take solace in the fact that no matter how bad you are at your job, no matter how hard you fail at something, you will never, ever fail as badly at anything as merrick garland failed at the most important job he'll ever have
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Are you sure about that? If his job was to pretend to prosecute Trump because the Dems thought Trump was a weak candidate who would drag down the GOP ticket then he was successful.
I would say institutions failed. Garland, mitch, scotus, Eileen fucking Cannon, Wray, Mueller, Barr, the jailers at epstein's cell who fell asleep, the fourth estate. Really the entire justice and criminal system. That's a lot to put on the backs of voters who want either cheap eggs or abortions.
Can democrats, please please please dispense with the notion that they must appoint Republicans to law enforcement and justice agencies in their administration
Given that for all his bluster and partisan nominations, Trump could not get anything done against his "archenemy" Hillary either, don't you think this is a broader pattern about some unsaid and unseen rules of the department protecting the "establishment".
The Trump administration never even tried to prosecute, whereas there was a very halfhearted attempt to prosecute Trump that just didn't go nearly far enough. And by contrast to both the Trump and Clinton non-prosecutions, there *was* a successful effort against... Hunter Biden. So it can be done.
Presidents are never prosecuted after leaving office, and some are even pardoned by the incoming administration.
So, yes, it’s absolutely part of a larger pattern.
counterpoint: hillary clinton didn’t commit any of the crimes trump claimed, whereas trump has committed every possible crime imaginable—often on live television
That is how it should be, I agree. But my point is that no matter the public incentive of the administration - retribution in the previous admin, or "rule of law" in the current, people at the top most level have generally been left untouched by doj.
i think it's an important distinction that *not* successfully prosecuting trump is far more damaging to the rule of law than letting him get away with the specific things he did, and the flagrant way in which he did them.
He didn't fail. You all think he was on our side this entire time. The man is a Republican and he played his role protecting Trump in the DOJ just like the Supreme Court has been. You all need to wake up and fight the fight in front of you. And not the one you want. That was over in 2000.
a lot of people are doing the "lawyers will not save us! law enforcement will not save us!" thing. and I get it. but the breakdown wasn't that Trump couldn't have been prosecuted and put in jail, it's that Democrats literally talked themselves out of it by telling themselves it was unnecessary
Right, we DID beat him politically, then Biden and Garland decided to spike the ball on the 10 yard line instead of running it in, so now he's back. It truly is that simple
the failure isn't the ability of institutions to hold Trump accountable, it's pathetic liberal political leadership that thinks the solution to every single problem is a 17-step election plan that ultimately collapses to "we'll talk about kitchen-table issues a lot and win big majorities"
🙌🏻 Democratic leadership is always obsessed with pointless rhetorical arguments and trying to get brownie points from the media for playing “fair” as if anyone cares about that
I love how every Dem strategy revolves around talking about kitchen table issues, only for all the very smart politics knowers to opine over the fact that they didn’t talk about kitchen table issues.
the notion has never occurred to top Dems that they do not know how to win elections, they do not know why voters make the choices they do, they do not understand what drives modern political shifts, and therefore staking existential questions on reliably winning elections is A Very Bad Idea
In fairness, Democrats and Republicans win a roughly equal number of elections, and yet the takeaway is always "Democrats don't know how to win elections" and no one ever expects an ounce of self-reflection or blame from Republicans when they lose.
Dems can't fight. Their ideas are very popular. They should not win an equal # of elections. Dems should win almost all elections yet they fail and fail and fail.
Winning is the only thing that matters, and we lost. We may have just lost the USA and we lost to a rapist and a felon. SMH
And yet, here we are with the very real possibility that we will have a fascist dictatorship next year. So is your argument that the Dems are doing things right?
It's not that they don't know how to win elections. It's that they don't know how to build power when they do win.
> So is your argument that the Dems are doing things right?
Yeah, that's definitely a thing I said. Good job. Your second point is correct, but you could have made it without inventing a phony argument to disagree with me on.
90% of dialogue since election discusses what candidates did or didn't do, how the Parties did or didn't position themselves. More attention needs to be paid to the population, including those "less likely" to vote who are energized by social media. America is far right of where I thought it was.
This election wasn't the embrace of the far right that many seem to think it was; it was a rejection of the status quo that Dems have been pushing since the Clinton administration
The irony of the Harris campaign's "not going back" slogan is that they were the ones advocating for "going back"
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Ugh. Lemme appoint a special prosecutor for Hunter Biden immediately to show how neutral I am!!!
The only difference with a more aggressive prosecution is how quickly SCOTUS would have immunized Trump.
Not to mention Leonard Leo.
https://bsky.app/profile/whstancil.bsky.social/post/3lbsdesstfs2b
It’s fucking ridiculous
and learn more about the jungle of law
that has to be navigated
in order to go from A to B
So, yes, it’s absolutely part of a larger pattern.
Trump did and the failure to go after him was a distinctly individual failure from MG, as state officials who did go after him proved repeatedly
Winning is the only thing that matters, and we lost. We may have just lost the USA and we lost to a rapist and a felon. SMH
It's not that they don't know how to win elections. It's that they don't know how to build power when they do win.
Yeah, that's definitely a thing I said. Good job. Your second point is correct, but you could have made it without inventing a phony argument to disagree with me on.
The irony of the Harris campaign's "not going back" slogan is that they were the ones advocating for "going back"
https://bsky.app/profile/drmick.bsky.social/post/3lbsg75yrms2b
Although I'm not the Attorney General of the United States of America so it is a bit different isn't it.