Who killed Seth Rich?
The National Enquirer says the Russians because he knew about their DNC hack. Sounds like something out of the TV series The Americans. I don’t buy it for the simple reason that the deep state wants to pin the DNC hack on the Russians, so if the Enquirer story were true, they would have gone public with that.
So it’s more likely that the leak to the Enquirer is intentional misdirection, because as implied by a recent FOX 5 report, Seth Rich himself leaked the emails to WikiLeaks (according to Julian Assange, the leaks did not come from the Russian government or a state party), and he was killed by pro-Hillary anti-Trump deep-state forces because he knows the leak had nothing to do with the Russians. However, the weakness with this conspiracy theory is that the the murder happened in July, back when everyone thought Trump had zero chance of beating Hillary, so was it worth risking getting caught committing murder just to preserve the Hillary campaign strategy to deflect the DNC hack onto the Russians?
Or maybe you believe it was just random NAM violence? NAMs who didn’t bother to take “his wallet, gold chain, credit cards or a sizeable amount of cash,” perhaps because they suddenly got worried about getting caught and ran away immediately after killing him by shooting him twice in the back. Sometimes NAMs just kill for fun and not for any pecuniary motivation. But if it’s just random NAM violence, why is there allegedly a cover-up and why aren’t the DC police cooperating with the private investigator hired by his family? The private investigator claims that a source inside the police department told him “Rod, we were told to stand down on this case and I can’t share any information with you.”
Lion of the Blogosphere 
I agree, deep state all the way. Not a big conspiracy guy but when it comes to the Clintons there is too much smoke.
Otis the Sweaty
May 16, 2017 at 12:08 AM
“Or maybe you believe it was just random NAM violence? NAMs who didn’t bother to take “his wallet, gold chain, credit cards or a sizeable amount of cash,” perhaps because they suddenly got worried about getting caught and ran away immediately after killing him by shooting him twice in the back. Sometimes NAMs just kill for fun and not for any pecuniary motivation.”
“Random” NAM violence is deep state violence.
Steve Johnson
May 16, 2017 at 12:29 AM
99.9% chance it is random NAM violence. Involvement by Rossyian agents in crime in the US would make us much safer and would be an improvement.
Vincent
May 16, 2017 at 12:34 AM
My take on the theories:
1. Russia is way too farfetched. I guess they could pull it off, but why would they bother? In general, Russian security forces liquidate Russian dissenters at home and abroad. They don’t pick fights with non-Russians unless there’s an especially good reason. There’s none here.
2. Black thugs almost always loot their victims. Period. A thug letting his phone and wallet go untouched sounds about as likely to me as a junkie leaving a stash of heroin alone because it belongs to somebody else.
3. Deep state sounds more plausible than the more “respectable” options. If they found out Seth Rich was in contact with WikiLeaks, then they would have a motive for wanting him dead. They could also exert pressure on the DC police to leave the matter alone.
4. I’m more inclined to think, however, that Clinton fixers did the job. Since the Democratic Party owns DC politics, I can believe the DNC told the DC police to drop the matter. The Clintons have been accused of ordering hits for decades, and it makes sense that this was just another convenient death for them.
Furthermore, the murder looks a little rough. If I were deep state, I’d want it to look like an accident, and deep state has the means to make that happen. (They can hack your car and turn off the breaks, for example.) The Clinton goons would have a much tighter budget to pull this off, and they’d leave Seth Rich’s goods on him to make sure nothing could be tracked for them, even if it made their cover story that it was black hoodlums appear implausible.
Sid
May 16, 2017 at 12:40 AM
Russia is way too farfetched.
And they have no plausible motive. If they wanted Hillary to lose why kill Seth Rich if he was leaking valuable anti-Hillary intelligence to Assange?
Black thugs almost always loot their victims.
They might have panicked and fled before they could loot him if they thought someone might see them. Still unlikely because it would take them only a few seconds for them to grab whatever bling was in his pockets.
Deep state sounds more plausible than the more “respectable” options.
The problem is there would be a paper trail if intelligence agencies ordered the hit. They would have been comfortable hiring a lone hitman to kill him as long as they thought official law enforcement and intelligence would not dig deeply into the real story. But having law enforcement or intelligence agents do it would be too dangerous.
I still think it is more plausible he was killed in some sort of crime (if not black criminals, maybe a mentally disturbed gay lover?) but I wouldn’t rule out a hitman.
The Undiscovered Jew
May 16, 2017 at 7:40 PM
I think that intelligence agencies have ways of informally contacting dangerous people, or signalling to them discreetly that they want someone offed. (Similar to how Stalin may have had Kirov and Zhdanov whacked in 1934 and 1948 respectively by informally signalling to agencies overseeing them that they were persona non grata.) But yes, that’s another reason why I’m less inclined to think it was deep state than a Clinton goon: why risk documenting something so horrible?
I also think that intelligence agencies could find some sort of pretext for arresting him if they were serious, though some of our lawyer friends here could go into how that is or isn’t likely. But the more I write about this, the less likely deep state seems. Would they really exert all that much pressure to keep the DNC emails from reaching WikiLeaks? I don’t think so. I think they were already busy with dozens of other things.
Meanwhile, I do believe that the Clintons would have sufficient reason for offing Seth Rich.
