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Leo B Watkins's avatar

Ahhhh. The Adventure of Silver Blaze. Not as popular of a Sherlock Holmes mystery as the Hound of the Baskervilles, but still an inspiring dog story.

In that it is the one that features the dog that does not bark. Much akin to our esteemed editor here, when doing this pap piece for his pal. Shaun Kenney's boss.

He writes clearly about Miyares family's troubles with dictator's in other countries, yet dares not ask about his support of one here.

Miyare's love for law enforcement and understanding of their burdens, whilst he stays in a party that not only pardons convicted criminals who beat local cops into the ground when they attacked police at his party's behest, now they are giving them our tax money for their pain and suffering.

What message does that send? Oh, sorry, it wasn't asked....

Sympathy for those in need? How does that gibe with taking away what little healthcare they had? He belongs to the party that is doing that. We won't know, will we? That wasn't asked either. Wouldn't be polite, I guess....

BTW - if the war on drugs is going so well, how come we haven't won it by now?

We lock up more of our citizens than just about every country on the planet, and have been doing it for 100 years. Long before oxy hit the street.

If you're data driven, shouldn't there be an end game? Or has supporting the incarceration-judicial-enforcement industry become a means to itself? As long as we all get little badges.

Where's the return on investment beyond perpetually scared Republican voters? So scared they look the other way when masked police snatch citizens off the street and send them to other countries or to native gulags specifically designed for their torture?

You want to lead the state of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, you should be standing up to such tyranny, not perpetuating it, eh?

But anyway, a Republican got a free pap piece in a small town journalist's newsletter. The fourth estate got to feel like it was part of the process.

I just wish they were the part that felt like they had responsibilities other than infomercials.

Didn't that used to be the point?

Isn't it when times are as they are now when we need them to be that point the most?

Sigh.....moving on.

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Jeff's avatar

Put simply, it was a lame interview. Also, Martin’s implication that Virginia’a top three officeholders will be split between Democrats and Republicans reminds me of his prediction that Monica Gary would be a threat to win the state Senate seat held by Tara Durant. Terrible takes.

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Jeff's avatar

What a cringey, softball interview with a politician who is phonier than a get-well card from an undertaker.

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