A targeted spaghettination w/ Walt Bismarck

This week I leave you with a cliff-hanger that begins with me sitting down with

Walt Bismarck

to discuss Luigi Mangione’s (alleged) targeted assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson and Walt’s most recent piece on it. Walt questions how much sense it makes to kill a single CEO who is easily replaceable. I question whether the American people don’t just like sexy guys doing violence.

Luigi Mangione should be tortured to death

Topics discussed:

• Are women turned off by insufficiently flashy assassinations?

• Did Brian Thompson uniquely embody the negative aspects of our leadership class or is he just famous for getting killed?

• Do people think the hit was more professional than it was because Italians are associated with the mob/general proficiency with violence?

• Are both perpetrator and victim class-traitors here?

• Who the hell addresses a manifesto to the feds?

• Are rich people even interesting enough to kill?

• Why did otherwise meticulous Mangione have so much evidence on him at the time of arrest?

• Is bribery a more honest performance of gratitude than the office Thanksgiving party?

• Knowing when to escalate conflict

• Everyone who's correct is annoying

• Team Luigi is weak and despondent

• Everyone in this story hates their father

• Americans love an attractive bully

• Belgian (not Japanese) artist Wim Devoye's tattooed pigs

• Alleged murderer Bryan Kohberger

• Geofencing and DNA databases

• Your pussy is precious precisely because it ages