His "back surgery changed everything for him and he went absolutely crazy."
In one of the wilder descents into anarchy, the same leftists who celebrated the mass murder of Jews last year, have lauded the alleged killer of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, tech whiz Luigi Mangione.
Anthony Zenkus, a lecturer at Columbia University, tweeted about the annual number of deaths due to lack of healthcare, implicitly linking Thompson’s role at UnitedHealthcare to these stats.
Others, hissing hate, wrote that Thompson’s death was poetic justice for the harm his company had caused.
Honolulu-based Luigi Mangione, who is twenty six, was scooped up by cops at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania and found with a gun without serial numbers and that uses 9mm bullets – the same sized slugs found in Thompson’s body, a silencer, fake IDs, a passport and a two-and-a-half page manifesto.
There were claims Luigi Mangione had a grudge against health insurers after the deaths of his grandmother in 2013 and 2017 but a bombshell claim, just posted on X and finding its way here after sharp-eyed BeachGrit commenter JohnsKnees linked it below the line, says it was a surfing injury that drove Luigi Mangione to kill Bryan Thompson.
Barstool Sports writer Jack Mac posted,
Spoke with a source that had a lot of friends that went to high school with Luigi Mangione.
What keeps coming up is a back surgery that “changed everything” for him and he went “absolutely crazy.”
Checks out with his GoodReads history and the X-Ray in his header.
Back injury happened when he was surfing in Hawaii.
Surgery didn’t go great.
3 minute recap on all things Luigi Mangione.
The prep school valedictorian to CEO killer.
Where did it all go wrong? pic.twitter.com/mbaZrrdxvY
— Jack Mac (@JackMacCFB) December 9, 2024
Important question: you ever been driven to kill cause of surfing? I have, several thousand times, although usually myself.
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HA! you’re so far off base you’re still in the dugout trying to figure which direction your cup goes over your dick.
I blamed the government not the immigrants, kook.
learn how to read.
BTW – My family is Cherokee Indian/Scottish, dumb ass……so pack up your shit and get the fuck off my land.
Haha, you fool.
HAHAHAHA.
You don’t read well, do you?
How many things did you break throwing them against the wall when you misread my responses?
Anyone that creates it’s pseudonym from an African marxist revolutionary, is just a pretentious ass clown.
Too easy with you lib cunts.
Well done you. Usually hidden away in the dos and donts section of every day Joe policies. However this whole story is framed in BS and will come to light one dark day. I’ll throw them all to the wolves no jury required.
gold…
Frankly, I thought Mario was the guy. Turns out it was Luigi all along. Thoughts and prayers.
The asshat went on a ayahuasca journey and fried his brain. The moral of the story is never, I MEAN NEVER do ayahuasca with those who might crush you mentally while tripping!
Are surfing injuries actually covered on a regular health insurance policy. I think not.
I agree. I know we have way more common ground than people think. The main differences lie in the people we expect to go to bat for us. I think Trump is not the right person to fix things although the D’s aren’t doing the working man any favors either. His marketing/branding is without question top notch. Actually doing something though, hasn’t happened. We get thrown a few peanuts to placate us while they keep screwing us over. We need a true Independent with a wrecking ball and no fucks to give to come in. Problem is since Citizens United, that will not happen – the Oligarchy is here. Billionaires everywhere and I guarantee most all of them could give two fucks about any of us.
“I used to be arrogant, but now I’m perfect” – Sam George
jimmy, this is an apex comment, clapping for you across the ocean
Wow they killed his grandmother twice, four years apart. Those American health insurers really are diabolical.
Do people not have two grandmothers in your country?
No. In America our family recipes are passed down on shell casings and cholesterol tablets.
Plagerized or your own joke? If original it’s an 8.0 score
Last I checked most of us have two grandparents and eventually they die, just like we do.
I wouldn’t put anything past those god damn liberals
It’s kosher.
It depends….Camel milk isn’t kosher.
maybe it’s anti- septic?
https://youtu.be/6rRIIWo_JeA?si=jqdJRn0T9b32F9Ea
Even better, He lived at “Surfbreak”, a co-living community near Ala Moana Park on Oʻahu.
