Trump, the White House, and congressional Republicans have spent nearly the entire first year of the president’s second term pushing an ever-expanding number of contradictory narratives about not just what’s in the files, but why Democrats and even staunch conservatives like Rep. Thomas Massie have been demanding their release.
There’s a very simple reason for this: Trump and Republicans have no idea how to cover for a president who is clearly all over the files.
To believe anything they say requires a complete suspension of common sense.
You must not know many Republicans if you think they’ll have a hard time suspending common sense. Every belief they hold requires some level of cognitive dissonance.
I think the mistake is assuming they actually hold all of those beliefs.
Have you even argued with someone whose standards constantly shift so they’re always in the right, even when they soon back a position they were criticizing you for earlier in that conversation? That’s because they’re frantically defending another belief, sometimes one they aren’t even aware of themselves, and are either oblivious or unscrupulous enough to not notice or care how they’re doing it.
Far-right movements like the US Republicans are made of the frauds, fascists, and con artists running the show, the low-level grifters and bigots who aspire to one day be them, and the idiots too stupid to see they’re being deceived and swindled.
I think the mistake is assuming they actually hold all of those beliefs.
Umm, more like any beliefs. Well, okay, they do hold the belief in their expanding pocketbooks.
They don’t need to sustain it.
They just need to wait until their base gets distracted by something else. And then it is just Leftists who everyone hates and Democrats who insist on “decorum” who will still be talking about it.
wtf, how much time did someone save by cutting these hands like this?
I thought they released them last week or something?
Voted to release them. Justice department has 30 days to comply.
