There have been several threads over the last few days saying GOP or Trump or MTG had bad days

[Effete Snob]

4. I'm not wasting a quarter of an hour to watch some guy rant

But the assumption that videotapes of places where no defendant was located is somehow either exculpatory or will impeach a government witness is far-fetched.

People don't run YouTube channels as a public service. The more eyeballs they can capture, the more money they make.

So, the challenge of being a YouTuber is to make sure that your videos have enough controversial material - or as this Popok character puts it in his tweets:

It got only eight recs, and it got lost, possibly being seen as less important than "cats."

I don't know how other folks read DU, but I glance at it in between doing other things while working to, you know, READ stuff. Reading is tremendously more efficient than watching videos, so posts of the "hey, here's a video that someone makes money to publish and will take 12 minutes to watch" variety aren't as interesting as simply saying "I believe the DoJ has failed to turn over Brady evidence in some J6 case, because a surveillance video of some place nowhere near the defendant is exculpatory somehow."

It's a stupid take, but, sure, it gets eyeballs.

And it's a stupid take because those videos exist whether McCarthy turns them over to Tucker or not. Those videos either have, or have not, been in the possession of the DoJ from the outset (which, again, I'm not watching 12 minutes of some guy bloviating in order to find out if he even bothers with that basic question), and the DoJ has either turned them over to the defense or has determined there is nothing exculpatory or impeachment-worthy in them.

The basic premise - that McCarthy giving them to Tucker creates a Brady problem - is fundamentally bullshit in the first place. The security videos from the Capitol either do or do not contain Brady material. But McCarthy's antics do not alter whether they do or do not contain Brady material.

So, another disincentive to waste my time watching yet another youtube video is the apparent and obvious fact that the videos have existed since Jan. 6, they either do or do not contain Brady material, they have or have not been turned over to the various defense teams in relevant part (which this guy would also not even know), and McCarthy's actions change NONE of that.