The spreading cancer of social media celebration following the brutal early morning murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson proves that brutal bloodlust runs deep in America.
It’s not just that this cold-blooded New York murder has all the hallmarks of an addictive true crime saga. With a handsome and mysterious gunman still on the loose, New York’s top cops in chaos and few to no leads after three full days, seething online hatred fills the vacuum and tries to justify a sickening act.
The first failed attempt on Donald Trump’s life this summer seems to have whetted our collective appetite for the macabre. Now we have bypassed the Polite Period – at least when we should pretend to be sympathetic to the victim’s family – and headed straight to the comments section to see who the crueler creep could be.
Thompson – a father of two – expected it, these corpulent keyboard criminals shout, pointing to his $10 million salary package and United’s $280 billion annual revenue as “proof.”
It’s not just the armchair horrors. Professional attention shrews — like former Washington Post nut Taylor Lorenz — quickly crept to the surface.
Disgusted Lorenz appeared to celebrate Thompson’s death. “CEO gone,” she raged, later sharing a photo of another insurer boss, as if to say, “you’re next!”
I get it, the hatred of the predatory insurance industry is palpable. It’s one of the few things that angers a Midwestern Karen more than politics. And people should be able to actively jump on Big Health.
But gleefully celebrating the murder of a man because you’re unable to express your grudge is a varsity-level mass psychosis if I’ve ever seen it.
The spreading cancer of social media celebration following the brutal early morning murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson proves that brutal bloodlust runs deep in America. (Photo: the alleged shooter).
The only thing more idiotic than cheering for the real Purge is treating the alleged shooter like a cute winner of the Timothee Chalamet lookalike contest.
We woke up to the Joker movie, which, I hate to tell you, ends badly for everyone.
Starving criminal
Convicted Epstein madam Ghislaine Maxwell is whining because the cramped Florida prison where she is rotting can no longer afford her fancy ‘vegetarian diet plan’.
She was suffering due to Thanksgiving, sources told the Mail, adding that conditions are so bad that the roof regularly leaks and there is no money for medicine.
Yes lady, prison sucks. Why do you think Jeffrey Epstein insulted himself?
Shave, Jacob!
Maybe he went from Saltburn to razor burn because former hot pot of coffee Jacob Elordi showed up at the Marrakech Film Festival looking like a hobo with a full, red beard. Who does he think he is, Prince Harry?
For someone so genetically gifted, he’s doing himself a disservice by rocking that groundhog on his face.
Maybe he went from Saltburn to razor burn because former hot pot of coffee Jacob Elordi showed up at the Marrakech Film Festival looking like a hobo with a full, red beard. Who does he think he is, Prince Harry?
MSNBC meltdown
In the aftermath of the elections, there is chaos at the left-wing MSNBC.
In fact, the entire network could soon wake up if Comcast passes this loser off to the highest bidder. Anyone have a tenner left?
Elon Musk is threatening to buy it, and lord only knows what would then happen to Rachel Maddow’s hefty new salary of $25 million — which is actually $5 million lighter than her last contract.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, with Maddow himself pinning it on morning show defectors Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski for suddenly sucking in Donald Trump to Mar-a-Lago after months of comparing him to Hitler. They literally had brunch at the Eagle’s Nest!
As if this sinking ship didn’t have enough pirates, former MSNBC grump (and Maddow mentor) Keith Olbermann has turned on Raging Rachel, labeling her as “unprincipled.”
Man, if they rolled the cameras around and started a reality show for the staff, the ratings would be a hit!
Filthy Gillian
Gillian Anderson has gone from X Files to X-rated with her latest artistic romp: an anthology of anonymized women’s sexual fantasies, collected and titled “Want.”
Sounds like faux-feminized and overly intellectual garbage destined for the clearance shelves.
Although I have to confess my… want to would one day share the same male model as Gillian. Oh wait, that actually happened in the 90s. But, unlike Gillian’s sexually repressed lady wails, I don’t kiss and tell.
Gillian Anderson has gone from X Files to X-rated with her latest artistic romp: an anthology of anonymized women’s sexual fantasies, collected and titled “Want.”
Still stands
Sir Elton John, 77, has revealed he is now blind in one eye and fears he will not live long enough to see his young sons married.
The revelation, made in a new documentary, left his husband David Furnish, 62, in tears.
No doubt he was considering the sad reality and the possibility of a relationship with an age difference.
The truth is that old Elton will probably outlive us all. At least his music does.
White House Grinch
Fresh out of the grace gate, the White House mantel is looking a little bare this year. In the past, stockings were hung for each Biden grandchild with such cruel care.
See, alone legit grandchildren were represented in recent Christmases, with Hunter’s bastard – conceived via stripper – denied a festive sock.
Sure, her mother worked at a shakedown joint, but she has as much Biden blood running through her as the rest of the brood and deserved a little public love (if not a future seat on the Burisma board).
Now she’ll never get the chance.