I see that a jury has just ordered Rudy Giuliani to pay two Georgia election workers the stupendous sum of $148,000,000 for some things he said about them regarding the 2020 election.
I will confess that I had known nothing whatsoever about this ongoing trial until hearing this news today, but I will say that when it comes to allegations of vote-counting shenanigans in Georgia that night, I’m inclined by default to believe they are true. It seems to me also that this mind-boggling award, which of course Mr. Guiliani has no chance of paying, seems intended far more to destroy him, and to make an example of him pour encourager les autres , than to seek anything conceivably resembling “justice”. It seems much more aligned with the persecution and destruction of Derek Chauvin, the January 6th protestors, and the Brunswick 3, than what we in America used to call the “rule of law”.
Indeed, there is really no such thing as the “rule of law”, because law in itself is only an abstraction. There is only ever the rule of those who write laws, and those who pardon or punish by invoking, applying, or ignoring them as they see fit.
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In situations like this and the Chauvin trial, one most also consider the possibilty that Giuliani and Chauvin themselves are insider participants in efforts pour encourager les autres. Even more far gone than the justice system is the news media system. It is unreasonable for us to assume that the news media exists to inform us rather than influence us. We don’t own it, pay for it, write for it, or provide scoops for it. So for us to react to it as if it is a source of facts is often an error.
$143,000,000
Alex Jones: “Hold my beer”
Beat me to it Mr. Bickle.
(Of course in my defense I’d mention, been awhile since I’ve dropped by.)