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Dummy-Kruger Effect:
Who Killed Philadelphia’s Most Annoying HIV+ Meth-Addled “Journalist”?
Jim Goad
Josh Kruger
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Josh Kruger is now dead, which means he can no longer publicly exult in the suffering and death of his ideological enemies.
The Philadelphia writer, who was able to weave a career out of peddling a personal sob story of meth addiction, homelessness, and being immunocompromised due to receptive anal sex, was shot seven times in his chest and abdomen early Monday morning inside his row home in South Philly’s Point Breeze neighborhood.
Before the blood had dried and rigor mortis had stiffened his pompous gay corpse, people were noting the grim irony of how often Kruger had used his Twitter account to mock anyone who dared allege that Philadelphia was a violent hellhole where shootings were rampant.
Kruger posted on August 14, 2021:
Some idiot just said you’re more likely to get shot and killed than die of COVID in Philly to make some insensitive rhetorical point for “his side.” Folks, four times as many Philadelphians have died of COVID than gun shots this year. I understand math is hard but do better.
From July 20, 2023:
Look, it’s that lawless land of liberals in Philly where shootings are . . . dropping to levels not seen in years.
From September 23, 2023:
Advertising you have guns is like saying you have gold, dumdum.
Last Saturday, Kruger dredged up an old tweet from cartoonist Scott “Stay Away From Black People” Adams which predicted that “If Biden is elected, there’s a good chance you will be dead within the year.” Kruger responded in predictably bitchy form:
The Dilbert dude is like Nostradamus. Look at this prediction from 2020. Wow. Eerie.
Two days later, Kruger was shot and killed in Philly, that lawless land of liberals. Wow. Eerie.
While it is generally considered not cricket to dance on someone’s grave, back in April Kruger gleefully pirouetted over the death of Carolyn Bryant:
It’s fine to rejoice in the death of people who facilitated injustice. Carolyn Bryant, who accused Emmett Till leading to his lynching, died. This is a good thing. It also has a Scriptural basis, if you’re a Christian or person of faith. . . .
He also rejoiced over the imprisonment of January 6 defendants, advocated “involuntary psychiatric detention” for opponents of the Democrat regime, and encouraged violence against those ubiquitous “Nazis”:
Now that I’m no longer in government I can finally say that it’s OK to punch Nazis.
You can buy Jim Goad’s ANSWER Me! here.
Since he spent his life sniffing his own holy farts and relentlessly using his moral perch to sadistically wish ill on others, my heart sings a happy song and my feet dance a joyous Irish jig over the fact that an unidentified shooter made him choke to death on his own words.
As someone who drove a cab during my college years, I remember Point Breeze as the worst hood in South Philly. It was one of those interstitial urban zones tucked just far away enough from the main thoroughfares that things were allowed to fester. It mostly escaped notice unless my route forced me to cautiously glide through its narrow streets, causing the hairs on my neck to stand at terrified attention. Back in the 1980s, Point Breeze was overwhelmingly black, which was an anomaly, seeing as how the Cradle of Liberty’s Zulu hordes mostly clustered in North and West Philly.
So when I heard that a gay white and obnoxiously progressive writer who at one point managed current Mayor Jim Kenney’s social-media accounts was shot dead in a bleak brick-and-cement dindu terrarium, I assumed his killer was some random black robber who did not know Kruger personally. So did many others.
But when I searched the zip code for the 2300 block of Watkins Street, the section of Point Breeze where he was slain, I was surprised to learn that it is now 45.3% white and 36.4% black. Kruger seems to have been one of those mavens of white gentrification that writers such as Kruger are always lamenting.
But the evidence seems to be shifting away from the idea that he was killed by a local black stranger.
For starters, many have noted that whereas a robber might shoot you once or twice and then flee, seven bullets suggest a personal vendetta.
According to a report published in The Philadelphia Inquirer less than nine hours after Kruger was shot:
Detectives believe Kruger’s death may have been the result of a domestic dispute or may have been drug-related, according to three law enforcement sources with knowledge of the case. The sources . . . said police investigators recovered troubling text messages between Kruger and a former partner. Investigators also recovered methamphetamine inside Kruger’s bedroom, the sources said.
Back in April, Kruger posted a thread on Twitter about how he was abruptly awakened in his bedroom one morning by “a man I used to be friendly with” who “did not have permission to be there” and who “had somehow obtained a copy of my keys.” He said that rather than grabbing his gun and chasing the stalker out, he “deescalated” the situation until the man finally left of his own accord. Kruger vowed that he would change his locks.
In late August, he tweeted about how someone “sent a heavy glass egg (?!) projectile through my front window” and that it was “seemingly a targeted act.”
The New York Post and The Philadelphia Inquirer report that two weeks before he was murdered, Kruger allegedly left a post on his Facebook page — but which he seems to have deleted before being killed, perhaps out of fear — about how “a man I’ve never met once in my entire life” came to his house and began threatening him. Kruger said that the unwanted guest said he was looking for his boyfriend and referred to himself as “Lady Diabla, She-Devil of the Streets.”
