Aight look hang on a second. We’re both humans. We’re both upset about the fact that children are being systematically raped, right? And that their abusers have not only escaped justice but are most probably in the position of administering “justice” themselves now, right? We’re on the same page as far as that goes, I’m pretty confident in saying.

So what are we actually arguing about? I think we might actually agree a lot more than either of us realize. I’m not saying this guy is innocent, hand him his halo. I’m saying the specific sketch being attributed to him in this particular instance is unearned. No snark, no heat, no smoke, no sarcasm: I’m just using my eyes looking at this video and I see a guy smiling and sharing a joke with a political rival that made a whole room laugh, not an attempt to lie about the vote. Like, even in the most uncharitable interpretation that he is a completely tactless moron who was literally trying to gavel the single no against a roomful of aye-witnesses including several from his own party: They laughed the attempt down. Honestly, the interaction is actually kind of wholesome like, literally I don’t think I’ve ever seen a more clear example of willing bipartisanship in years, maybe in my entire political lifetime, and that working apparently toward the investigation of the pedo files. The guy they’re maligning played a reluctant but willing part as far as I can tell in bringing this subpoena to life. He was clearly opposed to it but I managed to come away from that video with the impression that he was pleased with the way the entire situation unfolded anyway.

There’s a lot of stuff going on in this epstein story, and I’m just trying to say this “vote stealing lie” is a manufactured controversy not actually part of that epstein story, and that it’s a distraction from the actual legitimate story, and that people need to pay closer attention to their sources, thats it. Thank you for coming to my ted talk.