“I still think it is more plausible he was killed in some sort of crime… but I wouldn’t rule out a hitman.”
This was my reaction up until recently, but I think the stronger the case is that he was in contact with WikiLeaks, the more likely he was killed to silence him. It’s just too much of a leap of faith to believe he was mad about how Bernie was treated, handed over damning emails to WikiLeaks which derailed a number of high profile careers, and then wound up dead from random NAM violence without their bothering to loot him.
Of course, a big part of what I’m proposing, that the Clintons had him offed, depends on whether they’ve done the same to others. There are dozens of hideous stories about people inconvenient to the Clintons ending up dead at a convenient time, but I have to admit I haven’t done a lot of research into that because I just don’t want to believe something that horrible. And hell, I haven’t met anyone who believes the Clinton Cash stuff more strongly than I do!
Sid
May 17, 2017 at 6:01 PM
I think that intelligence agencies have ways of informally contacting dangerous people, or signalling to them discreetly that they want someone offed. (Similar to how Stalin may have had Kirov and Zhdanov whacked in 1934 and 1948 respectively by informally signalling to agencies overseeing them that they were persona non grata.)
If the agency is competent they can.
But I’m not sure our Federal law enforcement or intelligence agencies are competent enough to pull something like that off anymore. Would they be able to keep everyone in the know from bragging about offing him on Twitter? Also there are enough Conservatives scattered around in various departments to make a leak risky. The FBI, maybe having flashbacks to the Janet Reno DoJ, rebelled against Comey for closing the case against Clinton. USG intelligence isn’t as centralized as Stalin or Mao’s intelligence organs were.
Why take the risk with an established agency when a hired goon off the streets can kill him just as effectively?
The Undiscovered Jew
May 17, 2017 at 8:11 PM
What’s the most similar killing that is widely accepted to have been performed under conditions like the ones you’re hinting at? I bet you’d have trouble finding a good one while there are countless acts of senseless underclass violence like this. You’re not really taking into account the Bayesian priors here and the rarity of murders like the ones you’re describing.
It’s worth noting that not taking his money is as much an argument against the murder being done by a professional as it is against it being done by a low IQ black thug.
Magnavox
May 16, 2017 at 12:44 AM
@ Magnavox
A professional hitman would not loot a victim. Basically no one carries enough money to justify risking prison by getting your mitts all over his corpse. Especially when your fee is a lot more.
But yes, it was probably NAM violence, nonetheless.
Lowe
May 16, 2017 at 3:24 PM
Wouldn’t a hitman try to disguise the murder as an accident or a robbery/mugging “gone wrong”? Unless the point of the hit is to send a message to discourage others. The optimal method in this case would be an assassination that leaves the general public and law enforcement unsuspecting, but scares other potential targets.
Contrarian
May 17, 2017 at 4:02 AM
A professional hit man wanting to make it look like street violence would rob his victim
Magnavox
May 17, 2017 at 5:06 AM
@ Contrarian & Magnavox
It looks like street/gang violence, or a botched robbery, even if you leave the body alone. There’s no point touching it.
If he does then he’s either stupid, or he’s being paid for it. A lot of hitmen probably are stupid… so there’s that.
Lowe
May 17, 2017 at 11:44 AM
If everything you’re saying is true, my point still stands. You’re saying not robbing him is not much of an argument against it being street violence nor much of an argument against a hitman.
Magnavox
May 17, 2017 at 8:22 PM
@ Magnavox
I imagine the Clintons or the Russians wouldn’t hire or use a stupid hitman, like some semi-literate guy in-and-out of prison. I’m pretty sure that oligarchs and gov’ts can do better than that.
The sort of person they’d use would never roll the body, even if you asked them to. Maybe if you paid a lot for it. It’s a bad idea, from their perspective.
Of course, you’re right that there’s no evidence either way, as far as an assassination goes. If the body had been robbed, I’d consider that virtual proof that there was no hit job. But that didn’t happen.
Lowe
May 18, 2017 at 12:26 PM
Hmmm. Occam’s razor.
>>perhaps because they suddenly got worried about getting caught and ran away immediately after killing him by shooting him twice in the back….
At this point, I think that this is the most likely explanation because NAMs do this a lot. It is irrational criminal behavior, but many NAM criminals are of-the-charts irrational.
Whatever, this will stir the pot, and that is a good thing these days.
Daniel
May 16, 2017 at 1:27 AM
Whatever, this will stir the pot, and that is a good thing these days.
Really? Trump needs more bullshit diversions, in your eyes?
Magnavox
May 16, 2017 at 7:48 AM
>>Really? Trump needs more bullshit diversions, in your eyes?
Yes. While his enemies are hyperventilating he is executing. Trump needs very few legislative victories, and we are only in the first 6 months anyway. Trump just needs to wield the fasces and crack heads. He already has given us Sessions and Gorsuch. More good things await.
Daniel
May 16, 2017 at 3:56 PM
Trump needs more bullshit diversions, in your eyes?
Crazy bullshit diversions are what got Trump into the White House.
If public stability and competence mattered Romney would be serving his second term right now.
