I'm Tired Of Telling You What You Already Know
HOW CAN YOU FIGURE OUT WHAT TO READ THESE DAYS?
I want to read Sarah Kendzior's book, "Hiding In Plain Sight," but really, I'm afraid. I want to read a bunch of really good books. I've got time. I haven't got money to buy books, though, and the library is out of bounds right now. What is a conscientious American to do?
Start a blog, and give you some more stuff to crowd your brain. Hope you like it. When I watch the news, a lot of it is rehash. Television news is still talking to you as if you are on a regular schedule, even though you've been sitting in front of the telly since April. I didn't need to see all those people die over and over; I've got the interwebs for that. Television news is still telling me the story as if it and print media is the only place I get my news--even though I'd been watching doomed George Floyd's final moments on Twitter for a week before they began reporting it.
You can watch the news and SEE what they're not telling you. I watch MSNBC because they make the most sense and the sets don't hurt my eyes. So I saw that the journalists on air at the height of protests were deliberately targeted by police and military with rubber bullets, tear gas canisters as projectiles (could have killed Jo-Ling Kent, and I choose to believe what my eyes told me about what hit her that day) They hit Garrett Haake and Ali Velshi on live television.
Newsrooms doubtless are not scheduling deep-dive exposes on this pressing story. Print newsrooms are choking on their white maleness, regurgitating angst over telling the story through any other lens than their own. Complicit, whiny white girls make it all worse--and some of them are less girly than others. There are furloughs and bankruptcies and hedge-fund majority stakeholders, and it's knives out amid the Fourth Estate. Voice of America is now The Blare of Trump.
There is a blizzard of news, but none of it is about what anyone will DO about this ravishment of democracy, the free press, and individual liberty.
The president is a babbling idiot on live television, and Mike Pence is the Invisible Veep. Ivanka says, "Find Something New," while Oscar Health trashes your future. What is Melania doing? Avoiding the Donald, far as this writer can tell.
But, you know all this. What to do? Vote? Sure. Hasn't helped so far. The Democrats are playing by rules the Republicans coughed upon decades ago. They let themselves be maneuvered out of power.
What is Nancy Pelosi saving her power for, precisely?
She told the Republicans she was not expecting them to vote to impeach. She kept telling them. She is not doing a hella lot at this moment, frankly.
Democrats seem to be waiting for the news cycle to swing away from their inaction. They tweet a lot. They don't seem to have any personal sway with Senate Republicans. Certainly not Mitch McConnell. Pelosi cannot even make him do his job. There seems to be some shifting indeterminate point where action will take place.
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