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The Most Disturbing Part of the Jussie Smollett Story
Today President Trump’s son, Donald Jr., tweeted something I was planning on writing on tonight:
.@KamalaHarris loves to tout her record as a prosecutor, so why's the media ignoring that she jumped to false conclusions in the @JussieSmollett case? Why's no one questioning her judgement & fitness to oversee law enforcement? (Answer: Cuz the media did the same thing she did.)
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 19, 2019
It’s not surprising that the story was a hoax, we’ve unfortunately seen enough of those to last a lifetime. It’s not surprising that even a Hollywood celebrity could be so deranged by TDS (Trump Derangement Syndrome) that they would perpetrate a crime like Smollett seems to have. But here’s the scary thing: a lot of people who really ought to have known better fell for it.
People who are running for President (Harris, Booker, Sanders), people involved in Congressional intelligence (Schiff, AOC), a number of celebrities who pride themselves on their superior intelligence otherwise. All of these individuals believed the most implausible story every woven. We were told two white men in MAGA hats were wandering around Chicago in the dead of the winter during a polar vortex, attacked Smollett with bleach and a noose (which apparently white people just carry around nowadays in the age of Trump), knew who he was (how else would they know to shout homophobic epithets along with racist ones?), and shouted MAGA Country. In Chicago. Yes, when I think MAGA country, my first thought is the home of Barack Obama and Rahm Emanuel.
But they just… believed it, believed it all.
The truth is, they wanted it to be true. They wanted to be able to have a new tool with which to bludgeon the President and his supporters. That tool was more important than the truth.
Published in General
Haha! — did yours end up in the hoosegow, too?
No, just from the Officer’s Club to an intermediate stop to Don Juanz Baja Beach Tacos until closing time.
I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
He’s an ACTOR for Pete’s sake!
He thinks his “truth” that he brings to his role is reality.
He thought his role was to bring the reality of lynching to a greater audience.
He did, he did. And he paid by check.
This is his strongest defense: Insanity. He really thought he wasn’t doing anything wrong, or else he why would he pay by check?
Will he learn from this lesson? Will the world of reality intrude on his Actors Studio inner truth? Unfortunately I am reminded of the final scene in The Producers.
Seriously? This guy is not the sharpest tack.
This just in.
Fox Studios “Considering our options” with regard to Jussie Smollet.
Here is my prediction.
That is my prediction in accordance with Muggeridge’s Law
and it will be true.
I don’t know about ya’ll, but – If some person comes to me seeking help in augmenting their already 7 figure salary, I’m probably gonna need 5 figures to make that happen.
Illegality ought to cost another order of magnitude.
$3500 is right out.
There is another explanation, but it’s slightly less flattering.
If we’re going to have hate crimes, then Smollett is guilty of one.
You can’t make this up.