The Undiscovered Jew
May 16, 2017 at 7:47 PM
It’s hilarious that on a blog related to other game and social dynamics blogs, these basic elements of warfare are considered to be revolutionary. Trump is game, incubated in a mighty 6′ 3″ German-American vessel, weaponized for politics. The motherfucking tank is pointed in the direction of DC politics. Give it to them Donald!
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lapdog
May 17, 2017 at 3:50 AM
He hasn’t accomplished anything. He’s been OK on immigration and terrible on everything else.
Magnavox
May 17, 2017 at 8:23 PM
And he’s not above all the criticism being leveld against him. It’s clearly hurting his ability to operate politically and it’s clearly hurting his feelings, which is why we now have his centrist pablum spewing daughter in such a key and influential position.
Magnavox
May 17, 2017 at 8:28 PM
“Or maybe you believe it was just random NAM violence? NAMs who didn’t bother to take ‘his wallet, gold chain, credit cards or a sizeable amount of cash,’ perhaps because they suddenly got worried about getting caught and ran away immediately after killing him by shooting him twice in the back. Sometimes NAMs just kill for fun and not for any pecuniary motivation.”
That’s what I figured–“Let’s kill a white boy.”
Like you say, the Russians are unlikely. Hillary would be up to it, but at the time lacked a motive. As for Metro Police, I don’t know.
When I lack any concrete evidence, I try not to worry my pretty, little head about something like this, given that there are so many other cases where evidence is available.
Nicholas Stix
May 16, 2017 at 1:29 AM
Or maybe you believe it was just random NAM violence? … Sometimes NAMs just kill for fun and not for any pecuniary motivation.
If so I can think of at least three Jewish liberal males of this age group who have been attacked in DC.
Writer Matt Yiglesies got polar beared by blacks and writer Brian Beultler was shot by black punks over a phone or wallet.
Some people get targeted not just by race but by their attitude or “walk”. If you put off a “wimp” vibe or seem goofy you can get jumped because you seem like a vic.
That’s what happened to George Zimmerman. He was a chubby guy with a soft weak voice.
No deterrence.
I haven’t been following the Seth Rich case because it seemed like another idiot conspiracy theory like pizza-gate or Obama birther or 911 truth.
I assumed black punks jumped him but who knows. Maybe gang initiation or racial hate crime.
Rifleman
May 16, 2017 at 2:40 AM
Some people get targeted not just by race but by their attitude or “walk”. If you put off a “wimp” vibe or seem goofy you can get jumped because you seem like a vic.
Rich was known to wear panda suits around. Not sure what to make of that.
Camlost
May 16, 2017 at 1:02 PM
They guy does look totally punchable. Like that Yglesias guy who got attacked. Meanwhile I have walked and bicycled through all sorts of ghettos at all hours with never a problem, and often had some pleasant enough conversations. I think black hoodlums see these fat and self-important dorks and feel obligated to issue a beat down. Some white people probably have the same feeling but aren’t impulsive like blacks.
bobbybobbob
May 16, 2017 at 7:44 PM
I think black hoodlums see these fat and self-important dorks and feel obligated to issue a beat down. Some white people probably have the same feeling but aren’t impulsive like blacks.
True and not just not as impulsive. They are also thinking about negative consequences.
Black lower future time orientation and egotism and low social phobia means less personal restraint.
Rifleman
May 17, 2017 at 1:25 AM
same, worked as a cashier at a rite aid in one of philly’s roughest ghettos (germantown) and i never got messed with. and i’m a fat south asian guy who was going through a goth phase at the time
gm
May 19, 2017 at 6:03 PM
I’ve always thought it was a black guy gunning him down because he was a white guy in the wrong place.
But for the conspiracy, there are a lot of totally insane people who would think that aiding the Republicans by making the DNC look bad is a capital offense.
Big Blue Dog
May 16, 2017 at 3:52 AM
” so was it worth risking getting caught committing murder just to preserve the Hillary campaign strategy to deflect the DNC hack onto the Russians?”
The obvious explanation for this is that Hillary is nasty and vindictive.
That said, I think the odds are it was just random NAM violence. This is based on Bayes theorem. It seems that random attacks by NAMs are far more common than political assassinations. As the saying goes, when you hear hoof beatsthink horses not zebras.
fortaleza84
May 16, 2017 at 4:30 AM
It’s nice to see Bayes’ Theorem mentioned twice in this comment thread. While this might seem like common sense to many Lion readers, the more conspiracy-minded ones would be wise to take this kind of thinking into account when thinking about Seth Rich or anything else:
Horace Pinker
May 16, 2017 at 8:02 PM
@ Horace
I’m not sure if you’re being facetious, but it’s not nice. If anything it suggests commenters here are dorks.
Lowe
May 17, 2017 at 12:07 AM
It was a serious comment and I didn’t mean any offence. If I didn’t know what Bayesian thinking was, I probably would have been more inclined to think a hitman killed Seth Rich.
Horace Pinker
May 17, 2017 at 10:01 AM
@ Horace
You must admit that telling someone to “check their Bayesian priors” is possibly the dorkiest way to tell them to consider the numbers. Possibly even the dorkiest way to say anything.
Lowe
May 17, 2017 at 9:07 PM
The two most prominent traits of the commentors here are dorkiness and craziness. The dorkiness is the only worthwhile part.
