OK, It's Been Long Enough

Hot takes are usually defective, so when something like yesterday's assassination takes place I try to make myself give it at least a little time before speculating in a lot of detail. Or at least speculating in a lot of detail on this blog -- on social media, I'm fine with throwing around hypotheses.

Less than a day certainly isn't a lot of time, but it's starting to have been enough time for a certain amount of reasonable speculation.

Yesterday on X, Hector Roos shared a post from Laura Loomer.

Loomer: "This was a professional hit job. Maybe even a foreign funded hit job ..."

Roos: "You know in your heart she's right about this."

Me: "If it was a professional hit job it wasn't a very good one. Any Marine with decent basic marksmanship training can hit a stationary human target at 200 meters easily, and without a scope. And do so center mass, not in the neck."

Roos: "The getaway with no real suspects is more the indicator. Not the shot."

Me: "I'm trying not to get ahead of the known facts. But if it WAS a professional hit, my suspect list would start with 'people who want other people talking about something, anything other than the Epstein files.'"

Roos: "Yes, cui bono."

All of that was more than 10 hours ago.

As of now, there are still, at least so far as the public knows, no suspects in custody.

So I'm starting to think that Loomer and Roos may be correct.

And if they're correct, there's a good chance I'm correct.

Cui bono?

Charlie Kirk instantly became better-known than ever before.

His ideas -- not all of which, btw, were terrible -- instantly got a "martyrdom" boost.

Donald Trump instantly got a whole new bag of fodder for designating enemies to be crushed.

And MAGA instantly started talking about something other than the Epstein files.

If those were the goals of the assassin and/or whoever might have been behind the assassin ...

If there were any other political goals involved, it's an own goal for the assassin and/or the assassin's team.

If it was just some lone nut who hears voices or whatever, I guess we'll just have ask said lone nut when and if he or she is captured.