Episode 48 [PATREON EXCLUSIVE] -- The Ballad of Luigi Mangione

This one feels like what In Bed With the Right went on Patreon for -- a discussion of the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, the search for his assassin, and the internet losing its collective mind over suspected killer Luigi Mangione. All of it through a gender lens. We discuss how grievance is deployed in American politics; how the right and the left memed their way through the manhunt; how gendered violence is deployed and how it (usually) isn't. We hope you enjoy!

Oh, and in case you're wondering about the opening clip: that's billionaire creep Peter Thiel stammering his way through an answer on Piers Morgan's show about the Thompson killing. We didn't discuss it in the episode, but we thought it was a pretty telling moment -- Thiel seems genuinely freaked out, and suddenly is all institutionalism and centrist rhetoric that he otherwise has nothing but scorn for.