A sociopathic narcissist conman ex-president lies about the election being stolen....Then the Right Wing Media Echo Chamber lies about the insurrection incited by the conman &the echo chamber.
FBI Director Wray: FBI has not seen "any evidence" of Antifa Involvement. 1/
The recent threats by Ted Cruz and Mitch McConnell expose the fraudulence of Republican ideology, and their claim to value the constitution, free speech, and the free market. Under U.S. law, corporations are granted personhood and….1/
…..receive the same rights as people under the 14th Amendment. The Bellotti and the Citizens United cases ruled that money is a form of political speech protected by the 1st Amendment. 2/
For decades, “constitutionalist” Republicans have not only fiercely defended these corporate rights….but these same free-market worshipping Republicans lectured everyone about the blasphemy of the government “picking winners and losers”. 3/
The Right is the equivalent of a political "black hole"...where the gravity created by its obstructionist/contrarian/adversarial/grievance/victimhood instincts is causing it to de-volve into an increasingly homogeneously "denser" (non)ideological faction that simultaneously... 1/
The one unifying factor? They're all "patriots" who stand for the "freedom" to engage in performative obstinance against anything/anyone requiring them to be mature/rational/sane adults. At what point does this political "black hole" implode upon itself? 3/
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/
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…."
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…