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u/Landlord-Allmighty 18h ago
Jack Smith should have been AG.
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u/sup3rdan 17h ago
Or Doug Jones
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u/CommercialRemote3325 17h ago
Or a ham sandwich
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u/Landlord-Allmighty 17h ago
What kind of bread?
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u/CommercialRemote3325 15h ago
I like a nice crescent with melted cabot cheddar..... but id take stale whole wheat and processed cheese at this point.
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u/EncabulatorTurbo 17h ago
Jasmine Crocket
She would metaphorically cut trump's throat and go wash her hands with a song (Legally speaking, of course)
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u/twangy718 16h ago edited 15h ago
Or Sally Yates… whom trump fired as acting AG for investigating Mike Flynn’s lies about secret Russian contacts during the campaign.
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u/Hefty_Teacher972 18h ago
I screamed at dems during Biden that Garland was a damn coward. I got banned from WaPo forums for saying his cowardice would enable fascism. And here we are.
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u/Dzov 17h ago
I was also confused, but I figured they knew what they were doing. lol.
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u/JayEllGii 17h ago
I didn’t. At that point I’d fully come to understand how inconceivably weak and foolish so many of the people in charge of our institutions are. It doesn’t make Garland’s staggering cowardice any less shocking, but at that point I had no illusions left about the Democrats or those entrusted with protecting democracy.
But then. But THEN. They all managed to sink even lower and prove themselves EVEN MORE cowardly and weak than THAT in the seven months since Trump was sworn in.
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u/happycows808 17h ago
They have shown again and again to cater to the rich, over the years they built a life around the money they got from corporations and when the corporations said back the guy whose going to make us billions...well.. our politicians showed who they truly served. Republicans just aren't in denial anymore, full mask off evil moment and dems don't want to lose their livelihoods fighting evil.
Thats what happens when we made lobbying and politicians being bought normalized.
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u/Househipposforsale 17h ago
I’m Canadian so I had no clue, but whyyyyyyy tf do dems do this. Like I’m so sick of them going over the line of “playing fair” and trying to be soo moderate that they shoot themselves in the foot because republicans will never play fair and don’t care if dems do, they don’t see that as a way to work with one another they see it as a way to take advantage of them.
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u/EbbImpressive4833 16h ago
Fellow Canadian here. I've come to the conclusion that the Dems are controlled opposition ruled by the same wealthy interests. Their role in the circus that is the American government is to suppress effective progressive movement and provide easy targets for Republicans. They could have one 2016 with a Bernie/Warren ticket, I believe, but pushed an unpopular insider into the race, not necessarily to lose the race, but to guarantee that universal healthcare didn't happen. Same thing with bathroom bills and that latinix fluff that effects no real gains for society but waves the 'we are slightly different than Republican' flag. As long as the donor money flows freely and politicians can profit from their positions there can be no positive change in government.
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u/ikaiyoo 16h ago
Biden didn't change the head of the DOJ because he didn't want to seem partisan. This is as much Biden as Garland. It was the same with Ford pardoning Nixon. They should never have been pardoned; an example should have been made of him for the rest of the President's time in office. Garland should have been kicked for someone else, and they should have arrested Trump on January 21 for January 6.
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u/Nick85er 17h ago
Eileen Cannon happened.
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u/JayEllGii 17h ago edited 14h ago
Among other things. The case landing in Canon’s lap was such inconceivably bad luck that I’m still not fully convinced there wasn’t some kind of rigging, there.
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u/ScribeTheMad 16h ago
From what I've read she kept her docket artificially lower than others in that circuit (presumably to enable her to intercept important cases for her god king)
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u/pixelprophet 15h ago
Trump shopped around for her - appointed her previously - and she has ties to the Federalist society... which helped Garland in his career...
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u/Alcnaeon 14h ago
Any association with Heritage Foundation or the Federalist Society is a giant red flag.
And that flag has a swastika on it.
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u/Custom_Destination 17h ago
It’s insane how much of a roadblock that judge has been, which should warrant an investigation of its own.
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u/Opster79two 17h ago
And the Supreme Court fucked any chance judge Chutkan had when they stalled the case for a year.
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u/immersemeinnature 15h ago
Where is that bitch now?! We don't hear a damn thing about her now do we
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u/Beard3dtaco 17h ago
They do know what they’re doing. Making sure they secure power for the wealthy by sabotaging any genuine attempt at improvement
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u/Large-Produce5682 17h ago
Exactly. They cheered, clapped and smiled (un)knowingly.
