Jussie Smollett has been convicted of perpetrating a giant hoax thing because, as you know, the streets of Chicago are crawling with MAGA men, walking around with their nooses and their bleach hunting for black people who happen to be TV stars and gay and heading out to Subway at 2 AM on a frosty morning.
Okay, a lot of people believed that. We need to talk about them because they're freaking idiots! But are they really idiots? Biden believed it, and he's an idiot. Kamala Harris, she bought into it. But a lot of other people probably thought, "You know, this is manifestly bull***, but I think it will help me perpetuate my narrative of racial hate within America."
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