When the deal was $8,000 between the two of them for a light amount of work, show up at a certain spot on a cold night... play act roughing him up... buy some rope at a hardware store and then take a trip back home to Nigeria (possibly at Jussie's expense) it sounded agreeable enough.
No chance we'll get caught? We'll be on the other side of the planet during the window of time the police are engaging in what you assure us will be a brief and fruitless search for two non-existent white dudes?
Oh, and on top of all of this, we're doing it for a good cause (fighting racism and homophobia and evil white Americans who want their country to remain recognizable.)
Yeah, sounded pretty sweet then - but as soon as it changed into a situation where they're arrested and hearing about hate crime charges, felony assault, terroristic mail through the federal postal service, etc... well, I think they probably folded in record time and who could blame them?
If they're now off Scot-free here in exchange for helping get Jussie prosecuted, they really made out quite well. I wonder if they get to keep the $7,000?
Doesn't sit super well with me that they aren't going to face any kind of justice on this.
I don't understand the point of the image above
-nitpick mode- I think quay is pronounced as 'key'.Nitpick since you've made the mistake twice. It's "cue". As in "cue card". The word that sounds similar is spelled queue (meaning to line up). Then there's quay but that's pronounced kway. And what you're writing is probably pronounced "kay", if Spanish or "kuh" if the French participle.
Indeed.-nitpick mode- I think quay is pronounced as 'key'.
That's a lot of money for a D-list actor. Wonder if other parties funded this after his letter story (lol) flopped.
Looks like someone is trying to insinuate a wider conspiracy.
I ain't buying it.
Wheels within wheels! My new theory is that it was a double false flag operation: he was tricked into doing it by actual right wing extremists to make him make them look bad. So they'd win valuable Internet Sympathy Points. No doubt the Koch Brothers funded the whole thing.
-nitpick mode- I think quay is pronounced as 'key'.
Not quite D-list. Also had a few songs he performed break into the Billboard US R&B top ten, with a #2 in Portugal, I think? He's not exactly a pauper.
eta: plus he eats at Subway, walks even in freezing weather, and buys criminal props from craft stores. Lots of disposable cash for scamming
In some places, it is pronounced "kway." (I would guess that Thailand is one of those places.) But, I have always heard it pronounced as "key" in the US.
And that’s where he ****** up the most. He obviously didn’t put the time and money into the effort along thinking it through. A loyal, well paid entourage could’ve of been of immense help - a couple of real crackers could’ve been recruited to take the fall, a sharp attorney unofficially in jussie’s circle gets the charges reduced to simple assault, they do very little and easy time, the public is justifiably outraged and Jussie emerges from the fiasco as a soon to be very wealthy hero.
What a douchebag.
ah this makes more sense nowIn the top left picture he might be just at that very moment saying to Maxine Waters, "Hey, I'm gonna fake a hate crime attack on me; you down with that?"
In the bottom left picture he could be tapping Valerie Jarrett's back with his right hand in a secret code to say the same thing.
In the two pictures on the right, he's clearly doing the conspiring using mental telepathy instead.
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Smollett may not trust white people in that kind of capacity. And the payoff might need to be very high if he is perceived to be an insane anti-white racist to those crackers who are supposed to take the fall.a couple of real crackers could’ve been recruited to take the fall