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news? Like I can say it because I'm just this guy with a live stream but CNN, Fox News, there's nobody who's willing to say that man is obviously super drunk and not just a little bit. He was super drunk. Because even the things he said I don't think he would say if he hadn't been drunk. So I'm not excusing him. It's no excuse. In fact it's twice as bad if you're being a bad role model and you're…

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e story in the New York Post is written by three authors and one of them is listed as Anita Behole. Anita Behole. Is that a real name? No. I think I'll just leave it right there. Need a be hole. It's probably different than a front hole.

All right, let's talk about that CEO healthcare killer. So he's been caught and he was in fact an Ivy League smart guy. Now this is where you should check your predictions. Do you remember when the only thing we knew was the first video of the shooting itself and do you know how many people said, well that's a professional hitman right there. There's a professional. You can tell it's a professional. And I said the one thing I'm sure of is that's not a professional. The only thing I'm 100% sure of, it wasn't a professional. So check your predictions. If you said it was a professional you were really wrong. If you said it was not a professional, well so far you're right.

Now you may not remember this. I'll see if anybody remembers me saying it. I said he wasn't a professional hitman but he was unusually smart and I predicted he had a technical background and he's an engineer, programmer. Yep, technical background. So I'm not claiming I get every prediction right. That's not the point of this. But since I make predictions as part of what I do it's incumbent upon me to tell you when I get one wrong and when I get one right.

I still don't think we know exactly what the weapon was which is weird. There's some question whether it was 3D printed. There was a point I was going to say that out loud. What if that might be 3D printed? And the reason I thought that is that I thought he was unusually good techie. So I thought well if there were, if anybody ever were going to do a high-profile murder with a 3D printed gun it would be somebody exactly like that guy. So we don't know if it's a 3D printed gun but I think the possibility is still there.

He comes from a super rich Baltimore family and we know that he had a serious back injury which somebody said prevented him from ever being in a romantic relationship because he wouldn't be able to essentially seal the deal sexually. And some say that when he got that back injury that he was never the same and he took a dark turn. Now I don't know if that's something that they say after the fact. Like would they have said that about him if he had not been accused of murdering somebody? Did they really notice the dark turn? I don't know. It might be confirmation bias but it would explain some things.

So apparently he was a big reader too. He had it on Goodreads. He had the list of all the books he's read and the ones he wants to read and he really read a lot of books. That guy was really smart and well informed. But I of course checked to see if he read any of my books. He did read at least two books that according to the Perplexity AI app were influenced by me. So appa

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rently my influence reached the shooter through other people's books but according to AI. Anyway so he didn't have one of my books on there. I think if he read my books probably he would have been fine. No that's not true. But he wrote a 262 page handwritten manifesto and he was against the big corporations taking advantage of people. And so apparently he was making a statement. So the other thin…

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