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The Spreading, or How The Conspiracy Theories End Messily
We as a country are in for a national season of dazzling, baffling, and spreading of a big old hot political mess.
If you can’t dazzle them with your brilliance, goes the old adage that is misattributed often to WC Fields, blind them with bulls%^&. With the Georgia runoff, Joint Session of Congress to certify the 2020 election, and increasingly unmoored president and his die-hard supporters running out of time, and a whole bunch of folks needing to preen and position themselves for what they think is coming next, we as a country are in for a national season of dazzling, baffling, and spreading of a big old hot mess.
It was hard to tell who was more demonstrative in exhibiting their frustration Monday: Georgia Voting System Implementation Manager Gabriel Sterling at the podium or David Cowen, expressive official American Sign Language interpreter for the state of Georgia. “It’s whack-a-mole again…Groundhog Day,” an exasperated Sterling vented at the podium while Cowen gestured demonstratively for the hearing impaired. Last month, Sterling stood at that same podium alternating between anger and pleading with everyone from the president on down to stop spreading conspiracy theories about the 2020 election in Georgia. Now on the eve of the Georgia…
