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Michael Siegel

Michael Siegel is an astronomer living in Pennsylvania. He blogs at his own site, and has written a novel.

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  1. Michael Cain says:

    From Day One of the Trump Presidency, I said that we needed good people to stick with him.

    Just. Wasn’t. Possible. Good people were constantly ignored and their reputations run into the ground. At the top levels they were either rich enough that they didn’t have to put up with it, or not rich enough and had to think about a future career. There were no producers to rein him in, so he chased them out. And other good people learned that lesson. And there were some number of people (eg, Bannon), and adoring crowds at revival-style rallies, who told him loudly: “Burn it down. Burn it all down.”Report

  2. Kazzy says:

    I’ve been a little perplexed by all this. I haven’t watched the interviews but have looked into the articles CNN keeps posting about them (which they referred to collectively as a “documentary” in at least one article) and the whole thing just seems a clusterfuck, as you point out really well here. None of what we’re hearing seems new, though perhaps giving some level of official confirmation to what has been long suspected or simply observed has some value. Some of the claims/hypotheticals seem way offbase. And it just feels like a lot of grandstanding. Like, I don’t get any of it. Why now? Why in a CNN “documentary”? I agree that I’m not sure any of these folks could have made much of a difference individually and probably not even collectively, but why not put together some official reports or testify to Congress or do something that may actually be meaningful going forward? Why go on CNN and say, “Well, if only they had done what I told them to do, we’d have saved everyone?”Report

    • Philip H in reply to Kazzy says:

      Dr. Brix, like a lot of the foot soldiers caught up by the maelstrom of the Trump Administration, is finding out there is no tomorrow after the whirlwind is gone. She needs to salvage her reputation, and this is how we do that for prominent people in America. You will notice she’s not on Fox or OAN doing these interviews.Report

  3. There’s one bullet that could have saved a lot of lives, but saying anything further would be a federal crime.Report