“Temporarily” means the appeals court just pissed all over the lower court’s effort to move this along and will now sit on this for three weeks before even holding a hearing.
Every aspect Dems control has moved absurdly slowly. This committee needs to get its ass in gear.
It should not have taken months and months and months to issue subpoenas.
It should not be nearly the end of 2021 with witnesses we know will ignore subpoenas not yet even scheduled to testify.
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We are in serious fucking trouble yet the combination of the House committee and the impotent absentee currently holding the Attorney General title are taking their sweet fucking time like they weren’t racing against a clock that expires a year from now.
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Come November 2022, barring some as yet unforeseeable miracle, Dems are going to lose control of the House.
And when they do, this committee is over. It is finished.
We do not have time for the toothless, plodding bullshit we’ve seen for ten months.
This is a shitshow.
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When people tell you that they are deeply afraid of where things are heading, that actually isn’t fun for them.
People don’t actually enjoy having founded, rational anxiety about real things they can easily list and explain.
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Responding to someone anxiously yelling “Fire!” by accusing them of just enjoying yelling “Fire!” is asinine.
It is fucking asinine.
That person entered the room thinking you probably just hadn’t smelled the smoke yet.
They thought you just hadn’t gotten a whiff of it.
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When there is a fire, you don’t wait for everyone to independently smell the smoke and unanimously agree that it is indeed smoke rather than just bacon maybe.
The people who smell it first go and warn other people.
That’s kind of the whole idea of yelling “Fire!”
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90+% of the content on Twitter is posted by <10% of the accounts.
There is nothing wrong with that.
There is nothing wrong with being a content consumer.
Reading someone else’s content doesn’t obligate them to indulge your criticism though.
A lot of people on here truly believe by following someone they’ve given that person something of value that the person is now indebted to earn or repay.
When you follow someone, you are the one receiving something you have decided is of value: their content.
The Attorney General is the People’s lead attorney.
We are his clients.
If he isn’t communicating with us, he isn’t talking to his clients. That is insufficient.
And for every attorney who is now going to reflexively run into my mentions to insist an AG cant talk to the public because of <reasons>, that is utter bullshit.
There is absolutely nothing barring an AG from speaking about overall priorities above individual cases.
And there is absolutely nothing whatsoever barring an Attorney General or Department of Justice from staffing a competent communications office fronted by a compelling spokesperson.
My 13-YO was telling me a story tonight about how one of the friends in his group has said some things lately the group isn’t quick to forgive.
Then, out of the blue, he added:
“It’s like your sanding board. It leaves holes, you know?”
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It took a minute to process what he was talking about and then, oh my god, my parental ass broke out in the biggest smile…
The sanding board…
There’s a story there.
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When my son was six, he went through a completely age-appropriate little stretch where he would say something he didn’t mean in the heat of the moment.
Typical hyperbolic kid stuff in the heat of being mad.
“You’re the worst parent ever.” That kind of thing.
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It is convenient but false to blame Dems’ sagging polling on having failed to pass key legislation yet.
Repubs have spent the last five decades failing to repeal Roe and the last decade failing to repeal the ACA.
They’ve weaponized those failures.
Dems do not do that.
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Repubs convert legislative failures into bottomless wellsprings of anger toward Democrats. Then they go back to the well whenever they need to juice their base.
Dems are being obstructed by all 50 of the 50 Repub senators and you can’t find a single coherent Dem msg abt that.
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Instead, the media has:
1) entirely absolved Republicans of any responsibility whatsoever for blocking widely popular legislation
2) obsessively centered coverage on two holdout Dems
I was a bit surprised when he asked. He isn’t much of a country fan - although he likes all kinds of music.
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Brothers Osborne would be more my kind of thing than his.
About halfway through the show, the stage lights dimmed to a bare spotlight and one of the Brothers, TJ, stepped out into the glare and talked about coming out as gay earlier this year.
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It was brave. It was moving.
His coming out was trailblazing in a genre that remains stubbornly behind.
It invariably means the absolute world to some young fans coming to terms with their own sexuality.
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