Very very surf adjacent.
https://www.civilbeat.org/2024/12/luigi-mangiones-hawai%ca%bbi-friends-shocked-by-arrest-in-unitedhealthcare-ceo-shooting/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Sooooooo, which commenter hasn’t been seen ’round here lately, who could be a Honolulu based 26 yr old ?
It wont be Timmy, Eddie or Petey…
Ben Marcus been on the anti-aging drugs?
Best reply ever!
Luigi hates surfing more than Chas
“Hey honey can you pick up some milk on the way home”
Had to get a helicopter ride to the hozzie, 3 weeks in traction and it didn’t cost a cent. Another time I had to get a staple in my humerus and it didn’t cost a cent. Yeah, that commie universal healthcare we have in Oz is shit.
there are more illegal immigrants in the U.S., than the entire population of Australia and all of them get free (tax payer funded) medical/healthcare.
Oh it’s the immigrants fault.
did I say that?
point is we have more illegal immigrants to support than there are total people in Australia. But you knew what I was saying.
We also have 340million people as opposed to 26 million, and a progressive tax system. the real problem is the U.S government spends so much money on bullshit. if they didn’t, we could probably have a robust Universal Healthcare System, but remember our government dumped over $200 billion into a war in Ukraine, and over $1.7 trillion into “discretionary” programs.
So no, it’s not just the illegals. It’s corruption at the highest level.
Thank you for punching up, not down.
I have nothing against immigrants. Part of my family are immigrants, the other part were here way before european settlers arrived.
My wife is an immigrant as is her family…..but they went through the legal process.
My wife went through all the legal processes and paid thousands of dollars and took her citizenship tests.
One of the the proudest days of her life is when she was sworn in as an U.S. citizen. She thinks it’s absolutely despicable that people illegally cross the border and are given free stuff and are cared for more than she and her family were when they arrived.
My wife became extremely successful, by doing things the right way, without breaking immigration laws or receiving assistance.
Sadly, the actions of our corrupt government promote illegality, disrespect for our country’s laws and resistance to assimilation. I don’t blame the illegals, I blame the government.
don’t blame anyone it’s just a fact of life people wanting a better life……
agree.
Trump should put them all on boats and planes to Australia, so they can have better lives in Australia.
It’s only 11 million.
You Aussies, who are so pro illegal immigrant and are always bashing Americans as racist and xenophobes because we don’t want open borders….you should take them in and make them citizens, and every time a new batch cross the our borders, we can welcome them to America and put em’ on planes to Australia.
they just want a better life and as you know, Australia is sooooooo much better than the U.S., so you take em’
not a problem…….can you answer the stats I gave you about the loss of revenue and cost of rounding up and deporting your 11 m illegal immigrants??
You don’t have to round up 11 million immigrants.
You put out a notice:
To all people in the U.S. illegally: you have 90 days to leave. If you don’t you will be arrested, finger printed, deported and banned from reentering the U.S. forever. If you leave willingly, you will put on a list for reentry.
If you return illegally, you will be imprisoned for a minimum of 5 years
Notice to all Business and U.S. Citizens: (1st offense) if you employ illegals and are caught, will be fined $100,000 for every illegal immigrant you employ.
(2nd offense) Your assets will be seized and you will be imprisoned for a minimum of 1 year.
See, if you make the penalties so severe, the illegals will self deport, especially if they have no ability to generate income.
You can carry on with this as long as you wish, but I was actually deported from Australia for a simple visa overstay. Rightfully so. I broke the immigration laws of Australia, was deported and banned for 3 years.
The “legal” process.
Even having that conversation is a death sentence in many Countries.
Congratulations to your Wife, she’s living the American dream.
Thanks.
she IS The American Dream.
3rd world, non English speaking mocha complexion girl, who learned to speak perfect English, excelled in school, paid for her own college education and worked hard to achieve a high-level corporate executive position. She retired at 42 years old, and moved on to own several companies while donating her time and skills to women’s charity organizations, and being an exceptional, healthy and fit mother of two.
No glass ceiling whining, no complaining, no victimhood, no handouts, no affirmative action…….just hard work, diligence and respect for the opportunity to live in The U.S.
an immigrant that became an asset to her country, instead of a burden
so do you think that the babies that were born in the USA , to illegal immigrants should lose their citizenship and be deported?
If you rob a bank and give the money to your children, should they be allowed to keep the money?
byproducts of a crime.
would the illegals not want to take their children home with them?
