We Can Walk and Chew Gum at the Same Time

The Epstein spectacle may dominate the headlines, but the silence surrounding real crises is more damning than any scandal.

Guest article by Michael Cohen

There’s a dangerous illusion we’re being fed right now: that the only story worth our time, our energy, our outrage, is the one making headlines in bold—Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and the slow drip of names and connections that everyone’s speculating about but no one’s fully disclosing. And yes, it matters. It’s serious, disturbing, and demands accountability at the highest levels. But while the circus unfolds center stage, the rest of the world—our world—is being buried under silence.

And that silence? That’s the real scandal. That’s what you hear in my outrage on my Substack LIVES!

Let’s take a moment and look at what we’ve conveniently brushed aside. In Texas, a catastrophic flood displaced thousands and left over a hundred people unaccounted for. A hundred. And yet not a single official update, not a televised plea, not even a whisper about those still missing. Have the bodies been found? Have families received answers? Where’s the follow-through? The recovery? The leadership? We’re staring at a disaster not just of climate, but of communication and compassion. What about a solution so this doesn’t occur again—in Texas or anywhere? Crickets.

Then there’s Ukraine. What once dominated our foreign policy discourse has all but vanished from the news cycle. But the war hasn’t ended. Bombs are still falling. Lives are still being lost. Cities are still being reduced to rubble. Yet you’d think peace had broken out overnight, based on the current coverage. Has a diplomatic path been carved out? Have negotiations resumed? Is anyone even asking? I do—again, on my LIVE with my co-host Lev Parnas and Malcolm Nance on Thursdays.

And what of Gaza? Are we supposed to just accept the suffering there as a permanent condition? Thousands dead. Entire neighborhoods leveled. Palestinians cut off from clean water, food, and medical aid. The humanitarian crisis is no longer unfolding; it’s settled into place. And still, no resolution. No plan. No viable path forward. Just silence and stagnation. My friends, regardless of your position on this issue, children, aged men, women, and children are starving to death.

Meanwhile, families of Israeli hostages still wait—day after day—for their loved ones to come home. Where are the briefings? The updates? Are negotiations happening behind closed doors, or have they stopped entirely? We were told this would be a priority. Actually, resolved within 24 hours of Trump’s return to the Oval Office. We were promised swift, forceful action. So where is it?

And we can’t ignore the brutal, heartbreaking murder of Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota state legislator, and her husband Mark by a man radicalized by a toxic stew of rage and disinformation. It was shocking. It was tragic. And then… it was gone. Vanished from the headlines almost as fast as it entered them. No follow-up. No national conversation about extremism. No federal acknowledgment of the deeper threat. Just another story lost in the churn.

All of this—the missing, the dead, the displaced, the abandoned—it’s not just about news coverage. It’s about responsibility. These are the very issues politicians spent months campaigning on. Promises were made, solutions were floated, soundbites delivered. “We’ll fix it on day one.” “We’ll bring peace in 24 hours.” “We’ll restore order, protect families, solve crises.” And yet, here we are—six months into a new administration—and not a single resolution in sight. No answers. No progress. Just silence. Just a brand new daily news cycle to occupy our attention.

The truth is, we’re being trained to think we can only focus on one crisis at a time. That our collective attention span can’t handle multiple truths, multiple tragedies, multiple priorities. But that’s nonsense. We can walk and chew gum at the same time. We must.

The Epstein investigation must proceed. It must reach every corner, follow every lead, no matter how uncomfortable. But it can’t be used to blot out everything else. We can demand transparency on that front and demand answers for those still waiting for news in Texas, in Minnesota, in Palestine, Israel, Russia, and Ukraine—to name just a few. We can push for justice for victims of abuse and for hostages still in Hamas captivity. We can seek accountability for the past and action in the present.

Because if we don’t—if we let ourselves be conditioned to accept the noise of scandal over the silence of inaction—we will have surrendered our own ability to demand more. To demand answers. To demand care. To demand leadership. To demand accountability.

I’ve seen how this game is played. I know how easy it is to redirect public focus, to let scandal become smoke while real fires rage behind the curtain. But now I’m on the other side. And I’m telling you: we owe it to ourselves, and to every one of the people still waiting for help, justice, answers, or even a mention, to stay alert.

We have the capacity for more than single-issue outrage. We can see the distraction for what it is, and still demand better from those in power.

Because silence, too, is a choice. And in moments like these, it’s the loudest one of all.

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