Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar12/10/24: CEO Shooter Caught w/Manifesto, Pete Hegseth SecDef Debate, Daniel Penny Found Not Guilty
Krystal and Saagar discuss CEO killer caught with manifesto, debate on Hegseth SecDef nomination, Daniel Penny found not guilty.
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We do. So.
They found the alleged CEO killer. They got them, Yeah, and very interesting and elaborate online history. We'll get into that and how he was located. A lot of really interesting details about him and his background, so we'll get into all of that. Also, he was found with a manifesto. We've only gotten little bits and pieces of that, but we'll tell you what we know. It's kind of basically what you would expect his motivation would be in this killing.
All right.
We also have some updates for you about Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth looking more now like he may make it. He had a meeting with Joni Ernst. She seems more favorable. She was one of the previous holdouts, so we'll break that down for you as well. We also have a verdict in the Daniel Penny case. He was the man who was on a New York subway. There was a mentally ill man, Jordan Neely, who was sort of menacing passengers, puts him in a choke hold. Jordan Neely ends up dying, so that we have a verdict in that case. Will break all of that down for a very fraud issue and a lot of feelings on both sides of the equation with that one. Also a story that I've been wanting to cover because it is an important international story but also has potentially important implications.
For US here as well.
Presidential election completely annulled in the country of Romania due to TikTok misinformation, supposed foreign actor intervening. Really troubling what is unfolding. They're regardless of how you feel about the candidates involved, and like I said, some potential implications here as well, So break that down for you. Sager is delivering his anti online sports gambling opus. He wanted to make sure I was very specific, not anti gambling in general, just online sports betting. Yes, I know a lot of thought and work went into this one.
Three thousand words. I don't know how long it's going to take to record. It could take a while, so everybody gear up. I will be posting it everywhere. I want people to spread the word. Ever since I started posting about this, I have been getting some of the most heartfelt and horrifying messages from a lot of women, in particular whose husbands have been gambling away their savings. They feel like they can't say anything. So this is for the women out there. This is what I'm doing.
I will say this is an issue where I have sort of conflicting feelings and my mind is not settled or made up.
So I'm looking forward to I think.
I think I don't think a reasonable person could watch this and defend the practice, because I will go anyway, you'll watch it, but it's systemic. So we're going to talk about the problem. We're going to talk about the justifications. We're going to talk about philosophy behind why it was legalized in the first place, the law specifically, but I think the most convincing part that I hope to have is the business practices themselves and why if they are regulated and made to be fair, they literally cannot operate. The only way that they can turn a profit is by exploiting addicts, and specifically by banning people who win. So if you think it's fair, it's a bullshit game. It's completely rigged, and that's something that I really hope people will so.
Interestingly enough, both of our monologues are about capitalists exploiting addicts. So I'm taking a deep dive into our healthcare system through the lens of this chain of Method owned clinics and the way that they have abused their patients for profit, and what this says more broadly about our healthcare system. Obviously, massive conversation sparked by the killing of that healthcare CEO, so break that down for you as well before we jump into the show, though, I do have and ask for you guys, for those of you who are interested, this is something that Ryan has been really championing as well. I don't know if you all remember the Palestinian poet Rafad A Laier who was killed by the IDF just over a year ago. One of his poems, which is titled if I Must Die, really went quite viral, a lot of people sharing it because it was basically a letter to his daughter for the event in which he was killed, and of course he was killed. I actually read it on the show. I don't know if you guys recall. In any case, his book of poetry is being re released today and there is a real grassroots push to try to get this book of poetry onto bestseller lists, including the New York Times bestseller list. Actually just got a text from Ryan this morning. He says he spoke to the publisher. I'll just read you his text. Talk to the publisher. They've already received nearly ten thousand pre orders, which is fantastic. Normally that would be enough to make the bestseller list, but not during Christmas, so we need a few thousand more. So if you were interested in supporting this cause and elevating the cause of the Palestinian people, this would be a fantastic way to do it by purchasing his book of poetry, including if I must diagain, this has re fought all areer. So thank you all very much for those of you who participate.
There you go, and thank you all premium subscribers Breakingpoints dot com if you want more content. We got big plans. We had a big meeting yesterday. We've got to think people are going to be really excited. Okay, So with all of that, let's get to the news. Let's go ahead and put the video on the screens. Twenty six year old Maryland and or Hawaii man Luigi Mangioni was taken into custody yesterday in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after a worker at McDonald's recognized him from the wanted pictures that were put out by New York City Police and by the media, and so police were called. This is the official chain of events, at least for what we know right now. To the McDonald's, they cornered Luigi Mangioni. They asked him for identification. He presented to them the same identification false identification New Jersey ID that he had given to the New York City hostel that he had stayed in previously. They also started his bag found multiple false identities IDs as well. As the US passport, two thousand dollars in foreign currency, eight thousand dollars in United States currency, and a quote unquote ghost gun. A ghost gun is one of those. It's hard to explain exactly the basic way to say, it's like a three D printed weapon, which makes it more untraceable. There's been a lot of controversy around it from the ATF and others, and it is very popular in kind of crypto right wing circles. I actually met the founder of ghosta It was an interesting dude. My point though, is that that was a signal, at least a little bit for me in the beginning. I'm like this, this guy's online, and to say that he's online is actually a little bit of an understatement. Let's go and put his mugshot that was there up on the screen. Pennsylvania Police released this mugshot of Luigi Mangioni. He has now officially been charged with murder in the City of New York, as well as false identification and having false property, so he will be extraduided on assuming there. His entire background is kind of fascinating and it obviously it will tell the story as we continue to get it but this is the valedictorian of a very prestigious Baltimore prep school. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as head counselor at a pre college program at Stanford University. His family is actually quite wealthy and well known in the Baltimore area. Some of his relatives cousins or even state legislators in the state of Maryland. His family seems to be some sort of like country club tycoons who are known, yeah, area, and quite wealthy, actually well selves.
And not only so.
My understanding is this is reported by the New York Times as well as some online salutes there. The source of their fortune originally comes from a chain of nursing homes, which could end up being relevant given that his purportive motive here was anger at the healthcare industry. So put that out there. And then with that wealth, Yeah, they purchased a number of country clubs. This is a very wealthy, well known Baltimore family. He goes to this forty thousand dollars a year prep school, goes off to Ivy League school, same one as Donald Trump. You know, lots of very highly esteemed individuals that have gone there, studies, computer science, you know, everyone who's in contact with him basically says, this is a bright kid, you know, very popular, like seems like he has everything going for him. And then there seems to be a turning point in his story when he suffers a some sort of horrific back insurch.
