American Thinker
By Monica Showalter
In central Pennsylvania, reports say an alert McDonald’s customer managed to recognize Luigi Mangione, the Ivy League suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in cold blood in Manhattan a week ago. He got a McDonald’s employee to call the cops, who are still functional in that part of the country, and Mangione was scooped up.
The evidence against him looks pretty damning, a trial attorney told CNN:
Mercedes Colwin said the fake ID that police believe Luigi Mangione used to check into the hostel on the Upper West side before the shooting, the document expressing grievances against the insurance industry and a potentially 3-D printed ghost gun — all found on the suspect when he was arrested — are “very problematic,” she said.
“Of course, that will have to be lined up with ballistics experts and they will have to show some connection to all of that evidence to the shooting of Brian Thompson. But it is very difficult and something that the defense is going to have to overcome,” Colwin said.
In light of this, it’s striking to learn about the background of this accused killer.
News reports say he was rich, the son of a prominent resort owner near Baltimore. I don’t find that surprising based on the earlier news of his understated $279 tech-oriented gray backpack. Poor kids don’t strut around with those. more here
I currently trust zero percent of what I read, 2.5 percent of what I watch. And where ever I go, there I am.
All bull shit. Kind of interesting this started in Baltimore. Home of the Pelosi crime syndicate. Who was being investigated by the DOJ and the now dead guy was scheduled to give testimony.
I’m waiting for the moment when this asshole comes to the realization that he will spend the rest of his life in a maximum security prison. The. Rest. Of. His. Life.
Ugh:Caitlin Clark goes woke:
https://therightscoop.com/ugh-caitlin-clark-confesses-her-white-privilege-after-being-named-time-athlete-of-the-year/
@anon – yeah, read some stuff about Caitlin Clark. Unfortunate, but the university system is pitted against anything MAGA and has been for a while.
On Topic – The psych profile fits for this smart-ass nitwit, and again, universities are complete and utter leftist institutions.
Yes it could be an assassination designed by the CIA by brainwashing an “I’m smarter that everyone kid” in order to “improve society” by removing an impediment to their need for total control.
Remember the American left is the party of Alger Hiss, the Rosenbergs, Sacco and Vancetti etc., all certified commies and cause Celebres among the left’s intelligentsia. And always have been, they worship loons like this and worse like Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse Tung, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro, Pol Pot etc. etc. And the one common factor they all have is their hatred of God and religion. Never trust a leftist and a true believer in communism.
Does it surprise anyone to find out that this killer comes from a wealthy family and is probably a red diaper baby.
And don’t forget Bill Ayres and of course Obama.
What will assholes like these say when someone comes gunning for THEM?
The biggest problem I’m having in the last day or so is on one of the forums I frequent that was created to support Trump and the conservative right prior to the election, the forum admin/creator and a number of members are celebrating this a$$hole and gleeful over a man’s murder. I keep asking where they draw the line, what if some grievance-monger decided they had a valid gripe against a member of their family? They act like the victim in this was actually worse than Hitl#&. I had to actually put a number of people and sites on snooze yesterday because it was making me nuts how people are happy and joking over a man with a family being shot in the back by a coward.
McMurder She Wrote….
He’ll do time in a Club Fed…and be out in 8 Years or less….
If he was so friggin’ smart, he would’ve got rid of everything he had on him when he did the crime… the gun… the ID… the clothes… the shoes… all of it. He seems like a guy who was once smart but fried his brain out on drugs.
And all of these stories about problems with insurance make no sense if he came from the kind of family that was so wealthy that they could basically self-insure.
All tied up with a pretty bow.
One thing I find interesting, is his choice of weapons. At a time when so-called “ghost guns”and suppressors are being debated in Congress, those are what he chose to use for the murder. This, again probably fits his leftist mindset, to use the murder to further another political agenda; gun control.
“Alert McDonald’s” employee, really? Why isn’t that person named then?
He probably used a kiosk and was identified via facial recognition software, similar to what the TSA now uses when one goes though “security ” Many points about this story do not add up.
And for all his intellect and education, did this guy never watch Columbo reruns? Nearly every single episode was some effete intellectual who thought he was smarter than everyone else, commits a murder, and gets caught by the street-smart detective in the wrinkled overcoat.
Sooo smart he’s in jail.
@Peter the Bubblehead…
There’s a rage against the insurance industry that crosses political lines, and this murder, which initially had the appearance of vigilantism, has become a flashpoint for that rage. The victim has become symbolic of all that is wrong with our health insurance industry, and the murderer has become symbolic of the little guy who’s been wronged by the system without redress. Never mind that Mangione, as Tony R points out, is a stereotypical Columbo elite villain, with no sad backstory of mistreatment at the hands of Big Insurance; The victim is still appears as a glittering example of the sort of top hat fat cat everybody loves to hate.
