The point of capital punishment is not justice. It is to “heal” the sovereignty of the state, which it deems to have been injured by behavior outside of it’s control. First it’s criminals killing innocent people, then what’s next? The populace killing their oppressors? Honestly the same can be said about the politics surrounding abortion. They don’t care that a pregnancy is terminated, they care that they had no say. The state are to be the only one’s with the power to grant life or death. This is how you reconcile the logical inconsistency of the pro-life people being the same as the pro capital punishment people people. It’s all about the sovereignty of the state. This, incidentally, is also the motivation behind Please Hangseth’s attempt to reestablish public execution.

My theory on this is he is trying to leverage contrarions. He knows how unpopular he is whether or not he admits it publicly. He wants to boost the concept of AI and talking about AI, and help continue it’s constituent wreckless spending just a liiiiitle while longer by making it rebellious to talk about. If that bubble pops on his watch his legacy will take a huge hit. He’s forbidden fruiting something that smells like a corpse, walks like a corpse, and quacks like a corpse.

Edit: Ultimately he is doing what he did when covid hit. How he botched covid is similar to how he’s trying to botch the economic equivalent of covid brewing that is over investment in AI. By muddying the conversation and dictating inane talking points he’s hoping to smoke bomb out of the whole situation.

I bet the Turnip administration is really upset about the person whose job it is to communicate with the press was really distracting and ineffective. Now they’ll have to waste more time looking for another with just a few short weeks until midterms. I bet they really hate that their pick is a relative nobody and convenient scapegoat. They probably really wanted to field questions about inflation, or oil prices, or food prices, or investments into Russia, or intentionally hamstringing Ukraine, or the Epstein files, or any of the insane things Turnip has said at recent rallies about his own health, or the superficial qualities of his supporters, or the bang up job RFK is doing with measles, or their targeting of political rivals, or their waivering support in traditionally rock solid strong holds, or that list of ballroom doners WP just released. Yup, I bet they’re really embarrassed. We should keep focusing on the card we picked, surely the magician wont use misdirection.