It seems to have played him for a while. But they get back surgery, right, he may We don't know if he got the surgery or not. That hasn't yet we confirmed.
Well, some of his people who knew him, who were friends with him along the way, did confirm that he had some sort of back surgery. We could put this up on the screen. This is from his Twitter bio and that the banner that has that is at the top.
So we've got a Pokemon.
Situation the middle screen there that's an X right potentially of his back that you see all these pins and hardwar where that would be indicative of some sort of either you know, horrific injury or degenerative condition. You also see him showing off his well muscled physique. They're hiking in some beautiful mountains, potentially in Hawaii where he lives for quite a while, but the acquaintances who've spoken to the press and friends who've spoken to the press, and his social media footprint also indicate that he has this back surgery. If you look at his Goodreads list, he's looking at all of this literature about how to deal with back pain and how to rehab your back, et cetera. He sort of he drops completely off the map in terms of his friend's family, et cetera. If you go through a social media profile, you've literally got a friend who's like, Dude, you're supposed to be in my wedding, and I can't get in touch with you, Like I need to know what's going on if I can rely on You've got these other messages that are like where are you? Worried about you, Like no one's heard from you, And so he seems to have you know this, this seems to have been, according to the people around him, what really triggered a turn for him.
Yeah, his mother reported and missing actually just last month in November, so his family didn't know where he was. They were reaching out to his high school friends trying to figure some of this out. You know, obviously, we're just trying to piece all this stuff together. We don't have one hundred percent knowledge. The NYPD did give a press conference with some of the details. Let's take a listen to that.
Earlier this morning, in Altuna, Pennsylvania, members of the Altuna Police Department arrested Luigi Mangioni, a twenty six year old mail on firearms charges. At this time, he is believed to be our person of interest in the brazen targeted murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare last Wednesday in Midtown, Manhattan. The suspect was in a McDonald's and was recognized by an employee, who then.
Called local police.
Responding officers questioned the suspect, who was acting suspiciously and was carrying multiple fraudgelant IDs as well as a US passport. Upon further investigation, officers recovered a firearm on his person, as well as a suppressor, both consistent with the weapon used in the murder. They also recovered clothing, including a mask consistent with those worn by our wanted individual. Also recovered was a fraudulent New Jersey ID, matching the ID our suspect used to check into his New York City hostel before the shooting.
Incident.
Additionally, officers recovered a handwritten document that speaks to both his motivation and mindset.
All right, so that's what we know so far. He did have a very prolific online presence to which we can gleam a little bit. Let's go and put a six pleas up on the screen, and this fits with the back pain. It appears that from his Goodreads profile, Goodreads is kind of like a social network for being able to rate and review books, that he had a couple of books here he had David Goggins's Can't Hurt Me. But here's the indication he has to quit. The book called quote crooked outwitting the back pain industry and getting on the road to recovery, Grit, the Power of Passion and Perseverance, and back Mechanic by doctor Stuart McGill. All of those give us a clue, and combined with some of the testimony that he had given to many of his friends who when he was living in Hawaii, who all report him having some horrific back problems for after surfing and others where he'd be bedridden and he was personally having a real crisis with it. Then though, as we move on in good Reads, you get to start a little bit of who is gentleman? Yes, his journey, shall we say, And there was some uncle Ted love. Let's go and put this up there on the screen good Reads. He reviews Ted Kaczynski the Unibomber uncle Ted is a joke. By the way, it's an online thing where he says it gives it four stars as if he could do better, which is hilarious. And he says when all other forms of communications fail, violence is necessary to survive. You may not you may not like his methods, but to see things from his perspective, it's not terrorism, it's war and its revolution. If you've never written read the Unibomber manifesto, it is quite something.
We'd a monologue here, Yeah, I think it did. Manifesto. I can't remember why it was relevant.
But Tucker had talked about it. Maybe that's why. Maybe you know Volume one is interesting. Volume two, Adam starts to go.
It had a moment to because Blake Masters was into it as well, which all. What was the plot twist here is that based on the online footprint, we don't know what this gentleman has been up to for the past six months. His politics are much more sober than me, which is kind of hilarious.
Amber I have a description of him. I think the best description is secular, right wing, ANARCO, anti capitalist, and honestly, that is about as good as you're going to get for this person. For example, I tweeted immediately when I reviewed his profile, Here's what I said. I said, A quick perusal of the CEO killing suspect indicates some when plugged into online health tech discourse with right wing sensibilities about the collapse of religion in the United States and why immigration won't solve Japan's problems. This is going to be an interesting one. It does appear that MANGIONI spent some time in Japan. Let's go and put an eight to eight up there on the screen. This one is personally hilarious to me.
The Songer parallels were a little weird because this Japan visit and then he was nuclear.
Post your Power. He's an Andrew Huberman fan. He likes Chris Williamson. I have a lot of it's honestly scary. I have a lot in common with this dude. A lot of the good Reads books, some of them are cringe. Some of them are actually quite good. So here's what he tweets. Leave this up here. Modern Japanese urban environment is an evolutionary mismatch for the human animal. The solution to falling birth dates, he meant birth rates is in immigration. It's cultural encourage natural human interaction, sex, physical fitness, and spirituality. Ban fleshlights and other custom porn star pockets being sold in don Quixote g tree stores. That is such a japan post for everybody who has been there. Replaced. Conveyor belt sushi and restaurant vending machine ordering with actual human interaction replaced twenty four to seven E sports cafes where young males earn false fitness signals via tech in fighting and Overwatch shooting games with athletics in schools heavily stigmatized made cafes. My analysis was, quote it appears the United States United CEO Healthcare CEO killing suspects spent some time in Japan and had some thoughts about how to quote unquote return their society. I said, I think there's a non zero chance he was inspired by gaikoku Joe style assassinations.
You don't also see like jd Vance posting something very similar to.
This, Let's keep going because the parallels here again to my own sensibilities, is shocking. Let's go to the next one. Here he says he got into a back and forth with someone. But he says Tucker is spot on in recognizing modern architecture kills the spirit. But his very first line postmodern architecture is designed to demoralize and hurt you, paints the phenomenon is intentional in the same way that inflation is not intelligently designed to oppress people. Neither is modern architecture. It is emergent. Yes, it is oppressive, but that's a fallout of selective pressures to build fast and cheap, irrespective of esthetics. So for those who are very online like myself, we've got some architecture posting. We've got a clear aesthetic worship somebody who himself. I mean, if you look at him, what he's got to be in the top one percent of American male physiques. Good.
You're saying, Look, he's a good looking guy.
