Look, we knew good and well that the Republican National Convention was going to be a mess to behold. The speaker lineup for the shindig was proof enough of that before the thing even got started. However, what we’ve witnessed from these people over the course of the last two days, with more still yet to come, has been nothing short of absolutely terrifying.
We were prepared for the language and rhetoric and lies that’s made us all sick to our stomachs for the last 4 years to be out and proud in full force as Trump and his party desperately cling to the pipedream of another four-year term for this nation’s biggest embarrassment to date. But it was the actual behavior we witnessed from these nutcases that really made us do a double-take and solidified the notion that these people have officially reached a terrifying level of desperation.
Because folks, there was so much yelling — quite literally to the point that excessive drug use among the RNC is now a running joke.
However, one former government ethics chief is warning the American public about just what that behavior means. And to say that it’s scary would be an understatement.
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Former Director of the Office of Government Ethics, Walter Shaub, took to his Twitter account on the heels of last night’s RNC event to explain why fact-checking these people would be virtually useless and just what exactly their overly aggressive approach means.
“Fact checking won’t work,” Shaub asserted. “Akin to a tonal language, Fascist is about sounds, not words. I say akin because the key is the grunts and yells, not tones. It’s a gruntyell language that seeks to stir emotions, not thoughts. The problem with fact checks is they don’t address emotions.”
Fact checking won’t work. Akin to a tonal language, Fascist is about sounds, not words. I say akin because the key is the grunts and yells, not tones. It’s a gruntyell language that seeks to stir emotions, not thoughts. The problem with fact checks is they don’t address emotions.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 25, 2020
“Theoretically, the speaker could come out and hum the tune to In the Hall of the Mountain King, and the audience would go nuts,” he continued in a second post. “Technically, that wouldn’t work because humming can’t produce the necessary harshness. But you could try a scat rendition of Ride of the Valkyries”
Theoretically, the speaker could come out and hum the tune to In the Hall of the Mountain King, and the audience would go nuts. Technically, that wouldn’t work because humming can’t produce the necessary harshness. But you could try a scat rendition of Ride of the Valkyries.
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) August 25, 2020
Long story short, guys, that aggressive, erratic behavior we’re witnessing isn’t because they’re excited. It seems as though it’s absolutely planned and very much so one purpose. And that’s downright petrifying.
Featured image via Ali Shaker/VOA
