A brief commentary, with minimal documentation (cuz I don’t have time to go get some, and don’t think it’s all that necessary), on a self-destructive phenomenon we’ve seen here and elsewhere, which needs to stop.
There were three or four Diaries posted here over the last few days (I guess I could’ve missed one), stoking hysteria over the supposed ‘Mega-Scandal’ of Ms. Willis’s possible romantic involvement with an investigator on her staff, and essentially suggesting that this was a massive catastrophe that was probably going to cost us the presidency, and restore Trump to his Divine Throne.
I and a few others, attempting to exercise a little restraint and common sense, suggested that the panic-mongering was a little ridiculous (not to mention highly irresponsible and counterproductive), as it wasn’t at all clear that anything all that consequential had happened, or that any of it was liable to have any real impact on the Fulton County RICO prosecution of Trump and others for attempting to steal the presidency (among many other awful crimes),… and that it WAS entirely clear that this ‘scandal’ had been concocted and brought to national attention by a conspiracy of Trump-allied right-wing scumbags --at least one of whom was directly involved in the very criminal conspiracy Ms. Willis was in the process of prosecuting.
Gosh, shouldn’t a reasonable, discerning observer probably take that kind of thing with just a tiny grain of salt???
We argued a little with the purveyors, and those who jumped in to join them in their solemn pronouncements of massive doom and gloom, tried to bring them back to Earth, and got insulted and mocked a little for our efforts (par for the course on DK).
So here we are just a day or two later, and it already looks --more so by the hour— like this whole thing is a NOTHING-BURGER desperately ginned up and propagated by desperate right-wing criminals who are starting to see it all falling apart for them, and in fact starting to see with growing clarity their ending up behind bars for long stretches of the 21st century.
All the wisest, most knowledgeable legal commentators say this is trivial, and will have no effect at all on the case or the trial.
The scummiest of right-wing criminal scumbags --Jack Posobiec, for example— are desperately trying to convince the media there’s a real story here, planting utterly fake fabrications to try and keep the scam going, as they see it’s quickly failing, like most of their other attempts at grand ‘rat-fucking’ (see: Segretti, Donald H.) of the legal and political systems.
(Claiming, for example that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation had launched a criminal probe against Willis --prompting them to immediately announce that this was a lie.)
Here’s a tip, for all of us on the right side of things: When right-wing criminal scumbags go to Herculean lengths to ‘rat-fuck’ the good guys by creating fake stories and scandals to bring down the good guys and their attempts to bring justice to the bad guys,…
DON’T HELP THEM.
Use a little freaking judgment, take a breath, think about what you’re doing before you do it.
This kind of shit matters. It undermines the cause, for Christ’s sake.
When a story comes from Nazi scumbag ‘operators,’ have the tiny bit of judgement required to exercise a least a modicum of skepticism.
And yeah, the Doom-Mongers here who perpetrated all this stuff in the last few days should absolutely own up to it, admit how wrong and mis-guided they were, and pledge to try and be a little more responsible about things going forward.
MT debunking the Fani-Scandal bullshit
Is that too much to ask??
Alright, as you were. Enjoy your Sunday.