What Obama did to our healthcare and insurance system is an abomination, and he is at the root of the rage and frustration people have. But he couldn’t wreak all of this havoc himself. It took a lot of cowardly, cynical politicians and some weak, craven judges—looking at you, John Roberts—to totally f—k things up. And a lot of these fools who are gleefully celebrating the murderer were fully behind the destruction of healthcare. Remember when it was all about the “40,000,000 uninsured people”? Well, here we are today, and nobody in the middle class is happy with what we have now. And that probably includes almost everybody in your Trump-supporting forum.
Additionally, we have a legal system which is two-tiered, which is rigged by favoritism and riddled with political retribution. This only adds fuel to the fire. Again this is something which can be laid at the feet of Obama and his puppet. If I were Barky, I’d be spending all of my time in Hawaii, hoping my SS detail was loyal and competent, and just STFU. Because eventually, the vigilantes will figure out who really started all of this shit.
@Geoff the Aardvark, could I add Ernesto Che Guevara to your list of Cause Celebres …
Yes, and Ira Einhorn one of the hippie co-founders of earth day who composted his girlfriend in a trunk, fled to France and became a cause celebre to the eco weenies before he was finally extradited back to the US for trial. The left has always hated normal MAGA type, God fearing Americans and celebrated and lionized evil. For the pro aborts we could also add Margaret sanger.
Until we take back our schools from the communists, the army of crazy rich white liberal kids will continue to march us off a cliff.
Tony R WEDNESDAY, 11 DECEMBER 2024, 7:38 AT 7:38 AM
Current first place on the thread.
Two birds, one stone…
Having worked 25+ years in medical/workers comp insurance, here is what irks me about this industry. They financially incentivize doctors to inject us all with experimental MRNA poison under the guise of “vaccines”. They rarely or don’t cover non surgical therapies and non pharma approaches to health, such as good nutrition, lifestyle, alternative (to joint replacement, for instance ) injection type therapies. BUT I DON’T CHEER the assination of ANYBODY.
Contemplating the “smart thing.” I believe we have two sides of the issue. The first for context as I’ve dumped this here before is the The Barbecue Syndrome / Clemens’ Corollary, probably 90% of the population.
The Barbeque Syndrome / Clemens’ Corollary
How does one not see what is happing all around them and/or not get involved with that which controls their circumstances or existence?
Many years ago, the lack of participation and the absence of awareness to one’s surrounding circumstances (to also include avoidance of any critical thinking), was explained by a friend of many years.
As he described it, the average person goes through their daily routine to finish or perhaps arrive home wanting to “plop down, pop a beer, or other adult beverage” in front of the TV (before, during or after a meal) and dull his mind with whatever form of entertainment he finds between the commercials. In the current day of social media, it quite possibly takes that form, instead of the “sixties” version of distraction (further addicting the individual to the habit). Close out the evening by crashing and wash, rinse, repeat until the weekend.
The weekend will perhaps add the backyard barbeque and additional friends to grill out and further avoid any serious contemplation of the world around them. As long as you do not interfere with the routine it continues and solidifies until health and/or the undertaker is brought into the mix.
Ta-da! The Barbeque Syndrome.
There might be exceptions for short periods of life demanding side attention to other details, but these will be looked at with annoyance and avoidance if possible.
In combination or leading too…
The Clemens Corollary
Samuel Clemens is most often given credit for saying: “It is easier to fool people than to convince them they’ve been fooled.” Or in other words, some when confronted with egregious or wrong-headed thinking prefer to keep to their mistake rather than admit to it, even if the explanation of how these discrepancies have been foisted upon them are explained and given. Better to not look or listen.
So in my experience there are more of the extremely smart or gifted people out there than you might believe. The 10% is a larger group than you might think. What is the cause of them going of the rails against society?
“I’m smart not like…” If you’re not gifted with an equal or greater amount of tolerance and/or patience for the evil that exists out there, “YOU JOIN IT!” Perhaps some might resist by posting on various blogs…
Not sure why he even brought a suppressor. Shot his victim in full view of witnesses without even trying to hide what he was doing. Nuts.
TheMule Wednesday, 11 December 2024, 6:34 at 6:34 am
“And all of these stories about problems with insurance make no sense if he came from the kind of family that was so wealthy that they could basically self-insure.”
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Really good point.