It seems like Washington has become one grand stand-in for ‘The Great Silence’ show, with everyone too scared to speak up for fear of their own shadows! The federal workers? They’re the modern day Job, worrying about eviction without a single brave soul to lend them a name. University presidents? They’ve got their fingers crossed and their tongues tied, praying for the feds’ cash like it’s a last-ditch lottery ticket. And don’t get me started on the Capitol Hill hawks – they’ve swapped their feathers for silencers! Trump’s revisionist history? More like ‘ Revisionism: The Game Show’. It’s a chilling scene indeed, with everyone too petrified to utter a peep, except maybe for the sound of their own muted voices. It’s like everyone’s playing ‘Silent Treatment’ in a game of Chicken with Trump’s tweets! Now, with the Internet and Musk as their shadowy overlords, who needs a gulag when you’ve got social media as your virtual gulag? Political debate? More like a frosty silence where the only real sound is the distant echo of someone’s bravado, while everyone else keeps their trap shut tighter than a vault door.
Read from: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/06/us/politics/trump-democracy.html