Jon Benet Intruder Theory and Jussie Smollett Attack Theory
Since it's January and we are all getting a reminder of what extreme winter and snow feel like, I just wanted to bring up the parallels between two preposterous allegations:
First, that in zero degree weather and blistering wind and cold, in the pitch black at 2am, in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods of Chicago, rabid MAGA supporters waited in a neighborhood where nobody is "maga" for some lengthy amount of time in these weather conditions on an empty street with a noose and bleach with intent to just pointlessly intimidate an obscure random actor on his way back from Subway Sandwiches even though they had no idea he would be there or have any reason to expect he'd be out, before inexplicably aborting the plan and leaving him with an unused noose draped over his shoulder.
And second, that - in 10 degree weather (the 9pm temperature in Boulder on Christmas 1996) in rainy and snowy ground conditions and intense wind, a simultaneous insane crazed pedophile/politically motivated and carefully calculating money-seeking foreign faction radical/creative writing officianado with women's writing style intruder chose to, on the one day of the year when they knew everyone would be home and the weather was awful, find their way in the pitch black night in the cold and snow through an obscure window grate and window that nobody without intimate knowledge of the house would have any idea to navigate - managed to avoid getting any snow or dirt in the house in doing so - brought a stun gun and duct tape but no murder weapon or transport vessel for his nefarious plans - then crept around silently and stealthily and expertly for hours before deciding to then use a needlessly loud stun gun to subdue a 45 pound child he could have easily subdued manually and kidnapped her - then resumed careful silence in absconding with her body to the basement where rather than taking her with him he instead did horrible things to her right there within the house but did not penetrate her himself, instesd using only tools from within the house to poke around at her lightly - at some point killed her using tools he found in the house, destroying his own leverage to get money from the ramseys, but did not remove her body because he had not planned ahead as to whether he could fit the family's suitcase through the window as a transport vessel and just gave up on that part of the plan - still nevertheless at some point despite being a deranged pedophile stopped to spend hours in the pitch black expertly writing draft after draft of a lengthy and pointlessly detailed and creatively written random note requesting specific amounts of money in exchange for a live child that he knew was in fact already dead - then inexplicably did none of the things he said he'd do in the note and extricated the scene never to be heard from again, without getting anything material out of the situation - despite being in the house for hours somehow managed to leave not a spec of dna anywhere in the house except trace spots in her underwear - then returned to the bitter cold and snow, carefully replaced the window grate - managed evasion for the next 28 years
I've been grappling with which of these is more preposterous, and i have to say that in the context of the conditions the expectation for anyone to believe the Jon Benet intruder theory seems even more absurd than the Jussie Smollett allegation. Which theory do you think is more obviously fabricated?