13th December 2017, 7:09 PM
Yeah, that's a good point; the staff behind a creative project are just as important as the public face. For sure.
So yesterday, Alabama unsurprisingly...
wait, they actually did the right thing? Doug Jones won? I honestly didn't believe it would happen until it did, but it's pretty amazing! The 49.9-48.4 margin is closer than you'd like to see, for sure -- it is clear that Jones only won because of the child sexual assault charges -- but in perhaps the most Republican state in the nation it takes a lot for a Democrat to win, and everything fell together perfectly for Jones.
This was a very important win for several major reasons, including that it will narrow the margin in the Senate to 51-49 once Jones gets seated in early January and that it means a child molester will not be a sitting senator. That latter point is important, but for the future so is the former, both for the next year and for how much more plausible it makes the idea of the Democrats winning the Senate next year despite the really, really bad map.
So yeah, it's a good day for democracy.
On the other hand, though, the campaign against Robert Mueller is concerning; he needs to continue and finish his work! The Republicans are trying to undermine the investigation any way they can, presumably because they are scared of what he is finding and want people to not believe it once it comes out. Sadly, it's not only the right; and a few members of the press are buying into this too, and that's a problem because their lies and half-truths about Mueller and the investigation need to be countered.
To be clear, defending the truth should not be a partisan issue, and Mueller and his team are, I'm sure, staying as impartial as possible. One of the most disturbingly deceptive attacks the right is using is that because that one guy who was removed from the investigation was a Hillary supporter, the investigation is compromised... even though, well, that's why he was removed! Saying "because he is there at all that compromises an investigation that he was removed from for that reason" is complete nonsense and doesn't hold up to a second's thought, or shouldn't.
Seriously, if Russia did interfere with our election as they seem to have this is something all Americans should care deeply about! But the Republican Party has decided to make this a partisan issue in order to protect this administration so that's how it is, unfortunately.
So I wish Trump much misery over the next year as he worries about this continuing investigation. I just hope that he and his people are stopped while we still have a democracy!
So yesterday, Alabama unsurprisingly...
wait, they actually did the right thing? Doug Jones won? I honestly didn't believe it would happen until it did, but it's pretty amazing! The 49.9-48.4 margin is closer than you'd like to see, for sure -- it is clear that Jones only won because of the child sexual assault charges -- but in perhaps the most Republican state in the nation it takes a lot for a Democrat to win, and everything fell together perfectly for Jones.
This was a very important win for several major reasons, including that it will narrow the margin in the Senate to 51-49 once Jones gets seated in early January and that it means a child molester will not be a sitting senator. That latter point is important, but for the future so is the former, both for the next year and for how much more plausible it makes the idea of the Democrats winning the Senate next year despite the really, really bad map.
So yeah, it's a good day for democracy.
On the other hand, though, the campaign against Robert Mueller is concerning; he needs to continue and finish his work! The Republicans are trying to undermine the investigation any way they can, presumably because they are scared of what he is finding and want people to not believe it once it comes out. Sadly, it's not only the right; and a few members of the press are buying into this too, and that's a problem because their lies and half-truths about Mueller and the investigation need to be countered.
To be clear, defending the truth should not be a partisan issue, and Mueller and his team are, I'm sure, staying as impartial as possible. One of the most disturbingly deceptive attacks the right is using is that because that one guy who was removed from the investigation was a Hillary supporter, the investigation is compromised... even though, well, that's why he was removed! Saying "because he is there at all that compromises an investigation that he was removed from for that reason" is complete nonsense and doesn't hold up to a second's thought, or shouldn't.
Seriously, if Russia did interfere with our election as they seem to have this is something all Americans should care deeply about! But the Republican Party has decided to make this a partisan issue in order to protect this administration so that's how it is, unfortunately.
So I wish Trump much misery over the next year as he worries about this continuing investigation. I just hope that he and his people are stopped while we still have a democracy!