(07-30-2024, 12:38 PM)F2d5thCav Wrote: The FBI doesn't seem to know much anymore, other than how to harass opponents of the Dem party. What a scandalous mess.
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I'm going to go out on a limb and see if I can't scoop the FBI on another front page item: motive.
I'm pretty sure his only motive was being an "incel". He had no strong political leanings, so the motive wasn't political. He had researched Trump, Biden, several congress critters of both parties, Trump and Biden's rallies, the DNC convention, and even the British Royal Family. He wasn't interested in the target's politics. He appears to have only been interested in scoping out high profile targets that might net him a bunch of notoriety.
I've seen no mention, or even suggestion, that he had any girlfriends - or boyfriends for that matter. We're in the 21st century now, y'know? Most of the mass shooters of the past 40 years have been "incels", and he has all the earmarks of one.
Now the fact is, there is no such thing as an "incel" in this day and age. No one is actually involuntarily celibate. Feminism has convinced women to give it away for free because, "grrl pwr", "my body, my choice", and all that shit, and nowadays they brag about "body counts" in TikTok videos. Of course men always have been, and still are, horn dogs. Getting laid is a viable option on any corner these days. So, anyone celibate is voluntarily so.
To be fair, many of them just can't see that they themselves are the only thing standing between themselves and a life of uninhibited debauchery. Fin was a prime example - he'd build a brick wall between himself and any woman who so much as smiled at him, and would then blame it on "respecting" them. That's utter bullshit - I have NEVER dated a woman I couldn't respect! Why would any self-respecting man lower himself to date only women he couldn't respect? Where's the future in that? But that was Fin's gig. Almost all of us tried to help him and counsel him about it, and none of it ever stuck. One day, we'll probably read about him in the Finnish newspapers.
A young man, like the shooter, is chasing women if he's healthy, both physically and mentally. A buildup of testosterone makes 'em mean, and that combined with the "incel" mental health problems is a bad combination that usually comes out in a burst of violence.
I'd bet dollars against donuts that is what actually sparked this assassination attempt.
And this kid might have been some kind of genius, but that didn't save him from doing dumb shit with faulty reasoning. I would also guess that he thought he was going to survive it. He probably studied up on Oswald, Squeaky Fromm, John Hinkley, etc, and came to the conclusion that the worst that could happen to him was that he would get arrested. After all, THOSE assassins didn't get shot... well, Oswald did, but only days after the assassination itself. That's NEVER a sure bet when you go to shooting at people when there are others present with guns of their own, and bright as he is claimed to have been, he wasn't bright enough to figure that out.
The relics in his car, the IEDs, the ballistic vest, the spare magazines - those indicate to me that he planned to survive and possibly continue on with his rampage. Someone planning to "go out in a blaze of glory" and die in the attempt would have taken those with him when he went to do the shooting, in order to maximize his destructive potential before he was inevitably brought down.
We're getting at least some of the puzzle pieces, but what we're not getting is an explanation of why the FBI seems incapable of putting them together themselves. S'ok. So long as they keep putting out the puzzle pieces, I can put 'em together myself, and don't need the FBI to do it for me.
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