Quote: (10-28-2018 03:29 AM)66Scorpio Wrote:
Apparently, he is a registered Republican. I thought this was a false flag but it now seems more complex or insidious....It further makes no sense that a bodybuilder/stripper/whatever would up and try his hand at bomb making. And to do it so poorly at that.
...or - and I know I'm going against the grain of the Everything Else forum here - simple.
A fatherless man-child whose entire life is characterized by spectacular failures at various attention-seeking Wile E. Coyote schemes arrives at his logical destiny, his final spectacular failure at his grandest attention-seeking Wile E. Coyote scheme of all.
If you remove all the assumptions that a conscientious, reasonable, and effective male would rely upon and instead focus on the trajectory of this guy's life -
not conscientious, reasonable, or effective - it actually makes a lot of sense.
His former defense attorney was in the Miami Herald yesterday, saying the same thing I suggested about how empty his life was and his desperation to be taken seriously and accepted, even if it meant pretending to be a Seminole:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/c...14565.html
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Lowy described Sayoc as an unsophisticated loner who wanted to impress people but failed at everything he pursued, from strip club dancing to bodybuilding to professional fighting to the dry cleaning business.
“He wasn’t successful in anything he did,” Lowy said. “He’s been bankrupt, gone into foreclosure. He’s 14 years old living in an adult body.”
Sayoc’s claim of affiliation with the Seminole Tribe of Florida was an example of Sayoc’s desire for a sense of belonging. He said Sayoc used to drive a vehicle plastered with Seminole Tribe and Native American stickers and showed him a scrapbook filled with photos of Sayoc as an exotic dancer and aspiring pro wrestler.
“He’s half Filipino, on his father’s side, and he’s half Italian,” Lowy said. “He’s been living and creating this fantasy for a very long time. He’ll deny it’s a fantasy. But I will suggest to you it’s probably a result of emotional issues that come from his father abandoning him and returning to the Philippines when he was a child.
“He wanted a background. He wanted to be liked by people so he created this story.”
Sayoc never got the mental health treatment he needed and refused to seek help even when his family begged him to, Lowy said.
It seems like a stretch to expect that a man who has been consistently terrible at everything he's ever done would suddenly use good judgment when he tries on his final persona as a political activist, or even demonstrate basic craftsmanship when he tries to build a bomb. Trump's campaign worked hard to reach out to people who felt excluded by the establishment, but sometimes people aren't being excluded because the system is rigged against them, rather because they actually just suck and are a burden and a liability to everyone they come in contact with.
I'll happily concede that someone like that could easily be manipulated by a co-conspirator, but I'm not seeing the need for one to explain his actions.