... Garland had done his fucking job!

President Biden made a huge mistake hiring Garland. What a waste.

Both Joe Biden and Mike Pence were "forced" to be interviewed by a Special Prosecutor appointed by DOJ for having old PDB's in a garage while Donald Trump was never interrogated one time for allegedly taking high-level classified information and having it at his personal residence while foreign nationals and known spies visited.

That's not just on Garland.

There are exceptions here and there, the the dominant culture is one of "We know more than the American people about these things, so we will judge what will be prosecuted and what won't." A certain amount of prosecutorial judgement is always necessary, of course, but over the years that morphed into the "bad guys" being street gangs, bank robbers, and kids selling some dope on the streets. Government corruption was not just tolerated, but actively permitted. As a powerful public figure, you had to do something pretty obvious to get any prosecution.

Over the past couple of decades, the GOP abandoned its "law and order" rhetoric and became far more lawless than the Dems. We always demanded our people be prosecuted if they were corrupt, but the Good Old Putin party reflexively rose in defense of each one of their scoundrels. That asymmetry just reinforced the authoritarian foundations of DoJ.

So no, of course Garland didn't act alone. Mueller, Comey, Rosenstein -- all of them were part of this system and they all did their jobs just as J Edgar would have wanted. And dozens more behind the scenes, no doubt.

IMHO, this was the biggest mistake of the Biden Administration.

For the life of me I can't understand why Garland was allowed to stay..

It always slays me how efficient the pubes are at getting what they want done. Hell be damned.

and Garland is a fool for not recognizing this and begin the felon’s prosecution on the first day he was appointed AG. History will not look kindly on him.

Right after the insurrection. He figured, aww, trump learned his lesson and he's harmless now. I'll give him a pass because he's part of the good old boys club.

He had no regard whatsoever for the individuals who were harmed or killed, or the emotional trauma inflicted across the nation. Where is our justice? 🤬

Gore V Bush was a complete perversion of the Constitution.
Heller
Citizen's United

and many other decisions have been undermining the Constitution continuously for 25 years. It is the proverbial from in a boiling pot syndrome. The crisis has unfolded incrementally, exact step normalizing the next.

Only an uprising like this country has never seen before will turn this around.

The only way is to escalate the outrage to the point that enough Republicans will be shamed into saying "enough".

F the idea of making any allies with the MAGA people. They will never help us. But there are people like Pence, Romney and some business leaders who may be getting close to the point of joining forces. Remember, many of the Lincoln Project people are life-long Republicans and conservatives. THese are people we must unite with.

Our common interests have been growing through this whole Trump time. We are reaching the point where we need to put these people on the spot. We need to set aside of preoccupation with pronouns and abortions so that we can concentrate on the common ground we have with people like Pence, Romney, the Cheneys, GW Bush and others who can stand up and be heard.

Heck even a person as vile as Steve Bannon might be an ally at this point. Certainly Bolton,

Non-violent protest, and along your line of thinking, Republicans coming to their senses and turning on their Party. I should’ve clarified.

But I wanted to just make that point 100% clear. We cannot win an armed revolution. Trump will use the military against the American people unless there are sufficient protests. And the vast majority of the 400,000,000 firearms in private hands are held by right-wing crazies.

We have to force the institutions to stand up against the fascism.

When he's not working on his "tell all" book.

to slow walk his trials and then run the most corrupt election in history to walk away from crimes
that should have put him in our Super Max Federal Prison for life. And now it might be too late because
the COUP BIRDS HAVE COME HOME TO ROOST.

New FBI agents are gonna have to prove their loyalty to Trump by saying they think the 2000 election was
stolen from Trump.

There's no mention whatsoever of garland.

Isn't that strange? 🤔

Yes, Garland was awful. But this meekness has been present for a long time in response to right wing extremism. I recall the Bundy Ranch incident. Assault weapons trained on federal agents trying to do their jobs. Those people should have been taken out. Same with the wildlife refuge people. You can't fight sociopathic people by backing down. They only understand one language. So as much as I loved Obama, he had some meekness as while in responding to the rising extremism, in my opinion.

A smart, well-planned take down in either case would have been great.

The Bundy Ranch: a perimeter should have been set so supporters couldn't get in there. The Bundys wouldn't have been crap by themselves.

Malaherd: Should have arrested them in town, cut down the number on site, then gone in at 3-4 am. Over.

Sorry if that bothers anyone, letting this crap go on just emboldened these idiots. Hello Jan 6.

For how long now have there been reports/studies concluding that right wing extremist pose a greater threat to the US than external threats? This has been known since the days of McVeigh and Waco, yet, we do NOTHING to combat them. Now the orange fascist has his own brown shirts.

Time for a change in our strategy. We need wildcats fighting these fascists, not beached whales getting picked apart by the carnivores.

This nonsense has been going on for years. It's time for it to STOP.

Well said!!! It's far past time for leaders who will take the fight to the enemy. And it pains me to use that terminology, but anyone who supports this fascist regime is against our democratic republic.

But Kamala would have made a hell of an AG, and trump would be sitting in a prison cell now if she had been.

Need I say more?

Aside from a holes, there is nothing in this world that I detest more than cowards.
I hate cowards so much.

Cowards enable evil to occur.

I'm so damn irritated that all of this mess could have been avoided had the justice system done their job. We know those MAGAt dimwits would vote for him, but he should have been thrown in prison to prevent that.

We need soldiers for this war, not pontificators.

Fuck Merrick Garland

Where's Merrick?

are the DU supporters of Garland for the last 3 years . No apologies for their all-too-righteous support of Garland to supposedly follow the laws no matter how obvious the deception and delay was. Every little criticism was met with basically "when they go low, we go high", "we need to follow the law", "need to start at the bottom to legally get to the top criminals".
That worked out so well that we have what we have today.

By the way, has anyone wondered why Aileen Canon has been so quiet?

Nt

And is nowhere to be found.