I decided to watch Tucker Carlson’s show about Thomas Crooks, the guy who tried to assassinate Trump. Once again—and this is hilarious—the moment I switch on Carlson’s channel, everything turns into Russian. Carlson’s voiceover is in Russian, the ads are in Russian. I switch it into English but if I leave the site and come back, it’s all Russian again. None of this ever happens when I watch actual Russian-language channels on which I appear. Or Soviet movies on Russian-language channels. I’m telling you, folks, the algorithm knows.
In any case, the theory Tucker advances is based on two assumptions:
- It’s suspicious that Crooks’s ideology changed dramatically during COVID. He was far-right as a teenager but then COVID hit, and he became far-left.
This assumption is grounded in a false theory of mind. Not only teenagers but middle-aged people (khm, khm) changed their political beliefs between 2019 and 2021. Leaving me aside, we all know people who switched sides during those years. We might ourselves be those people.
- 2. Crooks posted threats if violence on social media for years, and it’s impossible that the FBI wasn’t tracking him.
Again, this is based on a faulty engagement with reality. Go on any social network at any time, and you will find crowds and crowds of people running their mouths, posting every threat imaginable. The idea that the FBI can track all of these people is utterly insane.
From Tucker’s own reporting, it’s clear that Crooks was a weirdo who first adored Trump and then switched into hating him as intensely. That the authorities didn’t do anything about his radicalization is understandable because there’s a lot of angry online commenting and it’s unrealistic to expect the authorities to monitor every commenter when there’s tons of actual violent crime that doesn’t get solved.
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Crazy people exist and do crazy things. That seems to sum this all up.
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LOL, Kid, you have to know that many thinking people at some point during Covid noticed that the wild conspiracists’ theories seemed disturbingly accurate. And far too many observed that the security forces supposedly protecting an ex-president were beyond even bloody DEI incompetence — an average hunter with that equipment could hardly have missed at that range.
Of course, I am am old phart and remember the Warren Commission trying to tell us to just suspend the behavior of the universe, i.e., Newton’s laws of motion, specifically the third law that when one object exerts a force on another, the second object exerts a force of equal magnitude and opposite direction on the first. Mind you, I always was stubborn that way ;-D
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