Motivation

“Our” pearl-clutching AG sure is a piece of work. An alumnus of a private university whose mascot is the Hatter which I had to look up to find refers to one who makes hats. If it’s not pearls our former Hatter dons for a TV interview where her ignorance of the law was on full display then one will often see instead a Cross on a gold chain (b/c the king loves Gold) hanging penitently above the declivity of her breasts. And just as frequently you see face makeup inexpertly applied the likes of which no one has seen since Tammy Faye. The staid costume of obsequious Maga women I presume.

Montel Williams on CNN was right that the murderer was not politically motivated but was instead seething at his mark for the dehumanizing statements he’d evidently made about trans-ppl, one of which the murderer was falling for and falling for in the ordinary way that any pugnacious young man past or present has experienced falling for his first love. There’s your Occam’s razor motivation. It was a crime of passion. I was in an east side bar in Milwaukee in the 80s when a man “took exception” to another man dissing his girlfriend then smashed a bottle of PBR on the rail and thrust the jagged half of it into the face of the creep. There is protected speech, sure, though not all of it is prudent speech and in a dangerous world it’s important to be able to read the room. The victim’s wife had implored him to start wearing a bullet proof vest at his rallies (not that it would have stopped the bullet).

Montel Williams’ take on the motive of the murderer was dismissed by all other guests on the panel who preferred instead to pander to the rage of how he must’ve been politically motivated because discussing it as merely another du jour crime of passion in America doesn’t sell Ads (or fit the king’s narrative), nor would it animate the panel. Montel Williams if you ask me was the only one on that panel who understood the likely true provocation to violence.