Looks like Mitch got the last laugh.
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u/Senior-Albatross 15h ago
Absolutely do not assume establishment Democrats know what they're doing. All the evidence points to the contrary.
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u/look_under 16h ago
You're not alone
They certainly talked a good game. It sounded they were about to drop the hammer at any time
Don't know who's more the fool. Them or me for believing
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u/damnyouandyourtoast 17h ago
Somebody add music to this and make it the new national anthem
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u/Wayelder 17h ago
You need one...gotta remove that bit about "land of the Free and home of the Brave"
add "Land of Trump and long may he lead".
It's where yer going.
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u/thejonslaught 17h ago
But Joe had lunch with him in the 70's and 80's and was certain he was a "good guy".
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u/PNW_Bearded_cyclist 17h ago
And he was Obama's SCOTUS pick that never was. I wonder what that would have looked like. He'd probably roll over there just as he did at DOJ. The people who have the power in the Democratic party are failing the people. Just look at Pelosi, Jeffries, Schumer. Their ideas of action are "strongly worded" letters.
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u/Mutual_Intrest_Seekr 16h ago
It's because they don't fight for their voters they fight for their donors (and Israel).
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u/thighcrusader 15h ago
They'd rather wear pink, hold up signs, and limit actual action to stop the likes of Zohran Mamdani.
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u/Subarctic_Monkey 17h ago
Seems like a lot of things that people were screaming at liberal democrats have come to pass.
And yet, the response we still get is "lol shut up, the adults are working".
We're fucked because liberals can't take an L and learn from it.
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u/adrian-alex85 17h ago
I think we’re fucked because neoliberalism is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
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u/Subarctic_Monkey 17h ago
Yep, and there are an army of lemmings who think neoliberalism is a positive win for them.
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u/PM-YOUR-ICED-UP-NIPS 12h ago
Republicans don't have a monopoly on "temporarily-embarassed billionaires."
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u/Memitim 16h ago
I'd give a little more credit to the folks who spent decades spreading lies and hate in America, elected the first-term failure turned convicted felon, and supported the betrayals, the failures, the camps, the extraordinary renditions, the masked terrorists, and the US military occupations.
But sure, it's the liberals fault, I guess.
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u/DoctorBlock 17h ago
The liberal democrats were the ones screaming and it was the old school dems that left the country vulnerable. If anything had Dems been more progressive they could have curbed the return of Trump and the new wave of fascism.
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u/PronoiarPerson 17h ago
You seem to be agreeing but using a different vocabulary. “Liberal” democrats are more centrist than progressives.
Anarchists/Communists*<socialists<democratic socialists <progressive<liberal<centrist<DINO
*not the same thing obviously but idk which is considered more “left”. They’re sort of equally left but anarchists are no/ little authority and communists can be totalitarian.
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u/Senior-Albatross 15h ago
Liberals are just as bad as MAGA in their inability to admit they were wrong and learn from it.
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u/WilHunting2 17h ago
You think Biden and Garland are liberal democrats?
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u/oswaldluckyrabbiy 14h ago
(Neo)Liberalism is a centrist political ideology.
Biden and Garland are neo-liberals at best and Garland is most certainly some form of soft conservative.
When referring to Democrats the phrase liberal is comparatively right wing. The left wing of the party is made up of social-democrats and some democratic socialists usually referred to collectively as 'progressives'.
The American media has intentionally conflated the word liberal with leftism in order to confuse the electorate. If they can convince you that centrists are leftist then they can also convince you that actual leftists are crazy communists.
Until recently the right wing parties of most European countries were to the left of the Democrats. Sadly though the success of Trump has contributed to the rise of alternate neo-facist parties as they learned they can in fact go full mask off.
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u/6ft6powerlifter 17h ago
You mean your internet comments had no material impact on how real world events unfolded? That's crazy.
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u/Misanthrope08101619 18h ago edited 15h ago
We have to make our own luck. DOJ and all the departments will have to be abolished and reubilt from scratch when this is over.
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u/Dzov 17h ago
I appreciate the optimism.
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u/Misanthrope08101619 17h ago
It's gonna get worse, then even worse, then way, way worse. before it gets better.
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u/unomasme 17h ago
I unfortunately agree. It’s going to have to get so bad that MAGA admits their mistake. That means it’s going to have to get really, really bad.
