A challenge for Garland critics.

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133. This is a red herring of course

And it’s part of the How Dare You Doubt The Great Man mindset, the goal of which is to shame into silence anyone who expresses reasonable anxiety that a grifter who’s spent a lifetime avoiding any real accountability stands a fair chance of avoiding accountability once again.

But the whole notion of “don’t criticize unless you can do better” is obvious bullshit. I can’t perform surgery, but if the surgeon cuts off a leg to treat a sprained wrist, I can certainly criticize that choice. Ditto for anyone who’s ever yelled at a quarterback who threw an interception or complained about a mechanic who overcharged for service.

There is no value in blind deference to those empowered to perform a function. That serves only to shield those in power from accountability and also to give comfort to the cheerleaders who defend them.


I can already predict who will reply to me and what they’ll say, and IDGAF.