Brewster BrownvilleJan 12, 2023

Merrick Garland's priorities:

1. Joe Biden's classified documents
2. Optics
3. Not upsetting insurrectionists
4. How things look
5. Not being 'political'
6. Discretion
7. Not being too hasty
8. Likability
9. The appearance of impartiality
10. Other things
11. Who knows
.....
543. Ensuring democracy survives the next #GOP attack

Show threadwhyJoeJan 13, 2023

@brewster It's so dumb to worry about the perception of politics or fairness from the right.

There is literally *nothing* a Dem could do that meets that standard--they don't care.

There is literally *no part of that standard* the right would uphold on their own watch. They. Don't. Care.

Show threadStatmonkey šŸ™ŠJan 13, 2023
@whyJoe @brewster
How about not doing it for them but for us. I don't hold myself to a higher standard for others. I do it for me. Because I believe it is right and everyone should. Fuck them.
Show threadBrewster Brownville
@whyJoe @statmonkey Iā€™m not sure we live in that world anymore, sadly.
Jan 13, 2023 at 3:51pmWeb
Show threadStatmonkey šŸ™ŠJan 13, 2023

@brewster @whyJoe Respectfully disagree.

We will always live in that world.

Don't confuse unwillingness to face reality and consequences with there being no reality or consequences.

Pretending does not make it so.

Show threadwhyJoeJan 20, 2023
@statmonkey @brewster The only possible enforcers of consequences are the ones afraid to, because of worries of the appearance of politics, to mollify the un-mollifiable. That's the problem, friend.
Show threadStatmonkey šŸ™ŠJan 20, 2023
@whyJoe @brewster I disagree. If they are guilty of anything it's being afraid of becoming what they are fighting. Black lamb, grey falcon as Rebecca West called it, is the quintessential battle for humanity and it will never end. We have to keep trying. It's essential.
Show threadwhyJoeJan 20, 2023

@statmonkey @brewster Sure. You could give them the benefit of the doubt and say their motivation is existential instead.

Either way, it does not work. Look around at the burning šŸ”„.