it should probably be a bigger story that there was a normal bipartisan America 250 organization but then Trump decided to launch his own competing right wing grift version and ruined everything
Here’s what I know:
1. Luigi had no history of violence at all. No criminal record at all. Not even a misdemeanor.
2. Luigi had mild depression but other than that he had no mental health problems at all.
So the official story is that a well educated rich kid, with no history of violence, no criminal record, no serious mental health issues, left his high rise apartment in Honolulu and traveled all the way across the country to NYC where he somehow obtained a “partially 3-D printed” gun and then carried out a perfectly targeted assassination on a healthcare CEO who was traveling and just happened to be outside his hotel at 5:30 in the morning.
Then, according to the Feds, this well educated rich kid, with no history of violence, no criminal record, no serious mental health issues, fled across the city back to his hostel where he collected his belongings, always keeping his face carefully covered (except the one time he tried to flirt with the clerk on check-in).
He then went south to BFE Pennsylvania where he was arrested 5 days later after a worker at a McDonalds called the cops claiming a customer was “being weird” despite the bodycams showing him just sitting in a booth minding his own business on his computer.
Those same cops who captured him on their body cams then did a preliminary search of his backpack where they report finding a “gun magazine” inside.
These same cops then load the backpack into their vehicle, *turn off their body cams* and then miraculously find the “partially 3-D printed gun” and a notebook containing the “manifesto.”
Then a transcript of that manifesto is “leaked” to Ken Klippenstein, the EXACT same guy who also got the big leak on the Tyler Robinson Discord chats.
The cops then completely fabricated a conversation with Luigi’s mom, and claimed she said “I could see him doing this” when she literally never said that and they were forced to admit so in court.
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Those are the things I know. So yes, I’m comfortable giving Luigi the presumption of innocence until trial.
nonstop horrible dating experiences cuz no one believes a hot girl hates texting, loves wholesome monogamy, has a moral commitment to honesty, and genuinely was asleep for 14 hours. this world punishes angels
Art is as subjective as morality but there’s some opinions I feel so passionate about that to intellectualize them as neither right or wrong would be to go against my own sense of self. This is cool and fun and you’re an idiot.
@mattyglesias if this is comparing “attention” vs electoral performance, why is the y-axis performance against “expectations”? “expectations” is a very malleable variable. I understand there are different electoral environments but avg party win margin would be a much better comparison point
I think Curtis Sliwa should be in every debate. Not just in New York. Like every single debate. A political ghost runner. Send him right to second base when we get to extra innings to keep things interesting.