So WTF happened to Michael Brooks?

[stickdog99]

https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/michael-b ... ead-at-37/

He was one of brightest minds in US leftist activism. In fact, I can't think of a single commentator who is more prominent than Michael Brooks who is also more clear-eyed.

So WTF? CIA sudden illness gun?

[norton ash]

Yikes. Will be watching this story. Thanks.

[liminalOyster]

Did he pose any particular threat though more so than other similar commentators?

[Cordelia]

On July 21, Brooks’ sister Lisha appeared on The Majority Report to provide more details about her brother’s death and said it was due to a blood clot in his throat. “I know there’s some speculation,” she says. “He got a blood clot in his throat, it was very sudden, we don’t know what caused it, they don’t think it was COVID-related, nothing weird happened, there was no suicide. It was just a horrible, unexpected terrible thing.”

https://heavy.com/news/2020/07/michael-brooks-dead/

[Laodicean]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj1-YX_djXw

[stickdog99]

Did he pose any particular threat though more so than other similar commentators?

Threat?

You decide. His channel produced all the following videos in the last 5 months:

[JackRiddler]

Wrenching. Sad today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soXj99Ohcz8

[Elvis]

I was not aware of Michael Brooks; maybe because I don't have TV?

[JackRiddler]

I never saw Michael Brooks on TV. (About the only thing I see on TV are the Chinese, Russian and French news networks, and episodes of Perry Mason from 56-64.) Only discovered his show in the last year, on YT. He was easily among the smartest of the new left-ish wave and, strangely, a soulful, substantive, funny fellow. I check if he has any new shows daily. So this is upsetting. But did THEY get him? His work was as a commentator. It was incisive. Unlike some who need not be named, he clearly had studied tons of general reading, thoroughly researched subjects, and respected the expertise of well-chosen guests. But he was not a story-breaker. (Insert all caveats about what one doesn't know here.) As I am superstitious, and despise the "stay out of small planes" talk, I don't want to mention certain examples of people I expect reasonably fear for their lives because of their investigative work, or their polemics against dangerous targets. I'd not have thought Brooks was among them. It's only relatively rare that people die from embolisms or clots at young ages. I've known more than one. So sad to be cut off suddenly, one moment to the next. Maybe there was an underlying condition I didn't know.