US House speaker to make good on promise to far-right Republicans including Matt Gaetz and Donald Trump

    • Doug [he/him]@midwest.social
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      8 months ago

      The given answers, and so they can act like there wasn’t that much of what happened.

      No one can watch all that, so they’ll claim that violence is cherry picked and it’s the mostly peaceful protest they’ve been claiming the whole time.

      It’s still a lie but it’s one they’re giving “evidence” to their supporters for.

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      8 months ago

      The footage is already out there. These seems like an information dump under the guise of transparency. It’s like when a corporation gets sued and has to release records so they send 20 million pages of documents to the plaintiff, far too much to actually wade through.

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      8 months ago

      There are undoubtedly thousands of hours of footage of no laws being broken they can use to muddy the water.

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        This is 100% it, there’s already so much “bad” footage out there that no one is going to change their mind about jan 6 if more comes to light. But they’re hoping to find a few clips that make it look good that they can play on a loop on fox News

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      8 months ago

      It’s enough footage to muddy the waters. Too much to individually review, but a perfect amount to point at and say nothing happened during most of it.

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    Kevin McCarthy gave 41k hours to Tucker Carlson, I assume the same stuff. So it’s not that anything politically or legally interesting will come out of it, it’s just going to be like the Hillary emails where conspiracy theorists trawl through and invent things, “Pizza” must be a child sex ring, I don’t see what else it could possibly mean. Stuff like that.

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    8 months ago

    Now release footage of DNC members submitting applications for ballots using addresses under overpasses and mysteriously upping the vote counts overnight after ballot counting had “stopped.”