After all, the U.S can deport the parents. they have a choice:
US GOV: Your going to be deported:
PAENT: my child is a U.S. citizen.
US GOV: okay, you’re child can stay but you can’t.
If you want your child to stay, it will become a ward of the court and put into foster care, just like a child whose American citizen parents are criminals and are (Wards of the State) imprisoned.
You broke our laws, the punishment is you are being deported. Your child can stay or go with you. Your choice….. just like the choice you made when you broke our laws and entered our country ilegally.
lose me on this … birthright citizenship is bedrock, can’t fuck with it. Fact that people will risk their lives to get it for their children is to be applauded. We are the apex of the species, at least give them this
birthright citizenship was not meant for this purpose. do the research.
Congress passed the 14th Amendment in 1866, during the Reconstruction period following the Civil War. In 1868, the amendment was ratified to extend citizenship to people born on U.S. soil, invalidating the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision, which barred slaves and descendants of slaves from becoming citizens.
It was meant for people that were brought here as slaves and their descendants.
However, you are correct, it is “bedrock”.
the children are citizens, but their parents are criminals.
The children can stay but the parents must go.
Been on the road….literally driving home from Byron to bells….missed ya….
well maybe the children are adults and have children?
Children are by products of crime…hmmmmm…….even though they are legal US speaking /tax paying contributors………any comment on the fact that Ol don is prepared to cut his nose off to spite his face …with the cost to the USA economy?
Population of Australia – 26 million
Number of undoumented immigrants in the US –
WASHINGTON, DC — The Migration Policy Institute (MPI) today released its latest estimates of the size of the unauthorized immigrant population in the United States, pegging the number at 11.3 million in mid-2022. That figure is up from 11.2 million in 2021 and 11.0 million in 2019.11 Jul 2024
The population of Australia is more than twice the number of undocumented immigrants in the US.
Keep drinking that Trump Kool-Aid . . . .
In 2005, the number was 11.9 million.
The increase under Biden is estimated to be 10 million new illegals, not including “got aways”
Now check the numbers in Obama and Trump admins and you’re easily over 25 million.
how funny is it that the illegal immigration activists, have been saying 11 million for 20 years, and the media and government keep parroting that same number to try to minimize the existence of the true numbers. Actual estimates of you do the math range between 25-40 million.
It is statistically impossible for the number to remain at 11 million for 20 years.
JSC want a cracker?
true numbers coming soon.
There’s 10 million in California for fucks sake!
Let me help you out here as the MPI is a left-leaning organization that projects their biases and utilizes stale data from ’22. In the US, we’ve been paying outrageous medical premiums for almost 3 decades via insurance costs and out of pocket expenditures to cover not only the illegals but the under and non-insured. It is a form of double taxation that hits the working class up to the uber wealthy. For example, my youngest’s birth cost the insurance company $250,000 usd as my wife spent almost 2 months on bed rest in the hospital before he was born.
You’d be shocked at the line items for that stay but ya it’s Trump Kool-aid…So before you throw out the intellectually challenged “Trump Kool-Aid” BS I’d suggest understanding the real economics and dynamics occurring in the evil US.
Many of those illegals actually pay taxes. Also, many US citizens can and do get free healthcare. When your poor and uninsured you can get quite a bit of help from county and state. You can also walk away from medical bills. Don’t worry though, your guy Trump is going to fix everything.
Trump is definitely going to fix it.
and the cost will destroy the US economy…. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation
fingers crossed … praying to my existential non god that Trump actually gets some shit done
never voted for him, but do hope he fixes this at least … did you see the Theo Von interview? Whole thing re opioids, drug and alcohol issues, etc, came away from watching that thinking maybe Trump will actually fix some of the fucked up shit I see every day
You know who pays for the free healthcare and for those who walk away from the medical bills you espouse? Those of us who pay the outrageous insurance premiums and out of pocket expenditures…it is a form of double taxation. I can’t walk away from my medical bills because they know I’m collectable…lucky me!
