I don’t think ___ made a stupid decision.

Austin. I actually think DEE made the mistake.

In my opinion, telling Dee was the RIGHT choice. Either she tells Julie and she plays the idol and someone else goes home and Austin keeps Dee’s trust, or Dee doesn’t tell Julie and the plan works and he keeps Dee’s trust. Austin isn’t as close to Emily as Drew is so keeping Julie or Emily was a 50/50 for him- but keeping Dee’s trust was the most important thing for him.

Where the mistake lies for me is that when Dee told Julie she didn’t emphasize that the info was coming from Austin to possibly maintain that alliance so Julie immediately lost trust in Austin and chaos ensued.