Sometimes evil isn’t just banal. It’s direct, open, and unrepentant.
That was the case on Monday afternoon as three “credentialed” journalists showed up to cover the Luigi Mangione trial in New York and revealed that they were happy he allegedly shot and killed UnitedHealthCare CEO Brian Thompson.
The self-described “Mangionistas”—and dedicated fans of democratic socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani—were unrepentant in their embrace of assassinations as a reasonable form of political action.
They not only reveled in Thompson’s death, they also took shots at his family too.
“F— Brian Thompson,” said a woman who the New York Daily News identified as Ashley Rojas based on the press credentials dangling from her neck. “That’s all I want to say. F— Brian Thompson. F— his mom.”
Lena Weissbrot, who appeared to be dressed up as a cross between Beetlejuice and Luigi, but the one from the Mario Bros., said that Thompson’s son was better off with his father dead.
“His children are better off without him. They need to learn to not be like their dad. And enjoy the blood money, kids,” she said.
She then compared Thompson to Osama bin Laden.
“He’s responsible for more deaths than Osama bin Laden, and I remember Americans celebrating when Osama bin Laden was killed,” Weissbrot continued. “It’s not like we don’t understand heroic violence, or, like, when violence is good.”
The Mangione superfan kept going.
“I mean, why do we protect the Second Amendment so much—is it to allow people to shoot up schools, or is it to protect our democracy?” she said.
The New York Post, always quick with the clever headlines, called them “the ghouls next door.”
Many others took to social media to condemn the hateful women and noted that they were given press credentials by the Mamdani administration.
The comments were so vile and potentially damaging to Mangione’s case that his lawyer chimed in to denounce them.
“These individuals do not represent the views of Luigi, nor the tens of thousands who have shown their support from around the world,” his attorney said in a statement. “The only people who speak for Luigi are his attorneys. We condemn these vile and irresponsible statements that have no place in the discourse around these cases.”
The New York Times reported that the city is now reviewing their press credentials, which were given to them by the Mamdani administration. Though I’m honestly glad the American people saw this display, as heinous as it was.
There is a not inconsiderable number of Americans, mostly on the left, who are so pathologically hateful toward their political opponents that they openly call for and celebrate their murder.
We saw this in spades after the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Countless videos of seemingly normal professional people publicly danced with glee when they heard the news.
It’s not hard to imagine the same reaction and then some if one of the assassination attempts against President Donald Trump had been successful.
It seems like on the left, calls to kill those who disagree have been virtually normalized.
Heck, the current Virginia Democrat Attorney General Jay Jones won an election after it was discovered that he sent text messages fantasizing about the death of the Republican Speaker of the House and his children.
Some of this is surely a version of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Many on even the “mainstream” left have been driven psychologically over the edge in recent years due to their inability to make the Bad Orange Man go away.
But this goes deeper than just run-of-the-mill pathological hatred. This is baked into an ethos that equates political correctness with moral correctness, and political incorrectness with something so terrible that it justifies stripping the individual of even the most basic rights.
There is clearly an increasing number of people on the left who believe it is not just politically expedient but noble to outright kill people who carry out or represent policies, or business practices, or really anything else they oppose. The only thing stopping them is force or fear of consequences. This is assassination culture, for lack of a better phrase, as many noted on X.
From Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah:
It’s hard not to see this as an emerging and dangerous pattern leading us toward a deeper political and cultural crisis.
“Mainstream” Democrats call for the obliteration of constitutional institutions that stand in their way, their base calls for blood, and a handful of their activists extract it.
The mentality of these assassins or those who glorify them is they don’t think they should be bound by the law, or society, or anything else. The justice of their cause makes any action they take on its behalf a morally correct pursuit.
It’s hard to create any kind of compromise or carry on “normal” politics with people who have such a mentality. The attitude is one that leads to anarchy and civil war. That seems to be what some of these folks foolishly crave.
But one way or another, it shouldn’t be dismissed as a phenomenon relegated to a few extremists and weirdos. This is a very real and significant part of modern American politics that very much threatens the future of our free society.
Jarrett Stepman is a columnist for The Daily Signal. He is also the author of “The War on History: The Conspiracy to Rewrite America’s Past.”