I don't know if he was running tests or any of these others, but if that's natural, I mean, that's pretty damn good. You gotta give it to him. So he was into health. He was into obviously clean eating if you also look at some of his posts. But I think the obvious demarcation point was this was a guy who had everything going for him. Obviously very high IQ individual. He gets to go to these IIV of the schools master's computer science, even actually in the Peter Science department. He was part of some fraternities and others, which indicate that he had very high grades, which this is a very very difficult field, okay for people who are in this. He had prestigious internships for I think he was fixing bugs in one of the civilized games. Yeah something, so, I mean, look, it's a prototype in some ways an extremely quote unquote normy individual, but also mean very.
Very burning the Trump pipeline vibes. Yeah, in my opinion.
Apparently, according to the police, he had quote unquote anti capitalist sentiments, and that's what some people are seizing on. But it's I think, maybe there's something wrong with me, because I perfectly understand this guy.
That's the thing people keep saying, like, oh, politics are so incomprehensible, And maybe it's because I do the show with you and because i'm you know, waste you online or whatever. I'm like, what are you talking about? His politics are completely like, the type is very readily apparent if you're you know, if you're in, if you're online, if you know these personalities whatever. Now, again, I do think it's worth saying all of this social media profile we're talking about it drops off six months ago. Yeah, that's right, and that's you know, when he goes off the grid, loses touch with all his or cuts communication with all of his friends and family as best as we know, And so we don't know what sort of intellectual or political ideological journey he was on during that time peria that led him to take this extreme act. So I do want to put that caveat out there. That'sant the other thing that I want to say, just like, on a personal level, we don't know exactly what the motivation was. They have not yet released the manifesto, which, by the way, they really should release the manifesto.
They're so like, it's only two hundred and sixty two words.
Clifvenstein is on the case with this one, pushing them because the idea that we can't handle the truth of what he was putting out there is to complete bullshit. I hope that the whole thing comes down so that you can read it. There is something that is circulating online that is allegedly the man of but I don't think that it actually is the There are some quotes that the media has circulated calling the the health insurance industry, calling them quote unquote parasites, taking responsibility for this action, saying he acted alone, that he's self funded, and apologizing for the harm and the chaos that he caused. Was saying that it was a necessary action. Those things don't appear in the manifesto that's allegedly circulating online, so I don't think it's the right one. But you know, in any case, we don't know exactly what triggered this extreme response.
I will just.
Say I suffer with back pain for two years. I'm sure it was based on that X ray. I'm sure it was nothing like what he was suffering. That kind of chronic pain will drive you sort of insane. I mean, it's it is debilitating, and it's ever present, and there's you know, especially with certain types of like nerve pain, there's really no relief from it whatsoever. One of the an acquaintance in Hawaii that spoke with the New York Times said that he had also expressed that he wasn't able to be like physically intimate because of the extent of this injury, So that may really have been the kind of you know, trigger and pivot point that led him down this down the spot.
There's also a lot of indications that he was into psychedelics and to marijuana. For For example, he says drug abuse is not a fair criteria. The most intelligent, open minded individuals I know manipulate and push the buttons of their psyche via specific drugs. Drug abuse should distinguish between psilocybin marijuana from addictive soul.
Suckers, like a very like tech kind of.
I mean, you can spot this guy coming from a mile away, a lot of Michael polland psychedelic books.
He was really into that Tim Urban, the woke mind virus that we had tim on.
We talked to him.
Yeah, Lookvid, He's was like Peter Teel Andrew Huberman Guid's.
Kind of he was reposting elon Muss.
Look, you could see a scenario where somebody who is driven crazy by chronic pain begins like heavily abusing psychedelics and marijuana and go and basically has a complete psychotic break. If you don't believe me, Alex Bearnson wrote a whole great book called Tell Your Children about Psychosis induced or marijuana induced psychosis or how it can actually trigger something. By the way, despite all of the widespread, you know, psychedelic stuff, one of the things that people in the quote unquote psycho Nott community will tell you is if you are predisposed to, you know, to mental illness, you shouldn't do it so you could easily see I mean, all the telltale signs of a psychotic breaker there. Right, You basically have somebody on the precipice, very high IQ individual, somebody who's dealing with a life changing and pressuring situation that is like a slow burn, including pain, and then you know, you reach this possibly you already have some previous problems, and then six months you drop. I mean, it's crazy to drop off the grid. Your family doesn't know where you are, You're dropping out of friends' weddings, You're like gallivanting between Hawaii and the United States. And then obviously you meticulously plan here and prepare for the assassination of a high profile CEO. So what get some details about it.
I will say though, that I don't think that it's possible there was a psychotic break.
I think that's entirely possible.
I think it's also possible that there wasn't that he there was a you know, an ideology driving this that was sort of an ends justify the means ideology where he spun himself up into believing that, you know, by killing this person, potentially he was saving more lives, and so this sort of like you know, utilitarian calculus.
You could see it with the I mean, look, that's why the thing about Ted Kasinski, one of the biggest arguments about it is like was he crazy or not. It's like, well, yeah, you kind of do have to be crazy when you kill like X number of people. But it's also extremely well argued and highly rational. I don't see this these two things it's mutually exclusive.
Well, you're Japanese fascist, dude, I mean, was he crazy?
She might have you know, the anarchist in the early.
Nineteen Fingreds who were you know, potentially bombing Wall Street and committing those sorts of violence with here and around the world. It wasn't that they were insane, it was that they were ideological extremists that believed that violence would lead to some greater good. Right, that's not a philosophy I subscribe to you. I don't think that that's correct. I think it's proven wrong over time, but I don't think it requires you to be crazy, you know, to engage in that sort of ideological philosophizing that convinces you that this is actually the correct and more.
Absolutely so, you could see that in Kazinski. You were just talking about Yukyomishima as well as somebody who long planned this thing. You can see his own ideological evolution until he eventually committed sepuku in the nineteen seventies and his like attempted Japanese takeover. Yeah, so clearly the signs were all there. And well, actually, I'm curious to see whether he pleads insanity defense or not, because if he doesn't and he talks about it this way, he really will have like some sort of technictostally, it's going to be a style thing on our hands.
The other thing that I did want to point out before we move on is just to go back to the way that he was found. So he was apparently riding a Greyhound bus through Pennsylvania, they stop at this McDonald's for everybody to get off and have lunch. Some elderly patron there reportedly recognizes how from the police photos and calls in a tip. The police come and that's how he's apprehended. Now the police say they were surprised that they found him. They didn't know a name, they didn't know where he was. All of their fancy surveillance, I mean, the only thing you could say it was like, actually the hotel security camera, yeh, that's right, that picture that probably was sufficient for someone to be able to recognize him. But all of their multi billion dollar tech and police force, et cetera, et cetera had nothing to do with catching him. So yesterday on the show when we were like, he may well get away with it if it wasn't for I don't know why he's still in Pennsylvania. Like if he had hopped on a plane and was out of the country, he would have I think gotten away.
