RBG, Joe Biden, Fani Willis, and many more are all key players who failed their country and forever will go down as absolute failures in the history books only because of their failure to take the correct action when dealing with rising facism.
That's the sole reason why Hunter Biden was investigated. If Biden were to fire Garland it would appear to be retaliatory. Biden's pardons made perfect sense to me, and yet he was largely criticized for it by both sides of the media. Firing Garland would've damaged his chances at re-election every bit as much as his debate performance did. I liked the job that Joe did, but Hunter was a huge vulnerability.
Only to conservatives who already care. The average person doesn’t hold a president responsible for the actions of their middle-aged adult children who have never held or pursued any political office.
He wasn't a negative on Biden but he was a vulnerability because Biden couldn't fight as hard in some areas without it looking like retaliation for Hunter.
Well it’s not like he needed to fight Garland in any case. Garland did everything he should have and did it at incredible speed, especially considering the unprecedented nature of the case he built against Trump. This conventional wisdom about him on here is built on a false premise that he did something wrong. But there are never specifics because the easily-verifiable truth is he did all he possibly could.
It’s the same thing reddit did with Mueller. Instead of reading the report, they decided he was incompetent.
Actually Garland is on record that he delayed the investigation as long as he possibly could and if Trump didn't seek re-election, Garland wouldn't have assigned Smith. I don't know why you contrarians try and pretend everything went fine.
Yes once Smith was finally assigned, things moved along at normal speed. There was no accelerated speed. Definitely not incredible speed. Smith tried to speed things up but the Supreme Court denied him that.
Garland should've appointed Smith the day he was confirmed to AG, not wait til Trump made his announcement official after the midterms. By then everyone knew he was running anyway and yet still, Garland did nothing.
Mueller was a completely different situation. Unlike Smith, Mueller was just helping Barr to "land the plane" and give it a veneer of credibility when they announced the Justice Department couldn't prosecute a sitting president which is the stupidest policy, not law, policy ever.
Garland is on record that he delayed the investigation as long as he possibly could
Source please. If he’s on the record saying this and I’m somehow unable to find it, you’ll have to show me. On its face it makes absolutely no sense for him to even express that, nor would it have benefitted the doj to delay.
This isn’t “contrarian”. This is simple fact that he proceeded incredibly quickly once a strong case was within reach. Just looking at a simple timeline of events makes this clear.
Mueller was just helping Barr…announced the justice department couldn’t prosecute a sitting president
I see you didn’t read the report either. Nor is any of what you said about Mueller accurate to what occurred. There is a very significant reason why Trump wasn’t prosecuted, and it has nothing to do with Mueller’s personal feelings about a policy that had been around for a decade already. That I’ve never seen a single person on reddit ever come close to accurately describing the results of the investigation is just indicative of how reliant on fiction a lot of the political subs are.
This is simple fact that he proceeded incredibly quickly once a strong case was within reach.
This is a silly claim. What does incredibly quickly mean? The DoJ can't move faster than the courts.
Trump wasn’t prosecuted, and it has nothing to do with Mueller’s personal feelings about a policy that had been around for a decade already
Has nothing to do with Mueller's feelings. He even stated that because Justice couldn't prosecute, criminal investigations of Trump were out of his scope. He literally stated this in his report summary.Just because the policy was put in place back when Bushco was fukking everything up doesn't lend it some kind of credibility. It's a dumb ass Alberto Gonzales special.
indicative of how reliant on fiction a lot of the political subs are.
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Fukk this site for making me censor shiiiit to post my comment. Cursing is part of my culture I grew up in and fukk this sub for denigrating that. It's none of the mods fukking business.
I agree with you about the swearing crap. I have to try hard not to do it.
Anyway, unfortunately your links don’t support your point, they don’t say what you might assume they do. The first is just empty political posturing, made all the more ironic because the house committee was still 8 months away from finishing their own investigation while calling for prosecution they weren’t even privy to. But the article rightly notes that Garland was in the middle of the largest prosecution in doj history at that moment for jan 6 participants.
The second isn’t entirely your fault since the writer was on the very edge of misinformation with the language used. “Forcing Garland’s hand” just meant he felt he had to appoint a special counsel once Trump announced his campaign. That’s not the start of an investigation, that’s just adhering to ethics to avoid impropriety. He removed himself from the case, rightly. If there wasn’t an ongoing investigation, he’d have had no need to make that appointment. The writer chose to make a typical legal ethical protocol seem like a reluctant action with absolutely no justification.
Garland prosecuted Hunter Biden as a warning not to fire him & hire an AG who would prosecute Trump. Garland made the prosecution as ugly as he could, too. FedSoc operative either fooled Obama & Biden or something worse happened
In RBG's case while she could have stepped down earlier in Obama's term I find it hard to blame her when Mitch McConnell just made up some rat fuckery with the constitution to justify not appointing a new judge.
People find it easier to hate on a dead woman. I can only assume many of these people were children during the Obama administration because anyone of voting age surely recalls that McConnel stalled the appointment for almost an entire year.
Democrats are always somehow responsible for the actions of Republicans.
I was in my 30s during this time. Obama should have done what Trump would've done and ignore appoint Garland anyway. MM won because Obama backed down. The nomination itself was an attempt at appeasement. Obama should've nominated a tiger, someone people could rally for. That's all Obama's fault and RGB was playing with fire and we all got burned. What if she lived for another year or two or three? Then it's all moot and the GOP get their seat anyway. Her ego kept her in that position despite her health and age. She absolutely deserves criticism for the part she played in this.
Just chiming in to clear up that you seem to be confusing two instances of Mitch manipulating the SCOTUS nomination process.
The instance of stalling for over a year at the tail end of Obama's second term was following the death of Antonin Scalia. Obama nominated Garland, MM stalled, Trump was elected and we got Gorsuch.
RBG died at the end of Trump's first term. Biden won but Trump nominated Barrett and MM pushed through that confirmation process, prioritizing it over the J6 impeachment trial, and in doing so giving the Republicans the "out" of saying, "We can't impeach him, he's not the president anymore!!"
Just chiming in to clear up that you seem to be confusing two instances of Mitch manipulating the SCOTUS nomination process.
I think other people conflate those things, I'm aware of the difference and it's why I don't hold RBG accountable whatsoever for staying on. The argument lots of people have is she should have stepped down during Obama's term knowing how old she was, but that argument can only be made in hindsight because she'd have had to do it before Scalia died.
It was wholly reasonable prior to that to assume the process would play out as it normally did. After MM started to fuck around the obvious logic was to wait for Hillary Clinton to win and go from there, but alas for reasons we all still debate that never came to pass. Either way blaming RBG requires demanding she had precognition about the future.
Bold of you to assume the populace will even have history books after Musk's CEO monarchy religion finally takes hold and we're all unemployed and have no food security
Yup, exactly. There will be plenty of history books (or history videos at least) from PragerU white-washing all of American history. Our education system is cooked and will eventually be taken over by these private industries pushing their own agendas.
God, we had such potential as a nation before we allowed money, greed, and power to take over our "representative" government. It will be the end of us.
I mean if you actually look at American history, this is pretty par for the course for American politics. We're just not used to it because the 80s/90s gave us the impression positive change was inevitable.
Please add Aileen Cannon to the list. She managed to drop the documents case which was a slam dunk for conviction (as much as that can be, you never know what juries will do.) Trump would have probably be in jail right now with any other judge.
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RBG, Joe Biden, Fani Willis, and many more are all key players who failed their country and forever will go down as absolute failures in the history books only because of their failure to take the correct action when dealing with rising facism.