As a sometime employee of large publicly traded companies, i am sympathetic to this. I have seen SO MANY questionable & shortsighted decisions/strategies undertaken solely with an eye towards the next quarterly earnings call. Like dozens.

As i was saying:

I had 90 applicants for a geotech position last year in Houston. In the Industry geotechs are ~equivalent to paralegals. Over half of these folks were dramatically overqualified.

I feel like if the kid was in any way liberal or trans the Sherriff would be broadcasting that.

My sense is that most Americans had not heard of Charlie Kirk until yesterday. The first and perhaps only thing they're going to hear about him from the most trusted and important voices in American politics is that he was a model and constructive participant in good-faith political discourse.