{"id":4057,"date":"2024-12-08T18:25:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2024-12-08T18:25:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T23:25:53","slug":"god-bless-us-every-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"God Bless Us, Every One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/godblessus150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/godblessus650w.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting,<\/strong> I didn&#8217;t hear it all \u2014 just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;United Healthcare<\/a> CEO&#8221; and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhc.com\/news-articles\/newsroom\/uhg-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&#8220;shot in NYC&#8221;,<\/a> and that was about it. I assumed it was your standard-issue random street crime until I started getting the details \u2014 especially the word &#8220;targeted&#8221; yelled over and over \u2014 and thought &#8220;whoa, man, shit&#8217;s gettin&#8217; real&#8230;!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Predictably, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/WSJ_A1_Dec0524_brianthompson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a> treated it like the JFK assassination; splashed<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/brianthompsonshooting_cctv_frame.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> that CCTV shot<\/a> over the front page like an Abraham Zapruder frame. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/NYT_A1_Dec0524_brianthompson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> was surprisingly factual as the shooter really did go to the trouble of stalking Mr. Big Shot and it was, in fact, a pretty goddamn bold assasination.<\/p>\n<p>Gotta love the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/wapo_A1_Dec0524_brianthompson.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Washington Post,<\/em> <\/a>though; they say the police are looking for a motive \u2014 <em><strong>a motive,<\/strong> f&#8217;crissake.<\/em> Hell, gang, if you want a goddamn&#8217; <em>motive,<\/em> you might want to ask around the huge-ass numbers of people who had to go to an ER and were dinged for a $10,000 ambulance ride.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.5 x 14 inch medium-res <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sinkers.org\/posters\/godblessus\/godblessus150dpi.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">color .jpg image,<\/a> 588kb<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first caught the news about the Brian Thompson shooting, I didn&#8217;t hear it all \u2014 just &#8220;United Healthcare CEO&#8221; and &#8220;shot in NYC&#8221;, and that was about it. I assumed it was your standard-issue random street crime until I started getting the details \u2014 especially the word &#8220;targeted&#8221; yelled over and over \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[1473,386,448,1472],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","tag-brian-thompson","tag-class-warfare","tag-shooting","tag-united-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sinkers.org\/stage\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}