Company President Stabbed In Muskegon, Michigan

They’re still searching for a motive to the attack last I checked in the news. But I’ve got a theory.

One of the reasons for school shootings was thought to be infamy. Nobodies who wanted to be known for something could do something terrible and inevitably end up in the news. But school shootings are just about universally reviled, so much so that some people pretend they didn’t happen to cope with the horrible reality of our time. At least that’s what I tell myself.

With the Brian Thompson story, people were applauding — some of them — some people were happy. It was a long time coming in the words of some. To them, a system that legally kills thousands had a shot fired at it.

And again, with this stabbing, you’ve actually got people cheering the attacker. They see special treatment of the wealthy as a slap in the face to things like equality under the law.

We’ve now entered a period in history where people are realizing you can stab your boss, get a little fame and a fan club, and the state will feed and shelter you so you can escape the 9 to 5 grind. It doesn’t quite have the same evil tone as shooting kids — despite killing of kids being a lower priority problem for the United States of America and law enforcement than the killing of a CEO.

I’m somewhat kidding of course. But also just a little serious. I think we’re going to see a lot more of these attacks until the U.S. starts to bend pro-labor. People are snapping because the economic conditions created by legal action and inaction are squeezing them, or for the empathetic, others around them. What do you do when you feel you are under attack? Fight or flight, and a lot of us have nowhere to run from burnout.

Take it from someone that knows, it’s hard to snap violently when all your basic needs are taken care of and you feel you have something to live for. It takes a relatively broken person to seek violence for the “thrill” of it from my observation of the world. But humans are all pretty much capable of turning the empathy off and turning to violence if the mood calls for it. It’s the job of policymakers to create conditions that don’t inspire that mood.

You can’t tsk, tsk, tsk away the human condition. You can only create conditions where only the most depraved do the kinds of things we’ve been reading about recently, and only the most deranged cheer them on.

Do I know the motive? No. My guess is as good as anyone else’s.

But I’ve predicted things a time or two, and my prediction here stands. We need a pro-labor bend to stifle the wave of violence we are likely to see.

It’s been said that people encourage the use of proper channels because they own the proper channels and are sure proper channels won’t work. Given the federal court’s recent attack on overtime pay and the Ohio Supreme Court’s refusal to allow a straightforward negligence case to trial, even I’m starting to buy into that rhetoric.

Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem like we’ll get a pro-people bend in government any time soon. The incoming administration has a goal to dismantle the FDIC, putting all of our savings at risk. Imagine a world where our savings aren’t backed by the United States government — just another stress point for a population that’s already overworked and underpaid. Now you’ll have to worry about whether your bank will belly flop into bankruptcy too! May it never come to pass.

I’m one of the most privileged people out there. You know what I want for this country? I want everybody to have what I have. The privileged people above me? They want what little you got.

Oh, and if it should come to light that the attack was due to mental illness…

Another three cheers for universal healthcare.

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Governor Hochul Considers CEO Safety Hotline in New York

This has got to be a joke, right?

We have a hotline for people that want to report illegal conduct, threatening conduct, and other emergency-inspired conduct. It’s called nine-one-one (911).

It says they’re concerned with businesses relocating and endangering New York City’s $1.286 trillion GDP. I say let’em go. New York is one of the safest big cities in America when it comes to gun violence. Any business that’s planning to relocate if they don’t get a hotline is ran by a reactionary idiot that’ll put your trillion-dollar GDP in jeopardy anyway with their sheer stupidity.

They’re gonna get homeland security and all these counter terrorism folks together in a circle jerk and go “yeah, yeah, more funding for us because terrorism is bad.”

I am beyond disgusted. I hope the hotline gets clogged with bullshit calls from dawn until dusk and they’re forced to shut it down for how much time and energy it wastes.

Improve 911. Improve safety for everyone. If businesses aren’t happy with that, they need to leave. They don’t need special treatment because of their feelings. Do any of us get special treatment from the NYPD when we’re afraid? I mean, not for nothing, but I went to a precinct during my psychosis episode years ago to report that I believed I was being poisoned and they told me to go away, no questions asked. We can argue whether they were wrong or right because obviously the truth of the matter is I had not been poisoned. But we sure as hell didn’t roll out a special hotline when several people were shot by NYPD on the subway, and we shouldn’t roll out a special hotline now.

How many people have family members gunned down by gang violence? Where’s their hotline?

I don’t care if it costs a dime. Waste of time and money better spent on almost anything else.

I did take the time out to let the governor know this.

Stenonymous sends hilarious message to Governor Hochul of New York State.

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Am I an artist?

Brianna Boston Arrested: “Delay. Deny. Depose. You People Are Next!” Free Speech or True Threat?

This will shed a little light on what I’m talking about.

To be completely fair, I haven’t reviewed the Florida statute that she’s charged under. But basically she calls Blue Cross Blue Shield about some denied claims. Gets angry. Says “Delay, Deny, Depose, you people are next!” And gets charged with terrorism or something like that, with $100,000 bail. Apparently she’s a mom with no history of violence and no criminal history.

