Committee: So a coalition of America’s wealthiest industrialists secretly organized to overthrow the constitutional government of the United States?Butler: Yes sir.Butler: Yes sir.Committee: And to lead this fascist regime, they selected a man who has spent the last several years publicly denouncing capitalism as a racket and comparing yourself to Al Capone?Butler: Yes sir.Committee: Did any of these industrialists express concern that your very public socialist sympathies might present an obstacle to installing you as dictator?Butler: No sir.Committee: Did they perhaps assume you would simply… change your mind?Butler: They didn’t say, sir.Committee: General, do you have any documents? Written correspondence? A contract? Meeting minutes? Anything at all?Butler: No sir.Committee: Any other witnesses to these specific conversations?Butler: No sir.Committee: So we have your word, and your word alone, that America’s business elite entrusted a coup d’état to a man whose entire public identity was built on opposing everything they stood for.Butler: Yes sir.Committee: And you find this plan… sound?Butler: No sir.Committee: Then why would they propose it?Butler: I couldn’t say, sir. Perhaps they were confident, sir.Committee: Confident in what, exactly?Butler: Confident men often are, sir.Committee: [pause] No further questions.
>>18660211why they just let some weirdos say these unimaginable things at the house and senate floorslike, they say ufo exists or that trump rapes children but nothing comes from itlike these things should lead into something more, investigations or prosecution but you know, nothing ever happens
>>18661603Fucking nailed it