Part of the issue talking about high IQ individual highly rational. It's like, bro, what are you doing with all this cash? The gun?
The manifestana McDonald's Pennsylvania, which is not all that far from New York City, Like why are you, at least not in Canada.
Very like maybe he was trying to maybe want the people to want.
To say, you know, some people said maybe he did want to get caught because you still you have a manifesto, you have all this cash, you have what is that it's called like a far day bag or something day bag that.
Like blocks cells blocks like sales services service.
He had that he had the murder weapon with, like he had dished your backpack with the monopoly money in Central Park. Why didn't you ditch the murder weapon there? So there are some indications that potentially at least some part of him and wanted to be apprehended.
Why did you give it a false ID? You don't ever go a false ID to the PD, right, Yeah, I didn't know that it's fake, so right, and they if they didn't have his name, you just give me a real ID, they'd be like, okay, sir, thanks mister mind right.
Because the fake ID matched up with the fake IDA that he used at the hospital, will allow them to connect the adult shots immediately.
Yeah.
So anyway, there's a there's a lot of weird stuff from the story.
But it is it is noteworthy to me and also I was proven correct that Eric Adams was lying out of his ass when he claimed that they knew the name, which I guessed that they did not, And the police confirmed that they had no idea where he was, They had no idea who he was. They even all these many days later, did not even have a name to put to him. And it's only because of this, like elderly McDonald's patron, that they apprehend I.
Mean, yeah, I mean, in some respects the crime totally comport with some like one thirty five IQ software engineer, and in some you're like, dude, you're an idiot, you know, for doing a lot of this stuff. But you know, sometimes there is the duality I guess of all of this. Regardless, it's going to be a big trial. My god, certainly something when we see all this. He's already he's got quite a bit of an online fan base. I hear in the gay community there.
Is I think in all sorts of community.
Luigi as in particular love him Free.
Luigi was trending online. There was a lot of a lot of sopranos memes flying because of his strong Italian heritage and appearance.
So you know, well, you know, at a certain point, maybe maybe those will revived some nineteen twenties discussions about immigration. I've already seen some jokes that are about there, which are pretty good. Let's all be honest. Let's all be honest.
If the killer was on importing the Dago anything is.
What I would really take away from this is that if you are not online, I don't recommend it, but you're going to have a very difficult time understanding this case. You really will. True and uh so, and because of how important quote unquote being online and online politics and all that was to Donald Trump's victory eventually winning the popular vote, maybe you should get online because at this point online is reality. I don't know another way to put it. While we're walking in the assassinations, you know, the presidential election, I mean, even jd Vance, we could be honest. I mean, in some respects, he's the most successful poster in the world. He went from a author from Yale working.
I had Hillbilly ego.
I think he only gave it three point five stars, which you know, I think I think it's a little insulting. I mean, what the industrial.
I got Lorax got five on five.
Which Lox got five out of five.
He was a great anti capital this that's.
My other thing. Luis g. You need better taste than Brooks Broke. You know, you got a lot of time. I'm on your hands. Now it's time to move past Mark Manson's you know, what is it? How to stop giving a fuck or whatever. Let's get some deeper stuff you got. You're probably gonna spend the next thirty forty years of your life in prison, so you're going to need to level up your good breed's list. Anyway, we will continue to follow the case. It's fascinating stuff, it really is.
Indeed, many twists and turns already, Okay, speaking twists and turns, let's get to the nomination of Pete Heggsath for Secretary of Defense was looking like that confirmation process was on the rocks after a bunch of reporting about his you know, personal life and the rape allegations coming.
Out of California.
But one of the key holdouts, Senator Jonie Ernst, seems to have been brought around.
Let's go and put this up on the screen.
So she had a meeting with Pete Heggsath on Monday, and afterwards she put out a statement she said, I appreciate Pete Heggsath's responsiveness and respect for the process. Following our encouraging conversations, Pete committed to completing a full audit of the Pentagon, selecting a senior official who will uphold the roles and values of our servicemen and women, because heg Seth had previously written he did not support women in combat role, so that part was noteworthy. Based on quality and standards, quotas, and who will prioritize and strengthen my work to prevent sexual assault within the ranks. As I support Pete through this process, I look forward to a fair hearing based on truth, not anonymous sources. She said, So, you know, that's very significant because part of what is going on with Joni Ernst here is I think a genuine concern about you know, some of the allegations against Pete Hegss A genuine concern because she herself is a military veteran and she also is herself a sexual assault survivor. So I think there was some genuine concern there. But also part of what's going on is that Joni Ernst was also a potential candidate for the lot, So you know there was a little self interested motives.
There more lou real concern or politician who wants a level up. It can be both, yeah, sometimes me both.
Again, this is someone who serves the country and who herself is a survivor, and I'm sure wants to see other women be able to continue to serve in some of the roles that she did, et cetera. Anyway, it looks like, due to partly a massive online right wing bullying campaign against her, she has capitulated and is now saying that it looks likely she will support him.
Yea, that was a big barrier for him.
You know, I still think, you know, he may lose, Like I don't think Collins and Murkowski have committed to supporting him.
Yeah, but he's got he got fifty three. He only needs fifty exactly.
And so that was why Jony Earns in particular was such a key.
Well, apparently Lindsey Graham also considered joining Journey Ernest in opposing him. He doesn't like peak headset for a number of reasons. And look, I mean, I think it'll be interesting. Actually we can put the next one up there on the screen quote unquote Ron who how Trump allies brought Hegseth back from the brink. I read through this this morning, actually totally makes sense. Basically, what happened is that after Gates, they got tell it's a huge blow. They see Jony Ernst here and the Senate trying to muscle and make sure that they can stand up and actually support some independence. And then really what happened is both a behind the scenes and a front facing campaign to go after Journey Ernst because she's up for election in two years, and make it known that if she were to sink Pete Heads's nomination, she was going to face problems in her primary. She was going to face a kind of a maga revolt, both online donations, but politically and professionally. Her life would have been very difficult. So what they decided is that they need to make a stand on Hegseeth because I think Heg Seth was also very different than Gates. Gates, it appears at at least four or five different no votes that were against him, Hexith only has one. She really only had to flip one person.
I mean, Gates had a lot of He had worked with these people and they knew him personally and disliked him.
Pete didn't have that.
Yeah, you know, so there wasn't this like personal animus against him that was animating some of the I think makid.
