to swine”.

i could say things.

here’s a CLUE.

NO italian has eyebrows like the gallagher brothers. italy won the silver medal in the eyebrow olympics.

IRE > ITA in the mafia wars.

check it out rr!

ireland is now basically the RICHEST country in the world.

ireland is now basically the RICHEST country in the world.

ireland is now basically the RICHEST country in the world.

That is fucking hilarious. Neil Strauss’s peg for Eddie Money was that he was a crypto-racist.

It’s Pope Francis. The five portals are probably Marx, Engels, Fromm, Foucault, and Gramsci.

I don’t know why “believes in “AGIâ€�” is an exceptionally odd position. That’s not far from the position of the 2024 Physics Nobel Laureate

SPIEGEL: AI thought leaders like Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s new AI boss, see another red line: He says that with AI we are not developing a tool, but rather a new species into which everything good and also everything bad about humanity flows . As soon as we allow this AI to program itself, i.e. to develop further, it would become dangerous.

Hinton: That seems entirely possible. Ultimately, this meant the extinction of humanity.

https://archive.ph/xTNy0

Luigi Mangione is not a midwit, he’s also not a “whiz” much less “genius” for all purpose and concerns.

He went to a top 20 engineering school, but not top elite. Here’s his Github account, nothing special.

https://github.com/lnmangione

But Richard Spencer wouldn’t even know what Github is.

>function of the sex organ
No, you don’t even need to go there, it’s a back injury, you use your —
Oh.
Tell me you’re doing it wrong without telling me you’re doing it wrong.

I’d add that bodybuilders obsessed with physique gains are notorious for poor technique and questionable mechanics. E.g. Bill Pearl’s “Getting Stronger” had some bad exercises.

Always do full squats. �

Nietzsche himself failed to live up to blonde beast ideal. Succinctly stated here

My biggest issue with Nietzsche was his pathetic life: an incel, sickly, destitute, no readership in his sane years.When you look at modern far-right Nietzscheans, it's never the blonde beast or übermensch, it's always someone very much like Nietzsche: unattractive,… pic.twitter.com/meiA7LIu7Z— Johnathan Bi (@JohnathanBi) November 6, 2024

The combacks from Nietzscheans are not very good

“Ching ching chong” – Ad hominem
“I’m the blond beast” – Argument from anecdote
“You are bi” – Non sequitur

“Blonde beast ideal” is misstating Nietzschean philosophy. You can be a POW getting smacked with a rifle butt every day and still follow master (versus slave) morality, just like you can adopt master morality and be an underemployed academic with a brain tumor, like Nietzsche.

The same data is starker when examined per capita — it appears that black people are committing crimes at about 70x the rate that Asians are. pic.twitter.com/6RxrZOOI6y

— Diane Yap (@RealDianeYap) December 12, 2024

I wonder what Luigi Mangione would say about this.

The THIRST kicks in way before hunger

— King Cobra (@kingcobra23) May 20, 2024