Sandy Hook father, Jeremy Richman, ultimately took his own life.
Thread: "Imagine how severely triggered you would feel every time you saw yet another parent, who is just minutes into your 6+ years of Hell, as they suddenly learn their little angel was also taken from them…."
Sidney Powell's defamtion case is the perfect opportunity for Powell to do what the Right has been clamoring to do, which even included disrupting the functions of government during January 6th insurrection:
Present their case that the election was stolen. 1/
One of the absolute defenses available to defendant's in defamation cases?
The truth.
So not only would Powell's defamation case provide an opportunity to present the evidence the Right not only claims to have about election fraud, but also claim the courts wouldn't hear,....2/
....but the defamation trial would also provide Powell with the most definitive and efficient defense for winning her case.
But instead, she's invoking a more subjective/less certain "reasonable man" defense.
Why would Powell fail to take advantage of that opportunity? 3/
3....Cruz & other sociopaths deflect attention from their complicity, by creating a gaslighting characterization of the sane reaction to mass murder/GOP inaction...as being "contempt" for prayers......
4. This triggers the persecution complex of the evangelical base, and.... 3/
.....manipulates the "Right to Life" crowd into essentially defending a "Right to mass murder" position.....especially since the Right has manipulatively defined gun fetishes as being a "god given" Right....as analyzed here: 4/
This was same legal defense made by Tucker Carlson in the McDougal case. Bottom line, is that Fox and the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber are pushing disinformation. Their defenses in court are an admission: businessinsider.com/fox-news-karen…
A relevant dose of reality at a time when @TuckerCarlson is disputing Qanon's website-less existence & railing against the feminization of the military:
QAnon...[and other extremist groups] pose...a threat to unit cohesion, discipline, and readiness." 1/
Thread:"...one overlooked factor of Qanon: there’s an interactive, crowd-sourcing component where people compete, receive a “reward” (dopamine) for being the *cleverest*, connecting the furthest dispersed dots, & for (most absurdly) advancing the “story” the furthest/quickest."
Is Qanon morphing into a religion right before our very eyes?
At a minimum, we are witnessing a perfect storm-like convergence of numerous features of modern society that have created a fertile ground for conspiratorial delusions. 1/ religiondispatches.org/in-the-name-of…
These features unsurprisingly run parallel to both Trumpism and Qanon.....and include: celebrity hero-worship, reality TV, weaponization of technology, narcissism, victimhood, a neurotransmitter called dopamine, religious conditioning,…2/