a storytelling shorthand. for understanding that sometimes the key plot point, the key clue, the most important thing to notice, is what didn t happen. and right now, we, americans, have something important that is not happening. we have a dog that isn t barking. or at least that hasn t barked. and we should notice it. because at our crime scene, our proverbial crime scene and our actual crime scene, we re not trying to figure out who did it. we have no suspense, no question at all as to who the perpetrator is in this big alleged crime that is now at the center of all these existential questions of whether our democracy is going to survive, whether we re going to keep having elections, whether candidates and political parties and people at large are going to believe in the results of elections and agree to abide by the results. we don t have any questions about who done it, from the fake elector scheme to leaning on
daughter, who is a fully out, gay character at the beginning of the show, i mean, also groundbreaking that you would have a black, out character supported by her family, not talked about, not discussed, not a plot point, not a story point. she just is. what s really cool is that comic book characters really kind of go one of two routes when it comes to television, right? you have the live action success, like black lightning, while other characters go on to become iconic characters. there was the fantastic four, there was batman, spiderman, and superman, but static shock. static shock was a blerd
course of a week. we are still knee-deep in the first wave of this. we cannot ignore it, and we cannot call it a hoax. and we cannot misrepresent the facts. that was also july. now everyone knows covid was a health crisis, but it also morphed into a misinformation and propaganda crisis. as donald trump now runs for office again, it is worth recalling the lengths he went to blame and confuse the issue. he took the unprecedented step of making the u.s. formally quit the main international body for coordinating this kind of response, exiting the world health organization in the middle of a pandemic. you saw that in a movie, it might seem like a hard plot point to believe. that was amidst the testing shortage, cases peaking. and there were other steps as well. trump later made a step toward publicly supporting masks, even publicly donning one himself. these tapes also show that no
hours, setting yet another record for new infections. the death toll up 46% in the course of a week. we are still knee deep in the first wave of this. we cannot ignore it and we cannot call it a hoax. and we cannot misrepresent the facts. that was also july. now, everyone knows covid was a health crisis, but it also morphed into a misinformation and propaganda crisis, and as donald trump now runs for office again, it is worth recalling the lengths he went to blame and confuse the issue. he took the unprecedented step of making the u.s. formally quit the main international body for coordinating this kind of response, exiting the world health organization in the middle an after pandemic. if he saw that in a movie, might seem like a hard plot point to believe. that was amidst the testing shortage, cases peaking, and there were other steps as well. trump later made a step towards publicly supporting masks, even
leaking a classified nsa document which provided details of a 2016 russian cyberattack on a supplier of u.s. voting software. if this plot point sounds somewhat familiar, it s because the government is still plagued by leaks from inside actors. we recently watched as agents arrested air national guard employee jack teixeira for allegedly posting highly sensitive documents online. of course, their cases are quite different. in the case of reality winner, the transcripts tell a story so engaging that it literally became dialogue for this new film. can you guess how many people might have printed out that article? no. it s not many. that article has made it outside of nsa, okay, obviously, because we re here. the most likely candidate by far and away is you. so now i don t think you re a