Magnavox
May 18, 2017 at 12:16 AM
Being crazy is better than being dorky. Being a dork means having low social intelligence, which means less money and less respect, in almost any setting.
Being crazy doesn’t necessarily mean any of that. It just means you’re somehow irrational. Sure, it could be debilitating if you’re very irrational, but just a little is fine. It’s likely to be an asset in life, frankly.
Lowe
May 18, 2017 at 12:14 PM
@Lowe
It sounds like you’re talking about a concept called “rational irrationality” that was popularized by Bryan Caplan. Now that guy is a dork. He’s also an open borders lunatic and anarcho-capitalist, but he’s interesting nonetheless. You might enjoy his blog. Here’s a recent post that I liked very much:
http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2017/04/iq_with_conscie.html
If genocide is something you can find humorous, ctrl+f for “John Smith.”
By the way, calling out dorkiness on this blog is pretty dorky.
Horace Pinker
May 18, 2017 at 2:01 PM
Guy gets murdered in Washington DC, yeah, it must have been the former first lady, or THE RUSSIANS.
In reality, the “youths” that murdered him only planned to rob him, and when they realized he was dead or dying, they ran away. Is it hard for people to believe someone thought it not worth a typical wallet, with $250 if you are lucky, is worth a 25 to life sentence?
This and Pizzagate shows a lot of right wingers are paranoid and lack common sense.
Pop
May 16, 2017 at 5:01 AM
there is no question that Comet Pizza’s own instagram makes references to pedophilia.
Otis the Sweaty
May 16, 2017 at 11:39 AM
At the time of Rich’s death, the issue wasn’t Trump but Bernie. Rich was supposedly a Berniebro who was shocked by the chicanery of the DNC in putting their thumb on the scale for Hillary. So I’ve never believed that the “Russian Hacking” was actual Russian hacking. The person who actually knows, Assange, had said it was an inside job. But probably the intent was to help Bernie, not Trump.
As for the murder… that’s less important than confirming that Rich was the actual source of the DNC emails. Hopefully, since Trump watches Fox, he’ll say something about this in public, forcing the MSM to say something about it.
Mike Street Station
May 16, 2017 at 6:26 AM
Exactly what I was going to say. Bernie seemed, for a while, like a major threat to Hillary, and Rich was trying to help Bernie. That’s all anyone talked about at the time. Now the media is trying to retcon this into being about Trump? Absurd.
peterike
May 16, 2017 at 8:52 AM
“Ret conned” is exactly the right word. The Dems/Media have been re-writing this story more than the DC Universe has been redone. They were arguing that the elections were clean and anyone who thought there was a rigged election was crazy…until November 9th, then the election had always been rigged and if you thought Trump won fair and square then you were crazy.
Mike Street Station
May 16, 2017 at 4:58 PM
It’s only rigged by the Russians.
If you think the elections are rigged in some way that would be fixed by requiring voters to show ID, then you’re a RACIST.
Lion of the Blogosphere
May 16, 2017 at 5:43 PM
Seth Rich was a Bernie person. The DNC leaks showed how the DNC screwed Bernie. The leaks happened before the convention.
Rotten
May 16, 2017 at 8:29 AM
Cops probably get more-or-less told to stand down all the time for various reasons, mostly trivial. F*** the police’s boss.
Greg Pandatshang
May 16, 2017 at 9:21 AM
I feel bad for Rich’s family. His murder deserves justice and I have no idea to killed him. But it is important to know that he was the DNC leaker, not Russia (obviously).
But Rich’s problem, sadly, was that he was a white male who still belonged to, supported and believed in the Democratic party, which means he gave up his balls long before he died.
Andrew E.
May 16, 2017 at 10:05 AM
But Rich’s problem, sadly, was that he was a white male who still belonged to, supported and believed in the Democratic party, which means he gave up his balls long before he died.
Hes no worse than a non wealthy person supporting the Republicans
Magnavox
May 17, 2017 at 5:13 AM
@ Magnavox
Wrong. Lower to middle class working people have dignity, when they vote for the party that doesn’t actively sabotage them, and publicly deride them as “deplorable.”
On the other hand, nobody working for the modern Democratic party has dignity. A white man doing so… has less than zero dignity. He is a clown.
Lowe
May 17, 2017 at 9:00 PM
The republicans completely undermine and sabotage their economics interests. The republicans also deride them, remember the Romney tape? The facts aren’t on your side so you cling to intangible and arbitrary notions of dignity.
Magnavox
May 18, 2017 at 12:13 AM
“The republicans completely undermine and sabotage their economics interests. ”
That’s why you have Trump.
Mike Street Station
May 18, 2017 at 8:49 AM
The Democrat party and its constituency (minorities, single moms, immigrants, etc.) is corrupt to the core. Same for half of the Republican party and its constituency (globalists, corporate apologists, etc.).
But that leaves the other half of the Republicans that are decent (farmers, blue collar whites, middle class families with children, Christian communities, etc.) That’s the important difference between Dems and Repubs.
Andrew E.
May 18, 2017 at 10:55 AM
@ Magnavox
This is still wrong. The Democrats hatred for salt-of-the-earth, working people is intense, and tangible.
Republicans undermine working people’s interests, but they don’t hate them and constantly accuse them of racism (basically the worst accusation the Dems can imagine).
