re: Sydney Powell is a sad example of the cost of emotional thinking & going off the deep end

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There was the still unexplained midnight count pause, with huge Biden jumps in every single such instance on count resumption.

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1. the unexplained was explained. people went to bed.. normal. were you expecting them to go all night.
2. the mail came in.
nothing unusual.

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she hoped that by assisting trump to defile the election and taking over she could have a seat at the table during trump as dictator.

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This seems plausible.

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Even very smart people (well above Powell's level of intelligence) can fall prey to confirmation bias and groupthink .

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100%

If you want some good examples, look up Aum Shinrikyo or The Order of the Solar Temple. Those cults were full of super smart and successful people.

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Her emotional reaction came before "observation and analysis of numbers", though.

She immediately thought "this election was fraudulent" and then went find data (from whatever source) backed this "gut reaction"

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Facts not in evidence.

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Powell's "gut reaction" (aka emotional reaction) was that the elections were fraudulent (my argument is this was due to echo chamber repetition melting her brain).

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I am not sure this was the reason.

There is no doubt that she had preconceptions, even before the election. There was reporting even on that night which could lead to someone with those preconceptions drawing the conclusions that she clearly drew.

From there (regardless of "echo chamber" or "herd mentality"), it is not difficult to imagine that she set out to validate the conclusions she had drawn based upon her preconceptions, rather than undertaking an objective analysis of "evidence" on both sides of the issue.

She is a trial attorney, and our adversary system tends to give rise to LOTS of attorneys who simply seek the evidence which SUPPORTS his/her side. Only the most-objective (and most successful) attorneys expend equal effort developing BOTH sides of the argument.

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What about smart people who didn't get swept up in either moral panic? Like me.

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Can you not see the reason people think like they do? On one hand you have a FISA judge (and the government who presented it) take a completely fabricated lie, accept said "paid for" information and use it to SPY on a Presidential candidate, just cause he's not "one of their own".

And then you have lawyers trying to present evidence of voter fraud and they are denied by courts "no merit" "no standing".

The shut down of counting in the middle of the night by swing states and when counts resumed large jumps in Biden's votes. Not allowing Republican observers close enough to examine questionable ballots, and on and on and on. There's nothing emotional in looking at ALL of the coincidences that swung ONE way. Seems to me any person looking at it LOGICALLY knows something nefarious happened.

I think that just shows the excuses had been built in prior to the election. You already see the same stuff with 2024, 1.25 years out.

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She was on some podcast thing a few days before the election with Thomas McInerney and he was talking about how the election would be stolen with Hammer/Scorecard software or something. So, you're right that she was already going down that rabbit hole.

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Yes, exactly, she seems to have been audience-captured after getting high on the fan supply from the Q base.

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d it seems way more relevant in the media and the democrat party. T

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MOAR WHATABOUTISM

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a. This isn't a trial

b. This statement invalidates your comments, too.

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You are doing the same right to left analysis that Powell was doing.

You are offering an opinion (actually 2, you very quickly moved on to the grift motivation) trying to explain why she did what she did.

You aren't supporting your position with any evidence.

100%, what you are doing is emotional thinking, right?