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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 p…

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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 thing I said was the murder looked like it was personal as opposed to something he did for money. Would you call that personal? It wasn't personal in terms of relationships but it was very personal in terms of he had a deep personal hatred for people like that CEO. So it feels like it was an emotion-based thing although calculated too but not about any family or girlfriend situation. Anyway he lashed out against companies trying to quote continue to abuse our country for immense profits and get away with it.

So here's my continued profile now that we know these things. Do you believe that the back surgery could have changed him mentally in a way that would effectively make him almost a mental illness? Do you think that that's what happened? Could you explain it by a normal surgery that triggers some kind of mental destabilization? And is that a thing? I probably should have asked AI before I asked you but I feel like that could be a thing especially if you have lots of anesthesia and you're down for a while and then you come back and then you're probably on painkillers and maybe the painkillers are depressing as well. So I guess I can see that the surgery would cause substantial changes in his mental state. But why would it cause this change? This is such a specific thing.

Here's my best guess. So we know that he was born with seemingly every advantage. He is handsome. He's completely ripped. If you see the pictures of him he had an eight pack. And so he's handsome, fit, family is rich, he's a genius, he has a killer smile. He basically had everything. He had everything. And then he gets the back injury and he loses everything in the sense that he doesn't have the possibility of being in a relationship according to him because of his back and maybe he doesn't have any good days because of his back. So imagine if you were born into a highly successful family and from the time you were young you just assumed with all of your gifts that you would be highly successful and change the world too. And then you find out none of that's going to

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happen and you realize that you don't have a path to being important. And he probably was raised with the expectation that given all of his gifts, his brilliance, etc., that he was going to be important. Maybe a politician, maybe change the world, maybe invent something. And then he finds out none of that's going to happen and there's nothing he can do about it. What would you do in that situation…

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