I don't think professional assassins are anywhere near as capable as people think they are. I have no proof of this, of course, but I suspect it's mostly Hollywood glamorization. Just think of how competent they made secret agents, and then compare that to the clowns we have running the intel agencies.
Or imagine a movie like Olympus has Fallen with Gerard Butler being a super super secret service agent. And then remember that the SS is actually a bunch of retards that in broad fucking daylight, let a dude carry a ladder, set ladder up to a roof, climb up, post up on the roof with an AR-15, point it at former/campaigning President, and take a shot before they capped him.
If the COVID era taught me anything it's that most people are retarded, and that includes those same people when acting in their "professional" capacity. Teachers, nurses, doctors, scientists, cops, etc. Assassins probably are not some exception to this rule.
And then remember that the SS is actually a bunch of retards that in broad fucking daylight, let a dude carry a ladder, set ladder up to a roof, climb up, post up on the roof with an AR-15, point it at former/campaigning President, and take a shot before they capped him.
"We were just pretending to be retarded" -- Secret Service
Or imagine a movie like Olympus has Fallen with Gerard Butler being a super super secret service agent. And then remember that the SS is actually a bunch of retards that...
I mean, to be fair, weren't the other agents, while not pants-on-head retarded, not so bright/competent? Butler's character was the exception (to an unrealistic degree, of course), and we weren't supposed to believe all SS agents were like that. Most of the SS got mowed down by equally retarded terrorists, or something.
Yeah but that's storytelling and portrayal. If everyone is a badass then the movie can't have a hero save the day. So I think that had less to do with them be generous to reality and more about power scaling for the sake of action.
True, I should have specified. I meant that Hollywood brand of professional assassin.
The only real life requirement to be a "professional assassin" is to be unscrupulous or otherwise twisted enough to accept payment to attempt to kill someone. It might be a somewhat rare breed, but that doesn't mean it's exactly a high bar. You have to crawl under a low bar to be a professional assassin, not leap some elite hurdle.
Point is, people were heaping all sorts of perceived competence on this guy that he probably didn't deserve. At least, that's one explanation.
Cops always say that if you're a normie who isn't in the system for anything over a traffic infraction, go to another state, kill someone you have no connection to whatsoever, and never tell anyone about it, they won't be able to catch you.
Most people aren't psychotic enough to be able to keep that kind of shit to themselves.
The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in 2010 showed a pretty high level of coordination and sophistication, from what I remember of Dubai's investigation.
I don't think professional assassins are anywhere near as capable as people think they are. I have no proof of this, of course, but I suspect it's mostly Hollywood glamorization. Just think of how competent they made secret agents, and then compare that to the clowns we have running the intel agencies.
Or imagine a movie like Olympus has Fallen with Gerard Butler being a super super secret service agent. And then remember that the SS is actually a bunch of retards that in broad fucking daylight, let a dude carry a ladder, set ladder up to a roof, climb up, post up on the roof with an AR-15, point it at former/campaigning President, and take a shot before they capped him.
If the COVID era taught me anything it's that most people are retarded, and that includes those same people when acting in their "professional" capacity. Teachers, nurses, doctors, scientists, cops, etc. Assassins probably are not some exception to this rule.
"We were just pretending to be retarded" -- Secret Service
I mean, to be fair, weren't the other agents, while not pants-on-head retarded, not so bright/competent? Butler's character was the exception (to an unrealistic degree, of course), and we weren't supposed to believe all SS agents were like that. Most of the SS got mowed down by equally retarded terrorists, or something.
Yeah but that's storytelling and portrayal. If everyone is a badass then the movie can't have a hero save the day. So I think that had less to do with them be generous to reality and more about power scaling for the sake of action.
Also, the secret service were compromised because Dylan McDermott's character sabotaged their protocols, which led to them getting ambushed.
Yup, can't argue with that.
True, I should have specified. I meant that Hollywood brand of professional assassin.
The only real life requirement to be a "professional assassin" is to be unscrupulous or otherwise twisted enough to accept payment to attempt to kill someone. It might be a somewhat rare breed, but that doesn't mean it's exactly a high bar. You have to crawl under a low bar to be a professional assassin, not leap some elite hurdle.
Point is, people were heaping all sorts of perceived competence on this guy that he probably didn't deserve. At least, that's one explanation.
Cops always say that if you're a normie who isn't in the system for anything over a traffic infraction, go to another state, kill someone you have no connection to whatsoever, and never tell anyone about it, they won't be able to catch you.
Most people aren't psychotic enough to be able to keep that kind of shit to themselves.
The assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in 2010 showed a pretty high level of coordination and sophistication, from what I remember of Dubai's investigation.