Was “Lady Diabla” the gender-confused boyfriend of the man Kruger “used to be friendly with” who’d shown up uninvited in his bedroom back in April?
Philadelphia police claim they reviewed street surveillance footage from outside Kruger’s house at the time of the shooting. On Tuesday, they announced they’d arrested a “person of interest” in Kruger’s murder. They have yet to cough up any identifying details about the suspect, but say they believe Kruger knew him personally:
Police sources said Kruger had told friends that he continued to have issues with the man, who struggled with a meth addiction and continued to show up at his house.
Who is this mystery meth-head stalker? Is it the former butt-buddy who invaded Kruger’s house last spring? Or is it “Lady Diabla,” who seems to be the butt-buddy’s ragingly jealous current squeeze? Since the cops have yet to spill the beans, I can only speculate.
Maybe my initial instincts were right, and the super-sanctimonious Kruger was hoisted with his own petard. Maybe he got drilled with hot lead by some feral sub-Saharan hood chimp who resented the ongoing intrusion of snooty “allies” with pale skin and low T-cell counts. Maybe his killer was a ball-scratching, nappy-headed local black robber or drug dealer who could only communicate via grunts and gunfire.
Or maybe, for once, the blacks are innocent.
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47 comments
Being a gay activist with HIV+ in your Twitter bio is a lot like a guy in a Suburu with a Bernie Sanders bumper sticker. Yeah dude, we know.
“I understand math is hard but do better.”
O to be as good at math as you are at priggish condescension and effete simpering snideness.
Up in Point Breeze there ain’t no trees
To shield the moonlit sky, you’re seen
To walk the streets in baggy jeans and never say hello
And it’s half a fifty gallon drum at a barbecue for everyone
The old folks chat, the soda’s flat,
And there’s not a single white…
-“Point Breeze” by South Philly band Marah, around 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hogWPE98WDA
Great song. Thank you
What do you say here? This is similar to Greg Hood’s article about a Baltimore BLM activist who was butchered by a negro in distress. I bear these people no malice, I just wish they would come to their senses.
I bear these people no malice,
There is a point where refusing to recognize an enemy (not a rival or antagonist but an enemy, one who wishes to destroy everything you love) and to develop the appropriately hostile attitude is a moral failing.
They look like we do. I’m on Sam Dickson’s side of that argument.
But what is the value of their “looking like we do”? If whites are antagonists of Western Civilization, what net positive is their contribution?
Dr ExCathedra
There is a point where refusing to recognize an enemy (not a rival or antagonist but an enemy, one who wishes to destroy everything you love) and to develop the appropriately hostile attitude is a moral failing.
@Dr ExCathedra – I am commenting only to give a written 100 “thumbs-up” for your excellent comment.
Much appreciated. Thank you.
His expression in that photo speaks volumes.
Smug self assurance.
I can imagine his dying words before his head hit the ground and he began to assume room temperature. He gasps and mumbles, “You know, maybe Philadelphia does have a violent crime problem after all.”
Adding: “Math really is hard.”
This recent spate of libs getting killed by their pets reminds me of the story of Tim Treadwell, as told in the movie Grizzly Man.
Much of the footage in that documentary was filmed by Treadwell himself, no doubt with the expectation that a hagiography of his life with himself depicted as a heroic figure, bravely fighting for the bears who he never bothered to ask if they needed his help. (They didn’t)
Treadwell was, in brief, a weird dude who was looking for something to give meaning to his banal existence as an only child of upper middle-class background. He imagined that he was an expert on the grizzlies and that they weren’t dangerous, just misunderstood.
Reality bites, in his case at about 1000 pounds/square inch.
Grizzly Man was a great movie.
But I don’t think Josh Kruger was killed by his “pets.” It’s looking like he was killed by someone very much like himself.
And much like Matthew Shepard, the usual suspects will gloss over the facts in order to make him a martyr and wail about “queer genocide.”
There’s an upcoming thing on TV about the Shepard thing and we’re told unequivocally in the tease: “He was killed because he was gay.”
No mention of exploiting his gayness toward a blatantly political end. I’ll be watching Golden Girls reruns.
The truth about Matthew Shepard (that he was a drug dealer, and one of Shepard’s killers was a rival drug dealer and occasional boyfriend) only emerged after years of research by one intrepid journalist, Stephen Jimenez, and won’t likely ever be known to many people. That truth interferes with the usual suspects’ narratives about “victimization” and “hate.”
Matthew Shepard, also male prostitute who capitalised on his small, slender and juvenile physical appearance to attract generous-paying “sugar daddies” with sexualised little boy fantasies.
Is it just me or does anyone else think that shooting someone 7 times seems odd?
