I, too, felt Merrick Garland was going too slow in bringing Trumpet - and his equally criminalistic cronies - into account for his many crimes. However, given the enormity and uniqueness of the situation, I've come to believe Garland's trying to build an air-tight case against a recent, former president with acute demonstrations of anomi…
I, too, felt Merrick Garland was going too slow in bringing Trumpet - and his equally criminalistic cronies - into account for his many crimes. However, given the enormity and uniqueness of the situation, I've come to believe Garland's trying to build an air-tight case against a recent, former president with acute demonstrations of anomie and more than a few psychological and sociological deviant behaviors. All of this, in addition to the ex-president having tens of millions of extremely credulous followers who believe everything he says, and are willing to start a violent civil war, should he ever call for one.
As such, I believe we should give AG Garland some slack as he proceeds with the DoJ's investigation(s) into Trumpet and his 'very obvious to most of us' criminal activities.
I agree with much you have said I truly, truly hope you are right in your assessment. My concern is the longer this goes on, the stronger and larger the MAGA mob of bullies becomes. They actively radicalize and recruit young and troubled young men online. Every day. In many cases it is destroying these young men's relationships, their character and ultimately their lives. Every day's delay takes a toll.
I don't think most of the rank and file Republicans are ready to start a civil war, hell, a lot of them are in motorized carts. The violent wing of the MAGA cult that COULD and WOULD start a civil war call themselves Proud Boys, 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, etc; they are really just the next evolution of skinheads (as MAGA is the new incarnation of the Confederacy.) The administration is terrified of them, but they have bigger mouths than brains and the truly violent ones are far fewer in number than the media suggests - these Einsteins videoed themselves committing crimes on J6, then posted the footage on Facebook. Recall how Trump could have pardoned them before he left office but he did not. Behold how they still worship him anyway (most of them.) Neither smart, nor cunning. The more the cancer spreads, though, the more difficult it is to stop.
I suspect there is going to be violence one way or another. The fires of grievance have been stoked by conservatives, think-tanks controlled by the wealthy, by Fox, by Trump and *especially* by extremist religious leaders. The question is how can we limit the violence as much as possible, de-escalate when we can (and figure out how to keep one's loved ones out of it.) My fear is that the longer we wait, the fewer our options. That's my frustration (or maybe just lack of patience.)
In my line of work (retired from Aerospace) we used to say, "Completion is a management decision, not a technical decision" We also said, "No decision IS the decision." The engineers would tweak and refine a product endlessly if allowed, blowing the budget out of the water. We've all seen the videos. We all know about the fake electors. Smith has interviewed nearly everyone involved. We need a completion decision. Garland, no doubt, has a brilliant technical legal mind. However, the "budget" here is time, which Garland maybe thinks is infinite. The window of accountability is closing as the 2024 campaigning starts in earnest. The cries of "politically motivated" while loud now, will grow increasingly shrill and threatening the closer to the election we get and could be an effective talking point for recruiting brownshirts. The closer to the election, the higher risk of violence. Delay always carries such risks.
The Republicans are barreling ahead with their authoritarian agenda, blatantly breaking laws, holding absurd congressional inquiries, lying to their base wllly-nilly, packing courts, judge-shopping to get legislation most of the American people don't want, passing voter suppression laws, attempting to pass legislation allowing legislators to overturn elections, ignoring climate issues. I could go on and on, because they are going on and on. Every day they get worse because every day they get by with more and more. That's just the leadership. The followers are hounding and slandering good people, issuing death threats to school board members and others, intimidating minorities and women and accusing honest poll workers of being traitors. Heck, they've even threatened Mickey Mouse! (JK)
We the people are living in a state of domestic terror. All the time. Every day and the administration (and the DOJ) needs to wake up to it.
I, too, felt Merrick Garland was going too slow in bringing Trumpet - and his equally criminalistic cronies - into account for his many crimes. However, given the enormity and uniqueness of the situation, I've come to believe Garland's trying to build an air-tight case against a recent, former president with acute demonstrations of anomie and more than a few psychological and sociological deviant behaviors. All of this, in addition to the ex-president having tens of millions of extremely credulous followers who believe everything he says, and are willing to start a violent civil war, should he ever call for one.
As such, I believe we should give AG Garland some slack as he proceeds with the DoJ's investigation(s) into Trumpet and his 'very obvious to most of us' criminal activities.
I agree with much you have said I truly, truly hope you are right in your assessment. My concern is the longer this goes on, the stronger and larger the MAGA mob of bullies becomes. They actively radicalize and recruit young and troubled young men online. Every day. In many cases it is destroying these young men's relationships, their character and ultimately their lives. Every day's delay takes a toll.
I don't think most of the rank and file Republicans are ready to start a civil war, hell, a lot of them are in motorized carts. The violent wing of the MAGA cult that COULD and WOULD start a civil war call themselves Proud Boys, 3%'ers, Oath Keepers, etc; they are really just the next evolution of skinheads (as MAGA is the new incarnation of the Confederacy.) The administration is terrified of them, but they have bigger mouths than brains and the truly violent ones are far fewer in number than the media suggests - these Einsteins videoed themselves committing crimes on J6, then posted the footage on Facebook. Recall how Trump could have pardoned them before he left office but he did not. Behold how they still worship him anyway (most of them.) Neither smart, nor cunning. The more the cancer spreads, though, the more difficult it is to stop.
I suspect there is going to be violence one way or another. The fires of grievance have been stoked by conservatives, think-tanks controlled by the wealthy, by Fox, by Trump and *especially* by extremist religious leaders. The question is how can we limit the violence as much as possible, de-escalate when we can (and figure out how to keep one's loved ones out of it.) My fear is that the longer we wait, the fewer our options. That's my frustration (or maybe just lack of patience.)
In my line of work (retired from Aerospace) we used to say, "Completion is a management decision, not a technical decision" We also said, "No decision IS the decision." The engineers would tweak and refine a product endlessly if allowed, blowing the budget out of the water. We've all seen the videos. We all know about the fake electors. Smith has interviewed nearly everyone involved. We need a completion decision. Garland, no doubt, has a brilliant technical legal mind. However, the "budget" here is time, which Garland maybe thinks is infinite. The window of accountability is closing as the 2024 campaigning starts in earnest. The cries of "politically motivated" while loud now, will grow increasingly shrill and threatening the closer to the election we get and could be an effective talking point for recruiting brownshirts. The closer to the election, the higher risk of violence. Delay always carries such risks.
The Republicans are barreling ahead with their authoritarian agenda, blatantly breaking laws, holding absurd congressional inquiries, lying to their base wllly-nilly, packing courts, judge-shopping to get legislation most of the American people don't want, passing voter suppression laws, attempting to pass legislation allowing legislators to overturn elections, ignoring climate issues. I could go on and on, because they are going on and on. Every day they get worse because every day they get by with more and more. That's just the leadership. The followers are hounding and slandering good people, issuing death threats to school board members and others, intimidating minorities and women and accusing honest poll workers of being traitors. Heck, they've even threatened Mickey Mouse! (JK)
We the people are living in a state of domestic terror. All the time. Every day and the administration (and the DOJ) needs to wake up to it.
But I hope I'm wrong.