Yeah, exactly. And also, I mean Pete Hegsat actually is a is a warrior in the MAGA kind of online circles in a way that Gates is. But then he didn't have the same baggage that the Congress. The Congress was carrying with Matt Gates. Matt Gates also, you know, look, Pete Heggsath may have one accuser or whatever. Matt Gates got a whole ethics thing that would have happened, he would have to go through an FBI background check. I mean, that was a whole other level of salaciousness and of scandal that could have followed him for a while. I think that those two things were the really what sunk him with Hesat. I mean, look, you know, it's like you can believe him or not, but at the end of the day, it's like one person, you know that we're talking about here in terms of the settlement and in some of the even the drinking allegations, Like again, I'm just not going to take it seriously from some people who are blasted all the time. That doesn't mean I can don't his behavior. You shouldn't drink alcohol, especially if you're in very high positions of power. But you know, it's like again to be tit tutted by senators who was some of whom I know personally and have seen him get pits drunk, and Capitol Hill reporters. It's just so aggravating to me. But anyways, the real thing is that with heg Seth, they decided to make a stand because they know that it's not just about he Seth at this point. If they capitulate there, then that means that Tulsi Gabbard RFK Junior are now in trouble. So what's interesting is if you saw Joni Ernest tweets out a photo just yesterday of her meeting with Tulsi Gabbard right just being like okay, basically a piece you know, with the with the process. Another one was Cash Pattel because they're a little bit worried about him because of the people on the Judiciary Committee, people like John Cornyn and others who were on the fence about what exactly was going to happen. So I feel like relatively confident. I'll give him a sixty five seventy percent shot. They'll probably eventually get confirmation. Something else could come out. It's certainly possible, but at this point they decided to make a stand, and so it does look like Pete hegg Seth has a decent enough chance to become the next Secretary of Defense.
So I think it's been fair to report on all the leg personal stuff, especially in the sensitive a role. You worry about blackmail, you worry about what else could come out, et cetera. So I'm not saying that that's illegitimate. But Michael Tracy's been making a very good point about this, which is all this focus on his drinking and his love life and all these things has either distracted or just the media is not really that interested in what his actual ideology is. And so Michael Tracy, as he does, has been digging deeply into things he said over the years about, you know, his supposed positioning as a quote unquote recovering Neocon. When this evolution happened, is it legit?
Et cetera.
And I really recommend couput this piece up on the screen. I really recommend this piece to you because Michael Tracy listened to his speeches, read his books, watch his podcast appearances to try to track his actual evolution if he has indeed engaged in some sort of an evolution, because he's sort of painted as this, you know, america first revolutionary, who's going to have this completely different ideology and position the American military and you know, potentially sort of rolled back American Empire. It's utter and there isn't a lot to really base that on. He was he came to prominence for his Iraq War advocacy. He was, you know, a leader of groups that their whole mission was to promote candidates who continued to back the Iraq War. He you know, in the Ukraine War, continued to support this. Like his position was Joe Biden was not being hawkish enough visa the Ukraine. Now again these are positions that he's switched on. But I also think it's important, as you've said before, Sager, like Okay, after the fact, after consensus congeals and it's safe, It's one thing to oppose the wars. It's another thing to have opposed these wars when it was difficult and when it was unpopular, and when it perhaps went against the grain of your party and your peers. There's no record of that with Pete Hegseth. The other thing is, even with regard to Iraq, it's hard to pinned down when he actually decided that he was against the Iraq War, and judging by the public record, his conversion on the issue came after people like Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, certainly even John McCain who you know, at the end of his life decided like, you know, this doesn't didn't really go all that well. Apparently, according to Tracy Hegsas in a podcast appearance last month with Sean Ryan, was that should we have been in Iraq at that point? He replied, I was a huge proponent of it at the time, but in retrospect, absolutely not. I've been a recovering Neokon for six years now, So if you do the maths from twenty twenty four to six years prior, that would be roughly twenty eighteen, being generous that he had this final evolution with regard to the Iraq War. So all of that is to say, just in terms of the ideology, he has kind of the vibes and the brand as some sort of revolutionary is going to have this very different approach, and I think there's a lot of reason for skepticism about that when he had taken the neocon position even up to and including the Ukraine War.
Yeah, look, I like Pxseth. I think he's an ideological warrior. I think the case for Hegseeth is kind of the way that you would look at any opportunistic politician who wants to be on the right side of an issue when he may not necessarily get there originally, and he may do what is quote unquote in vogue at the time, but if it's the popular consensus, he will be there. And because of his television presenting skills, it's actually very skilled at being able to switch positions and making not seem all that incongruent. I don't think he has a real ideology on national event. And look, I'm trying to be kind here, but the truth is is, like the guy seems to be a bit of a follower right on a rock on Ukraine on everything kind of gets dragged where the base is and all that. It doesn't seem to have any like hardcore convictions. The only real hardcore convictions he has are general orientation that the Pentagon and the War Department itself no longer fight wars in a way that we are able to win. I'm fine with that as long as that here's a orientation we can get you to the right place. You know, just listen to some of the good folks. Jd. Vance is very supportive of him, at least in terms of some of the discussions that they have had. So if Pete Hexeth does become the sat Deaf, I think there are a couple of things that we're going to see. One is he will not be quote unquote pushing his own agenda. That's very different than what I think Margaret Rubio is going to do or Mike Waltz are going to do. These are actual ideologically these are ideological neo cons who have really not changed a lot of their position and who will take orders from Donald Trump. But a lot of the other stuff in the interagency process that is going to be very much of their discression under a Pete Hexeth. I don't think that that's the case. I think that will be very much like he's going to be. He's going to do whatever he's told to do. I'm fine with that. The other thing that I think Pete Hexeth will go after which I support again is the entire military bureaucracy which he has long been at war with, specifically the three in the four star general class, who are basically just HR bureaucrats. Now at this point, this relates and has overlap with DEI, but is still very important for people to understand because it's way bigger than that. We're talking about. Basically an elevation of Lloyd Austin is the prototypical person who rises in the United States military at this point. This person was a Sentcom commander under the Syrian Rebels program and admitted a complete failure and the funding of al Qaeda. He is then given the job because he's black basically to become the Secretary of Defense Donald by Joe Biden, and then does nothing for four years. Has America been very successful militarily as the Pentagon become more ready for war since under his leadership. Absolutely not. You know, if anything, you actually see a lot of morale figures in the military. Recruitment is way down. A lot of the reasons are because of obesity, but a lot of the people don't want to join anymore. You have a crisis of patriotism, a crisis of recruitment. Morale apparently amongst the rank and file is terrible, has been for four years. A lot of that had to do with COVID. I think Pete will be the most popular sect def with rank and file members in like a generation. It's been years since you had anybody who maybe maybe Mattis initially but of course later on turned a little bit against Trump. I think he will be truly beloved by a lot of the rank and file. And this is somebody who actually did fight. So it is interesting to watch people. And I saw an article about this, I think it was in the Journal. It was called like the Disgruntled Veterans, and it's people like JD. Tulcy, Gabbard and Pete Hegshath who have very idea. What the key is is that all of them fought at a lower level whenever they were basically entry in the military and formed a general orientation Neo Khan and all this other stuff is the wrong way with the way I would say it is feeling failed by your leaders. And that's why I think if you look at Pete's past, one of the reasons that Donald Trump wanted to pick him as the VA Secretary, was again because of his popularity with the rank and file. But don't forget this. He went to war for people like Eddie Gallagher and a few others who were accused and convicted wars under the UCM jay and basically got Donald Trump to issue them a pardon. And he's been somebody with the Concerned Veterans of America who has pushed a lot of act in about PTSD and others for people who have been deeply affected by their service. So to me, it's kind of like the It's kind of like Luis G. MANGIONI, because I guys swim in these circles. His political orientation makes total sense to me. But for Tracy and others, even like yourselves, look you should be skeptical. I mean, look, I think it's fair to say Pete is a very pro Israel in like a spiritual way. You got one of these tattoos, is like Jerusalem.