Simply stating it’s an option when poor and uninsured. $5k bill for a half hour visit to the ER with fuck all to show for any sort of help. Let’s see, put food on the table and pay rent or worry about your insurance premiums?…hmmm…I’m sure your boy Trump will try hard to get us closer to some sort of universal healthcare system though. Oh yeah, I forgot, that kind of social benefit is communism so probably not. At least we’ll get rid of all illegals driving up the cost of housing so maybe folks will have money to pay bullshit high medical bills🖕🏼
Those $5k ER visits you’re crying about are primarily due to the undocumented and uninsured using the ER for their primary care doctors. As for Trump, he isn’t my boy. Maybe learn about the real cause before pointing that cute finger
welcome to Obamacare:
Obamacare more than doubled health insurance costs for workers and families, with the national average premium increasing by 129 percent from 2013 to 2019.
It would have been worse than that without it. It actually slowed the rate of increase. Details like that matter.
how much driven by rising drug costs, which have other factors unique to the drug space to blame … see recent ftc filings on insulin, for example
100%
with you on this one my man
Richest country in the world can’t afford healthcare. Strange days indeed.
Richest country in the world is trillions in debt because of government waste, corruption, foreign aide, ridiculous entitlement programs and endless wars.
get rid of that shit and we’d have plenty of money for universal health care.
Bring on the DOGE!
I’d actually love universal healthcare as opposed to being mandated to pay exorbitant insurance fees for my employees, as with most employers in America required to do.
Having been through 7 joint surgeries since ’99 and more recently a prostate removal and a gall bladder removal with United Healthcare insuring me for over half of the above. Somehow, I’ve only had one challenging approval and that was with a hip labral repair and my parents aren’t as rich as Luigi’s, so what really sent him over the edge?
wow, is there any place on your body that you don’t have a scar?
I don’t know much about United. Hawaii all we have is Kaiser and HMSA (Obamacare), so we don’t have many choices.
Luigi sounds like he may have had more psychological issues than physiological.
Imagine y0ur last meal being McDonalds, before a life of prison slop.
After a quick inventory, yes all limbs and my face have scars and I wouldn’t change a thing as after 61 years I live by Hunter S. Thompson quote:
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!”
This is what really caused me to spend more time surfing as it doesn’t hurt on fat old guy longboard waves.
I suspect Luigi knew he would get captured quickly and he couldn’t wait to be the martyr for his cause but a quarter pounder wouldn’t be my choice. And yes he went deep in his thinking(some justified) then went on the ayahuasca journey to put himself in the absolutely wrong frame of mind. Sad to see
good for you. the accumulation of scars is a mans odometer.
I’m often surprised how few serious injuries I’ve had and no surgeries, but definitely feel the daily pain of a life of fun…and stupidity.
As far as Luigi and his lunacy, first clue should have been a man of his means living in a “Co-Living” space.
Basically St. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club. A place for people who are not comfortable in their loneliness to gleefuly commiserate and communally empathize with their slightly awkward and socially inept, fellow travelers.
These people always make me think of Evil Dead II:
[Ash talking to mirror] I’m fine… I’m fine...
[Mirror Ash jumps out of the mirror and grabs Ash]
Mirror Ash : I don’t think so. We just cut up our girlfriend with a chainsaw. Does that sound “fine”?
dearest happy, disagree with nearly all of your political takes but in between the madness see pearls of wisdom, godspeed to you buddy (caveat that am on a plane to NYC several drinks in, so we’ll see how I feel in the a.m.)
How long you there for?
the Campers kid lives there.
Just 24 hrs, hopefully, quick in and out to do some face time and grease some wheels etc, fingers crossed I don’t get stuck. Hope the kid loves it, lot’s to do, def has some energy just not quite my speed, although try to pretend whenever I’m out here
HST left out the part about skidding broadside into a shotgun shell, RIP … complete truth and self realization more often than not leads to existential despair, unfortunately, see Camus et al, yadda yadda
Surf and love a beautiful woman, basically the only real keys to life
TRUE!!! Had a few beers at the Woody Creek Tavern this summer, all I could do was smile as HST went out the Hemingway just as he planned
a lot to be said for calling your own shot, so to speak. HST changed my life with his KY derby is decadent and depraved. Read it for first time in early 20s and just hit me like a grenade, spent the rest of my life chasing that kind of genius, unsuccessfully so far!!
