My Bullshit Radar Just Went Off

And the “Midtown Manhattan mass shooting” Story Doesn’t Pass the Smell Test

In November 2018, The Guardian’s Luke Harding reported that Paul Manafort — Donald Trump’s former campaign manager — had held a series of secret meetings with Julian Assange inside the Ecuadorian Embassy in Knightsbridge. The piece implied a direct pipeline from Trump to WikiLeaks, via Russian collusion. I knew it was bullshit the moment I laid eyes on it. The idea that Manafort could just waltz into the most surveilled building in the world without leaving a shred of evidence? Ridiculous.

That place was blanketed in cameras, microphones, security teams, and intelligence handlers. If Assange so much as ordered a sandwich, multiple agencies knew the filling.

And yet we were supposed to believe the one guy no one ever saw enter or exit had a series of covert sit-downs?

Bullshit.

It was a story so obviously planted by spooks, I’d be surprised if The Guardian’s contact wasn’t called Casper.

Luke Harding didn’t just miss the story — he kneecapped his entire profession. Luke Harding? Tonya Harding, more like.

It was a cartoonishly flimsy claim, yet millions believed it because it came wrapped in the right bylines and intelligence leaks. And once you’ve seen one of these psy-ops in broad daylight, you start noticing the others.

Which brings me to Shane Tamura — and a shooting spree in Manhattan that’s being sold with the same airtight absurdity.

The Official Shane Tamura Story

On July 23, 2025, Shane Tamura walked into the Blackstone Building in Manhattan armed with a rifle. Within minutes, four people were dead. He was later found dead from what police described as a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The media framed the incident as a tragic consequence of undiagnosed brain trauma — a former high school football player with Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) who snapped.

It was a compelling story. It hit every note: America’s obsession with football, the invisible scars of contact sports, the gun violence epidemic, the mental health crisis. It trended everywhere.

And like all good propaganda, it was just plausible enough to pass the smell test — until you actually stopped to sniff.

Why That Didn’t Pass My Smell Test

On the face of it, that story is totally believable. CTE injuries from the crap U.S. version of rugby is a thing. So is gun violence and mass shootings. But as soon as you scratch the surface underneath the headlines, the smell of excrement is hard to ignore, and the moment I saw his football stats, my nasal cavities were choc-full of the smell of nature’s finest.

Shane Tamura ran a total of 600–700 yards after touching the ball 126 times across 9 games in his entire high school career.

That’s it. That’s the whole résumé. This wasn’t some college standout absorbing helmet-to-helmet hits from future NFL linebackers. He was 17, playing what amounted to weekend knockabouts. The idea that this gave him career-ending, murder-inducing CTE which made him try and try and kill NFL staff 10 years later? Come off it.

What were they doing to him on the field? Suplexing him through folding tables? I know The Rock was a former linebacker — was he moonlighting at Tamura’s school?

You’d need Stone Cold Steve Austin repeatedly opening a can of “whoop-ass” on him every game to even approach the level of brain trauma they’re now claiming.

What?

And yet that’s what we’re told: football broke his mind, and that’s why he travelled across state lines with a rifle and killed four people.

That was the moment my bullshit radar lit up like a Christmas tree in July. And the more I looked, the brighter it glowed.

The Blackstone Building, Not the NFL

The headlines sold it as an NFL-connected tragedy — a damaged former player, back for revenge. And while it’s true the NFL’s main headquarters are on Park Avenue, its operations are also housed inside the Blackstone Building.

That name’s not incidental. It’s not a label slapped on the doors for decorative flair. The Blackstone Building is named after Blackstone Inc., one of the largest and most powerful private equity firms on the planet.

Here’s what we know:

 
• The Blackstone Building is named after Blackstone Inc. itself.
 
• The NFL rents several floors inside the building — but they do not own it, and their operations are compartmentalized.
 

So who did Shane Tamura actually kill?

The Victims:

 
• Didarul Islam (36): An off-duty NYPD officer working private security. First to engage Tamura. Killed in the lobby.
 
• Wesley LePatner (43): Senior managing director at Blackstone. Head of BREIT (Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust). High-profile executive. Killed.
 
• Aland Etienne (46): A union security guard with McLane Security. Father. Respected staffer. Killed.
 
