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You wonderful and insightful gentlemen discussed the Jessi Smollett case and wondered how that young man was going to be able to live with the hoax and the lies for which he’s been found guilty by a jury of his peers. Apparently he’s standing by his account despite the outcome of the trial. My mind turns immediately to the tactical template upon which this type of strategem has been shown to be shockingly, dangerously, and quite effectively employed by one Don John Trump, and approximately 75 million of his dearest kool-aid drinking friends, who proclaim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen. It’s a stance that is having an unnerving degree of success, and one from which Trump will never

back down. I can’t know that Jessi makes the correlation between his case and Trump’s, but if enough 1619ers get behind Mr. Smollett, and a narrative to that effect gets a foothold in the news and on social media, it might generate a knock on effect in which this type of behavior overcomes traditional standards of morality and personal accountability.

THANKS OTRUMPA!!!!

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