Jussie Smollett's trial

[George K]

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

stupid anecdote about Amtrak miles, and about having the Presidential election stolen from him really aren't the same thing.

Of course they're not.

Neither is his law school prowess, the number of degrees he got, travels with Mandela, or a hundred other things.

But all of them speak to either character or soundness of mind. I'll grant you that Trump lacked the former. Biden lacks them both.

[Doctor Phibes]

@george-k said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

But all of them speak to either character or soundness of mind. I'll grant you that Trump lacked the former. Biden lacks them both.

I was never that convinced of Trump's sanity either, to be honest.

[Improviso]

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@george-k said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

But all of them speak to either character or soundness of mind. I'll grant you that Trump lacked the former. Biden lacks them both.

I was never that convinced of Trump's sanity either, to be honest.

So... you didn't like the way he operated. Fair enough. There were many times I cringed at something he said or did, as I suspect many conservatives did. I attributed that to the fact that he was a brash New Yorker.

I overlooked that because I was more focused on what he was doing for this country... his policies, not his methods.

I'm doing the same thing with Biden. His policies are not working for this country.

Now, if you'd like to compare policies over character, I'll engage. Otherwise, talk to the hand.

[Doctor Phibes]

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@doctor-phibes said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@george-k said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

But all of them speak to either character or soundness of mind. I'll grant you that Trump lacked the former. Biden lacks them both.

I was never that convinced of Trump's sanity either, to be honest.

So... you didn't like the way he operated. Fair enough. There were many times I cringed at something he said or did, as I suspect many conservatives did. I attributed that to the fact that he was a brash New Yorker.

I overlooked that because I was more focused on what he was doing for this country... his policies, not his methods.

I'm doing the same thing with Biden. His policies are not working for this country.

Now, if you'd like to compare policies over character, I'll engage. Otherwise, talk to the hand.

Yeah, this is what always happens. Somebody says something about somebody's character, I respond and say look at the state of your fucking guy. Then the follow up is 'never mind about character, look at policies, otherwise shut up'.

If you don't want to talk about character, then don't bring it up in the first place.

[Improviso]

He got the attention he craved, just not in the way he thought.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/jussie-smollett-guilty-verdicts-killed-career-experts-hollywood-never-uncancel-him

[Mik]

Lynching would be poetic justice.

Just sayin'.

[Copper]

If cnn thought he would bring a few extra eyeballs, they would give him a prime-time hour every night.

[Improviso]

@copper said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

If cnn thought he would bring a few extra eyeballs, they would give him a prime-time hour every night.

They have an opening for the 9:00 p.m. time slot.

[Improviso]

Anyone heard whether he was taken into custody after the verdict?

Or is he still free pending sentencing?

[kluurs]

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

Or is he still free pending sentencing?

He's free until sentencing.

[Doctor Phibes]

@kluurs said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

Or is he still free pending sentencing?

He's free until sentencing.

Let's hope he's not beating himself up too much over this.

[Improviso]

I'll text him the email address of the Nigerian prince that keeps emailing me.

[George K]

[Improviso]

It still amazes me that they keep jumping to the wrong conclusions, time and time again, instead of waiting for the facts to come out. And as now, crickets when the facts come to light.

<Larry> Liberalism is a mental disease <Larry>

[Horace]

It's just about the messaging impact. It actually doesn't matter too much if they're wrong, as long as the correct impression is left through the "narrative outrage->time->contradictory facts->memory hole" process. The indelible mark is the outrage, that is what leaves the impression on the masses. The white supremacists keeping everybody else down is the memory and the emotional truth. Thank your local progressive white women and feminized men, out to save the fucking world. Idiots.

[Improviso]

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

[Doctor Phibes]

@improviso said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

@horace said in Jussie Smollet's trial:

feminized men

I'm pretty sure the guy on the left is a Soviet soldier

[George K]

[George K]

Kass:

Forgive me, but I’d rather not shut up about Jussie right now. Instead, I think we should thank him. Because by telling and retelling his lies in court, by perjuring himself before the jury and the judge, he’s actually done America a great service.

He exposes he fetid alchemy between the dying corporate legacy media and elite Democrats who used his mewing to stoke racial division for votes. These are the high priests of the new religion, and it sanctifies victimization for profit and power.

They falsely seized on Kyle Rittenhouse as a racist (he wasn’t) and Nicholas Sandman as a racist (he wasn’t) and many others. Without stoking racial strife, how would they motivate their voters?

Are there horrible people among us who are homophobes and racists? Yes, of course. Should they be punished if they violate another’s rights? Yes, of course.

Should the politicians and media that stoked this have known better than to buy his story and regurgitate it, screaming on media platform after media platform with their hair on fire? A reasonable person might think so.

But they didn’t care if they regurgitated a lie. They wanted to use Smollett. They didn’t care if he was lying. They weren’t worried about the damage it could cause, whether his fantastic story may have sparked racial violence in Chicago and elsewhere across the country.

They had their politics to worry about. They wanted outrage. They wanted votes. So, they used him. And he used them.

And now that Smollett has been exposed as a liar by a jury in Chicago, they’d much rather we move on, before we can explore this destructive alchemy of the media/political elite and the damage it has done.

[Improviso]