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PeaceWave

PeaceWave's Journal
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December 9, 2024

CEO shooter Luigi Mangione was an Ivy Leaguer and valedictorian of his Baltimore H.S. class...

An extremely smart young man, Mangione's educational background reads similar to that of the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. Prior to graduating from high school, Mangione was enrolled in a pre-collegiate studies program at Stanford. After graduating from high school with honors, he attended University of Pennsylvania, where he studied and received both a bachelors and masters degree in computer science with an emphasis on AI. Interestingly, slain UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was at the vanguard of the healthcare industry's use of AI in the evaluation of health insurance claims. Smart, attractive, seemingly well liked, Mangione was the kid next door on his way up in the world. Until now.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealthcare-other-insurers-ai-deny-202000141.html

https://baltimorefishbowl.com/stories/baltimore-valedictorians/



https://github.com/lnmangione



December 8, 2024

Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa shopping for that certain "special" MAGA person in your life...

Many of you have indicated that you have one or more MAGA people in your life. Now that Thanksgiving and the uncomfortable traditional gathering around the turkey and Festivus for the Rest of Us like airing of grievances has passed, we find ourselves trying to figure out what gifts to buy for these malcontents who have created turmoil in our lives over the past year. Many of you will simply say "Gift, what gift? Eff 'em." Others, including myself, will unfortunately have to buy them something - since it'll be glaringly obvious if we don't and will only lead to a heightened level of intra-family agitation. And, who really needs to start the new year that way? I know I don't. Anyway, in thinking about all of this, I inevitably turned to one of my personal tomes of wisdom - Seinfeld. Not the man. He's a jerk. I'm referring to the series created by Larry David. Seinfeld introduced us to the terms "re-gifting" and "de-gifting." Well, what about "me-gifting?" This, I would describe as the art of physically gifting something to another person but that, in doing so, actually results in a gift to oneself. To this end, I'm giving the difficult MAGA person in my life a book by one of my favorite authors, Nick Hornby. Dude has written lots of great stuff you may have heard of...High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy, A Long Way Down, etc. Warning. Gifting one of these titles to a MAGA person would be highly inappropriate. These are books dealing with subtle, complex emotions, all of which could result in malfunction for anyone whose emotional range extends only between various shades of angry. Hornby does, however, have one title appropriate for that certain "special" MAGA person in my life. I will be getting this person the 99 cent audio version of the book, since I am no longer certain whether he actually still reads books. Me-gifting. This is my new holiday tradition - for at least the next four years.





December 7, 2024

Swipe right for the Sexy CEO Slayer / Hot Assassin?

Nothing makes the heart flutter quite like a killer with a nice smile? I don't know what this says about the current state of our society. Maybe you all have some ideas on the matter. Because, from my humble perspective, this is just plain bat shit crazy...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14165129/disturbing-hot-assassin-trend-UnitedHealthcare-CEO-murder.html

"Newly released images of the smiling suspect in the brutal assassination of UnitedHealthcare executive Brian Thompson have sparked wild claims online - including that he looks like two well-known movie stars (Jake Gyllenhaal and Timothee Chalamet). A disturbing 'hot assassin' trend is also now spreading on social media with some ghoulish users swooning over the killer who was seen grinning at a hostel in New York."

"Reacting to the pictures released by NYPD yesterday, one user wrote: 'Ok is it just me or is the CEO assassin kinda hot?' Another said: 'I hope the UHC assassin can get online and see how much we all love him and everyone finds him hot.'"


December 6, 2024

The Left has blood lust for the wealthy. The Right has blood lust for the "deep state." Bravo...

We've managed to achieve the dubious distinction of being a nation where everyone seems to want to see someone else dead.

Seriously, what is going on here? We've got a dead CEO and folks are cheering. We've got an incoming President threatening to "destroy the enemy from within" and folks are cheering. It feels like America has become a Romanesque state, only in need of a pit and some lions to make the picture complete. I do wonder though...for whom will the lions next have an appetite?

