“Brilliant” does not imply “moral,” “just,” “honorable,” “fair,” or any other such ethically-positive meanings.
For all I can’t stand Clinton or 0bama, they are brilliant in their deviousness.
It’s good to see at least some folks are still capable of thinking.
It depends where you stand. If you are a property owner, the stranger is the one violating your house. If you are the squater, the stranger is the owner of the house who has this bed.
The squater/predator has obviously an observation time advantage, but that is not brilliance in and of itself, though it may breed some unique skills in terms of shrewdness.
Now the persecuted owner thrown out by a squater may become observer and appear to others as a squater. That’s when the game of “brilliance” contest comes to a head for real. One who can rebuild both property and defeat at the same time evil truly shines.
... and that picture of O’Day holing a stuffed arctic seal is no accident. That girl is a squaty and a groupie con artist of her own kind.
It’s the code language these people adopt, a sort of political handshake.