“A lot of these defendants — and I’m going to use this colloquial term, perhaps disrespectfully — but they’re all fucking short-bus people,” Watkins told TPM. “These are people with brain damage, they’re fucking retarded, they’re on the goddamn spectrum.”
“But they’re our brothers, our sisters, our neighbors, our coworkers — they’re part of our country. These aren’t bad people, they don’t have prior criminal history. Fuck, they were subjected to four-plus years of goddamn propaganda the likes of which the world has not seen since fucking Hitler.”
And I guess that sort of thing is just great for I guess trying to get public sympathy for the poor deluded dupes (or is it, as my eyes stay resolutely dry regarding the plight of the people Marjorie Taylor Greene is now telling us are being "abused") , but are we really supposed to believe that the actually violent people were only there because they were stooges....
And somehow not call the actual liars who, um, be-stooged them, to account?
This reminds me an awful lot of Trump election fraud lawyer Sidney Powell's defense that no "reasonable person" would believe the claims that she tried to make stand up in court. Her intended audience was, she should have had every reason to know, no longer fully reasonable, and she was using the court to make unreasonable claims seem plausible. My opinion was that her claims weren't supposed to stand up in court though--they were solely for the benefit of keeping the dumb mullets on the hook.
And this is, to get to the crux of it, a large part of why Trump, McCarthy, and McConnell don't want a January 6 commission to get to the bottom of how things went so wrong. It might cause people of very strong opinion to commit the unthinkable--and think about the things they think about.
Like whether Trump lost because the election was stolen--or because he was incompetent. Like thinking about whether the party is being incompetent in following Trump's losing lead, instead of trying to actually be some kind of half-assed governing party instead of devoting their time to stunts and "comms". And maybe people might start wondering if the things Trump and company did looked bad because they were actually bad. And if supporting a party that could support him (even over the Constitution itself) is bad.
And that would simply never, ever do.
It's like what I've said about Fox Mushroom Farm. They want to keep people in the dark and feed them shit. It's the only operating model they've got.
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