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Signal – By Jarrett Stepman
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These demonic leftist monsters who murder without any real consequence need a dose of good old fashioned CAPITAL PUNISHMENT!
Not exactly the same, but today on a busy street corner here, two grayed haired men holding signs protesting Trump as traitor etc. One of their signs was 86- 47. I was furious! When did we become so supportive of outright murder and murderers? Disgusting.
It is a shame that the unrepentant can be openly hostile with no consequences from authorities. NYC mayor M should be charged with open resurrection against the laws of the land. This mayor continues to flaunt against the law with no consequences. The scary part is that this disease continues to spread all around the nation.
Murder is Murder! God says: “THOU SHALT NOT KILL!)
How terribly embarrassing for these girls’ parents/families. To be in any way associated with them is horrendous.
The world, not just U.S., is undergoing such a hate-filled gyration of evil, it’s hard to understand. What happened to goodness, ethics, morals, esp. to common decency and knowing right and wrong? It has become the victim’s fault about everything and the villain is the hero.
The younger Tzarnayev brother, the killer, was the darling of the press, gracing the cover of Rolling stone with his photograph, They drooled over him, now they have a new idol, someone should wright ballad and sing it on the market days. Those three so called journalists have brains of a flee, what could they possibly write, mentally on the level of a 4 year old. This is what our schools churn out, we pay for it.
Mangione is a coward and a murderer, not the type that any sane person would support.
This really makes me wonder about the morality of & direction that USA is headed. It is hard to believe than any American is okay with shooting another person in the back and in cold blood .
The Ugly Italian Guy is coward like all loons are. He proclaims death on others, but when he is faced with death (the death penalty) the Ugly Italian Guy cowers like a b**ch.
You’ve accidentally referred to these crackpots as being “journalists”, which they’re not. They’re nothing more than a wing of the progressive party’ s propaganda wing.
It’s hard to imagine that our country produced such vile, evil, malicious, murderous miscreants. Our country is in deep trouble now that it contains “beings” such as these in our midst.
sickening!
I know it’s wrong buy maybe we should oblige them and treat them the way they treat others and Eliminate them!!
These crazy girls have destroyed their futures and its SAD, the girls have ruined their possibilities of any type of a successful career, except for some fast-food job.
The NY Mayor is a total whack job. If he just looked at what has happened to the TAX base in California. He would shut up. California under Republican Control had a balanced Budget with a large surplus. Then Democrats took over and forced Companies, Billionaires, and the Retired middle-income class to flee the over regulated and overtaxed Golden state.
As the Democrats continued to spend more, they had to raise taxes on the rich, including the middle income. This has caused a large majority of its middle-income tax base to leave the state for red states. ALL the pension funds are significantly underfunded; they now have an $80-100 billion deficit. and NOW have a ballot initiative to RAISE taxes on the BILLIONARIES to make up the difference. Numerous billionaires have already packed up and moved and that alone has already removed an estimated 300 billion in tax revenue over the next few years. This is more than what will be collected by the ballot initiative. It’s a lose, lose proposal! The same thing will happen in NY.
ALL of these barbaric people are simply Satan’s beloved children. Moral-lrss, no spect of human conscience or decency, vile, violent and beyond despicable, consumed with madness, filled with unspeakable hatred, and truly insane.
EVIL IN IT’S PUREST FORM.
Oh, assassination culture is still fringe alright. But media culture, what there is left of it, is becoming crazier by the minute. Journalists would due well to remember that at certain times and certain places throughout history journalists and media personalities have fallen victim to radicals and the mob mentality. In our time few would mourn them.
So long as they include themselves in the “Up For Assassination” pool, I can only complain so much. But these “brave, stark, strong, independent, committed, etc.” women will squeal when its their turn I’m sure.
I’m one of millions of prayer warriors praying against these dark souls. Lord Jesus, save them. Lord Jesus, get them out of the way and strip them of all power. Lord Jesus, bring the guilty to justice. Lord Jesus, do something with them!
Lets be frank here, the Dems tried 3 times unsuccessfully to kill our president, this behavior is playing itself out across the country with the full support of MSM & the Communist Democrat Party of America.