He's like close to Huckabee in terms of his Israel views.
Yeah, that's the way.
Not only I mean he's this is not this is not a dove right, And sometimes this gets confused, And Tracy also argues, I agree with him, Like the term neocon has just become completely meaningless because I do think by any like reasonable definition of the term, Pete Hagseth would meet the definition. He very hawkish, he wants the military to you know, be he is not rolling back American power. There's no like instinct towards isolationism that exists or has ever been demonstrated to exist within him.
So yeah, is he like you know, he's the.
Type that will go on Fox News to talk about like, oh, the military is too woke and we got to get rid of these DEI programs and whatever. And I'm sure he will probably do some of that, and I'm sure that cultural conservatives will be happy with those efforts.
But if you're expecting.
Him to, you know, roll back our engagement in the Middle East, or not get us entangled in new wars in Asia or you know, visa via China and Taiwan, this is not the person to pin those hopes on.
Maybe, I think again, I think the best case for Pete is just not all that ideological and it's just going to do whatever he needs to do, which I'm again I really think.
I don't know the guy, but I will say that his whole career coming to prominence is like the thing that he fought most aggressively for for the largest Barber's career was the Iraq War, staying in the Iraq War, and his analysis of that as recently as twenty sixteen was like similar to the sort of like Vietnam Dead enders of we could have won that war if it hadn't been for the leadership class holding.
Us back, blah blah blah.
So that is you know, now he says he's opposed to it again, coming to that position later than people like Jeb Bush, But in terms of his instincts and his ideological inclination going into any of these conflicts, it's been in favor of them and wanting to be even more aggressively engaged in all of these.
Various time I understand where Tracy and like, yeah, it probably drives people crazy to say, oh, these people are Look, anybody who thinks that there are some leftist howards in people in the White House, you're wrong, baby.
But that is an isolationist instinct that is part and parcel of the Republican Party that is represented in some strains and has sometimes been signaled by Donald Trump himself.
And this is not that. That's all I'm saying.
Look, as one of the people who's probably way more in that category, I have no like. Again, we have to estimate what our actual power is. Look at the elected and moneyed forces. Do you see anybody who is like that. The only quasi billionaire who holds views probably even close to what I would like to see is David Sachs. Okay, and guess what he is. He's the AI cryptos are he's getting involved with the Yeah, he's got nothing involved with this. David is a warrior. By the way, I love that dude. He's actually very ideologically consistent on these is. You can go watch my interview with him previously about Israel and Gaza. Actual courage for somebody on the right for actor say that, what yeah, hey, listen, I'm ready.
I'd rather I would go to batting the crypto bubba.
I would absolutely go to bat for David Sachs. But again, I have reality. He's the only guy who cut any checks to Donald Trump who has those views. Every what ninety nine percent of the other people who are cutting checks are way more like Miriam Addilson and all of this.
Well, and this is This is where I appreciate you because you didn't engage in some of the delusional thinking that But I think a lot of people were convinced by this idea that Donald Trump is quote unquote anti war, and you just have to look realistically at the you know, the picks that he's put into place, and that agree was never true. It's not true now and Pete hag Set is no p emblem of like, you know, rolling back American involvement in any region in the world.
The best case we could have under Donald Trump is that he used to comes to the instinct of just like kind of not getting involved in these things, and then we don't get sucked in. I've been encouraged right now by the tweets about Syria. That's good, right, let's stay out of it. Great. I agree, well, let's do the same thing when it comes to Iran. He said we don't want to see regime change in Iran. Wouldn't have hired Mike Waltz in Rocko Rubio if that was my position, But hey, he's the person who wants to be president. Will there be I don't give a damn if there's rhetorical bluster whatever. As long as we don't actually get into an actual conflict on China and Taiwan. He's actually said before, he's a direct quote. He's like, if China takes Taiwan, there's not a fucking thing that we can do about it. Direct quote apparently from Bob Woodward. So these are the things that he says in private and public. We'll see, we'll see what actually happens. I mean, and that's why. Yeah, I mean, I agree. I'm not going to mislead anybody and say, oh, definitely, it's one hundred percent, it's a lock. I saw the guy get rolled on Syria, on Afghanistan. I have full expectation that all of that could certainly happen. Again, I think there's a better chance than not. But I wouldn't tell anybody with certainty. I think again that the best case with heg seth here is look a lot of DII stuff. I know you don't care. I care how I want to be gone. I want the force to be ready to fight. I think it's a disgrace what happens with a lot of these plays.
I don't think it's it's not that I don't care, it's just that I don't think it's that important, and I think.
It's used as like.
A lot of times, like the CFPB example is a good one with Mark injrieson going out and cloaking. What is like this, you know, pro oligarch agenda basically in cultural conservatism. I just think it can be used as a trojan horse for maintaining a status quo that Americans just dramatically voted against.
So it's not that I because I.
Think these programs are not only silly, I genuinely think they are destructive. The research shows they make people like more have more racial animosity. They have you know, fattened the wallets of a bunch of dishonest, like racist grifters.
Basically, so I.
Feel I do feel strongly about them. The reason that I roll my eyes when I hear people like had Sat or Mark Andresen or whatever using wokeness as a crutch on everything.
I do feel like it can be used as.
Sort of like a trojan horse to smuggle in lots of agenda items that are at times antithetical to what Trump has claimed to be about, and certainly antithetical to what people thought they were getting when they voted for him.
That's what I would say.