Mitt Romney dislikes low class people, and doesn’t want to do them any favors. That’s just honest elitism, which is way better than the hatred, resentment, and sanctimonious, hypocritical preaching they can expect from the Democrats. Working people make the right choice when they choose Republican, and it is better for their dignity… which is a real thing, here in the non-dork world.
Rich worked for an organization that officially supports legal and social measures that paint him as sub-human, worthy of legalized discrimination, and constant moralizing, more over. He had less than zero dignity. Which is sad, because he can’t change that now.
Lowe
May 18, 2017 at 12:41 PM
Lion,
I thought you were a NAMs killed Rich denier.
IMO, it’s fishy, and obviously, deserves to be examined. The DC police is an error riddled sinkhole. (Google: Robert Wone.)
@Pop,
My problem with the random NAM violence is that to my knowledge, the shots were clean, point blank, and well-targeted. So why would a NAM accost Rich, shoot him point blank, and leave in a panic? Long range shots? NAM thugs don’t shoot that well, esp. not in the dark.
But please enlighten me. I’m not that up on the details of this murder.
All,
I can’t hold it in any longer. The Trump Presidency is beginning to look like a train wreck, and half of it is of his own making. Sure there are snakes in the grass. But he’s his own worst enemy.
Meanwhile, Richard Spencer is on his 12th minute of fame.
One year predictions:
1. Articles of impeachment are drawn up against Trump
2. Richard Spencer goes insane due to lack of attention.
3. Milo resurrects.
gothamette
May 16, 2017 at 10:39 AM
One year predictions:
1. Articles of impeachment are drawn up against Trump
2. Richard Spencer goes insane due to lack of attention.
3. Milo resurrects.
3. Seems like the most horrifying prediction.
Rifleman
May 16, 2017 at 5:28 PM
Richard Spencer is getting more and more attention and followers everyday.
Andrew E.
May 16, 2017 at 5:58 PM
Richard Spencer is getting more and more attention and followers everyday.
If the media and democrats and republican establishment scum can make him the new David Duke and link him to Trump they will be winning that little media/agitprop sideshow.
The rise of Reagan gave the liberal media a fake hate object like David Duke. Spencer will be the model for the new generation.
Rifleman
May 17, 2017 at 1:31 AM
Yeah, we are in a new era. David Duke was never taken seriously because he came too soon. With the rise of near expressly racial political parties (which the Democrats themselves have brought about) there is no way Spencer is going anywhere. The GOP will drift more and more in his direction every year just as the Dems will descend further and further down the rabbit hole of Black Lives Matterism.
PerezHBD
May 17, 2017 at 12:27 PM
LOL. Richard Spencer is a pathetic fool. and so are you for being taken in by his idiocy. I like it when he speaks passionately, from the heart, about “white genocide” and the need for “us” to have “our” own homeland. I just love it. Because he sounds and looks worse than stupid. He’s so much more convincing as a troll.
gothamette
May 17, 2017 at 2:17 PM
Just in from Breibart:
Islamophobe Richard Spencer (not the alt right leader Richard Spencer) was apparently poisoned after giving a “hate lecture” on Muslims and their Mohammedan religion in homogeneous Iceland.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/17/jihad-iceland-police-investigate-poison-attack-robert-spencer/
He’s now recovering and the Icelandic doctor who treated him was described as having bad bedside manners.
JS
May 17, 2017 at 11:28 PM
* Robert Spencer the Muslim hater
JS
May 17, 2017 at 11:31 PM
Here’s Richard Spencer with a guy named Matt Forney, a guy who is on record bitching about how feminists have turned Western women into man haters.
He’s a guy from the Men’s Rights/pick up artists sphere who has moved into the alt right.
He’s barely 30 I think and thinks feminism is the reason women aren’t chasing after him.
There seems to be a blending together of the Men’s Rights/pick up artists sphere and the alt right online and at event LARPing.
A pathetic, delusional crowd.
Rifleman
May 17, 2017 at 11:45 PM
Richard Spencer is definitely a smart guy. I don’t think he’s going to get anywhere, but he’s undeniably a smart guy.
Magnavox
May 18, 2017 at 12:18 AM
So, Matt Forney is homely and therefore you don’t like Richard Spencer?
Greg Pandatshang
May 18, 2017 at 11:14 AM
So, Matt Forney is homely and therefore you don’t like Richard Spencer?
No, I don’t like Richard Spencer because he’s a parasitical opportunist who is either a neo-nazi or someone who pretends to be because he wants to be the younger generations David Duke.
I think he’s a useful idiot for both the Cultural Left and the neo-conservative Republican types.
There’s the intelligent, articulate right – Pat Buchanan, Steve Sailer, Ann Coulter, and many others. And then there’s the LARPing, male bonding, frat boy, attention deficit, hyperactivity disorder duffus right.
The types of “white males” who obsess on fake issues like Cultural Marxism, White genocide, women supposedly hating normal guys and only wanting bad boys/jerks/black guys/criminals etc, these paranoid, low rent racist, sexually inadequate weirdos are not helping advance or promote causes that are important to me.
They are counter productive and contaminate many legitimate issues.
