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I’d say take a look at the evolution of his psychosis rather than his politics.

His educational arc looks a lot like growing dysfunction.

Organic maybe... Cannabis maybe...

Lefty politics may make you illogical and excitable, but it takes a lot more to make you plan an assassination.

Give a schizophrenic a bunch of social support for their paranoia and maybe that’s what we got.

I don’t really care who Tyler slept with.

Picking out moral issues in the life of somebody who killed a man by shooting him in the throat with a rifle seems like missing the point.

The guy was psychotic. We are going to find destructive and self-destructive actions everywhere we take the trouble to look.

His political ideas are going to be crazy, too, if we want to look at those.

I prefer to keep my attention on the major crime and convict him of that.

With no evidence to add to this thread, I would still like to add the obvious.

Even though there was lots of planning and care by this killer, the important point is that he is psychotic.

Maybe drugs, maybe schizophrenia... Both fit the biography above.

That is not to say that this particular mode of acting out didn’t have roots in the political discourse.

Gosh. I’m just not on the same page with the “blame Patel for premature post” commenters.

Waiting for certainty is the chief culprit for holding onto information for days and weeks (Butler)

Waiting for certainty is the chief culprit for holding onto crime news for weeks until the story loses its relevance.

Keep us posted, Kash.

They don’t have that capability yet. Until Putin sees that, he is going to slow-walk peace talks in hopes that the Ukrainians collapse.

If that capability starts to look like a part of a realistic European future, then Putin has a real problem and will be more interested in talking.

Trump got the first two steps underway- a budget increase and a continent-wide meeting with Trump. Visible troop activity in Easter Europe somewhere and scary weapons in the field in Ukraine are the next two steps.

They are both doable. It may take months, but doable.

During the furor over the dramatic meetings last 2 weeks I noted that the Media were all missing what I thought was the key point.

The major figures and the media were all talking about the chances for a short term cessation of aggressive military action. Maybe a ceasefire, permanent peace possible, good stuff, dream stuff.

I was sitting back here in Virginia thinking that there isn’t going to be a lot of movement in the diplomatic side of this conflict until Trump assembles the leverage position that Biden so clearly lacked.

Get the Europeans together, raise the military contributions, get some troops in the field in Eastern Europe. Jawbone the press about incursions and outrages by Russia. Threaten Putin’s economy. Put some seriously scary weapons on the Ukrainian battlefield.

Then Putin says “No Mas”

Until then Putin’s better strategy is delay, and let the Ukrainians and the Trump administration, who both want and need peace push and beg with no hefty threats on their side of the discussions.

Getting the Europeans in the same room is a huge step in projecting Western power. If peace talks work, that’s great. If they fizzle then the Europeans can keep moving with the military and weaponry and economic isolation until Putin feels the damage to Russia’s long-term prospects.

Build the threats, for months if that’s what it takes, Then the talks will work.

I’m probably too soft and optimistic here, but...

I put together my faith in God and Man, my hope for political preferences for peace and prosperity, and a President that seems to be able to separate truth from tragic priors.

There can be a better world. Pray and Hope when it is possible. Maybe a few hours here is a good time for that.

I want investigations.

I don’t care about prosecution.

I care about winning elections.

Elections are the only way you get the evildoers on the Democrat side of the swamp out of the system. There are too many of them to prosecute effectively.

Even winning elections won’t get rid of the bad actors on our side of the swamp.

Since I believe the Russia Hoax was a seditious conspiracy, I’m not really likely to believe a statement from one of the primary conspirators.

Incidentally, I don’t really care whether Savage is charged as a criminal. In jail, out of jail, whatever... as long as this journalist/conspirator is discredited.

The leaders appear to me to be the only chargeable criminals in this story.

My plan (which Blue City Prosecutors never follow) is a simple charge of assault, aggravated assault, or gross bodily injury assault. No bail, no bargaining down.

The point is to avoid 2 year of hate crime, conspiracy or some other political icing on a straightforward crime with straightforward evidence.

Ya think I might be a little naive? You could be right.

I’m “mystified”, as Jonathan Capehart so memorably said when opining on Trump trouncing his beloved candidate (Harris). What is there to talk about? We have the video.

When you have a video, the “he said this, the other guy said that” part of litigating a fight isn’t that important. Who cares? We have the video.

Ordinarily we do some justifying to allocate culpability when we consider legal consequences for fight. In this case we can look at the tape. There isn’t going to be much justifying here unless the prosecutor or the court go political on the situation.

Assault or aggravated assault. If somebody wants to tack on a race charge or hate crime (as some Freepers seem to want) we can spin this out for years rather than just sending some vicious perps to the pokey.

This Freeper doesn’t need validation for my feelings about racism in the justice system. I want quick, efficient justice.

I think Maxwell had two periods of badness.

As you say, She was the Pimp’s main squeeze and social fixer. The Pimp was using underage (but physically mature) girls. Maxwell was a Bad girl. She was convicted of that.

Earlier, I understand she was a major enabler of Epstein’s statutory rapes (physically immature girls). He was convicted (of a reduced charge). She skated back then.

Justice isn’t going to happen here. Truth might.

I think maybe I’m not a good Free Republic citizen on this.

As long as Gabbard gets the documents out, puts her own face on TV and generally steps up to take the Main Stream Media heat, I’m pretty happy- proud actually.

Pam Bondi steps up next. She doesn’t have to prosecute unless the DOJ has the good for a conviction. She does have to take the heat- from the Democrats, from the White House, from the Free Republic.

I’m not feeling vengeful here. I want a better country. The old men that fired off Russiagate were bad dudes. They deserve the shame. Throwing old men in prison? What for? My taxes pay for their care. If there is a good criminal case, let Bondi go for it. If there isn’t, take the heat from everybody and keep on doing the work the DOJ is supposed to be doing.

The really bad characters are the media thugs who ran this story on a batch of partisan leaks from a biased Security Establishment. News people are supposed to be better than that.

I’m right there with you about Conservative Inc.

The Republicans spent 20 years saying conservative things and doing nothing... Maybe slowed the Dems down a little.

Trump lists targets, goes all in, and get results.

Polls are going to miss Trumps political throw-weight because they only measure voter opinions about preferred media topics.

This horrific situation certainly justifies the harsh punishments that Freepers are voicing.

I’ve got to caution:

This area of high-profile horror is like campus racist incidents. The bad ones are horrible. False reports are all too common. Law enforcement (and child protection, where I worked) is not really equipped to handle this kind of thing.

Emotions get in the way of accuracy.

For issues like the Middle East, it is always the same.

Even big events devolve into “Another day, another dollar.”

The U.S. administration does the best it can, a recent success, a ton of missteps along before that, some negotiations that sort of worked, many that definitely didn’t.

Then another year comes along and we get back to work. Reminds me of farming actually.

My Father was from Texas. I had jalapenos for baby food. Sadly, he said I wasn’t ready for a real test, and I have never dared go there.

I’m old now, but I have a grandson who may grow up to be worthy, if there aren’t too many New York survivors by the time he grows up.

There is no Democratic Party... except maybe for us to call them out and fuss at them.

The new name for the liberal side of the US voter population is “The Resistance”.

Any pretense of other values or priorities is only to be found in our elderly (and in my case, beloved) family members.

I want to hear more about the “businesses”. They could be part of a fantasy that he was trying to pass into a reality.

No evidence for this. Just a thought.

I’m kind of thinking he might be a security guy trying to build up some demand for his services. Could this be somebody who has gone crazy for money and a job?