That fair enough, And again you know, with him, what I would like to say on what I think he is going to do is actually purge a lot of these HR bureaucrats from this place and actually restore it. And I mean we have a morale crisis already. I mean, if you guys don't want to have a draft, if we ever get into a major war, then we need to up recruitment. And right now it's a disaster.
Yeah, well that is like, I mean, who wants to sign up for some of the you know, like it's not like people a lot of people don't feel like the are the Ukraine conflict or certainly what's being done in gaz are like things that they feel proud to be involved in.
It.
Look now I mentioned Iraq and Afghanistan at this point, it's like, you.
Know, I'm with you one hundred percent same in terms of procurement and a lot of these others. The way that we run you know, Lockheed and all this stuff, it is a nightmare. That's one of the things so expcting. If we could figure some of that out, I would be very happy, and the less people who are involved in the managerial class over at the Pentagon. The better off that we are. Been reading a lot about the Pacific War these days, and oh my god, I mean, when you read about the country that we used to be and the country are today, it's sickening. It's sickening what has happened here. So and at the very least, I do think at Pete Hexa has some of those instincts, and so I am happy that he's going to get confirmed. Definitely happier than having Ron DeSantis in there. I can tell you that. Let's move on to Daniel Penny. All right, So let's go ahead and put this up there on the screen. Daniel Penny was officially acquitted yesterday in the quote unquote subway choke hold death of Jordan Neely quote unquote, sparking applause and uproar in the New York City courtroom. So, for those of you who don't remember, Daniel Penny was a Marine veteran who was riding the subway in twenty twenty three where he was involved in an incident where Jordan Neely, who was a homeless and mentally ill individual, was on the subway and was menacing and threatening fellow passengers. Penny and another passenger felt that they needed to restrain Neely because they thought that he was going to get violent, or I think he'd already participated in some violence when he was on the subway. Penny himself then argued that he was not liable for the voluntary manslaughter charge and then the criminally negligent manslaughter charge that was brought against him by New York City prosecutors. So for those again who don't remember, we have some video of the incident. Let's go ahead and play it.
On all counts. On Friday, the judge overseeing dismissed the more severe charge of second degree manslaughter, which carried a fifteen year maximum sentence, after the jury was onlived Now cis Agistrict attorney have argued that Penny knew his actions could kill Neely, but continued to recognize his humanity. The medical examiner concluded that the chokehold likely choke hold did kill Neely.
So, as you can see, this does also trace not only to that incident of what happened, but actually some of the background of this and you and I were talking a little bit about before this, but this is a systemic failure by the entire city of New York because Jordan Neely was one of the fifty most known people who quote unquote needed help and were at risk in the entire city of millions. He was well known to city administrators and to others. And in fact, there are a lot of people out there who are arguing, like, oh, he never should have been on the subway, he should have been in treatment and offered shelter. Well, don't forget. New York City actually did offer him treatment and did offer him shelter, and he voluntarily departed it. He clearly was a very at risk, mentally ill and disturbed individual who had previously been cited in violent incidents against innocent bystanders. So this was somebody who was menacing people on the train and who was put a lot of people in a very difficult position because not only do you have somebody who is like a mentally ill vagrant who was menacing there, but the city, who's had multiple opportunities and identified this person, never took him into custody for his own safety and the safety of others. And so just like in that chaos abhors a vacuum, and so what happened you have him who's on the train. He's menacing others, and then Penny and this other bystander get involved. Furthermore, what we found out in the trial crystal. Because people are blaming Penny for Neelie's death, Neely was alive. Whenever the paramedics and others involved arrived on the scene, they did not administer immediate treatment to him because they were afraid that he had HIV and so they were afraid of their own risk basically of taking care of him. Now, look, I think there probably are procedures and others that are in place for that, but when you put that all together, it is so obvious that charges never should have been brought here against Daniel Penny. And look, I understand this is sensitive. People are trying to to this hero, villain, etc. Instead, can we all just calm down and understand that this is genuinely like a major systemic failure and that when you put people Neely and Penny and all these other people in an impossible position, then shit's gonna happen. So instead, make sure that it doesn't happen. That's why we have governments. Why else do people in the City of New York pay forty five percent tax if not for something that is like this. So that is my kind of take on the studio.
Yeah, my take is very similar, and maybe that's unsatisfying to people, But I just think the whole, the whole situation is such a tragedy. You know, the passenger shouldn't have been put in that position, right, And I don't think Daniel Penny wanted to kill Jordan Neil. I mean to me, that's kind of the core in terms of the legal case against him, is establishing that intent, Like did he did he have intent to kill his men?
No?
I think he thought he was doing the right thing. Now, I will say, watching the video like it is an awful thing to watch knowing that he ultimately dies, and you wish that, you know, the choke hold had been let up after you know, two minutes or three minutes, so that he had more of a chance to survive. I do think the paramedics, I mean, to not do that's your job. To not do your job is really quite negligent. But you know, I've been in situations where you have someone who was clearly mentally ill and it was not as menacing as you know, Jordan Neely reportedly was being like making direct threats.
But it's it is a scary situation.
It is a frightening situation because you just don't know what this person is going to do. And I have to rely also on the other passengers who were on the train who felt said that they felt really threatened. Now, I do think it's disturbing the language around Daniel Penney like he's a hero. I mean, he did take a man's life, whether he intended to or not. I just think your point is the most important one, saga that the whole situation is indicative of a massive system wide failure. I mean, Jordan Neely had a long record with the city, and by the way, the potential for violence was not a hypothetical one. He had previously been arrested for assault and he was, you know, out he was supposed to be receiving treatment, taking anti psychotic medication, and he you know, violent that agreement, and so that's why there was actually an arrest warrant out for him at that time. And so yeah, I think, just you know, I think I wish he was alive today. I think you should be alive today. I think those passengers that shouldn't have been put in that situation. I think Daniel Penny shouldn't have been put in that situation either, And I don't think that it makes anything better to throw Daniel Penny ultimately in prison. It doesn't change any of the systemic failures that led to this absolutely horrifying and tragic chain of events.
Exactly, don't put people in this position. That's the whole point. And you know, that's why part of it was really terrifying too to see him get prosecuted, because you're just now, it's truly impossible. And I think about it all the time. You know, we live here in the city, and then you're in your car and somebody starts banging on the window or I mean literally at people almost individuals who will like block your car and not let you move, trying to extract money from you. What do you do? You can't do anything.
I think it was I do disagree with you there. I think it was fair.