Rifleman
May 18, 2017 at 5:29 PM
Rifleman,
I agree with the general thrust of your critique (not sure about all the details: I read & listen to a lot of alt right material and I don’t think I’ve ever heard any of them say that women only want bad boys and black guys. As for Matt Forney, the only time I’ve ever heard of him was when the TRS guys were making fun of him). But I like some of those guys anyway. I don’t like them as much as I admire, for instance, Steve Sailer (as for Buchanan, he’s a hero, but he’s a bit too lefty for my tastes). I just don’t go into these things expecting to have no serious disagreements. If Spencer were about to be elected to a position where he could actually hurt Jewish people, I’d worry about his anti-Jewish conspiracy ideas. If he came to me for advice, I’d tell him to cool it with the anti-Semitic remarks. But neither of those things is on the horizon. I agree with Greg Johnson’s take on “punching right” (https://www.counter-currents.com/2016/12/punching-right/): “in the battle of ideas, there is no sense in demanding that we present a united front, particularly on issues where there are real disagreements of principle.” We can’t do anything to make the people on our own side that we disagree with go away, “[s]o we might as well find a way to coexist and actually benefit from one another. Let’s state our disagreements like civilized men …”
Greg Pandatshang
May 18, 2017 at 8:59 PM
Definately a Riflewoman.
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lapdog
May 19, 2017 at 7:24 AM
Black muggers kill people all the time without planning. We are talking IQ 75 people here.
Pop
May 16, 2017 at 7:22 PM
OT, but I just voted in our D.A. primary without any ID whatsoever. I wanted to see if they would let me and they did. Isn’t that the damnedest thing in an over-surveilled nanny state where you literally need photo id to do anything except take part in the greatest privilege of our republic.,
roxborough's son
May 16, 2017 at 11:14 AM
The lack of any criminal act except for the murder also suggests that it could have been a gang initiation ritual; MS-13 has been increasingly active on the east coast. Could also be what others have speculated, just some low IQ black (or brown) kids killing for the fun of it.
That said, most of the time murder victims know their killer. That’s why homicide investigations almost always begin with the victim’s spouse or significant other and from there expand to family, friends, coworkers, etc. etc. The law of averages indicates then that Rich had at least a passing acquaintance with his murderer.
Sgt. Joe Friday
May 16, 2017 at 11:14 AM
“That said, most of the time murder victims know their killer. That’s why homicide investigations almost always begin with the victim’s spouse or significant other and from there expand to family, friends, coworkers, etc. etc. The law of averages indicates then that Rich had at least a passing acquaintance with his murderer.”
You’re mixing up two different sets of numbers. When the perp and vic are both the same race, the vic typically knows his killer. However, in black-on-white murders, that rule does not apply. In same-race killings, motives are more specific—turf, personal hatred. In black-on-white murders, the motive is often generic racial hatred, where any white’ll do.
Nicholas Stix
May 17, 2017 at 1:07 AM
DC has a history of random dumb motiveless murders (I’ve lived here since 1987).
Rich was a Bernie supporter. Not a trump guy. He leaked to wikileaks in order to show BernieBros weren’t crazy when they said the DNC had their thumb on the scales for Hilary. That was all he wanted to do.
Rich, not THE RUSSIANS!!!!!!, was the source of the leaks. Wikileaks walked right up to the line of admitting this yesterday (they’ve repeatedly stated their source was a non-Russian person).
name can't be blank (@DSGNTD_PLYR)
May 16, 2017 at 11:44 AM
You need an edit button Lion.
The Trump leaks story broke almost exactly one hour after the Rich story. I don’t think it’s crazy to say they sat on the story to try to control the narrative.
name can't be blank (@DSGNTD_PLYR)
May 16, 2017 at 11:53 AM
There is “grainy” security camera footage that shows some aspect of the murder, but the police refuse to make the video public.
Rich’s family, who hired a private investigator to investigate the murder, disavow their own private investigator’s statements about Rich’s leaks to Wikileaks.
Mark Caplan
May 16, 2017 at 11:47 AM
If it was a pro hit the killer would have taken stuff to make it look like a robbery.
Also the supposed pi ‘hired by the family’ was not hired by the family (according to the family).
Dave
May 16, 2017 at 12:07 PM
The private investigator “wasn’t hired by the family.”
Ed Butowsky, a Fox News regular, contacted the parents of Seth Rich and urged them to hire a private investigator. Butowsky offered to cover the fees and connect them with an investigator, according to Brad Bauman, a spokesman for the family. The Rich family hired the detective who had been recommended, Rod Wheeler, a former D.C. homicide detective who is also a Fox News contributor.
Source: NBC News
“DNC Staffer’s Murder Draws Fresh Conspiracy Theories”
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/dnc-staffer-s-murder-draws-fresh-conspiracy-theories-n760186
Mark Caplan
May 16, 2017 at 6:12 PM
I lean towards random NAM violence as well. At the time the stakes weren’t high enough for Hilary’s people to murder the guy, and there are plenty of other people you would think the Clintons would want dead before Rich. And if the Clintons are so good at killing people, how is Trump alive? It would be quite easy for the Deep State to arrange a “stroke” or “heart attack” for an overweight, out of shape 70 year old man.
If I remember correctly, at the time people were saying that Rich was killed to send a message to potential Bernie supporters in the DNC.
