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GOP Secretary of State Melts Down When Asked To Explain Bid to Throw Biden Off Ballot
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Ashcroft: "Are you scared of the truth?"
Sanchez: "Oh, I am not terrified of the truth at all, seems like you might be."
You need to watch those clips in the Xitter link. Sanchez is on fucking fire and does not let up.
I'll watch it somewhere, but it's not going to be at TwitX.
Edit here: https://youtu.be/pIsVB-H_M_8?feature=shared
The most relevant part starts around 4:22 but the whole thing is good (well, up until the YouTuber jumps in with his take, which fortunately is after the CNN segment)
Holy shit that was embarrassing for Jay Ashcroft. He proved he's a legal scholar equivalent of a nepo baby because he is so grossly incompetent at understanding how state law works. If this guy was your attorney, the very real question of capability and competency would come up.
Hopefully his dad will help him understand the law better because having 2 J Ashcrofts be that hilariously dumb is a bad look.
I've heard better arguments from an L1 than this bozo. But you know what they say: if the law is on your side, pound the law. If the facts are on your side, pound the facts. If neither is on your side, pound the table. All he has is the table.
He tried to pound the table and missed
Thanks for the non-shitter link
Fantastic. 🍿
I also immediately switched off when the YouTuber started talking.
Jesus Christ it’s like these people are in preschool or something
In the sense of being genuinely ignorant of the proper way to act, no. In the sense of being petulant brats throwing a tantrum, yes.
I couldn't get over his use if the word "extrajudicial" to describe what's happening in court cases. What a bumbling moron.
"b-b-but, but twump was taken off for allegations, and allegations mean stuff someone said, so I heard someone say Biden bad so slippery slope then I take bidens name off"
He said "well if they do it, slippery slope, I'll do it!" He SERIOUSLY used a well known logical fallacy to prove his point.
my grasp upon my own native tongue is a failure, as I simply don't have the words to describe the level of idiocy we see regularly from republicans.
BTC is actually a pretty well established political YT'er and has some great rundowns of the political climate. I'm sure you'd change your tune if you watched a few vids.
He's got a very intense delivery style that comes off very used-car-salesman to me. I don't think he's wrong about stuff, I just don't enjoy watching his presentation style.
I haven't watched any of that guy's videos, but from your description it at least sounds preferable to the dangerously apologistic "both-sides-ism" of most corporate news media!
But I don't want to watch any Youtubers talk. They are all annoying, and I don't care to see their talking faces.
Any information that they could present by talking it to a camera with their face, could be more efficiently delivered as a blog post. There's no reason but self-promotion for these people to be talking to their camera. Videos that show things happening, and are about actual stuff, are what Youtube should be for. Not a bunch of talking heads giving their opinions to a camera.
We need more journalism that pushes back like this.
We certainly do, but we shouldn't kid ourselves into thinking that would accomplish much with these fuckers. They'll just start avoiding the journalists that refuse to stay neutral or lob them softballs.
It's not like their supporters are going to shame them for doing that, either. I'm shocked any Republican talks to any reporter that isn't from Fox News anymore.
The problem with that is thinking that the follow-up question, "How so?" is anything BUT neutral or a softball. It's just a basic question; it literally could not be MORE neutral.
This fool could have been on Newsmaxx or OANN and gotten that same question from a friendly interviewer trying to offer him the space to lay out more slanderous innuendo, unaware that Jay Ashcroft is completely unprepared for even that tiny amount of latitude.
I know that's not your position or what you personally are advocating, but jesus fucking christ that's an easy one. "So-and-so did something bad." Response: "How so?"
To blatantly twist a quote from The Godfather, Jay Ashcroft showed up for that interview with nothing but his dick in his hand . . . and his hand wasn't even full.
They already do avoid most journalists, for precisely that reason. Neutrality, to the insane Republican party, is the same thing as a far left bias.
Hell even within Fox news... Shepard Smith was one of a handful of actual journalists at Fox news, surrounded entirely by opinion shows.
Fox news viewers HATED Shepard Smith because he was "too opinionated."
I can't stand this reality.
I'm sure they dream of a day in the not-to-distant future where they can just have journalists like this killed.