Tim Miller

I suppose we should explain it because it's a very online thing.

But the Streisand effect was when Barbara Streisand said, I think it was about her house, right?

She said, I'm going to sue you.

Don't post pictures of my beautiful house, right?

And so the story became Barbara Streisand is suing to prevent these pictures, you know?

And they went global.

They had far more reach than if she had just said, just ignore it.

Don't mention it.

Let them do this one thing and nobody will ever remember it again.

And it became so well known that it's now called the Streisand effect.

When you bitch and whine and draw attention to something that you don't want to have attention, it creates more attention.

And it's like they just, it's almost like, you know, they just scatter rakes all over the DOJ.

And say, all right, let's get out there.

Those ranks aren't going to step on themselves, kids.

Let's get out there and, you know, really, you know, make a spectacle of this.

And so now, of course, everybody's like, well, which things in particular are you concerned about?

Which things, which of these lies would you say are the most awful?

It also doesn't feel like a legalistic phrase coming from the Department of Justice.

The idea that if they had credibility, they would have been weaponized against Trump.

Lots of use of the subjunctive here.