It is important to remember people higher up support this dangerous, sick way of thinking as well within the hierarchy of Democrat politicians, about 99.9 % of them, with the likely exception of John Fetterman…
These same politicians are in control of our public schools, they instruct state school boards on what to teach our young people & in turn the Teachers Unions are fully on board with WOKE instruction in our K~12 public schools… By the time some make it to college, they are now prepared for the radical instructions prepared for them by the left wing radical professors, they teach them all kinds of things today, antisemitism, CRT, DEI, LGBTQ studies, gender dysphoria issues, i.e. Johnny wants to be a girl, Susan wants to be a boy & the real interesting thing is the kids are instructed to NOT talk with their parents about this…The parents are NOT told about these classroom activities… :~(
Vermont here,
Bill… :~)
I’m not okay with those 3 ghouls being around and especially anyone’s children.
why does the picture of him look like he has female breasts? maybe not a big deal but he is not transgender is he? just an observation.
The 3 Luigi fan girls (aka mentally sick bimbos) should be thrown into his cell. All 4 pieces of human garbage could revel in the heinous deed committed by Mangioni until they die. Then their rotten corpses should be buried in a land fill where garbage belongs.
These demonrats have become so sick. This world needs a serious purging. I try to stay out of the blue cities as much as possible and have started carrying when I have to go into them because of how evil these people have become.
The Evil has become so bad and instilled in the younger generation by the Democratic Party and all their allies, Marxist, Socialists, Media, Elitist, Muslims(Hamas), Communists Party (CCP), Media, Hollywood, you must start to destroying their views and their propaganda with no pity!
So sad, that so many have hardened their hearts, that they no long can distinguish evil from good! They lack any compassion for another human being, that death is nothing. How would they react if their loved one was shot in the back in cold blood? Would they have any sorrow?
It is frightening that so many are so uncaring and have no feelings for the living.
We definitely are seeing the demise of civilization with these uncaring, uneducated, immoral beings!
Your headline should say “no longer fringe for DEMOCRATS”
There are millions on the left with this kind of hatred in their hearts. All this was started under Obama. He brought racism to the fore to keep a majority and keep his base. The black Americans they supposedly were protecting. Only they pushed them down more and more. The colored are not welcome anymore by the democrats. They are not lifting them up and see them for the capable Americans they are they want them to stay uneducated unemployed. To so called take care of them but keep them sheep to vote for them. This all was sealed when Autopen Biden held a speech in Philadelphia like he was the devil speaking from hell. All red lights with a black background and marines standing at the ready to go after the MAGA people because they were the most terrible domestic terrorists being in the USA. And the hatred increased. After the Covid plandemic that pitched family members against family members. Children were committing suicide over what was happening at home when there was no school. All this love for assassins against those being assassinated will take decades to reverse. The education system has brainwashed the children in the past 3 decades. Grooming them for the trans world, pushing the dragqueens on the kids and in the military in the workplace and most of all in churches. They divided this country, created lawlessness with no support for police. Antifa are taking over our cities in Portland and Seattle especially. Minneapolis was destroyed in 2020 with the BLM demonstration and burning down the inner city. Kameltoe worked on no bail for these criminals. And they have been coddled ever since. Grandmothers were standing 6 inches from ICE agents screaming you want to shoot me, or driving their cars into them and then they screamed bloody murder when one of them got shot. You asked for it. And my greatest hope is that this agent who has been indicted will get set free. Where are his supporters. Oh I am sure if we showed up we would be arrested not given a press pass to sit in the courtroom. The leftists paint with two brushes. When are they going to be arrested for all the rhetoric and shouting and demonstrating they get away with. Time to arrest them. No more investigation we see them every day on tv. If Mamdani can give them press passes. The police should be able to arrest them for their rhetoric which is putting the Mangioni case in jeopardy and others.
They need to reap what they sow
Between this and Charlie’s assassination, the left openly and brazenly advocate and celebrate violence.
Remember how the Left, with its Democrats and lapdog media, accused anyone who did not use correct pronouns as committing hate speech. The UK prosecutes that. Why are these mongrels not prosecuted for hate speech?
Democrats think murder is okay. The end justifies the means. Where have we heard that before?
