Monday, June 19, 2023

Twitterverse, Rushing To Judgment

By Sniffles

There may soon come a time, sadly, when we cats will have to give up Twitter. It's such a silly place now.

Today we have our choice between a fake demand from some right-wing provocateur that scientist Dr. Peter Hotez debate RFK Jr. — a certified nutcase — on the efficacy of vaccines, and endless, screaming outrage about the Department of Justice/FBI allegedly delaying going after Benedict Donald for January 6. We're doing our best to ignore both.

It's difficult to get all worked up about what the DOJ has or hasn't done less than two weeks after the department — via Special Counsel Jack Smith — indicted Trump on 37 counts in the stolen classified documents case. Not only that: In addition to the strong hints that more indictments in that case are coming down the pike, shoes may be poised to drop on January 6 itself.

But what keeps our claws sheathed is the fact that nobody, not even us cats, really knows what is going on. Prosecutors work in secret for a reason. And any successful prosecutions of Trump will require the DOJ and FBI investigations to be pristine — no incaution, politicizing, or James Comey-like screw-ups.

We're in uncharted territory, dealing with a psychopath like Donald Trump. The country has never seen anything like it. So we'll stay off the "Bash Garland" Bandwagon, thank you very much. We cats HISS.

(UPDATE: A tweep with government experience said it so much better: "If you’re going to be the first one in history to prosecute a POTUS, you better get it right. Slow is better than failed." We cats PURR.)

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