Shot in the Dark

Boelter

Berg’s 18th Law got its biggest workout ever over this past weekend.  

Nothing the media writes/says about any emotionally charged event – a mass shooting, a police shooting, anything – should be taken seriously for 48 hours after the original incident.  It will largely be rubbish, as media outlets vie to “scoop” each other even on incorrect facts.

 

Starting with the first roujnd of tweets at 6AM, the story morphed from:

  1. A rabid Trump supporter must have done it
  2. An insane narcissist who wanted to go out in a misguided blaze of glory did it. 
  3. A DFL irate over the vote over the “healthcare for illegals” vote last week (which Senator Hoffman didn’t buck the DFL on)
  4. A Dayton and Walz appointee did it!
  5. A guy whose non-profit got gutted by USAID cuts did it. 
  6. A Pro-Lifer did it!
  7. A guy with a bizarre and incongruous resume did it. 

I started at #2, and due to the 18th Law, gravitated back there by late Saturday afternoon.  I just hoped we’d catch the guy alive. 

And they did:

But the questions are just starting.

This take seems very plausible, given what we know…

With the qualifier “given what we know” doing a lot of lifting.

And again, knowing what we know now, if I had to guess (and I don’t, but I will), I’m going to guess the Boelter is a grab bag opportunist with some vague right-wing trappings, a history of grifting, and a building wave of mental illness.  

One thing I don’t have to guess about:  he won’t be to the right what Luigi Mangione is to the left:

I might have met Speaker Hortman twice, and didn’t form much of a personal opinion – but although I disagreed with 150% of her policies, by all accounts she was a perfectly wonderful human being:

The boundaries of Berg’s 18th Law are arbitrary – 48 hours was a good place to start.   With Boulter in custody, we may start getting things in order.  

Speculation later.  

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10 responses to “Boelter”

  1. Jay Dee Avatar
    Jay Dee

    Wanna bet this fool mysteriously commits suicide while in custody?

    Another mystery is why was his wife, former wife?, apprehended near Leech Lake with guns & multiple passports?

  2. gl whisler Avatar
    gl whisler

    There is a corollary to the law.
    The left will use the first 48 hours to get all sorts of misinformation out there as reporting. The Whuffos will lock onto this misinformation.
    The media will quietly “correct” this report sometime later but the Whuffos will continue to parrot the lies.

    ( Whuffo you need an AR for? )

  3. golfdoc50 Avatar
    golfdoc50

    I’m old enough to remember when JFK was assassinated. At the time, before Oswald had been captured, but long after as well, the Right got hit with responsibility for the climate of hate in Dallas that caused the murder. If you read Stephen King’s 11/22/63 you’ll see what I mean. An otherwise intelligent and literate man whose liberalism has strangled his powers of reason. Hence an assassin of a businessman is met with indifference or accolades. The equally evil political assassination is met by an impulse to condemn anyone who may have shared unrelated but superficially comparable beliefs. So any principled objection to abortion tags the author as authorization of murder.

  4. ArthurRadley Avatar
    ArthurRadley

    Some guy did some things. Let’s move on.

  5. ArthurRadley Avatar
    ArthurRadley

    Hey, ever thought about moving this blog to Substack? Seems like a great way to liven things up.

  6. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    More or less, the claim made by “Data Republican” is that this guy’s crimes are more or less his midlife crisis gone super toxic. Given that every guy has moments when he realizes he’s not going to achieve some life goal, pretty darned hard to police for that.

  7. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    Jay Dee;
    Your suicide theory looks more plausible today.
    At least three reliable internet sleuths, including local guy Dustin Grage, are saying Boelter is a patsy for a larger plot. The guy they showed in the latex mask to hide his identity, is about a foot shorter than Boelter. Further, the “list” of Democrat officials, included Kari Dziedzic, who died six months ago and Mike Freeman, who hasn’t been in office for two years. They are also pointing to those pieces of paper with “No Kings” printed on them. Looks too staged. Finally, his “roommate” claimed that he voted for Trump and the reading of Boelter’s supposed text, sounded scripted.

  8. John "Bigman" Jones Avatar
    John “Bigman” Jones

    The story went international. I bet the press was hounding the ex-wife mercilessly. I’d have fled, too.

  9. jdm Avatar
    jdm

    Both Jay Dee’s and boss’ comments can also exist with datarepublican’s perspective. I mean, I would not be surprised that the DemoCommies have a list of flunkies who just need the proper “encouragement” to go on a rampage.

  10. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    jdm,
    With the popularity of Democrats at an all time low, I wouldn’t doubt them using the four as martyrs, to attempt to garner sympathy and increase support, ala George Floyd. Further, I’m thinking that all of the grandstanding to get arrested, the ones in New Jersey and lately Padilla in CA, they believe that if it worked for Trump, it should work for us.

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