My gut reaction? The authorities are in fear mode. They know that there were a lot of people happy about the recent shooting I blogged about, and they think they can contain that stuff by making people afraid of what the law might do to them if they step out of line.

But screw my gut feeling. Let’s be real. Under American law, speech is not protected by the First Amendment if it is a true threat.

So I googled true threat and let the AI do the work for me.

A true threat is a statement that a reasonable person would interpret as a serious expression of intent to commit unlawful violence against another person.

Well, I can kinda see problems with this prosecution already. Does a reasonable person believe “you people are next” from a mom that’s angry about her claim being denied really mean she’s going to commit unlawful violence against them? I see how we could get there. But I also think there are much more “violent” statements that the police would never arrest anyone for.

For example, I was once told by the relative of someone I was dating that if I hurt her, they would kill me. And you know, when he said it, I was actually a little scared. Now, I didn’t run to the police. But I know the vibe of cops on Staten Island, and I have a feeling that if I went to them and recited this, they’d laugh at my face and tell me to go away. I’ll never know for sure.

But I know for a fact that when a doorman called the NYPD during my medical incident in Manhattan years ago, where that doorman obviously felt the situation required police intervention, they just never showed up. So, you know, for us little people, at least anecdotally and from stories I’ve heard over the years, it’s hit or miss on whether the cops are going to help you, shoot you, or no show. But when you make an off comment to an insurance company employee? Boom. Arrested. 100k bail. I know it’s different states. I concede that.

I think the hinge here is intent. Did she intend to communicate a threat of violence? And I guess that depends very much on the definition of intent.

Did she intend to threaten the person on the other end of that phone?

What will the courts ultimately decide? I don’t know. I’m not a lawyer and I could easily see myself arguing it either way.

But my gut, again, is telling me this is a not guilty situation. It’s more a crime of stupidity than any actual terrorism.

Then again, we live in a country where people who post legal annotations online have been called terrorist.

Maybe I’m a terrorist too?

United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson Assassinated

Brian Thompson of United Healthcare was shot dead yesterday. After he was shot and killed, there was a curious reaction unrecognized by the media. Memes and celebrations have already begun by those that see corporate greed as a danger to them or their families. Indeed, this crosses the usual left-right boundaries, with commentators of many political persuasions coming together to point out United Healthcare had twice the percentage of denials as the industry standard.

Brian Thompson, CEO of United Healthcare, shot dead on December 4, 2024.

Funny enough, United Healthcare recently denied me for a vaccine I’m supposed to get, so I guess we can add me to the list of suspects (joke).

This is no laughing matter. A man’s dead. I don’t cheer for that. But I must echo what I’ve said in the past. When people get angry, they do things they would never otherwise do. Unmet needs are a hell of a drug. To an extent, this is manageable through law, and where people violate the law, they should be held accountable. But if we create through legal action and inaction economic conditions where guns are widely accessible and people are being economically squeezed, eventually there will be more armed and angry people than there are people to enforce the law, and societal order will break down pretty quick. This isn’t a threat. It’s my honest observation and assessment of the world. Said another way, bullets are cheaper than therapy. Likewise, people celebrating a death are looking for an outlet for their anger.

This is one of the reasons I was so adamant about being a beacon with regard to corporate fraud. In the old days people fought and died in labor disputes. Unions and legal recourse were a compromise. I aimed to show people we could use words to fight back against the dirty things being done to us. In my view, we’re now entering a frankly psychotic period in history where anything done in the name of the dollar is justified under the law and people feel helpless. People feel like the law is being used as a sword against the working class and a shield for those who would exploit them. As the number of people that feel that way grows, we approach very volatile, scary times.

I don’t know if any of the politicians or judges I write to follow my stuff. But now is the time for action. Now is the time to realize and recognize that some people are GLAD a man is dead because to them he is a symbol of a system of governance that is oppressive and allows oppression of the people by the unelected. And if we continue on the trajectory we’re on where all of you stand around letting corporate players screw working people there will be more blood on your hands — and most assuredly some of you will die too. Again, not a threat, an observable and objective assessment of the trajectory that we are headed in as a society and human nature as a whole, using history as a gentle guide.

Conceded, of course, that we don’t know the actual shooter’s motives. They’re irrelevant for this discussion anyway. The visceral pleasure some are feeling in the wake of Brian Thompson’s shooting is the point. And I lay the blame firmly on the policymakers that have, through cowardice and callousness, allowed such feelings to thrive.

As of writing there are many reasons I have for coming to this conclusion. Because I cannot speak more on this topic at this time for myriad reasons I invite my readers and all of my friends in government to ponder why Christopher Day believes people have lost faith in the rule of law and why that will lead to, again, a very scary place.

But you know what will take us away from that very scary place?

Free healthcare and higher wages. Meeting the needs of a growing and modern population.

Choice is yours.

Choice is only mine if we make me president in 2028. Someone like me could solve these problems in a few short months with the wide-ranging powers the judiciary and legislature handed to the executive branch in the last decades.

I’ll be eligible. Think it over, America.

Make murder bad again?

Or turn it off and pretend what people talk about when they’re anonymous doesn’t have any impact on reality.

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