A quiet killer… didn’t people refer to Mueller in similar terms? Look where that got us. Dems need to kick him in the ass & encourage him to be a bit louder
Media silence (aka "objective reporting") was as loud as the trump's bombast. In fact, they megaphoned his garbage. Every noise he made was covered ad nauseam without any balancing commentary or interviews.
I have lost faith...first, Mueller would save us, then Barr/Intelligence Committee would save us, and now supposedly Garland? I fear that the rot is so endemic that Garland et. al are afraid exposing it topples democracy on its own. Hoping I'm wrong, but believe we're screwed. Confronting MAGA requires Tim Ryan like bellowing, not quiet, albeit competent, determination.
"That’s three times in the last five years that we’ve been told to have faith in the system, to believe that justice is coming, to understand that this stuff has to happen quietly, and yadda yadda yadda. And three times the hard work of the good guys has been neutralized in the court of public opinion because of the silence.
MAGA is fucking loud. All the time. You don’t combat your neighbor blasting Slayer through giant PA speakers by putting your own music on mute."
What's that Brene Brown saying, "In the absence of data, we will always make up stories." Seems like we've been struggling to make sense of the silence for far too long. I don't know about you, but the stories I have been "making up" do not give me much peace or comfort these days.
Good piece, Greg. I understand the frustration, and I'm frustrated too. Tish James announced she was investigating Trump - why can't Garland? But on the flip side, I know when they do an investigation like this, they start at the bottom and work their way up. They're busting all these idiots that took part in the insurrection, so it's logical to think they're working their way up the idiot food chain to get to the guys who gave the orders, and Trump will be last in that order. It's human nature to think, when you don't know what's being done, that nothing is being done. Still, between the White House and the AG, it seems they could tell us something and like you said, reassure us. I want fucking justice.
Remember when Brennan and Rosenberg (Rosenberg later apologized) gave Barr the benefit of the doubt. Remember when Garland cried talking about the horrors of the Holocaust his family endured? We all know Biden’s tragic history with loss. Many Americans literally have experienced similar personal tragedies. What the fk is happening? After years of the horrors of Trump and his gangster family and other capos the trauma endures. The depth of fear and trauma that is expanding by Republicans while Biden (so many of us supported him and the Democrats, including former Republicans) and Garland and Democrats continue to suggest “we got this” while telling us not to look back and telling us “bi-partisanship is back - we got this!” (Manchin & Synema aka Jill Stein). Americans are freaking the fk out AGAIN! What is happening?????
It will remain, I am afraid, a quiet place.
A quiet killer… didn’t people refer to Mueller in similar terms? Look where that got us. Dems need to kick him in the ass & encourage him to be a bit louder
Media silence (aka "objective reporting") was as loud as the trump's bombast. In fact, they megaphoned his garbage. Every noise he made was covered ad nauseam without any balancing commentary or interviews.
I have lost faith...first, Mueller would save us, then Barr/Intelligence Committee would save us, and now supposedly Garland? I fear that the rot is so endemic that Garland et. al are afraid exposing it topples democracy on its own. Hoping I'm wrong, but believe we're screwed. Confronting MAGA requires Tim Ryan like bellowing, not quiet, albeit competent, determination.
Garland needs Fangs to stop all of this leftover Trump Fuckery, criminality.
"That’s three times in the last five years that we’ve been told to have faith in the system, to believe that justice is coming, to understand that this stuff has to happen quietly, and yadda yadda yadda. And three times the hard work of the good guys has been neutralized in the court of public opinion because of the silence.
MAGA is fucking loud. All the time. You don’t combat your neighbor blasting Slayer through giant PA speakers by putting your own music on mute."
What's that Brene Brown saying, "In the absence of data, we will always make up stories." Seems like we've been struggling to make sense of the silence for far too long. I don't know about you, but the stories I have been "making up" do not give me much peace or comfort these days.
Good piece, Greg. I understand the frustration, and I'm frustrated too. Tish James announced she was investigating Trump - why can't Garland? But on the flip side, I know when they do an investigation like this, they start at the bottom and work their way up. They're busting all these idiots that took part in the insurrection, so it's logical to think they're working their way up the idiot food chain to get to the guys who gave the orders, and Trump will be last in that order. It's human nature to think, when you don't know what's being done, that nothing is being done. Still, between the White House and the AG, it seems they could tell us something and like you said, reassure us. I want fucking justice.
Remember when Brennan and Rosenberg (Rosenberg later apologized) gave Barr the benefit of the doubt. Remember when Garland cried talking about the horrors of the Holocaust his family endured? We all know Biden’s tragic history with loss. Many Americans literally have experienced similar personal tragedies. What the fk is happening? After years of the horrors of Trump and his gangster family and other capos the trauma endures. The depth of fear and trauma that is expanding by Republicans while Biden (so many of us supported him and the Democrats, including former Republicans) and Garland and Democrats continue to suggest “we got this” while telling us not to look back and telling us “bi-partisanship is back - we got this!” (Manchin & Synema aka Jill Stein). Americans are freaking the fk out AGAIN! What is happening?????