I think it was a difficult enough case that it was fair to to file charges and to allow a jury of his peers to evaluate the evidence. And you know, ultimately, I think they based on the bulk of the evidence and their inability to you know, beyond a reasonable doubt come to the conclusion that he was guilty of I think the charge ultimate was manslaughter. That he was, and we can get to the way the judge handle was too. That's a motely but crazy too. But you know, I think it was a difficult enough case and there wasn't enough there that it was worth going through the process and having a jury of his peers evaluate the situation and come to a decision. I do think that that was probably the right process, and I also think that they probably came to the right outcome.
Yeah, but see that's where the thing is, Like, this is a twenty six year old guy. Now you know he's got all these BLM activists who are calling for his assassination. What is he going to do for the rest of his life? You've got any written house. Basically, you have two choices. You can move to Idaho and hope you shave your head and hope.
And nobody any conservative hero. So based out all kinds of job.
Opportunities when they gave it. But that's what you don't want to be. They tried to interview him, he didn't say anything. They let his lures, he didn't want to be in this position. So yeah, they ruined his life. Look at rittenhouse. The guys like hawking. But that's us.
Really because charges were pressed though that's because of the event itself. He was known, I mean, because they originally didn't press charges. Yeah, and he was you know, this already was a real lightning rod case. So in any case, I mean, I do think that this was a sort of vindication of going through the process. Just to give you guys, because we mentioned the judge and I do want to say this was like a little weird the way to play down. So he was he had two charges against him, and the jury deadlocked on the higher charge. Correct, yes, And so there was somebody who you know, couldn't decide and they deadlocked, and so the judge sent them home and then brought them back and said, let's drop that higher charge and now just deliberate on this lower charge. And on the lower charge they were able to come to the conclusion of not guilty. Now, you know, there was obviously a lot of social media reaction to the decision, and there was a lot of you know, conservative activism around. They were even you know, picking out which juror they thought was there was one that had two masks on there like that must be the guy that didn't want to find him not guilty whatever. So I'm sure these jurors probably saw a lot of the discussion online and actually conservatives were initially enraged that the judge had taken this course of action because they thought that the judge was pushing and this may have been the case, by the way, was pushing to get a guilty, a finding of guilty against Daniel Penny and then ultimately goes in the other direction. And who knows whether you know, jurors taking in that social media firestorm over the weekend impacted the way that they were viewing the facts and the evidence. But I do think it's fair to say, like the way that the judge annele is not like illegal or anything, but it does raise questions about whether they were able to maintain the impartiality that is the goal of these sorts of juries.
And the situation is crazy because it was very obvious from the judge that he was trying to get them to just come to a conclusion on the secondary charge, and they were probably you know, apparently what happens is in these situations is like, well, we can't be deadlocked again. They're really pressing us for a decision. And let's say on the original one, at least some of the reporting I've seen, there were speculation that actually a majority wanted to find him not guilty on the higher charge, but there was like one holdout. Well, that person finally probably capitulated. I mean, but that's why this whole situation is crazy. Like why is the judge, you know, basically making this discretion to drop a charge you know from these prosecutors file the judge allows them to all in the context of resolution, right, And it's like, well, if the jury is deadlocked, and the jury's deadlocked, it happens all the time, you know, I is not. I think it's crazy the amount of power some of these judges have with the sentencing or with others. I learned some of this about the whole Menendez case when I was learning about that, and like, a judge can just be like, oh, your entire defense, which got you a mistrial last time, Nope, you know, that's out the window. And then you tell the jury like you have to narrowly consider based on this, you can't consider anything else, and then they have no choice but to vote guilty, which they didn't even want to do.
I think I think it's complicated though, because the other the argument in the other direction is like, when you have these you know, mandatory minimums and three strikes rules and whatever, then even in situations where people will look at it and be like, you know, this is every case and every crime is very different, and so if you take all of the discretion out of the judge's hands, then you don't allow for any of that like variability and context and all of that to be factored in. So it is complicated. Like I can kind of see the case in both directions. But to your Pointzager, I mean one of the things egregious that I noted in terms of the power of these judges and how corrupting it could be. And also, by the way, so many these judges, when you talk about corporate cases and white collar crime, so many of them have conflicts of interest based on their you know whatever stockholdings and investments and their you know, spouses positions, et cetera. But putting that aside, the new Twitter terms of service require you to agree that if you have a beef with X, then you're going to go through arbitration in this one specific court in Texas that has been very favorable to Elon Musk and his interest and basically sees this as like, you know, his personal company court. So there is there is a problem with it, for sure, there is a problem with.
That's and that's my point is that you know, judge, you know, it's literally known as judge shopping between the business context. So anyway, I don't know always when I come away from this, do you look at the systems that are in place? You look at the way that New York City basically failed, nearly failed Daniel Pennett, And really.
The mental health piece is really the think.
About this, now, how many people on the way You've been on the subway at probably five am, just like I have in the past. These are some hard working people, okay. These are people who are coming in our long commute to go clean office buildings and to be restaurant service or whatever so that when the suits show up that they can come in and get served. And then the same thing if you're on the subway at ten or eleven o'clock at night, Sure that some people were going out or whatever, but by and large, these are very very hard working folks. They pay a ton of taxes. Nobody wants to be on the train for an hour and all that. The very least you could probably guarantee them is some safety. And in the last several years, every time you go to New York, the explosion of just like mentally ill, vagrant violence and just presence is shocking. And it's one of those where you're paying more than anything. These people are being menaced on a daily basis, fear for their lives. It is not right and especially not right because the rich people all just leave, they move to New Jersey. Ubers, yeah, or and in uber right it can afford it. It's the janitors, the bartenders, all of the other people who are service workers in New York. Those are the people who stuff for They have no other option, and they're forced to pay more in tact and to have a subpar experience, especially as the train gets delayed in all this, and be menaced and not safe. Well, and it's just not.
Right, and it's not right for them, and it's not right for the you know, the people who have basically been abandoned, you know, the Jordan Neelies of the world as well, and our mental health. I'm actually talking a little bit about those touch on it in my monologue today, But yeah, our mental health system is really quite atrocious and rife with abuse and neglect, and a lot of these psych words are for profit hospitals that are just you know, they don't want to deal with the most difficult cases. Certainly, I also do think that in some instances we've gone it's important that people with mental health issues obviously deserve human rights in autonomy, et cetera, but you also have to have the ability when you have someone who has a track record of being a danger to others, like Jordan Neely did have that you have the ability to detain them, even if it is against their will. And you know, I think that there was there was a move that went too far in the direction of not allowing those type of holds to occur. And you couple that with there just literally are not enough beds in psychiatric hospitals and the fact that you know, because we have such a terrible healthcare system, people are completely disconnected from any sort of medical attention or care, and all of these systemic issues just sort of, you know, came to a head in this absolutely horrific and tragic incident
