So much for all that bullshit
Remember all that doomsday hysteria about how Georgia Republicans were going to magically oust Fani Willis? MSNBC (and the hordes of Twitter pundits trying to get booked on MSNBC) hyped that claim for months. And yet the entire time, it was always very clear that it was never a real thing that had any possibility of happening.
Sure, Georgia Republicans tried to make it sound like they were going to do this. But they never actually gave themselves the power to do it. Instead they merely voted to an outside committee the theoretical power to do this. That alone proved that they weren’t looking to stick their necks out by actually trying to oust Willis. They just wanted to create the vague appearance that they were making an effort to oust Willis, so they could please Trump, and so they could fundraise off the narrative that they were trying to oust Willis.
Georgia Republicans also made a point of waiting until it became clear that Trump was about to get indicted and only then passed their legislation, after it was too late to matter. They just wanted to generate (false) headlines about how they were going to oust Fani Willis.
Georgia Republicans knew – because everyone in politics knows this – that all they had to do was falsely threaten to oust Fani Willis, and MSNBC would eagerly chase ratings by “sounding the alarm” about this scenario as if it were a real thing. And then every liberal political writer and liberal political pundit whose business model is based on getting booked on MSNBC would also “sound the alarm” about it, thus ensuring that these Georgia Republicans got all the free publicity they were looking for.
And this was all over a 100% fictional story that everyone involved knew was fictional the entire time. Based on their actions, Georgia Republicans were absolutely not setting themselves up to oust Fani Willis. In fact they were specifically setting things up so they wouldn’t have the power to oust her.
But Georgia Republicans got all the hype they needed out of this fake narrative, during the timeframe when they wanted it. MSNBC got months worth of ratings out of this fake narrative. And they were all counting audiences eventually just sort of forgetting about it, and not noticing that it never did happen, and never putting it together that it was obviously a fake story all along.
As long as so many audience members on our side continue to be willing participants in this kind of fictional doomsday hysteria, “liberal” media outlets like MSBNC will continue to fraudulently conspire with the Republicans in the name of hyping fictional doomsday story after fictional doomsday story. And would-be activists on our side will continue to be too paralyzed with defeatism and fear to go out and put in any work as activists. This kind of harmful cycle won’t stop happening until you all stop falling for these kinds of fake stories.