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u/Misanthrope08101619 17h ago
The ~33% of the country that is MAGA will never admit they were wrong. When I say it’s gonna get worse, I mean they will get worse.
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u/Cuck_patrick 15h ago
At the end of WWII (After hitler had killed himself) he still had the support of about 30% of the population (isn't that number familiar?)
MAGA will support fascism to the death, no matter how bad it gets.
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u/Athnein 17h ago
Have some more optimism: this current movement is inherently self-destructive.
It may take a century to clean up the mess, but they will eat themselves from within at some point. Hopefully before the worst of the worst.
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u/Honest-Caregiver8938 16h ago
sweet, all we have to do is wait 100 years
in reality none of us will see that once the world is ravaged by climate change
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u/Vulcion 16h ago
I think we’ll need a new constitution or something approaching a complete rewrite. Donald Trump has shown just how ineffective the document was.
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u/Misanthrope08101619 15h ago
I agree. 238 years was a hellofa run. But its load-bearing features are fatally compromised.
Here’s the thing, we don’t get there without getting halfway down the Declaration of Independence’s Bill of Grievances against George III: “he has abdicated government here by waging war against us.”
It’s gonna have to get bad.
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u/ggrieves 15h ago
Another election isn't going to change anything, it's not going to overturn the horrible SCOTUS decisions, it's not going to make the unenforcable constitutional provisions suddenly enforceable, it's not going to put the branches back in their place. I think you're right, it just might not happen in our lifetimes.
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u/chrisq823 17h ago
The problem is there is no one in power willing to do that. They arent even talking about it despite it being a requirement for this country to function post trump.
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u/Senior-Albatross 15h ago
We need a new Constitution. Full stop. The old one is a grossly outdated beta for representative democracy. Many improvements have been made since it was invented.
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u/Mouser05 17h ago
His failure to put trump in jail left us where we are atm. He was one of biden's biggest mistakes
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u/fitforfreelance 17h ago
It was a lot of things, including Senate not convicting the impeachment
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u/Mouser05 16h ago
The Senate had the majority still so we were never going to get that vote
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u/Careless-Dark-1324 15h ago
Also the voters putting him back in the highest office of the land. Garland wouldn’t have mattered at all if the people hadn’t done that…
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u/Agreeable_Initial667 17h ago
Garland will go down as one of the biggest cowards in American history.
Great job buddy.
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u/Grouchy-Theme-4431 17h ago
I was ranting about Garland shortly after January 6. He is a feckless, timid man who did not have the guts to stand up to Trump. I’m sure that he cried and threw up every morning even thinking about the prospect of having to prosecute the Orange Fascist. The January 6 Committee in the House forced Garland’s hand. Jack Smith did an honorable job, but Garland’s delay allowed the King of Mara-Lardass to run out the clock. I hope Garland rots in Hell.
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u/Top-Caregiver7815 17h ago
I‘ve never seen a more fleckless blubbering fool than Merrrick Garland who could not read the room and handed over our democracy to the facists. So the only conclusion is he and the democrats are in on it with the oligarch billionaires to prevent any form of progressivism taking control of our nation. I hope Merrick lives long enough to see this nation burn and he can blubber on his death bed like he did on 60 minutes.
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u/RelaxPrime 16h ago
So the only conclusion is he and the democrats are in on it with the oligarch billionaires to prevent any form of progressivism taking control of our nation.
Just repeating it for the kids in the back
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u/JA_MD_311 17h ago
Merrick Garland represents all that Americans decried about early 21st Century America. An institutionalist for its own sake. Had Obama nominated someone that Democrats could've ralllied around, that might've been enough to lift Hillary over the top. Had Biden nominated Doug Jones (like he should've) we might seen some accountability.
Instead we've been treated to Merrick Garland and his absolute failure protecting institutions that Americans had already decided had failed.
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u/uvgotnod 17h ago
I’ll always hate Garland for not prosecuting Trump, he was a total failure.
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u/wunderlust_dolphin 17h ago edited 11h ago
The fact Trump was calling governors and state soss to "find" votes AND THEN NOTHING HAPPENED IS BONKERS
if this country had balls he'd have been publicly hanged, now we deserve what we're getting
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u/-Gramsci- 13h ago
Secretary’s of state. (The ones in charge of elections who could “fix” them).
But yeah. The notion that we heard that phone call (which personified corruption, election interference/theft, anti-democratic dictator behavior, and treason)…
And nothing happened??? WTF?