Love to hear this! I read Fear and Loathing in the early 80s while in college and it too changed me. Many a road trip or just trips in general were dedicated to making the good doctor proud. That mindset fueled me through college and 4 yrs of ski bumming and then I cut my hair, got a “real job” and could pass drug tests. Happy to be alive!
F&T with the Hells Angels was fantastic.
Curse of Lono. Tumbs up
Richest country in the world is trillions in debt because of bad governance.
<elects worst possible set of new governors>
What could possibly go wrong/right?
Don’t get me wrong, I hope it all gets fixed – who doesn’t love a surprise?
health insurance is a fucked up world, from the manufacturers to the pbms to the plans … the truth would singe your eyebrows
actually, it’s mainly VALs on 10ft+ boards taking off 50 yards outside of me that are principally at fault, motherfuckers
Immigrant VAL’s are the worst.
no they don’t!
The figure is actually 11m……illegal immigrants…..
it was 11.9 million in 2005.
Are you claiming that that number has not changed in 20 years.
Funny, how every year for 20 years, it remains 11 million as it was claimed when Biden took office.
that’s the official current figure……maybe you could post a link to your source?
So I will do the heavy lifting for you, here’s the facts
deporting all the undocumented illegal immigrants will cost the US economy ;
GDP will go down between 4.2 -6.8 %
federal tax received ….$46.8b
State tax received……..$ 29.3B
social Security received…$22.6 b
Medicare received………$ $5.7 b
actual cost of detain/judge/deport….$ 88b pa…over 10 years a trillion $’s
link is https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation
Yep, 11 million, same as it was 20 years ago. Look it up: illegal immigrant population in 2005. hasn’t increased one little bit over 20 years.
You keep telling yourself that.
illegal immigration cost U.S. taxpayers $150.7 billion in 2023 alone. ~ DOGE
you can keep quoting all these bullshit Illegal Immigration advocacy NGO’s all you want but the cost of illegal immigration far outweighs the cost of deportation.
so what’s your source , or is just your thoughts as an opinion is based on facts usually……..so over the next 10 years it will cost the USA trillion $’s to deport them all….and a loss of revenue of $100 b per year….and the USA’s growth goes into the negative….boy have you been conned by the orange one…..
can you post your source for $150.7 B costs of illegal immigration…your’e not making this up are you??
just got back from a quick trip to Canada to catch a little event in BC and can confirm that the maple leaf crowd is freaked the fuck out over Trump’s tariff threat and their border stuff … supposedly going to introduce an entirely new plan on border control by Xmas to head off the threat, per Canadian news.
You can quote numbers all day long but the smart folks know full well, as does Trump, that the majority of the illegals will be allowed to stay in the US as we need them. The AIC knows this as well and their numbers are specious at best. BUT do not doubt there will be a showy round up of illegals to make a point so grab some popcorn and enjoy the show as the majority of the illegals will become legal at some point and pay their fair share to utilize our infrastructure.
I would pay to watch happy and Brutus yell at each other on a pod
HAH. fact is, I’m not one much for yelling. nothing wrong with a good, civil debate…and a beer.
11.6 million unauthorized
In summary, there were an estimated 11.6 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States as of January 2006
https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/statistics/publications/ill_pe_2006.pdf
And what percentage are visa overstays?
yep
No they don’t. They can get treated at an emergency room, but outside of that they are SOL.
who pays for them to get treated at Emergency, which cost way more than a doctors visit? and no you are incorrect, they do have access to GPs and specialists.
They do not get any federal dollars. I am 1000% correct.
so the state tax payers and local hospitals get hosed for the feds failing at their job?
That’s worse.
You must be tired from all of those mental gymnastics. Sure they cost money at the ER. They also pay in. So you are not necessarily getting screwed like you think you are. Your state may pay in – don’t like it, move.
you’re stupid.
hahahahaha
I win. Thx for playing.
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looks like you overcooked your biscuits
Weird watching cunts celebrate some gay pron looking star with his smooth skin, ripped abs and abundant IQ shoot some fat cunt in the back like a proper coward.
Fuck him and anyone shooting somone else in the back.
Alas, what a plot twist. Getting scorpioned learning to surf solid Half Pt and having orthopedist ruin you so you could become the most desired conjugal visit in history is something.
He thought he had powered up with the mushroom (or is it star?) in Mario bros that allows you to throw little fireballs at the turtles.