Surely they aren't killing right wing candidates in Germany? Surely?

The death toll of unexpected fatalities among AfD candidates in Germany has risen to 7 - almost a statistical impossibility

I always say when stories mysteriously disappear, something is afoot.

Remember Thomas Matthew Crooks?

You should. He was a spotty high school kid who somehow scaled a building on the perimeter of a massive MAGA rally in Pennsylvania and almost landed a bullet square between Trump's eyes, were it not by the Grace of God.

Yet rather than notoriety following weeks of interviews with ex teachers, friends and neighbours, which never happened, Crooks and any interest in him oddly dissipated.

It rather reminds me of the inexplicable mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas which made no sense at the time, and even less so now. On October 1, 2017, 64 year old Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowd attending the Route 91 music festival from the 32nd-floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel. He fired more than 1,000 rounds, killing 60 and wounding at least 400 others. An hour later, he was found dead in his room from self-inflicted gunshot wound, with his motive for the mass casualty event officially undetermined. How did he manage to get a total 22 suitcases of arms upstairs and unload such a volume of ballistics? And why did he do it? He wasn't mad. He had no strong political views. Weird.

That both of these murderers acted alone without any obvious assistance and unclear motive raises more questions than it answers.

When something doesn't add up, that is often because a key part of the equation is missing.

And what is happening in Germany is weird. Very weird.