Pearson is a legally registered voter in the state of Alabama. The fact that “alternate slates” of electors chosen by the losing party don’t actually exist is the only reason he is not literally committing election fraud right now.
Again, this is not an actual political debate of differing opinions. You can look up state voter registrations. If anything Pearson was doing right now was real, he would be going to prison for it.
You can find so many examples of this but it is that unique combination of hilarious and infuriating. So much of what these performative grifters are doing and are pretending is real would actually be illegal if it wasn’t just total bullshit
Just to make 100% sure everyone understands this: Pearson, like many other conservatives right now, is doing a bunch of meaningless performative nonsense and pretending it has legal validity, which it doesn’t, but if it did, would only have the legal validity of being illegal.
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I have lived my entire life in a media narrative that Republicans are simply not supposed to face any consequences for their actions and what we have been witnessing for the last 48 hours is the result of a media completely unequipped to handle exactly that happening
I think that’s why there’s such a cognitive dissonance between how punditry is reacting to this versus, well, basically the rest of the planet. Look at the backlash to that pathetic Twitter announcement. People are done. They are fucking done with this bullshit
The pieces are rapidly fitting together to the conclusion that the administration, their existing ignorance to all of this aside, likely went to the debate knowing they may be exposed, hid it, and then didn’t tell Biden.