THE JOKER IS WILDLY SEXY

However, Mangione will not do high kicks
on the courtroom steps.

If you want to know what the New York trial of Luigi Nicholas Mangione, the alleged shooter of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, will be like, watch
Joker: Folie a Deux as we did over the weekend. Other than Mangione not wearing cheesy clown make-up or breaking into song & dance every few minutes, there's a lot of similarity between the two criminals, particularly the fan club members cheering them on. But unlike the Joker's, Mangione's are of all ages, which should be concerning to insurance CEOs everywhere.

You see, Mangione is perceived as having done something other than trying to create anarchy for the sake of anarchy. For he killed only one person, while insurance companies are considered responsible for thousands of deaths annually. 

In addition to a new toupee, Thomas Halloran
asked for armed security for Christmas.

I do not condone the death of Brian Thompson, OK? I'm sorry, in fact, it took his murder to make insurance company CEOs to piss in their pants from fright. Especially when reading headlines like United Heathcare Taught Us Ways to Decline Claims. There have been plenty of similar headlines and stories and interviews over the years, but CEOs reacted as if approached by a seven year-old trick-or-treater. But none of those kids carried a ghost gun.

Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch didn't help, either, insisting on referring to Mangione as an "assassin" as if Brian Thompson had been a major political figure rather than a well-paid guy who, to remind you, taught his employees how to dump claims into the circular file. If Mangione had killed me because I was hired instead over him to do background work on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, I would have been "murdered by a thug".

Wow! He must be important!

And if my killer had been brought back from Altoona like Mangione, he'd have been shackled in the backseat of a police car driving on Rte. 80 in the middle of the night rather than being helicoptered in the middle of the day to an NYPD helipad with Mayor Eric Adams following close behind for the news cameras that just happened to be hanging around. 

OK, ladies, take your pick.

That was when Tisch announced Mangione would be charged not just with murder but terrorism. You think the monsters who recently set fire to an unknown homeless woman in a subway station will get terrorism charges slapped on them? 

So thanks to Adams and Tisch for helping to make Luigi Nicholas Mangione more of a twisted hero than he's considered already. At least we officially know that rich people mean more to city officials than its ordinary citizens do.

PS: In addition to Medicare, I also have supplemental coverage by United Healthcare. Never had a problem with them.

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