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11 Nov, 9 tweets, 2 min read
Impatience for show trials, calls to fire Garland if he doesn't quickly satisfy our bloodlust, the thirst for shattering announcements--this is unhealthy nostalgia for the chaos and excitement of the defunct Trump Reich, rather than a refreshing return to rational process.

1/7
The desperate panic and cynical insistence that nOtHiNg Is hApPeNiNg! (which none of the critics can possibly know to be true) play into the hands of authoritarians who want you to be exhausted, bitter, frightened and disheartened.

All that rhetoric helps Trumpian fascism.

2/7
Spreading distrust of the Biden Administration and the Department of Justice strengthens Republicans. They want you to suspect Something Is Wrong, even in the midst of an expanding economy and immense legislative victories and no evidence.

Show trials haven't yet happened.

3/7
Flashy arrests haven't been made.

We haven't heard announcements of secret investigations.

Remember, Trump was impeached for trying to get Ukraine to announce and investigation. The rabid demands for Garland to announce one are of the same purpose.

4/7
Trump was impeached for trying to get Ukraine to announce an investigation into Biden in 2019.

Biden is being condemned for not having Garland announce an investigation into Trump in 2021.

Have. You. Noticed. The. Similarity?

5/7
It's the same people behind both Trump's plan and the criticism of Biden / Garland.

Trump's Big Lie of massive vote fraud--with no evidence to support it--is the same thing as the New Lie of a supine Justice Department--also with no evidence.

6/7
Count on it. You're being manipulated the exact way Trump wanted to manipulate you.

You're falling for it.

7/7
This, right here.

If Democrats didn't do this to themselves, this is precisely what pro-Trump trollfarms would do to us.
You want evidence of progress, and of the Garland DOJ taking a stand and making certain things are moving?

Right here. You're welcome.

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12 Nov
There are about five areas for which Twitter has been attacking AG Garland.

1) Hasn't indicted Trump based on Mueller's work.
2) Hasn't indicted Trump for the Stormy Daniels thing.
3) Hasn't enforced the Bannon subpoena.
4) Hasn't brought sedition charges against anyone.

1/18
And finally:

5) He's not telling us what he's doing.

Let's look at all of these areas.

First, be aware, for any major indictment, a grand jury must be empanelled, and all the evidence that has been gathered must be presented to them.

2/18
A grand jury can request more evidence and more testimony in addition to what has already been accumulated. Any indictments come out of their deliberations.

This means that nothing that has come before can be simply picked up and used to put handcuffs on someone tomorrow.

3/18
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12 Nov
Living as I now do in the Colorado mountains--

nearly every night is clear.

I watch the Moon change phase and position among the stars--every night.

The Big Dipper is in a different place in the sky--every night.

Venus and Jupiter and Saturn keep moving.

1/4
Familiar constellations--Orion, Canis Major, Andromeda--rotate around the pole, every night.

Every morning, the Sun rises in a slightly different spot against the mountain peaks. And it sets in a different place in the evening.

2/4
Intellectually, I knew all this, because I love science and I studied astronomy in school. Yeah, I'm a geek, and a little nerdy, and I always have been.

I knew all this. But now, I'm living it.

I couldn't see all this in the city.

3/4
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11 Nov
The dark truth y'all need to know:

Republicans aren't going to stop trying to overthrow America.

After the above sentence, there's no "... unless ..."
They simply aren't going to stop.

Locking up everyone involved--for life--won't stop them. It won't even slow them down.

1/12
Y'all who want "justice" and "accountability" and who WANT IT NOW--you need to know:

That won't stop them.

It won't be deterrent. It won't prevent the next assault.

It will instead enrage them and create a class of martyrs who will further invigorate their cause.

2/12
I'm not saying "Don't do it!" I'm NOT saying that.

We absolutely =must= prosecute all the insurrectionists to the fullest extent of the law.

I'm instead saying, all the rhetoric about them being emboldened by how long it's taking to hold them accountable--is bullshit.

3/12
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10 Nov
Yes, the legislative and justice systems are painfully slow and clumsy. They have to be. If they weren't, the four years of the Trump Reich would have converted America into a dictatorship. They couldn't do it, because the legislative and justice system are slow and clumsy.
Exactly this. ⬇️

If you want "justice" to happen fast, if you want laws enacted quick, join an autocracy, where the Dear Leader can order things to happen.

Democracy =must= be slow, and the result is never certain. Only dictatorships are fast and sure.
The House gave DOJ a criminal referral for Bannon. DOJ has to convene a grand jury to consider charges. That takes a while.

Some imagine things can happen fast, and if they don't, it must be because 1) someone is corrupt, or 2) they don't want to.
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10 Nov
On Congress invoking Inherent Contempt--

1) Congress doesn't have a jail to throw people into.
2) They don't have enough bailiffs to chase people around the country to arrest them.
3) The purpose of DOJ and the courts is to enforce the laws. Let them do their job first.

1/6
I get both the impatience and the desire to go full-on authoritarian in a desire to fight authoritarianism. But it never works to burn down the village in order to save it.

Inherent Contempt must be a final resort. We're not there yet.

As for Bannon--

2/6
The 1/6 Committee most likely already has copies of all the documents they want from Bannon, and Bannon's testimony would be useless. He'd either lie or plead the Fifth anyway. Let the legal system deal with him while the Committee gets on with its work.

3/6
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2 Nov
You know how "progressives" keep insisting Sen Manchin won't agree to the Build Back Better plan unless the hold Bipartisan Infrastructure hostage?

Now "progressives" are trying to stick things into BBB that Manchin already rejected.

The tables are turned. I warned y'all.

1/4
No experienced Senator can afford to look like he's caving to blackmail from a bunch of snot-nosed inexperienced House members who've never accomplished anything.

Manchin might refuse to vote for BBB until BIL passes.

I warned y'all.

Listen, important lesson:

2/4
You don't demand ransom unless you're willing to shoot the hostages.

House "progressives" have already said they're willing to accept NOTHING unless they get everything. They don't understand how politics in America works.

We had a deal. They're trying to change it.

3/4
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