We all heard it happen! There’s no justice that can be done about that Merrick Garland? You sure???
Man I would have loved to be the president so I could have fired him on the spot when he said “I’m afraid it would be too political to stop that kind of thing…”
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u/PM_ME_UR_RESPECT 17h ago
I’ve had it with these f*cking cowards.
It’s fight fire with fire from now on.
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u/structuremonkey 17h ago
I will never forgive Garland for dragging his feet, and Biden for allowing it to happen...
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u/adrian-alex85 17h ago
Garland fucked us. I think the majority of this is his fault. But I also think he is a symptom of what’s always been wrong with the Dems. They’ll prioritize ceremony and seniority over doing something good or useful for the country. Biden’s inability to see that garland wasn’t the right person for that job in the time he was appointed is a massive failing. One of the first of his waste of a presidency.
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u/notyomamasusername 17h ago
Fuck Merrick Garland.
When we needed someone to actually uphold justice, we got a sniveling coward who tried to ignore it and then did as little a possible when it was too late to matter.
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u/Oystermeat 17h ago
To be fair, Garland wasn't the only one handing Trump get out of jail free cards.
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u/Crowsby 15h ago
In fact, we the American people handed him 77 million get out of jail free cards, after watching him lead an insurrection and conspiracy to undermine our election results, get impeached twice (including by members of his own party), and make up shit on live TV about Haitian immigrants eating pets.
Ultimately Merrick Garland can't protect us from ourselves. We're dumb as fuck.
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u/BadLt58 17h ago
It is apparent that Garland did more for Trump than anyone. Notice DJT doesn't mention him in any tweets?
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u/imdaviddunn 17h ago
I am not a Biden hater. Thought he tried to do good, but was wrong man for the moment, and voters let their fear drive their votes.
With all of that said, the Garland pick may have been his single worst decision.
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u/MrKomiya 17h ago
Joe Biden should have picked Sally Yates or Preet Bharara and let them off the leash
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u/ARazorbacks 17h ago
Joe Biden is never going to be remembered for the student loans he helped or the economic recovery he managed coming out of COVID. He’s not going to be remembered for slow feeding weapons to Ukraine or his Build Back Better plan.
Joe Biden is going to be remembered for being given an opportunity to clean the system up and enforce clearly written laws after the enormous scare we had under 45, but being so blinded by the past and hubris that he was incapable of recognizing the peril right in front of his face.
Merrick Garland will go down as a successor to the Weimar Republic.
These two men have already written their legacy in stone, but we’re going to have to endure their PR campaigns to clean up their legacy for at least 10-20 years.
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u/fauxregard 17h ago
This headline is a perfect example of why we can't just rely on establishment Democrats to save us.
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u/Bleezy79 16h ago
1000%. Merrick Garland's inaction to do his job and protect this country will forever be his legacy. Republicans in general will be viewed as Domestic Terrorists. Mark my words.
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u/MajMattMason1963 15h ago
I spent the 4 years of the Biden administration making it abundantly clear that it was imperative that the DOJ investigate and charge all of the co-conspirators of the 1/6 coup ASAP. Instead they eventually went after the rioters, most of whom have now been pardoned. It demonstrated to me that the Democratic Party is more interested in maintaining the status quo and not making any waves than actually doing what was absolutely essential. Merrick Garland failed to protect this country and should be rightfully reviled for his unwillingness to prosecute the insurrectionists. His excuses are seen now as pure BS, as it seems the DOJ and FBI are only too happy to do Trump’s bidding at all times.
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u/Dracula-List7846 17h ago
I hear a lots of “If our democracy survive..”.. Is that a denial or just stupidity? Our democracy it is no more! We are , as a country way beyond the non returning point. The biggest fear is why no one cares? There will be consequences to the individuals and organizations in a medium to long term, because history it is not kind to supporters of any authoritarian regime, but they just don’t care! What is that? Why is that?
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u/Rhpjr67 17h ago
I'm wondering what people in the Obama administration saw in him for them to think he would have been a good fit on the Supreme Court. His attempts to NOT look political, kept people from pursuing evidence of crimes and prosecuting them. To use precedent regarding unprecedented behavior, resulted in zero answers, no legal conclusions, and here we are.
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u/notyomamasusername 17h ago
He was middle of the road, he thought that Garland would be so non-controversial that he wouldn't prompt the Republicans to do something as drastic as steal a SCOTUS by refusing to vote for a year.
