# January 6th Hearing-Adjacent Discussion Thread **URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829 **Category:** Politics & Elections **Created:** [July 12, 2022, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829 "2022-07-12T16:20:50Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 12
### Author: ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius) #### Post date: [July 12, 2022, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829/12 "2022-07-12T21:06:25Z")
Replying to this post here: > [@Jan 6 Hearings Follow-Along & Commentary Thread (Starts Jun 9, 2022)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jan-6-hearings-follow-along-commentary-thread-starts-jun-9-2022/965940/1971): > > What was your impression of the last 2 guys’ testimony? -I was an idiot, that I believed such nonsense. -Anyone coulda believed it. -I was manipulated by Trump/media/whomever. -I had some personal anger/resentments, and this gave me an outlet. -Something else? I’m seriously trying to put a spin on it that isn’t pretty critical of them and their ilk. My take away is that this shows I was right to spend so many years at least _trying_ to get people to realize how full of shit Alex Jones and his ilk were/are. Long before all this QAnon/Stop the Steal nonsense began, I knew that wide-spread belief in conspiracy theories would be destructive to democracy. How can people vote sensibly if they believe complete nonsense? How many of the 40+% of people who never vote have dropped out because of a belief that “It’s all rigged!”? These guys are the poster boys for why we need to rein in all that crap. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/january-6th-hearing-adjacent-discussion-thread/967829)._