Trans at the Supreme Court and applause for an assassination.

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So MBD, we have this shocking,

early morning assassination in Midtown Manhattan of a health insurance executive shot initially in the back and then at close range as he spun around. the guy got away, although the police now seemed to have developed a number of very good leads.

The act itself, shocking, unconscionable.

And then the reaction among some people said, yeah, good.

You know, this is a terrible company.

This is a terrible business. This is a terrible guy. He deserved to die and maybe something good. You know, this is a terrible company. This is a terrible business. This is a

terrible guy. He deserved to die and maybe something, well, good will come from it. It's really

the most pro-terrorist, frankly, pro-terrorism sentiment we've seen in America since the pro-Hamas

protests. Yeah, it's an ugly thing. I think it's an, you know, I think it's unfortunately a natural thing.

You know, this, this is a person that no one knows, right? And no one knew of this person before.

And they have no humanizing connection to him, right? Like, you know, Americans wouldn't feel this, you wouldn't get this reaction for any rich guy, right?

Like, if George Clooney was assassinated tomorrow in Manhattan the same way,

it would just be a pure outpouring of grief because people have this human connection to him.

And this guy, a healthcare CEO, is just, you know, totally anonymous.

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