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Fox News: The impeachment is FAKE
Dec. 20th, 2019 12:30 pmFox News is going with a line - it's become an active talking point - claiming that the impeachment of Donald Trump is fake.
Now, that's some pretty galaxy fox news brain right there.
But you know what this reminds me of? I've realised what this reminds me of. It reminds me of Sovereign Citizen/Admiralty Court conspiracy-theory bullshit.
Sovereign-Citizen and Admiralty Court are this whole-grain-nutbar batshittery that's been floating around in conspiracy theory circles for decades, all about how if you say the right magic words then you're above the law (and most importantly, taxes).
One of the key tropes was that if the flag in a courtroom had gold fringe around the edges? It wasn't a real court. It was an Admiralty court, and they couldn't try you, because they don't have jurisdiction over sovereign citizens.
None of it makes the least bit of sense, of course. It doesn't have to. It's about the magic words that make you a tiny god immune to everything going badly around you.
And that's what this is, isn't it?
I mean, all the tropes are well-blended now. Conspiracy theory, authoritarianism, fundamentalist loathing for empiricism, the core idea of modernism that says you can derive knowledge from the world rather than just receiving it from on high.
So of course all these parts are coming out together. They're all tools critical to the kind of AU they've built and have chosen/been lead to live within.
But when you get to this level, it seems to me that you're stressing that system pretty hard.
Stuff like this feels like an indicator that it's pushing up against its limits.
So does the crowd reaction to 45's mocking a widow at his rally this week.
I mean, listen to that reaction. He went too far even for them, when he implied her husband was looking up at all this from hell. They managed to pull themselves together, mostly, but... it was a shock.
Even to them.
Which means the system's cracking a bit, I think. They're having to go places like here.
Which means this could all shatter very, very quickly, couldn't it.
If it does, that won't mean it's over. That will mean it has exploded, and there is metaphorical debris everywhere, just waiting for someone to pick it up.
All that raw material is going nowhere.
Now, that's some pretty galaxy fox news brain right there.
But you know what this reminds me of? I've realised what this reminds me of. It reminds me of Sovereign Citizen/Admiralty Court conspiracy-theory bullshit.
Sovereign-Citizen and Admiralty Court are this whole-grain-nutbar batshittery that's been floating around in conspiracy theory circles for decades, all about how if you say the right magic words then you're above the law (and most importantly, taxes).
One of the key tropes was that if the flag in a courtroom had gold fringe around the edges? It wasn't a real court. It was an Admiralty court, and they couldn't try you, because they don't have jurisdiction over sovereign citizens.
None of it makes the least bit of sense, of course. It doesn't have to. It's about the magic words that make you a tiny god immune to everything going badly around you.
And that's what this is, isn't it?
I mean, all the tropes are well-blended now. Conspiracy theory, authoritarianism, fundamentalist loathing for empiricism, the core idea of modernism that says you can derive knowledge from the world rather than just receiving it from on high.
So of course all these parts are coming out together. They're all tools critical to the kind of AU they've built and have chosen/been lead to live within.
But when you get to this level, it seems to me that you're stressing that system pretty hard.
Stuff like this feels like an indicator that it's pushing up against its limits.
So does the crowd reaction to 45's mocking a widow at his rally this week.
I mean, listen to that reaction. He went too far even for them, when he implied her husband was looking up at all this from hell. They managed to pull themselves together, mostly, but... it was a shock.
Even to them.
Which means the system's cracking a bit, I think. They're having to go places like here.
Which means this could all shatter very, very quickly, couldn't it.
If it does, that won't mean it's over. That will mean it has exploded, and there is metaphorical debris everywhere, just waiting for someone to pick it up.
All that raw material is going nowhere.
