TygrBright
TygrBright's JournalOkay, so imagine that you are a stupid person.
Being stupid, you don't actually know HOW stupid you are.
There are other people who are different from you - they are not stupid. They might be smart. But you don't know how smart they are. You just know they're not stupid.
Now imagine that everything you need to live - in fact, everything EVERYONE needs to live - is in a big central depot, and that depot has only two service windows.
A larger, well-staffed, efficient service window, open 24 hours, has a sign on it "Stupid People ONLY".
The other service window has no sign. It's not always open, when it is open it's not well-staffed, and it's often not fully stocked.
You, and your fellow stupid people - a substantial number of people, to be sure - always stand in line at the "Stupid people ONLY" window. You sometimes have to wait, but not all that long, and they generally have what you came for.
Everyone else - all the people who aren't stupid - goes to the other service window. Because it's not always open and not well-staffed, the line there is very long. And they don't always get what they came for in one trip.
One day while you're in line, you notice something happening at the other service window.
They're fixing it up. They have more staff, and a new sign that says "open 24 hours." The line there starts to move a little faster. More people in that line seem to be getting what they came for.
Then you see someone with a ladder at YOUR service window.
What are they doing?
Oh, NO! They are preparing to take away the "Stupid People ONLY" sign!
Then the stupid person ahead of you in line says "Those OTHER people are going to come and stand in OUR line!"
And the stupid person behind you in line says "And I bet some of them are SMART - they'll find a way to CHEAT and we'll never get what we need, ever again!"
Everyone in your line starts chanting "Stupid people ONLY! Stupid people ONLY!"
Someone pulls a gun and aims it at the guy with the ladder.
Well, there you go.
Now do you understand America in 2022?
allegorically,
Bright
Tonight, I am thinking about Mamie Till
She was a mother.
How painful it must have been for her to see what was done to her child. To look at his body so mauled and brutalized.
Her courage.
Her decision: "Leave that casket open. I want the world to see what they did to my baby."
It could not have been easy.
Those photographs were horrific, the reality must have been unbearably wrenching.
But that decision, that moment, and those photographs made an important difference.
Sometimes people, even caring people, who are comfortable in their own reality, need to have a taste of others' realities.
somberly,
Bright
Dear Nancy Pelosi: It's time for a House Committee on Malign Foreign Influence
The evidence keeps accumulating.
Often it appears as a side quest, in some other investigation or inquiry.
But it just keeps happening.
Sometimes it's overt: Not all that well-disguised direct campaign funding.
Sometimes it's more shady: Funding for 'fact finding trips' and forms of influence brought to bear that slide past monetary regulations.
But the evidence is there, in quantity, and increasingly, with corroboration and secondary sources that affirm its quality.
Congress - especially the House of Representatives, but also the Senate - is rotten with corruption from foreign sources attempting to influence everything about the way laws are made, regulations are enforced, policy is created, elections are managed, and every other aspect of the Legislative Branch's work.
Sometimes it's an honest mistake.
Sometimes it may even be well-intentioned.
But all too often, influence is brought to bear with the intent of advancing an agenda that has not one thing to do with the well-being of the United States government and American citizens.
And like cancer, this corruption is eating away the heart of our Democracy.
It's time, and past time.
Start planning. Consult the experts and get the legal opinions. Establish goals for the Committee's work: to identify, expose, and rectify corruption originating from foreign sources and creating unhealthy influences on the work of the Legislative Branch.
Then convene the Committee.
adamantly,
Bright
Congratulations, John Roberts! You're on track to surpass Roger B. Taney!
Who was Taney?
Why, Chief Justice presiding (and writer of the majority opinion) in the case "Dred Scott v. Sanford".
Until now, renowned as the author of the Supreme Court of the United States' "greatest self-inflicted wound".
You're all poised to pull ahead of Chief Justice Taney in the "disgrace to American Justice and degradation of the Constitution" stakes.
Applause, applause!
bitterly,
Bright
I LEAKED THE SUPREME COURT DECISION DRAFT.
Yes, I did.
I am the leaker.
Arrest me. Put me in jail. Punish me. I did it.
proudly,
Brightus Spartacus
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