Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on Tuesday reflected on his mix-up during former special counsel Jack Smith’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying his job “is to ask questions.”
Your job is to ask questions like an educated, informed adult and not like a god damn idiot edgelord middle schooler.
The way cons seem to do “logic” is to sweep up a bunch of facts, do some rough pattern-matching for something that has the whiff of some circumstantial connection, and then throw that at the wall and demand that it sticks.
Note that there is virtually no way to distinguish this line of “reasoning” from the way conspiracy theorists do it. Because it’s usually the exact same picture with the same players in it.
For reference, see how they do Covid denialism, climate change denialism, vaccine denialism, evolution denialism etc…
I had a covid conspiracy theorist sibling argue to my face against what I was observing personally while working in a hospital during that time. It was frustrating and I now assume this person doesn’t work with actual evidence or logic, just vibes. They are a mom’s basement goblin and managed to get covid while I didn’t, and I had way more exposure opportunities.
Yeah. Denialists of all sorts tend to be a real chore to be around IRL.
The heel turn the hard right did into covid denialism so early on surprised even me. They just had to politicize even a goddamned pandemic. Couldn’t even fucking be bothered to put in the very least amount of effort, because “woke” or something.
I just recently listened to If Books Could Kill podcasts on “In Covid’s Wake” (parts I and II) and “The Lab Leak Goes Mainstream” and it brought back a lot of memories dealing with dumbfuckery from denialists.