Bill D'Agostino@Banned_Bill
Seeing a lot of people speculating that constant death threats and intimidation may have influenced Barrett’s rulings. Maybe.
But I urge you to consider how pivotal the corporate media are in making these mass intimidation tactics possible to begin with.
You probably don’t consume any corporate media content yourself, but unfortunately that doesn't make you immune to their rewriting (or wholesale deletion) of history. Sooner or later their stranglehold on the news cycle is going to stop you from remembering how bad things truly are. It's going to punch holes in your political memory.
Here’s a relevant SCOTUS example: You probably remember that back in 2022, some guy flew across the country to try and off Brett Kavanaugh.
But do you remember what exactly he was planning on doing to the Judge and his family? Do you remember that he had multiple sets of zip ties, a roll of duct tape, several blunt weapons, and a nail punch in his backpack? Do you remember that he brought multiple loaded mags for his Glock 17?
This freak wasn’t planning a quick political hit, he was planning to massacre an entire family. Kavanaugh, his wife, and his two young daughters. Probably not quickly either.
Do you remember all that? If not, thank the media. It should have gotten weeks of rabid coverage, but of course it didn't, because frankly, the journalists weren't all that bothered by it. Some of them were probably privately bummed that the guy got caught. Watch five minutes of MS NOW if you think I'm being uncharitable.
The point is, it’s not enough to remember the details yourself; if the story (let alone all the grizzly details) is never allowed to permeate the public consciousness, sooner or later it all but evaporates. Because unlike with January 6 or Charlottesville 2017, there’s nobody around to remind you of it from time to time, and hardly any you'd bother to remind has even heard of what you’re talking about to begin with. So eventually even your own memory of it becomes fuzzy.
If the media wanted the threats against Barrett and her conservative colleagues to stop, they could make it happen practically overnight. If you think I’m exaggerating, consider that they just intimidated the DHS Secretary into banning ICE traffic stops nationwide. And all it cost them was a couple of days crying crocodile tears over an illegal alien who got shot for trying to run a federal agent over with his car. They didn’t even have to threaten Mullin, they just had to whine, and conceal a few details here and there so that their audience would whine with them.
Politicians care more than they’d like to admit about the histrionic screeching of journalists. They could have easily cowed Democrats into condemning the incessant protests (read: mass intimidation attempts) outside justices’ houses. All they had to do was occasionally remind everybody that Chuck Schumer yelled into a megaphone that Brett Kavanaugh was going to “reap the whirlwind,” and that a few months later some lunatic tried to torture Kavanaugh’s entire family to death.
But they didn’t, of course they didn’t, because while they may have found that lunatic’s chosen method of activism distasteful, they sympathized with his goal. So they gave him a pass. They dutifully mentioned it once or twice (or never, depending on the outlet), glossed over it in broad strokes, and then pivoted back to calling you racist.
And now we have birthright citizenship.
