Jane Coaston

8chan white nationalist posting they will do that all day but they also very much want everyone to like them also they want a story of this in which they are a besieged victim but also an overwhelming army of strength but also everybody loves them

And it's a complicated story to try and keep telling yourself that.

But I think that that's why they keep sending these people to do hearings.

And also why I think especially on this particular story, they recognize that like.

This isn't good.

Fox News has tried to spin this by just simply never discussing it.

I think that there is some new data reflecting, I think Mediaite had it today, talking about how basically right-wing media just has stopped covering this story.

Unless it is amusing, though, National Review was like, well, let's talk about Epstein and Keir Starmer, which I was like, all right, guys, come on.

This time zone, or actually these time zones.

But I do think that there's a sense of like,

perception matters to this administration they want to be perceived as strong and popular and this entire story i think gives away the game that they are neither to that point like hiding from congress would also reveal very clearly that you're neither strong nor popular if you if you have to run from chris van holland yeah which like you know i like chris van holland but like not the most terrifying person i've ever met in my life

It's an amusing mental picture.

This was very predictable because –

Yeah, but I also will say that one,

refusing to say anything until you are pardoned for sex trafficking, which, you know, that's what clemency would imply.

I am trying to imagine a world in which even Donald Trump, even Donald Trump somewhere in his lizard brain of like maintaining some sort of illusion of popular standing, even Donald Trump understands that pardoning Ghislaine Maxwell would be a really bad idea, like a really bad idea.

I think my favorite thing about Glenn Maxwell, the convicted sex trafficker who will child sex trafficker who will go to hell is that it's not a good sign for you that the like best defense of you was written by

in the spectator which is a british newspaper where the author just kept talking about how beautiful she was at oxford and i was like oh no that's not going to help you every galane maxwell story is like her father like blindingly wealthy right-wing media magnate fell off a yacht maybe maybe he was murdered who could say the leot was named the lady galane like every detail about glenn maxwell is the most like do not you know like dead bird do not touch

Like, do not, do not go anywhere near her.

If I were Ghislaine Maxwell, which I wouldn't be, I also would not have just been like, just so you know, here's what part of my testimony is going to be, that testimony that's totally truthful, and I am asking for a pardon for my totally trustworthy testimony.