These idiots seem to forget that there are people like me who spent years in the military and we did learn to shoot to kill. If they want to start a fight, they’re going to lose. And ill they be singing the same song when brandon pays the price for letting illegal aliens overrun our country and kill people. Can they justify that?
Does anyone work in New York City? It seems a lot of people have time to protest and carry signs all day and night. I started work right out of high school and after working 50 years, I retired. Who pays these idiot females? They all look well fed and someone gives them money to buy those clown clothes. Their parents should be ashamed of what they raised. Dumb idiots that do not any morals or hope for the future.
It is impossible for me to find the words for how horrible many in this nation are behaving. Social media, Democrat-Communists and our news media all share the blame. And of course there are the parents who obviously failed in their job of raising these kids to become responsible adults. Oh, yes the public schools as well. Our society has a sickness that only God knows how to cure. Pray for this country.
Whether you believe this or not, the bible speaks about this from centuries ago, that all this godless humanity would cover the lands. People have kicked God out, out of their lives, their hearts, our communities, schools, workplace and even some churches. Social clubs they have become. People don’t value human lives. But where there’s been a falling away, I believe there will be a coming back together. People need to wake up, reset their mindset and know that without God, we have no hope. America and other countries will see times get worse as long as we stop valuing each other and moral standards. Prayer changes things! So Pray..
We are living in a crazy world for sure.
More than 32,000 people have contributed more than $1,523,370.00 to support this cold blooded premeditated killer who took the life of a man who was just doing his job.
If you don’t like the healthcare system just go talk to your Democrat confgressmen and Senators who passed the “unaffordable” Obamacare program.
I’m pretty sure that if the rolls were changed and these same people were being killed as that CEO was , there certainly would be outrage. Be careful what you wish for !
Would any these individuals react the same if one of their family members were to be brutally killed in cold blood. I would hope not. The Trump Derangement Syndrome, has left some people with no moral compass. We should really feel sorry for them and like a sick individual, make sure they get to stay in the home for the mental bewildered..
Their radicalism IS their religion but they wouldn’t want to be treated that way themselves!
TOTALLY SICK INDIVIDUALS WHO NEED PRAYER.
If you BELIEVE that you OR anyone has the RIGHT to MURDER others who DISAGREE with you, BOTH of you are TERRORISTS who do NOT believe in the RIGHT to FREE SPEECH.
Students indoctrinated by the Democrat party on college campuses now believe that if you have an opinion different than theirs violence is acceptable. In the Democrat party who accuses Republicans of destroying democracy, believes that if the opinion is different then their opinion you cannot hear it, because it will prove how wrong they are
That we have a few lonely women who have attached themselves to this killer is of course pathetic, the poor and needy. What I cannot understand is why it is taking so long to convict a cold blooded killer. He shot a man in the back.
This element of the press, has no power to change a verdict, wonder if they are having a problem setting a jury. I suggest all male, since some of our women are not lawful, to say the least. Maybe this press and these adoring women, do not have families that could be shot in the back, on a busy street.
A result of asking God to take a hike!
People that support cold blooded murder are nuts & I am glad that I do not live in the same city as them. The White House needs to quit supporting PUNCH THEM IN THE FACE attitudes. Is the WH lawn really a good place for UFC fights in June?
Too bad these yahoos don’t have a functioning brain, otherwise they’d be perfect candidates for lobotomies.
“Pro-Mangione NYC ‘Journalists’ Gloating Over Murder Demonstrate That Assassination Culture Is No Longer Fringe”
It may seem to be accepted by this mentally ill minority, but it is still against our laws, wrong in our culture, and continues to demonstrate what the left and our failed education systems are continuing to produce.
When the worm turns, observe how they will respond. With self professed righteous indignation! There are too many individuals in the U.S. legal and illegal that have no right to remain here. If they believe Bernie Sanders and his merry band of communists are right for them, ship them to China, Russia, Cuba or North Korea so they might enjoy all of the benefits they perceive communism offers them! And, we will be joyful to be rid of them!
What more do we expect from those that support the party of hate? These “credentialed journalists” should be sent off to the communist country of their choosing. We cannot continue to allow those that hide under “free speech” to have this kind of freedom. These scum bags deserve nothing. They can cuddle up with Mamdani in his rat hole.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE?!