Peter Akuleyev
May 16, 2017 at 12:23 PM
Didn’t Hillary make that “why can’t we just drone this guy” comment about Assange once? (to the absolute horror of those around her)
Camlost
May 16, 2017 at 1:00 PM
In this context, NAM means black?
Calvin X Hobbes
May 16, 2017 at 1:13 PM
Yo, it does dawg. Unnastan?
Vincent
May 16, 2017 at 10:39 PM
If you think that Seth Rich probably leaked DNC emails to Wikileaks (and I do, as the Wikileaks twitter has shown they have a strong interest in Rich), then it would be a hell of a coincidence that he got killed by NAMs.
I don’t see Russia’s motive. I don’t imagine the Deep State would have failed to take the guy’s wallet to frame NAMs.
I think somebody Seth worked with thought he was a traitor and shot him in the back. Did Hillary know? Did Podesta? I sort of doubt it.
Who shot him doesn’t matter that much to me. I’d like to know for certain if he was the Wikileaks source of the DNC emails though. If so, it basically confirms that TrumpRussia is manufactured nonsense. It almost certainly is anyway, but this would be a huge hit on that narrative.
Jonah
May 16, 2017 at 1:20 PM
The theory I’ve never seen more seriously considered is that it was a homosexual thrill kill. Generally speaking, if a white liberal guy is out on the streets at 4am with his cell phone, the safe assumption is that he is there for drugs, or gay sex, or both. Google Robert Eric Wone to see that these sorts of slayings are not unknown in the DC gay gentry, and just as with Wone, the DC cops are loath to upset the powerful gay mafia in the Federal Government nomenklatura by aggressively looking into a crime like that.
The Man From K Street
May 16, 2017 at 1:43 PM
If he was murdered it’s entirely possible he was picked up and questioned beforehand, then dropped off somewhere in the middle of the night. Unless you’ve got a serious plan disposing of a dead body is serious business and having a dead body in a building or vehicle leaves a paper trail of ownership, so dumping him on the street and then shooting would actually be reasonably sensible if you didn’t know whether the call was for him to be questioned or eliminated entirely.
Panther of the Blogocube
May 17, 2017 at 10:23 PM
I’m not following this story but generally speaking The Enquirer seems to have become a propaganda arm of Donald Trump. A couple months ago they had a story claiming Trump has a 160 IQ & they’ve had stories about him getting tough with the Russians & during the election there were stories trashing Cruz & Hillary yet virtually no anti-Trump stories
Supermarket tabloid editors have probably been friends with Trump for decades because he was always giving them exclusive interviews when he was just a celeb & now that he’s president they’re probably sucking up to him even more by printing whatever BS he shrewdly feeds them & it benefits the tabloids too because their prole readership is probably largely pro-trump
pumpkinperson
May 16, 2017 at 2:12 PM
Well, you nailed it. Elites think the general populace is dumb (or in your world, low IQ) and should be exploited to their benefit.
The majority of Americans are especially dumb, when you have a large population that focuses on frivolous consumption, which in essence, is very prolish and destructive.
JS
May 16, 2017 at 5:14 PM
You need to get on some meds for that OCD issue.
Every post from you is proleproleproleprole.
Get help.
Rifleman
May 17, 2017 at 1:34 AM
How can LoftB sustain without the word “prole”?
And proof that Seth Rich was a prole:
JS
May 17, 2017 at 1:01 PM
I’m not following this story but generally speaking The Enquirer seems to have become a propaganda arm of Donald Trump.
Great, they can balance out almost the entire world media complex!!!
Rifleman
May 16, 2017 at 5:31 PM
I have a memo here that says 2+2=5, so it must be true.
Andrew E.
May 16, 2017 at 6:39 PM
Trump is in serious trouble. We are about to experience the nation’s first total war between the White House and the federal law enforcement apparatus. This is not going to be good for anybody.
Two in the Bush
May 16, 2017 at 7:56 PM
Bring it on. Time to choose sides.
Trump has law enforcement and the military rank and file on his side. It’s portions of the intelligence community and military brass and the assets they control that are arrayed against Trump along with most politicians who are their puppets.
Andrew E.
May 16, 2017 at 9:39 PM
Worse, the general population is in poor shape physically, spiritually and most important, financially.
The only few single White men and women in the states whom I’ve met with healthy money accounts are all Western European expats from the continent.
Do you think any of our alt-right members are of this league? Dream on…
JS
May 16, 2017 at 10:20 PM
“The only few single White men and women in the states whom I’ve met with healthy money accounts are all Western European expats from the continent.”
Said the guy who had to leave the country because he couldn’t hack it.
“Do you think any of our alt-right members are of this league? Dream on…”
More than you’d think. It’s called “flying under the radar”.
destructure
May 16, 2017 at 11:23 PM
Trump is in serious trouble.
…….that has only been said a billion times since early 2015!
Where have you been?
Don’t worry, Trump will never become president. You can take that to the bank.
Rifleman
May 17, 2017 at 1:37 AM
Trump is in serious trouble.
I wouldn’t be money on that…
Senators Burr and Grassley both say Comey never mentioned Trump trying to shut down any investigation when Comey testified in front of their committees, publicly or privately.
