Thread by @thoughtfulwonk, We are here because Democrats and the mainstream media took too longNone [...]

We are here because Democrats and the mainstream media took too long

None of this happened overnight

We saw corruption, in public, on TV before he even got to the White House and both the Dems and the MSM told us to wait....for the Mueller Report.

When Mueller turned out to be a coward, the MSM and Congress were like “You cant indict a sitting president, so it’s up to....Congress.”

To fill the time before impeachment they had talking feds on TV telling us to trust *institutions.* Wittes was on there saying Barr was ok

Even during the Mueller report the MSM tried to sell us Rod Rosenstein. Dont fire him, Trump. He is a good fed

As it turns out... https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/politics/trump-russia-investigation-rod-rosenstein/index.html

New York Times: Justice Department secretly curtailed investigation into Trump's Russia ties

The US Justice Department in 2017 took secret steps to curtail the special counsel investigation into Russian election interference and possible coordination with the Trump campaign, former law...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/30/politics/trump-russia-investigation-rod-rosenstein/index.html

Even when Barr was up there saying “total exoneration,” Weissmann didnt even say what he said two days: that
Mueller didnt do enough aka the Report was a colossal failure https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/andrew-weissmann-book-mueller-trump/2020/09/21/6a7967e8-fc10-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html

Mueller prosecutor says special counsel ‘could have done more’ to hold Trump accountable

In a tell-all book, Andrew Weissmann criticized the special counsel for not subpoenaing the president and not saying explicitly that he obstructed justice.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/andrew-weissmann-book-mueller-trump/2020/09/21/6a7967e8-fc10-11ea-b555-4d71a9254f4b_story.html

*two days ago

So the MSM bit their tongue calling the GOP the “alt right, misinformation, Trumpism, a populist,” fighting about whether we should say fascism or concentration camps outloud, pearl clutching about norms..in an historical context.

Ah yes, history.

Give us historical context for this bootleg reality TV fascist, Spiro Agnew ?

Meanwhile, it was the MSM who tried to normalize Bush, the sweet pea, candy passing painting war criminal, even as Trump was up there at the SOTU 2018 saying “enemy combatant.”

The road to Trump was paved with the Neo-Cons aka Dubya. Trump didnt happen in a vacuum.

Mistakes were made

To be fair, failures were made.

The failure of waiting too long to recognize fascism and call it that.

Putting trust in the wrong cowardly feds to reign in a tyrant

The career opportunism to not use such a strong word to describe what is happening

Speaking of career opportunism, Roger Ailes.

There would be no President Trump without Roger Ailes

There is guilt by association. There will forever be an asterisk next to the names of folx who took his help for their careers.

Also, there is no Trump w/out Laura Ingraham

Why is there an asterisk? Bc the same lack of moral clarity that took the help of Roger Ailes is the same lack of moral clarity that didn’t speak up forcefully, with the raw truth in time

Every time fascism or white supremacy came up it was called “Trumpism, Trumpiness,”

or any variation of whatever softens the landing.

Everything took too long: whether it was for career opportunism or just a fail bc of bad decisions, putting trust in cowardly feds (also career opportunists) who made the same decisions for career reasons as the MSM who failed us

The American people, we go to work everyday. We peacefully go to the streets when it’s called for. We have been going @activistwonk

We have been doing our part

We relied on Congress, the MSM and some career opportunist feds to give us the info

Well, it was bad information.

But still we persisted. We could have had a revolution.

If the electors were going to pick Trump and not even count the ballots then Trump could have had a formidable opponent with Bernie, with the right ideas at the right time and a whole intersectional movement behind him

We would have fought for something instead of against fascism

But y’all made it about snake

emojis and super highlighted some trolls who were denounced by the campaign for bullying

Now we have to put in work in service of....neo-liberalism?

The Fracking New Deal?

The media judges us, “what would you do during a time like this bc that is what you should be doing.”

I get that.

But the people have been doing the doing this whole time

This happened under *this* media’s watch

This happened under the watch of these legislators

“Everything” is happening “at once,” bc it’s *been* happening but y’all took too long to stop it—that’s why it seems that way.

It’s been happening. All at once. From the beginning.

I was calling for a boycott for Kavanaugh. How could someone so divisive sit on the SCOTUS?

I hope senators learn this time not to negotiate or even participate with this farce.

I hope the media learns this time not to put faith in Republicans bc Trump is just a little more authoritarian version of what the GOP is, minus tariffs.

They dont believe in tariffs.

They believe in the rule of law and the constitution

Romney will cry about it and give very nice speeches but at the end of the day, he is one of their *own.*

They have his vote for SCOTUS, the one who will give Trump the *continuation* of his presidency

Quid meet quo.

The lesson here is dont trust career opportunists: in msm, Congress, Feds, because they will take too long

Yes, they love their country, but they also love their careers, ego, paycheck

If they were to speak up in time, perhaps they wouldn’t be able to be there to help, so...

Better to say the words nicely.

Better to punt it to Mueller to say the hard words...wait no Rosenstein...wait no...impeachment...wait my colleagues...my good friends at Fox News...wait

Wait.

Wait.

Waiting is why we are here.

Can the enabler of arsonists be firefighters?

This happened under *these* legislators who were *your* guests, msm.

“Well, we’re running out of time. I hope you come back.”

One hand washes the other.

We are indeed running out of time

40 days before the election *we’re* asked what are you going to do? https://twitter.com/thoughtfulwonk/status/1309067014263234561

https://twitter.com/thoughtfulwonk/status/1309067014263234561

What are *you* gonna do, msm?

What are you gonna do to atone for going along, for trusting the wrong feds, for running out of time to protect your career and the career of others?

Now, we have to *wait* for the election to hold the fascists accountable.

K.

. @AnandWrites is brilliant.

His question is something that should be applied to everything including the media, “Can the enabler of arsonists be firefighters?”

Obviously Bob Costa, Chris Hayes, reporters on the ground like Lemire, Yamiche are completely excluded from the judgment of this thread.

Im talking about folx who made the news entertainment. That’s different.

Thats how we got bootleg reality TV fascism.

Tick tock. Fix it.

You cant put it all on the people, “we need you right now.”

Yeah, well, we need *you* right now to do the right thing outside of your career, and speak the truth as it is.

Fix it.

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