“Elizabeth from Knoxville” has become a micro-celebrity when video of her crying after (she said) she had been maced during the failed Trump Capitol insurrection went viral. [I was going to make a Covid joke here then thought better of it.]
Now, some people are saying that it was all an act for the camera, that she had an onion hidden in her towel to make herself cry real tears so it would look like she’d been maced.
Could this tearful young woman in reality be a crisis actor, performing for the camera to garner unearned sympathy for her “patriotic” cause? I mean, I’m not saying this could actually be the case, I’m just repeating what some people have been saying. I mean, who brings an onion to a revolution? Then again, let’s take another look at that frame grab from her 28 seconds of fame:
Now what do we have here, what’s that suspicious-looking white object she has hidden in her towel?
An onion you say? What a cold-heared cynical person you must be, to accuse this patriotic young revolutionary of hiding an onion in her towel to produce faux tears for the benefit of the gullible Media? (Funny, I don’t remember Chairman Mao advising bringing a towel to a revolution—a tea set maybe, but not a towel.)
I mean, onions are yellow, not white (at least the ones I chop up for my tuna salad) so it can’t possibly be an onion...it’s actually a bar of soap, which is quite capable of producing tears when applied to the eye.
I’m pretty sure Chairman Mao did say to bring a bar of soap to a revolution—I mean, the whole point of a revolution is to clean up a dirty country, right?...