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10 Jan, 6 tweets, 2 min read
I am honestly stunned and depressed by the number of people who buy Trump’s perennial excuse that can’t be a crime unless he says the words “let us now hereby do felonies” three times.
“Find me the votes, or you might be criminally liable” can’t be suborning fraud as long as he cites some obvious nonsense from Infowars as the pretext. “Want that foreign aid? Announce you’re investigating Biden.”Can’t be a quid pro quo; he never said the words “quid pro quo”!
If Trump was on tape hiring a guy to ensure that “Mike Pence sleeps with the fishes” I have to assume at this point that lots of folks would say he just wanted the VP chaperoned for a nap in an aquarium.
One function of the whole reality distortion media apparatus seems to be the manufacturing of “reasonable doubt” based on obviously pretextual nonsense to facilitate just this sort of dodge.
It’s absurd to pretend that holding up foreign aid pending an (announced) investigation of the president’s rival is some kind of sincere anticorruption policy, but if you can get millions to believe there was something to investigate, maaaaybe Trump believed it too, your Honor.
It’s absurd to think election results should be formally invalidated or investigated because “I read on the Internet that Dominion was replacing all the drives.” But if you can get millions to take this crap seriously, maaaybe Trump bought it too, ladies & gentlemen of the jury.

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11 Jan
If I were reporter Josh Renaud, I would seriously consider suing Mike Parsons for defamation. He was publicly accused of committing a specific felony that *so obviously* does not apply that I’d think it counts as “reckless disregard for whether it was false or not."
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11 Jan
This is one of the stupidest controversies in state politics, against stiff competition. The state was publishing teachers’ Social Security Numbers on public websites, and blames the journalist who noticed, falsely calling his investigation “hacking.”
The teachers’ private data was contained in the source code of publicly accessible State web pages. It cannot be hacking to look at source code. Every time you look at a web page, you have already downloaded the source code to your own computer.
Apparently the SSNs were also very feebly encoded. Now, maybe the state hoped nobody would figure out their weak encoding and realize they were SSNs. But figuring out what a file on your own computer says is not hacking.
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This may sound like just a bit of pathetic, delusional cosplay—let’s make up official looking documents from the parallel earth where our guy won!—but it looks like a coordinated part of the all-too-serious scheme to overturn the election results. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
Remember, the crackpot scheme was that Pence would refuse to count the real votes from several states, starting with Arizona, on the utterly false pretense that there were “multiple slates of electors” from those states. cnn.com/2021/09/21/pol…
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10 Jan
A question I’ve been mulling today: How much difference does it make whether Trump believes his own lies, to the extent he can be said to have “beliefs”?
Normally we think it makes a big difference—the difference between an error and a lie, which in court cashes out as the difference between an innocent misrepresentation and a criminal fraud. But maybe this doesn’t quite apply in cases of suitably aberrant psychology...
Everyone is prone to various cognitive biases, including the propensity to believe claims that are self-flattering, or track what we wish were true. But imagine a person (resemblance to anyone living or dead, etc etc…) with what you might call a Fully Egoist Epistemology.
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A lot of handwringing about this poll where people say violence against the government can be justified. But the poll doesn’t ask whether it IS CURRENTLY justified. It asks whether it can EVER or NEVER be justified. And “never” is just obviously wrong. washingtonpost.com/context/dec-17…
Our country was founded by a bunch of people who engaged in violence against the government. If our current government is legitimate, then violence against the government has to be justifiable under at least some circumstances.
The poll really just seems to be testing who passed civics, not whether there’s some groundswell of support for violent revolution next Tuesday.
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The really jaw-dropping thing is that he just shrugs it off by asserting that the secretaries of state who certified some of the results were “put in power by George Soros.” Impressed he managed not to add “and the Elders of Zion…”
The whole psychotic interview. Everyone who was unpersuaded by Navarro’s laughable “evidence” of election fraud or his bonkers legal theory that the VP can unilaterally nullify elections is either a Soros plant or a “Koch network conservative.”
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