If the shooter’s pistol only held six bullets it would be somewhat odd.
There are many handguns, and even some revolvers, that have a seven-round capacity.
How appropriate…
https://stonetoss.com
I got the video for this article done early.
I can’t stop crying.
I’m going to go out on a limb and stipulate that meth raised this dude’s bitch quotient and made his posts and persona more insufferable than they would’ve been otherwise.
not exactly the same but here you are … same targets same squishies
https://nypost.com/2023/10/05/rare-random-violence-that-progressives-dismiss-takes-yet-another-life-in-nyc/
He’s sporting one of those Broccoli haircuts that some keep hoping will catch on. Those haircuts are so absurd I wouldn’t be surprised if it flipped someone into a murderous rage. I’m not sure what the NY Post had in their water supply that they were drawing parallels with the Daniel Penny matter.
even better:
https://nypost.com/2023/10/03/philly-da-larry-krasner-cares-about-crime-now-its-instagram/
Like all great modern humor, this was both grotesque and hilarious.
UPDATE: Police have issued an arrest warrant for a 19-year-old nappy-headed black male who lived two blocks from Kruger.
He looks like a stereotypical black thug rather than a drag queen. As facts emerge, I will add them in the comments here.
Wow, I was thinking it would turn out to be a young homeless homosexual whom Kruger was, um, “mentoring” or perhaps “helping to get off the road of addiction”. There is more intrahomosexual violence than average folks realize.
Wow, I was expecting a typical white, meth head sodomite abomination. I still bet that the guy who plugged him… had plugged him before
Looks like it was a black meth head sodomite abomination.
“A law enforcement source told the local outlet detectives believe the shooting was domestic in nature, and Kruger and Davis had been in a relationship.”
The suspect in this one appears to be African-American. Do the math.
But it’s hard though.
“A close and intimate relationship that dated back a few years.” The shooter was 19.
What are you quoting there?
The NBC Philadelphia news segment you linked in post #12, with Claudia Vargas reporting live, at 32 seconds
Guter Gott! I hadn’t even looked at the video.
Age of consent in PA is 16.
The way I see it is these people died doing what they loved. We should be happy for them. Better them than us, especially considering a certain amount of white people will be victims of crime statistics. So their meaningless deaths only add to our argument as well as being more sources of irony. Their logic is situation awareness is unnecessary, when it is actually non-negotiable. Another one bites the dust.
Wanted. Miss Thang. Dead or Alive.
I never shed a tear when white, Liberal traitors go through something like this, but I gotta say, I’m truly surprised that so many of them are actually living near non-whites in cities these days.
Not that long ago, they would always live far away from blacks, browns, and primitive Asians while rooting their virtue signaling horn.
I wonder what’s changing
I’ve always known homos to live among diversity. I think it’s because they don’t have children and perhaps easier access to drugs
There was an interesting article here on Counter-Currents that might be relevant: https://counter-currents.com/2023/06/white-gays-and-gentrification/
I saw a picture of Kruger with a cat. I hope the cat is okay.
Reading Miles Mathis’s website, I almost smiled when he stated this killing and the two recent others of leftie activists was, of course, staged. These three were all involved with the military, they did not die and have simply disappeared, and all of this is to make us hate blacks so there will be a race war to take us off uniting against the real enemy…the upper class.
I like Miles and his site, but he carries this to almost dogmatic ends, arguing everything and everyone is part of the Matrix, there is no reality not controlled by the upper class, etc.
Even all the videos we see of blacks attacking people on NYC subways is, he says, faked.
Penny on NYC subway? Yes, faked. He’s obviously military, as was the man he “supposedly” killed.
And, yes, Hitler was Jewish. One of his contributors argues almost ALL of WWII was faked and didn’t really happen.
I think there is enough racial violence to be real, and I’m sure Jim would agree as do many of you that there is little “unity” between us and blacks. We are pretty much different countries. These deaths, while possibly staged, are also pretty real with other similar kinds backing them up.
I also agree with the bogus Matthew Shepard case. Stephen Jimenez did a great job bringing the facts to light, and people hated him for it. One man I know, a noisy Jew theater director, was fanatical in denouncing Jimenez as a “tool.” This director was also fanatical about The Laramie Project, and considered that the best play since Hamlet.
Seriously. He’d argue it for an hour. And guess what play he directed over and over?
Ian, the left loves to live in cities and their precious diversity, “cool” neighborhoods and trendy restaurants. Their hatred of suburbs is pretty basic. They’re also into drugs a lot.
The “underground” press and their followers went from being cheerful hippy-dippy fifty years ago to fashionably nihilistic now. But it was always there waiting to break out.
Complaints about the Broccoli cut. Also, what’s with the unshaved look? I never understand how that looks cool. You look like a bum or spaced-out druggie, but maybe that’s the whole point. Especially is the trick in looking like you haven’t shaved in a week EVERY day.
I still like the cat.
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