I honestly wonder what happened to this guy. He went from seemingly successfully going full grifter with the campus tour, FOX appearances and the dumbass mobile game, all of that, then suddenly it came out he couldn't support his family and now suddenly seems ditched.
i think being a successful or even mediocre grifter requires a sort of cunning and easily-ignored-but-present sympathetic capacity that most people simply lack. for every snake oil peddler, there are dozens of people who lack the wit for the first part.
kyle is a high school dropout with terrible instincts, prone to violent outbursts, obsessive retaliation, and the impulse control of a particularly shitty toddler. his escape from justice was entirely handed to him by a system that is tailor made to protect people like him from consequences and that, not his maneuvers, made him a rally point for reactionaries.
it's like george zimmerman. sure, these people don't get locked up for the murder they do, and conservatives throw money at them in "support", but they are absolutely too mean and stupid to function, let alone turn that support into a vehicle for their advancement. at best, they avoid the total destitution and long term incarceration that would generally find them if they weren't a famous darling of reactionaries.
To build off of a point that you made beautifully (that I have tried to articulate in the past and failed) I have to remind myself that while it would be a slam dunk for me to keep that gravy train rolling, I would have never been in his position in the first place. He was necessarily immature to become an icon in the first place. While I'm looking for a commemorative, signed rifle deal or partnering with LEGO or something to cause more outrage and sell merch, he's alienating the base.
Dude just seems too uncharismatic and clueless for even the right wing grifter set. The whole not voting for Trump thing just solidified it, you don't go against the golden calf like that in favor of Ron Paul of all people, lmao
I honestly wonder what happened to this guy. He went from seemingly successfully going full grifter with the campus tour, FOX appearances and the dumbass mobile game, all of that, then suddenly it came out he couldn't support his family and now suddenly seems ditched.
i think being a successful or even mediocre grifter requires a sort of cunning and easily-ignored-but-present sympathetic capacity that most people simply lack. for every snake oil peddler, there are dozens of people who lack the wit for the first part.
kyle is a high school dropout with terrible instincts, prone to violent outbursts, obsessive retaliation, and the impulse control of a particularly shitty toddler. his escape from justice was entirely handed to him by a system that is tailor made to protect people like him from consequences and that, not his maneuvers, made him a rally point for reactionaries.
it's like george zimmerman. sure, these people don't get locked up for the murder they do, and conservatives throw money at them in "support", but they are absolutely too mean and stupid to function, let alone turn that support into a vehicle for their advancement. at best, they avoid the total destitution and long term incarceration that would generally find them if they weren't a famous darling of reactionaries.
To build off of a point that you made beautifully (that I have tried to articulate in the past and failed) I have to remind myself that while it would be a slam dunk for me to keep that gravy train rolling, I would have never been in his position in the first place. He was necessarily immature to become an icon in the first place. While I'm looking for a commemorative, signed rifle deal or partnering with LEGO or something to cause more outrage and sell merch, he's alienating the base.
Dude just seems too uncharismatic and clueless for even the right wing grifter set. The whole not voting for Trump thing just solidified it, you don't go against the golden calf like that in favor of Ron Paul of all people, lmao
He's dumb as a rock apparently
ah maybe a not-so-useful idiot (tw it's his mobile game)
Family?
his mom and sister either were about to or got evicted, they did a gofundme, but apparently it worked so idk what happened.