{"id":441,"date":"2019-02-22T04:49:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T04:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=441"},"modified":"2019-02-22T04:51:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T04:51:13","slug":"sarcastic-sentry-volume-2-4-issue-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/?p=441","title":{"rendered":"Sarcastic Sentry Volume 2.4, Issue 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jussie Smollett, an actor probably already past his money making shelf life decided last month to try to leverage his salary and stardom by elevating his victim status.\u00a0 Already seeing himself as less than worthy compared to his costars, he decided that a good beat down at the hands of some white Trump-loving supremacists might be the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>So as the story has thus far evolved, Jussie was on his way home from a Subway in Chicago.\u00a0 It was after 2 in the morning.\u00a0 He was on foot.\u00a0 Two men, at least one of them masked \u00a0attacked him calling him an \u201cEmpire faggot nigger\u201d and commenced a beat down.\u00a0 (By the way, I use the \u201cn-word\u201d in its context here.\u00a0 The same as many blacks use it in regular conversation.)\u00a0 The men tied a rope around his neck and poured a chemical compound on him (now believed to be bleach).\u00a0 One of them was wearing a MAGA hat, and they proclaimed this (the part of Chicago this happened, one presumes) to be MAGA country.<\/p>\n<p>And there you have it.\u00a0 A black man, openly gay is set upon by two Trump-loving, presumably white guys, who did a make-shift lynching and chemical burning while also using racist and homophobic language.\u00a0 It is the perfect fodder for the media cycle.<\/p>\n<p>I waited a long time before speaking out on this.\u00a0 I had my suspicions, but I let the story unwind and as it turns out, unravel before I pour my own acid on it.<\/p>\n<p>Where to start?\u00a0 First, someone decides to go to Subway at 2am.\u00a0 You had nothing in the frig or pantry to eat?\u00a0 Don\u2019t you have a car?\u00a0 Why are you on foot, in Chicago, at 2am.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have a car, do you not have an assistant at your beck and call to drive you about, tossing rose pedals on your intended path?\u00a0 No?\u00a0 How about Uber or Lyft?\u00a0 Or a cab?\u00a0 What about Grubhub?\u00a0 They deliver.\u00a0 Uber has a food delivery as well.\u00a0 But no, we\u2019re on foot.<\/p>\n<p>It was bitter cold that night.\u00a0 I read somewhere it was 12 degrees.\u00a0 Add in the wind chill factor and we\u2019re zooming in on zero degrees.\u00a0 This is Chicago County in Illinois.\u00a0 This was and still is Hillary-land.\u00a0 She won the vote over Trump 7 to 1.\u00a0 Yes, Trump got roughly 12% of the vote.\u00a0 Now, let\u2019s examine some math here.\u00a0 What are the odds that this happened the way ole\u2019 Jussie swears by?\u00a0 Mathematically?\u00a0 1 in 2.\u00a0 It either happened, or it didn\u2019t.\u00a0 Statistically?\u00a0 We\u2019re into winning the lottery land.\u00a0 What are the odds that:<\/p>\n<p>1:\u00a0 They knew who he was in that they used the name of his TV show.<\/p>\n<p>2:\u00a0 They knew he was gay.<\/p>\n<p>3: \u00a0Two Trump followers found him at exactly the right time.<\/p>\n<p>4: \u00a0They were carrying rope.<\/p>\n<p>5:\u00a0 They were carrying bleach.<\/p>\n<p>6:\u00a0 At least one was wearing a MAGA hat.<\/p>\n<p>7:\u00a0 No camera caught them coming, beating him up, or going.<\/p>\n<p>Similar statistics show that a specific plane on a given flight will go once in 5,371,369 flights.\u00a0 So, fly the same plane on the same flight, every single day, and it will crash once in 14,716 years.\u00a0 I don\u2019t even know Biblical figures that ever lived that long.\u00a0 Maybe these were some of the things that may the Chicago Police go \u201cHmmmm.\u201d\u00a0 But Jussie, his lawyers, and the leftist media want you to look only at the mathematical possibilities, and then discount the negative.\u00a0 Because, Trump.<\/p>\n<p>As the case started to implode, his lawyers came to his immediate defense.\u00a0 They called doubters liars.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from Smollett\u2019s lawyers, issued late Saturday evening, said, \u201cAs a victim of a hate crime who has cooperated with the police investigation, Jussie Smollett is angered and devastated by recent reports that the perpetrators are individuals he is familiar with. He has now been further victimized by claims attributed to these alleged perpetrators that Jussie played a role in his own attack. Nothing is further from the truth and anyone claiming otherwise is lying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tvline.com\/2019\/02\/16\/jussie-smollett-lawyers-deny-planned-hoax-attack\/\">https:\/\/tvline.com\/2019\/02\/16\/jussie-smollett-lawyers-deny-planned-hoax-attack\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How shitty of a lawyer do you have to be to wittingly or not go along with this, and then attack those who do not?<\/p>\n<p>Today, he was charged with a felony count of disorderly conduct for falsifying a police report.\u00a0 His lawyers plan an aggressive defense.\u00a0 Most of the media have gone silent, deleted their previous tweets about this being a modern day lynching, and some, surprisingly the Tawana Brawley co-conspiraotr Al Sharpton, even stated that if true he needs to punished to the fullest extent of the law.\u00a0 Welcome to the historical right side of this case, Al.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, MSNBC had on Zach Stafford, the editor-in-chief of LGBTQ magazine (I\u2019m sure the subscription rate is astronomical) who opined the conspiracy that the attack really happened and that it is the Trump-loving Chicago Police who are framing Jussie for this crime.\u00a0 Yes, the police can erase critical video footage (probably also stored on the cloud), coerce false testimony from two people seen on video, as well as create false banking records showing payment and receipt of monies for the gig.\u00a0 The host, Kasie Hunt, allowed this insane theory to go unchallenged.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/msnbc-guest-unchecked-after-floating-conspiracy-that-trump-supporting-cops-framed-jussie-smollett<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another reason why the masses absolutely distrust the mainstream media.\u00a0 Laura Logan was right partially.\u00a0 The media doesn\u2019t lean left.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t even tilt left.\u00a0 They are in the bag for the left.\u00a0 Bias is the main ingredient baked into the cake.\u00a0 The left, the media, and leftist politicians will say ANYTHING, cover up ANYTHING, do ANYTHING to resist, obstruct, or impeach the President.\u00a0 And sadly, most of those voting D, both know it and are complicit by allowing it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/smollett.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-442\" src=\"http:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/smollett-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/smollett-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/smollett.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jussie Smollett, an actor probably already past his money making shelf life decided last month to try to leverage his salary and stardom by elevating his victim status.\u00a0 Already seeing himself as less than worthy compared to his costars, he decided that a good beat down at the hands of some white Trump-loving supremacists might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writeofcenter.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}