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While I think that Stephen Colbert could make a fine president, John McAfee; while playing a similar game, could not.
Wait, THIS John McAfee? [NSFW, Rated "R"] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpRvaQsGIY8
See, if McAfee says the right things, I think he'd end up doing well - as well as a fringe/joke candidate could do. He's pro-gun and quite anti-government. If Trump can do it, why not McAfee? And the scrolling seems off or hijacked in some way, on the "How to Vote" page, it's the digital equivalent of having your breaks cut.
The Trump phenomenon is built on three decades of national, tabloid level fame. His name and image recognition is the primary reason he's out in front of the other mostly bland or non-recognizable candidates (not to mention the obvious anti-establishment thing going on that has been much discussed). McAfee can't do what Trump is doing, because he's not actually famous on any meaningful scale. Relatively few Americans…
Not the best name association.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Of course he was a suspect. He'd had an escalating battle with his neighbor, who coincidentally turned up shot to death. http://gizmodo.com/5959812/john-mcafee-wanted-for-murder
It was hinted in an interview that it was his girlfriend rather than him (the same one who tried to shoot McAfee in the head). I cannot remember where I found the interview, it was somewhere on YouTube. Does anyone have a link to that?
TLDR version: mentally unstable teenage girlfriend described as repeatedly wanting people killed (including - according to both parties - shooting at McAfee at one stage) and explicit statements that she would kill people if they killed her dog or if asked to by McAfee. Neighbour who had complained about McAfee's dogs killed the day after the dogs are reportedly poisoned.
Looks even more unlikely to be coincidence when McAfee later independently asserts that actually he did believe the neighbour had poisoned his dogs shortly before being murdered https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/3hr9f0/i_am_john_mc...
Reading the descriptions of some of McAfee's other activities, the only real surprise in the whole tale that it took Belize security forces so long to go after him.