UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot

[Doctor Phibes]

@Aqua-Letifer said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

If this were the CEO of Lego, the public reaction would have been very different.

At least from people who haven't stood on one of the fucking things tiptoeing barefoot to the bathroom at 3am.

[blondie]

@Doctor-Phibes said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

@Aqua-Letifer said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

If this were the CEO of Lego, the public reaction would have been very different.

At least from people who haven't stood on one of the fucking things tiptoeing barefoot to the bathroom at 3am.

Oh yeah. No parent ever forgets the pain inflicted by LEGO.

[LuFins Dad]

@blondie said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

@Doctor-Phibes said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

@Aqua-Letifer said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

If this were the CEO of Lego, the public reaction would have been very different.

At least from people who haven't stood on one of the fucking things tiptoeing barefoot to the bathroom at 3am.

Oh yeah. No parent ever forgets the pain inflicted by LEGO.

My problem isn’t the pain, it’s the boredom. Do you know how much of my life has been spent searching through piles to find just the right shade of blue thin rectangle with 6 studs in a row? “Oh, look! Here’s an aqua shade with the right configuration!” “No daddy, that’s too green!”

[George K]

Interesting:

[jon-nyc]

Am I the only one who at first glance reads this thread as ‘…finally shot’ rather than ‘fatally shot’?

[Axtremus]

@LuFins-Dad said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

"Fewer"

[Horace]

@George-K said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Interesting:

Is that the Justine Bateman we’re all familiar with? Pleasantly surprising if so. Her brother does a podcast which is typical Hollywood leftism, as far as I am aware. I haven’t listened, but that’s what I’ve gathered.

[George K]

@Horace said in UnitedHealthcare CEO fatally shot:

Is that the Justine Bateman we’re all familiar with?

Yep. That's her.

[jon-nyc]

Excerpt from Serious Trouble podcast about how it is that Luigi will face Federal capital charges

Josh Barro (02:00):
And so ordinarily murder is not a federal crime. What would make Brian Thompson's murder a federal crime?

Ken White (02:06):
Well, they have to bootstrap this a little bit, Josh, to get to the death-eligible murder charge. What they do is they charge him with interstate stalking, which is a federal crime, and then they tack onto that use of a firearm in the course of a federal crime, that federal crime being the interstate stalking. And then on top of that, they tack on the use of a firearm in a federal crime resulting in death, which is the one that's death eligible. So it's sort of like a multi-step process to be getting to deploy or he's eligible for the death penalty.

Josh Barro (02:44):
Oh, so that's interesting. So it's not so much about using the gun in the murder as using the gun in the stalking that makes it a federal gun crime that then results in death.

Ken White (02:54):
Right. The statute 9 24 C is a statute that adds on fairly draconian penalties to other crimes if they're federal, if you use a gun during them, and this is one where they stack up. So if you commit five bank robberies, you're looking at a mandatory minimum 85 years or something on top of the bank robbery sentence from using a gun in all those bank robberies. But it's basically a mechanism to get where they're going. And it all hinges on the concept that Mangione stalked Thompson across multiple states.