• Julia Hyman (27): Associate at Rudin Management. Entry-level property staffer. Killed on the 33rd floor.

That’s not a rage-kill by someone who got knocked around in high school. That’s someone with a target.

And it raises a simple but explosive question:

Was this even about the NFL at all?

The Wrong Elevator Button?

We’re told Shane Tamura was acting out of rage. That he blamed the NFL for his “injury,” drove from Maryland to Manhattan, and stormed the building looking to kill those responsible.

And yet his plan was thwarted — allegedly — because he pressed the wrong elevator button.

That’s the story.

We’re expected to believe that this man crossed state lines, geared up for what the media implied was an NFL revenge attack… and then just accidentally wandered into the wrong wing of the building and massacred a completely unrelated group of people.

Does that sound like a failed attack on NFL executives?

Or does it sound like a successful hit on the CEO of one of the most powerful real estate investment firms in the world?

Who Is Blackstone?

Blackstone Inc. is not just another Wall Street player. It’s the world’s largest private equity firm, with over $1 trillion in assets under management.

They own:

 
• Residential housing developments.
 
• Nursing homes.
 
• Warehouses.
 
• Hotels.
 
• Logistics firms.
 
• Data centres.

They’ve been accused of profiteering from the 2008 financial crisis, snapping up distressed homes, then becoming America’s biggest landlord. The UN even singled them out in a 2019 report for exacerbating the global housing crisis.

Blackstone responded with a shrug. Profit is profit.

They’ve also been criticised for:

 
• Buying up medical real estate and raising rents.
 
• Influencing evictions during COVID.
 
• Creating supply shocks by snapping up single-family homes.

They are, in many ways, the Monopoly board incarnate.

And Wesley LePatner? She wasn’t just an executive. She ran Blackstone’s flagship real estate vehicle — the exact entity accused of these exploitative practices.

The Mangione Parallel

This isn’t the first time someone targeted a figurehead of an empire.

Luigi Mangione was accused of shooting a healthcare CEO in 2023. Not a building manager. Not a random colleague. A CEO.

He even engraved the bullets with the words “Deny. Depose. Defund.”

Whatever you believe about that case — and I will personally testify that Luigi was with me at a ping pong show in Phuket at the time — it clearly rattled the system. The story spread fast. The message was direct. It was seen by many not as madness, but rebellion.

Tamura’s case feels like the corporate world’s PR firewall activating in real time.

The Planted Story That Sparked a Thousand Lies

There’s a trick to storytelling, and it’s not just for movies or books — it’s how propaganda works too. You start with a strong hook, something that feels true, emotionally true. Then you build around it. Repeat it. Mirror it. Embed it. Until it becomes the skeleton key to every follow-up piece.

That’s what this story is.

The image of Shane Tamura in an NFL jersey is now the image. Not a high school yearbook photo, not a recent picture, not even a mugshot. Just that single frame — helmet on, shoulders squared — chosen not for accuracy, but because it tells you what to think: This is football’s fault.

It’s viral now. Google his name, and that’s what you’ll see. Not questions about why he walked into the Blackstone Building. Not the strange coincidence of who actually died. Not even a hint of independent investigation into his supposed suicide, his mental state, or whether that CTE diagnosis has any medical verification. Just a loop of the same visual. The same headline. The same lie.

Nobody’s checking CCTV.

Nobody’s doing handwriting analysis on the suicide note.

And if you think that’s oversight, not intent, you haven’t been paying attention. You don’t just drop a falsehood. You need to build a palace around it. You anchor it with images, echo it in headlines, construct a narrative.

I’ll go on record as saying this “CTE NFL” story is bullshit.

Yes, people were killed and that is a tragedy. But I highly doubt this was some guy who went “cuckoo” and tried to take out NFL staff and hit the wrong elevator door. He drove across multiple states with an M4 and killed a major CEO of Blackstone Inc inside the reception area of Blackstone headqurters, Blackstone Tower, 345 Park Avenue, New York.

That’s not somebody who wants to take revenge on the NFL who wants the authorities to “study his brain” afterwards.

That’s a man who’s pissed off at the rigged game of Monopoly being played who decided to flip the board, just like Luigi Mangione did. Allegedly.

And the last thing power wants is anybody else getting any ideas.