If Comey, like his deputy McAbe just did under oath, told the Senate there was no interference by Trump in Comey’s fishing expeditions, er, “investigations” then Comey committed perjury.
Expect a “Comey associate” to leak a “clarification” in the near future.
The Undiscovered Jew
May 16, 2017 at 9:58 PM
i killed seth rich.
DUH!
eva mendes
May 16, 2017 at 7:26 PM
One detail that hasn’t been mentioned here is the $20,000 reward Wikileaks offered for information on the murder. Wikileaks has never offered a reward to solve a random American murder case before. We know Wikileaks can’t say if Rich was their source or not, but that $20.000 is certainly suggestive.
PerezHBD
May 16, 2017 at 7:33 PM
However, the weakness with this conspiracy theory is that the the murder happened in July, back when everyone thought Trump had zero chance of beating Hillary, so was it worth risking getting caught committing murder just to preserve the Hillary campaign strategy to deflect the DNC hack onto the Russians?
They still had a plausible motive to kill him in July because there was still a risk Comey might reopen the investigation (Didn’t he announce there would be no indictments in June) if more evidence came to light and disgruntled Bernie Sanders supporters were still hoping they could knock her off the D ticket.
The Undiscovered Jew
May 16, 2017 at 7:44 PM
honestly this makes me respects hillary even more, she’s a gangster much like putin
gm
May 17, 2017 at 12:01 AM
edit – i should have said much more, as my former comment makes me sound like a hillary supporter. i never liked her, but wished she had won because it would have been a thumb in the eye of the proles.
gm
May 17, 2017 at 12:02 AM
Are the 5000 thumbs in the eyes of proles not enough for you?
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lapdog
May 18, 2017 at 1:27 PM
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A murder of a person by a complete stranger with no connection to the victim is very hard to solve.
If the killer doesn’t touch the victim and just keeps walking there’s no DNA evidence either.
DC claims a homicide clearance rate of 62% for 2015 – So 38% unsolved.
Audacious Epigone claims a lower 56.1% clearance rate for DC
Either way, plenty of opportunities to get away scot-free for either a professional or a NAM.
Still, unless it was a gang initiation, the NAM case seems somewhat unlikely to me.
Why risk a murder charge? Why not just an ordinary ‘knockout game’ attack, followed up by the usual multiple kicks to the head? Then steal everything he owns.
Given our legal system, even if the victim suffers permanent brain injury, the attacker will most likely be able to plead down to a minor assault charge.
https://mpdc.dc.gov/page/homicide-closure-rates
http://anepigone.blogspot.com/2013/01/rates-of-unsolved-murder-by-state.html
One more question, what kind of round did the killer use? Has that information been released?
If they were your basic, readily available 9mm, full metal jacket type cartridge, or even cheap hollow points,
then it could be just a NAM killing.
If they were quality bonded hollow points, (i.e. Speer Gold Dots, Federal HST, etc.) of the type not sold in Walmart, usually issued to law enforcement and available to civilians mainly by mail order from specialist ammo sellers, then it would seem to me much more likely a professional job.
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Nedd Ludd
May 17, 2017 at 8:43 AM
The story that Seth Rich hacked the DNC computers and leaked to WikiLeaks has fallen apart.
“Tuesday afternoon, Wheeler [the Rich family’s private investigator] told CNN he had no evidence to suggest Rich had contacted Wikileaks before his death. Wheeler instead said he only learned about the possible existence of such evidence through a [Fox News] reporter.” — Reported today on CNN.
“I don’t know for sure whether [Seth Rich’s] emails went out to Wikileaks.” — Private Investigator Rod Williams, spoken on “Hannity,” May 16, 2017.
Private investigator Rod Williams also said on “Hannity” that he has never seen Seth Rich’s computer, let alone having analyzed it. The computer might be in the possession of the DC police or the FBI, but Wheeler can’t even say for sure which agency has it or whether it has been examined.
Mark Caplan
May 17, 2017 at 12:25 PM
Sorry, I wrote Rod Williams a couple of times when I meant Rod Wheeler.
Mark Caplan
May 17, 2017 at 9:52 PM
Here’s a photo of the Rich family’s private investigator, Rod Wheeler. Fox News refers to him as a “former DC homicide detective.”
https://i0.wp.com/www.wownews.us/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/rod-wheeler-on-his-investigation-into-dnc-staffers-homicide-youtube-thumbnail.jpg?resize=277%2C156
Mark Caplan
May 18, 2017 at 7:21 AM
He could be exactly the right person to uncover what the DC police department itself is hiding.
Lion of the Blogosphere
May 18, 2017 at 7:48 AM
More importantly, is being a PI prole???
Paul Ryan's Sickly Old Lapdog
May 18, 2017 at 1:29 PM
“The story that Seth Rich hacked the DNC computers and leaked to WikiLeaks has fallen apart.”
How exactly has the story fallen apart? It seems to still be relatively intact since last summer.
Mike Street Station
May 18, 2017 at 8:58 AM
It is clear that this killing is highly suspicious. I am glad FOX is reporting on it, I hope that inspires others.
The Shepherd
May 17, 2017 at 3:29 PM
Very interesting take on aseth Rich from supposedly a surgeon on staff.
map
May 18, 2017 at 12:00 AM