a democracy. e you can t be because in a a democracy, the government has a moral and legal obligation to tell you the truth. always, period.n and that makes sense because in a democracy, you are not a subject or a mere consumer. you reen. a citizen. of you are a shareholder in who the system. you were an owner of it.nt are y the people who run your government are your employees. likethey re like your cleaningod lady. you may appreciate the work they do. good jobe minute you. cuf but the minute you catch them stealing your cufflinks, you fired them. those are the rules because bu those are the rules because t whatbut what if the rules were inverted? what if you caught an employee stealing? but instead of seemingseem asha and penington, he whipped around and attacked you like you were the criminahel? f well, that is the experience of watching white house spokesman john kirby talk about the destruction of the nord stream pipelines. anyondestructorth stre who ie who thinks
have any questions about how exactly that might work,am you re a disloyal american. shut up. disloyal american. here s here s chris stewart, a republican member of congress from utah, making the very mak same pointin . il wasin john kirby with the national security council was on earlie r and no uncertain terms said the u.s. was not behind and ay proxy of the u.s. was notexplos behind the explosion on the nord stream pipeline. from your perspective,ioea bothf you, you you agree with that?s oh, absolutely.the la the last thing that we want to raise gas prices further in europe, it s pretty obviouss this is a russian sabotage operation. and forian sabotage the peop congressman stuart, that say why would russia do that on its own? p you say? p you pipeline? what do yoelu say?l, well, then people who are suggesting the u.s., that is exactly what vladimir putinw. wanto s. it s just so great. p i mean, it s perfectly bipartisan. here. utah, ch you have a republican from utah, chri