A Reassuring Lie

Not sure to whom to attribute this little gem, but it speaks loudly, doesn’t it? Especially given the context of the Big Lie of 2021?

Arguably the highest profile attorney in the United States, Rudy Giuliani, was suspended from practicing law in New York on Thursday because he made false statements while trying to get courts to overturn Donald Trump’s loss in the presidential race.

A court upheld the request to suspend Giuliani’s license on the grounds that he’d violated professional conduct rules as he promoted theories that the election was stolen through fraud, because it deemed that disseminating these lies constitutes an “immediate threat” to the public. The court wrote, “The seriousness of the respondent’s uncontroverted misconduct cannot be overstated……This country is being torn apart by continued attacks on the legitimacy of the 2020 election and of our current president, Joseph R. Biden.”

Now, why is all this happening? Simply because tens of millions of Americans are willing to believe that most far-fetched BS imaginable, and are turning out en masse to see the theatrical blockbuster, “A Reassuring Lie.”