December 5, 2024

Today's red herring...South Korea dodges a coup attempt while Americans focus on a CEO's murder.

Today, the Democracy that is South Korea narrowly avoided collapsing into dictatorship when that country's President, Yoon Suk Yeol, declared martial law and called out the military to surround South Korea's Parliament.

https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-yoon-martial-law-997c22ac93f6a9bece68454597e577c1

A story that should have been headline news segments 1, 2 and 3 for all Americans - considering the would be dictator ascending to our own Presidency next month - was instead buried by the American media in favor of...the murder of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare. And, Americans willingly ate it up. We focused the majority of our time today attempting to decipher clues, imagining that we might help solve a crime that, in the broad scheme of things, has no bearing on any of our lives. Meanwhile, Donald Trump most certainly devoted a good part of his time to following the real story of the day - a real life primer on coup d'etats and the toppling of democracies.

We can blame the media all we want. What is and isn't "news" is actually for us to decide.

December 2, 2024

Fight, fight, fight! What does that even mean? We had an election and we blew it...

If by "fight," we mean stop squabbling amongst each other, get organized and prepare to win some local and state level offices, then great. That's action that I can 100% buy into - because it's actual ACTION. If by "fight," we mean mobilizing boots on the ground protesting for the rights of people whose rights will be infringed upon by Trump, then again great. That is action that I can 100% buy into - because it's actual ACTION. If by "fight," we mean volunteering for various aid organizations whose assistance will be needed when folks start getting rounded up for deportation or start seeing their welfare benefits slashed, then great. That is again action that I can 100% buy into - because it's actual ACTION. However, if by "fight," we are simply referring to the forwarding of internet memes poking fun at Trump or his various cabinet appointees or going online and proclaiming "Trump is not MY President!" or spending the next four years chasing conspiracy theories about how "the election was stolen," well then I can't buy into it. Not at all. The power deficit we now face is daunting. We've lost the White House, the Senate, the House and the Supreme Court. There's a lot of actual work to be done...and that doesn't mean "Winning the internet."

December 1, 2024

Every post pitting women against men and vice versa makes Putin smile an evil smile...

Think about it. Republican men and women are not fighting among themselves. They are not creating gender based division within their own ranks. This is only going on among Democrats who seem hell bent on blaming one another for the election defeat. And, we need to cut it out - because none of us here benefit from intra-party division. In fact, the only real beneficiary is Putin...a former KGB agent who knows very well that the best way to cripple his opponents is to have them cripple themselves. So, what's it going to be? Circle the wagons or continue with the bullshit?

November 28, 2024

My Pro Palestine cousin wished me a "Happy Colonialist Occupation Day." Is this really necessary?

He also says he refuses to eat turkey today because he considers it "a symbol of colonial aggression towards indigenous peoples." It's a turkey for God's sake. Thankfully for him, there will also be tamales and enchiladas for him to choose from. Good grief. Happy Turkey Liberation Day everyone!

November 26, 2024

My Trump voting brother is demanding he be allowed to say grace at Thanksgiving dinner!

Never - not once - in his life has my brother ever wanted to say grace at Thanksgiving dinner. Now though he is saying that either he gets to say grace or (and this is where it gets really weird) he needs "equal access rebuttal time" to discuss "things other than the liberal agenda and more in favor of Trump." He's not only trying to politicize the act of saying grace at Thanksgiving, but I think he's also saying that we're all supposed to be thankful not to God but to Trump. What the hell? He just dropped this shit on all of us, only two days before Thanksgiving. How are we supposed to even begin to negotiate this? Mom usually says grace, which usually takes a little less than a minute. What if we give my brother "equal access" and he goes on for 10 minutes lecturing the rest of us about how next year everything will be better because "all the illegals will be deported and everything will be made in America?" The last thing we need this holidays is a Trumpian version of Fidel Castro ruling over the dinner table with an iron fist. On the other hand, he's family. Thoughts?

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