The ongoing dispute between Lin Wood and Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell, et al, boils down to this:
When Rittenhouse went on Tucker Carlson's show and called Wood out for fundraising off him instead of helping him, Wood recognized that (correctly) as a HUGE reputational threat.
When Rittenhouse went on Tucker Carlson's show and called Wood out for fundraising off him instead of helping him, Wood recognized that (correctly) as a HUGE reputational threat.
For all that anons *talk* about avoiding the MSM and not trusting Fox, etc etc, the truth is they're blown along by the winds of right-wing media.
Always have been, always will be. That was true even *before* Q ambled off into the sunset.
Always have been, always will be. That was true even *before* Q ambled off into the sunset.
And we could probably stand to talk about that more! I think almost every analyst *knows* it but almost no one really puts it in the center of their analysis.
ANYWAY... Wood, seeing this threat, demanded that Flynn and Powell come to his defense with public support. They didn't.
ANYWAY... Wood, seeing this threat, demanded that Flynn and Powell come to his defense with public support. They didn't.
Wood has now concluded that they, TOO, must be part of the Deep State plot and is lashing out against them.
So why wouldn't Powell and Flynn come to Wood's defense?
A) His erratic behavior & paranoia make him... maaaaaybe not someone you'd bend over backwards to help, y'know?
So why wouldn't Powell and Flynn come to Wood's defense?
A) His erratic behavior & paranoia make him... maaaaaybe not someone you'd bend over backwards to help, y'know?
B) In Powell's case, Wood tried to throw her under the bus in a disciplinary hearing in front of a federal judge. (The bus ran both of them over, in the end.) That, TOO, will not engender intense feelings of loyalty.
C) Maybe they think the charge against Lin is legit.
Any or all of these could be true, but don't forget:
D) They don't want to align themselves w/someone who got dragged on the most powerful right-wing media outlet on Earth, bc what if the reputational damage *is contagious?*
Any or all of these could be true, but don't forget:
D) They don't want to align themselves w/someone who got dragged on the most powerful right-wing media outlet on Earth, bc what if the reputational damage *is contagious?*
TL;DR: This *very* gratifying meltdown -- seriously, you love to see it -- among the people who tried their damnedest to keep Trump in office as an unelected dictator wasn't triggered by the way Wood exploited Rittenhouse.
It's driven by Rittenhouse's airing of it on Fox.
It's driven by Rittenhouse's airing of it on Fox.
SO MUCH of our political life -- including the stability of our goddamn democracy and the stability of the ANTI-democracy coalition that imperils it -- is impacted by Fox f'ing News. It's insane.
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