Heather Cox Richardson (historian) talked about this in her politics chat today; she seems to think it’s a combination of a) likely legal quagmire b) with no major benefit given congress will soon be out of session and c) turtle holds a couple of really powerful positions, while he’s out the republicans are hampered.

plus i’m sure any information they have is protected under HIPAA. i expect consequences for disclosing what they know could be very steep for them, no NDA required.

i grew up in the 80s, i was a latchkey kid and i had a tv in my room and in the living room. but there were no screens to hand to me while driving, shopping, attending social or family functions. if i was bored somewhere, my options were to engage, explore, observe, read, or draw.

i think there is something fundamentally different about the relationship cultivated between small people and small, ever - present screens than the large stationary box we had at home.

this is what i’m talking about. i watched A LOT of tv, but there were no tablets to shove at me while shopping or traveling. is the portable screens available to or pushed on kids 24-7 that seems fundamentally different to me than what i experienced as a kid.

yeah, but those of us who grew up on tv didn’t have ubiquitous access to screens either.