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| Not waving but drowning, via Dr. Sophie Hay. |
I went to a lot of political meetings in my youth, which is as I've noted somewhere one reason I can never truly get behind Bernie (every meeting had one, barking a bit, a few years older than the rest of us and deeply convinced of his rightness, never entertaining an idea he hadn't already had, dismissive of the hippies and shouting down the women), and it came to be a personal signature thing I would do to tell the others to "channel your paranoia"—limit the range of things you're going to be panicky about to those you've got a plan for, not that you're accepting the other awfulnesses, but you're not going to look as if you're desperate and drowning.
Nobody really paid any attention, usually. But while I'm up, I want to post a little experimentation I've been doing on the Twitter on the tone with which one talks about Trump, meant in the first place to sound less "hysterical" without minimizing the horror of what's going on:
— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
Nevertheless the harm he can do while failing is immense, to children https://t.co/ensN2ySpEp https://t.co/QAr48vdfVr, environment https://t.co/EWVbGzTwiJ, farmers https://t.co/khE3cscimK really appalling— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
But courts will overrule most of the big items, as they have done so far, because they're so not legit.— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
While military and intelligence community will continue to resist those foreign deals, successfully, through the old pull-the-paper-off-his-desk expedient. Trump will continue trying to make foreign policy by tweet and it won't work.— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
With reason. It's really the Trump team's incompetence I'm counting on, and overreach in terrible cases like Texas v Azar— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
And then later on, when I'd spent a shameful amount of the day on the Twitter (too rainy for my usual Beethovenesque Sunday walk), some feedback from a recent follower: Knowing how crazed I've felt, I was kind of surprised to be treated as a valuable voice of reason, different from all the madmen:
“Outrageous, it’s the Adam Schiff problem. People abusing the access to classified data to then go out in public and make allegations that didn’t prove to be true. You look at a decision to essentially investigate a political rival. Who made it?” James Freeman, @WSJ— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 31, 2019
just glad i was following someone sensible in that volley of anger and four figure engagement numbers.— GMD (@GavinDorris) March 31, 2019
so, the mueller thing's a busted flush now, yeah ?
haven't they just decided it's easier to wait till the election ?
That's based entirely on interpreting the difference between Mueller "didn't establish" and Barr "didn't find", and the idiotic material on the obstruction case meant to hint but not say that the conspiracy case doesn't exist, so go ahead and laugh at me.— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
I also think the other cases (not Stormy)--the Foundation, the inauguration, the bank fraud and possible money laundering--are legally more serious than the Russian stuff (I'm just more fascinated by the Russian stuff myself), and who knows what comes out of them in the meantime?— Collusion Delusion (@Yastreblyansky) March 31, 2019
I think what I've been doing right for goodhearted but skeptical guys like this are (1) maintaining a sense of humor about Trump and his evident incompetence, without losing the sense of how much damage he's capable of causing all the same, (2) maintaining a "cynical" awareness that the broader Republican plan hasn't really changed at all, and is a longer-term if less immediately terrifying threat, and (3) holding on to some kind of optimistic trust that this double emergency doesn't have to be really, yet, the end of the republic.thanks. i dont really follow trumpageddon anymore, but that is certainly an extensive refresher course. very different from the scandal-driven drip feed i've gotten used to discounting.. thanks again— GMD (@GavinDorris) March 31, 2019
Thoughts?
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