Legal Twitter is kinda fun right now, tearing these legal briefs a new one is fairly amusing. Plus all the armchair MAGA lawyers not understanding how appellate courts work is laughable too. They think Rudy is sitting on mountains of evidence just waiting for the case to get to the Supreme Court to release it as a strategy not to tip their hand. The only problem is that is not how it works.
That's the thing that has always been so ridiculous about the election fraud stuff, the QAnon stuff, all of it: Okay, so let's assume for a second that either A) there is evidence of widespread electoral fraud on the part of the Democrats, the Republicans are in possession of it, Trump has a full grasp of the reality of the situation, and it's all basically irrefutable. Alternatively, let's accept for a moment that B) the Democratic Party and indeed many of their elite supporters are in fact a group of child-eating, satanic cannibal-pedophiles, and our patriotic Republican friends can prove it, AND Trump knows it.
Okay. In EITHER of those scenarios, the truth coming to light would not only be revelatory, incendiary, potentially America-ending, it's also desperately urgent. On the one hand, it's nonsensical that such a bombshell can't be revealed until the hearing is before *just the right* appellate judge, with *just the right* Supreme Court composition. If our elections are compromised, or if in fact there are demons among us, the appeals process isn't the place to reveal it. And on the other hand, for the good of your fellow Americans, many of whom vote Democratic because they sincerely believe in the party's mission, wouldn't you want to explain to them the damage they're inflicting on themselves? Wouldn't you want them to know they were unwittingly aiding and abetting cheaters or, worse, satanic forces? I mean, I may be opposed to most forms of conservatism, but I'm also just some schmo from the midwest who doesn't want his vote to accidentally go to a flesh-eating monster OR to a foreign asset.
The whole idea that "the truth will be revealed" is an enticing one, I'll grant. We spent more than a year chatting about what Robert Mueller was going to find when he finally delivered his report. Or what the impeachment hearings might divulge. And I still believe that there is more to these stories that the public hasn't yet learned. But that is so different from being convinced that a reality-shattering revelation is at hand, but just....always....slightly out of reach. The lengths people will go to in order to rationalize that belief is well documented, but no less mind-boggling to see play out before our eyes.
But Matlock always brought in the key witness right at the end!!!?!?!?!
As a kid, any time my mom made hot dogs for dinner, she would say it was "Matlock Night," in honor of Ben Matlock's signature celebratory meal.
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