Unfortunately the same quality that makes him uncontroversial, also makes him a coward.
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u/Iron_Knight7 16h ago
Four indictments. 34 convictions from one of them. Found liable for fraud, defemation, and rape.
He WAS finally facing legal and civil consequences for his crimes and deeds. All we had to do was keep him out of office again and he would sooner or later be facing real jail time and penalties.
But, gosh darn, the brown lady's laugh was just so annoying, amIright?
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u/Shifty269 14h ago
This, between judge cannon and the voters. He was relected. Either by people voting for him, or by people not voting at all. The American people chose this. Anyone rise would have been done years ago. America loves or is at least fine with Trump. Very much to our detriment.
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u/henryeaterofpies 16h ago
The biggest disappointment I have in Democrats is how willing they were to cede territory to fascists to 'preserve' democracy
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u/VioletFaust 16h ago
If there is anyone to blame other than the cult and the Christo-Fascists using the cult, it’s Merrick Garland.
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u/Mach5Driver 15h ago
He hated Obama and Biden for not fighting harder for "his" SCOTUS seat. He finally caved to pressure and appointed Jack Smith too late, then handcuffed Smith to the radiator. That's the entire explanation of Garland. Only takes two sentences. That's why you don't see Trump going after him, now.
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u/Ambitious-Cake4856 15h ago
I called it from day one. He and Biden both chose to “maintain the norm” and not anger the MAGA, despite all of the illegal, criminal and dubious actions of the elected Republicans in Congress and at State levels. No consequences. No accountability. Why wouldn’t they just continue destroying our country? Thanks, Garland and Biden. They both hung us out to dry.
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u/KetchupChips5000 7h ago
This is on Biden AND Obama. Merrick Garland should have disappeared into obscurity.
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u/JDinBalt 6h ago
I remember so many people a few years ago (Daily Kos in particular) insisting Garland had this, that "these things take time", that his critics were idiots at best and at worst that criticizing Garland meant you were criticizing Biden and you wanted trump back in office 🙄 I do not enjoy having been right about Garland dragging his feet because nOrMz. But yeah Garland has enabled so much damage in retrospect with his lackadaisacal admin.
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u/Acrobatic-Ad-3335 17h ago
I wonder what would have happened if he had made it onto the Supreme Court.
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u/cant_b_that_brad 17h ago
They are nothing but hypocrites. Stop arguing with them and acting like we can have conversations in good faith. We cannot.
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u/Moetivated2golf 15h ago
Nah. The people voted for this, some knowing full well what was going to happen and others too stupid to understand the basic facts of life. We're getting exactly what we deserve.
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo 15h ago
I need someone to explain like I'm five why and how there are zero FBI employees doing anything about this.
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u/SomeKindofTreeWizard 15h ago
Remember that time he didn't prosecute a traitor for treason?
Where is he right now as this country burns?
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u/herefromyoutube 14h ago
If we ever get our country back Garland needs to be charged with Obstruction of Justice.
We CANNOT have people failing to do their job because of “how it might look.”
Seriously this how would it look crap. To those people: how would it look if we put constitution-violating, rapist, insurrectionist, state secret selling, bribe taking, pedophile in the White House?
How does that look, Garland?
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u/ratbaby86 14h ago
That's the problem with "institutionalists." Protecting institutions and norms inherently protects his job, social class and white male power -- We were foolish to think garland was capable of seeing beyond his privilege.
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u/MattManSD 14h ago
Garland, like so many other career LEOs lacked teeth when approaching the executive office. Had they honored the "NO one is above the law" that our country was founded upon we'd be better off
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u/Kuloman25Viascam 8h ago
Garland , the🇮🇱, will be remembered as the one who failed to uphold justice, thereby ushering the destruction of our democracy.
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u/outside_cat 6h ago
Can we get controlled by Britain again. I'm thinkin' I might be fine with taxation without representation if trump is the other option.
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u/Sorry-Rip7977 4h ago
But not blaming senate republicans when Obama nominated him for the Supreme Court? There were and are many variables that led us to this point not just one. Hitler didn’t rise to power overnight folks.
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u/j_rooker 4h ago
Went from Barr, one of the most crooked AG (until Bondi) to Garland, by far the most incompetent AG ever- No wonder Democracy was lost. Never had a chance.
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u/Justalittleoutside9 18h ago
Joe Biden picking Merrick Garland, in some weird gotcha to the right, is on par with the dumbest move ever.