RIP, Rob Reiner
I was thinking about him yesterday before I got the news of his murder.
While I spent the summer of 1974 touring Europe, my future wife worked in an orphanage for disabled children near London, with her sister. We both have some English heritage, and my wife has loved all things English since then, which is a common American predilection. I have been watching streaming TV for the past several years in the evenings with my wife, and we generally prefer British shows, which are usually intelligent, rarely violent, and often charming. My wife got me to watch the Downton Abbey TV series, as well as the movies. On Saturday, she had me watch the final Downton Abbey movie. It was charming, as usual, but as I have written lately, I am also in the middle of a tome on the British Empire and its prodigious violence. All empires relied on violence, and the USA is no different, as my series of posts on Noam’s latest and likely final book makes clear. While watching the final Downton Abbey movie, set in 1930, my mind regularly recalled the brutal imperial acts that made the world of Downton Abbey possible, with its vast estates, butlers and servants, etc. It would soon come to an end, which is probably part of Downton Abbey’s appeal – of a bygone era and social relations that are largely extinct.
But yesterday I kept thinking about something else. Before hearing of his murder, I was thinking about my encounter with Rob Reiner. In the summer of 1987, when Dennis Lee moved our company to my home town of Ventura, his wife Alison’s sister came to visit, as she had also done when we lived in Boston. Alison’s sister worked in New York City, and this was her first visit to California. She was my age, I picked her up at the LA airport, and she made it clear that she wanted to see a Hollywood celebrity. Because I grew up near LA and worked there three years, I continually encountered Hollywood celebrities and heard many stories of them. They were just people, often all too human, and I never approached them as I let them live their lives. When Alison’s sister said that she wanted to see a celebrity, I first took her to where I thought the odds were good: Century Plaza, next to Beverly Hills. I sometimes worked out of our Century Plaza office, and in those innocent days I parked in a Beverly Hills neighborhood for free and walked to the office. You couldn’t walk around there for long without seeing a celebrity.
So we walked into the plaza, looked around for a minute, didn’t see any celebrities, and then left to return to my car. As we walked away, on an empty sidewalk, coming toward us was Rob Reiner, with Elizabeth McGovern on his arm. As we passed them, she made eye contact with me, maybe cautiously waiting for a celebrity reaction, but we just kept going. After we passed them, I said to Alison’s sister: “There, you got your celebrity sighting.” She had no idea what I meant, as she did not even notice that the couple we had just passed were celebrities. So I turned us around, followed them into the plaza and passed them, and soon turned around to pass by them again. Then Alison’s sister got her celebrity sighting.
That happened when Reiner and McGovern were at the peak of their careers. She is three years younger than me. They had a standard Hollywood romance that lasted only a few years. I was a movie junkie, and I ran into celebrities at the movies in Westwood regularly. When Spinal Tap came out, I was shocked as I watched it that “Meathead” Rob Reiner was its director. It was his debut directorial effort, which remains a classic today. That began a run that few directors ever had, of hit after hit, several of which became American classics. It was fun to encounter him, and I had seen McGovern in a few movies by that time. In that final Downton Abbey movie, McGovern became the family matriarch, with the death of Maggie Smith’s character. Seeing her took me back, which was why I spent time yesterday thinking of my encounter with Reiner and McGovern, to then hear in the evening that Reiner and his wife had been murdered, likely by their drug addict son. I have had many such “coincidences” in my life, and I don’t know what they mean other than maybe that we are all connected.
RIP, Mr. Reiner.
I had some conspiratorial thoughts about the murder.
Imagine, if you will...a world where the "Family" is everything. Our beacon of hope and love. Our nurturing safe space. Our loved ones inhabit it with us. Not perfectly, not always wholesomely, not always lovingly. But it is truly "All in the Family". The last bastion of humanity that keeps us from descending into the NWO transhumanism and non-stop dystopian "reality".
Imagine you are driving this narrative and you and your cohort have the sincere belief that the herd, the sheep, the unwashed, unthinking humans that comprise the "public", need to be controlled and herded into compliance and servitude as you drain the last vestiges of profit from their labor
You've already got a large menu of false flags, psyops, assassinations, wars, coups, pandemics, food and medical adulterations, geoengineering, mass shootings, child shootings, etc., to choose and implement on a near daily basis to keep everyone unsettled, fearful and even terrorized.
You have co-opted social media and designed algorithms to emotionally weaken and manipulate entire generations and genders. You are even able to create NEW genders via surgical, pharmaceutical and psychological manipulation.
And, you've recently unleashed a new campaign onto the social media platforms. A deeper and maybe final "solution" to the age-old and successful strategy of "divide and conquer". You funded and used university studies in the past to delineate and define different generations; the Silent generation, the Baby Boomers, GenX, Millenials, GenZ, And, have had decades to sharpen those definitions and concretize the delineations into social consciousness. By the way, did you choose GenZ to indicate the last generation of true humanity?
But now, social media is awash in generational blame for current events and the debt, lack of affordability and perceived declining standard of living that Americans are facing. Younger people-actually very few people of any age-don't have the true education, information or wisdom to understand the imcomprehensible economic structure and equity stripping capitalism that we are facing today.
So, why not manipulate the discontent and fear into dividing up and erasing the most profound relationships of humans. That between parent and child.
Here's the (imagined) plan.
Take a person who represents "family". Who maybe represented a long time beloved family. Find a way to infiltrate that person's family. They are famous, and, conveniently, there are substance abuse issues with one or more of the family members. Substance abuse is the standard tool of the news media narrative to explain horrific events. Infiltrate the family with a trainer, manager, assistant, chef, or some other intimate, service related person. Kanye West style. Scrub that infiltrator's family history and bio, but make sure they have enough history left to give them "credibility".
Interestingly, this person has some curious history though. First, they were roommates with an attempted murder victim, came home drunk and didn't realize the roommate was dying until the next day(the roommate survived). Then, they sued a famous billionaires wife, who was a long time client, for publishing a book based on a story they had told. Another celebrity client, was accused of a "me too" type unwanted texting incident.
Maybe that person has the ability to enhance the substance abuse that a family member may be experiencing. Maybe there's a MKUltra type intervention that could be made to induce a murderous rage?
There is a new forensic tool that we've been made aware of since the Charlie Kirk murder. The tool is "google trends", which will provide search term data from any country, by date. The keywords "rob reiner son nick" were searched between August 10th and August 16th, 2025, from Israel. That is the only other time those keywords were ever used until the Reiner murders.
All speculation and imagination of course, but what a diabolical (and effective) way to sever that final bond. Not only has social media (and the psychiatric/pharma industry) been able to successfully alienate and estrange children from their parents in large numbers, now the parents can be engineered to fear their own children. There's a LOT of substance abuse out there.