Hire. A. Fucking. Litgator, Ds!! Its easy to ask a good question: Q: Do you agree wih AG Barr's decision to stop the investigation of John Kerry? Q: Do you agree with the DOJ's decision to refuse to investigate Hillary Clinton in 2016? - ThreadSky

microblap.bsky.social • 38 days ago

Hire. A. Fucking. Litgator, Ds!! Its easy to ask a good question:

Q: Do you agree wih AG Barr's decision to stop the investigation of John Kerry?

Q: Do you agree with the DOJ's decision to refuse to investigate Hillary Clinton in 2016?

Reposted from Greg Sargent

Awful: At her hearing, Pam Bondi kept calling prosecutions of Trump's enemies "hypotheticals." But he has repeatedly vowed to do this in his own words! The problem is she had zero good answers to this.

On the pod, @mimirocah1.bsky.social makes this point brilliantly:
newrepublic.com/article/1902...

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duckeverlasting.bsky.social•38 days ago

There is no question clever enough to force an answer out of these snide, cynical creeps. The ONLY thing they're trying to do up there is not say anything that will make Trump mad. They don't actually need to convince anyone of anything.

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

You can also ask questions that set them up agains Little Donny. THAT can be part of he fun too. Its not like some of him have called him a "fucking moron" or "America's Hitler" before. Many of them were quasi-sane before hey started sucking him off.

wptrocket.bsky.social•38 days ago

The question to her needed to be: “What do you think of the Night of Long Knives? Would you do something like that in the United States?”

rogerailes.bsky.social•38 days ago

"I'm not familiar with the details of those decisions, and don't have access to all the facts those A.G.s had when they made those decisions. I would want all the facts before I determined whether an investigation was warranted." [Add further bullshit to taste.]

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

That also tees up the Q: You've previously said that Jack Smith must be criminally prosecuted. "what details" and "facts" were you aware of when you said that to support a criminal prosecution?

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

Fair point, but easy follow up: So, you have have no reason to disagree with those reasons to decline prosecution/investigation?

hondocanyon.bsky.social•38 days ago

If there weren't so many already, I would call this woman the biggest Trump sycophant on the planet

gm0rk.bsky.social•38 days ago

I think asking good questions is less important than exploiting the barrage of non-answers into something politically valuable.

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

Aspire to both.

gm0rk.bsky.social•38 days ago

True -- I'm not disparaging the hunt for good questions.

I'm just pointing out that no question can be effective if "I'm not familiar/I won't answer" if an acceptable answer.

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

Except insofar as you are able to ask follow up questions about things that she should know about or that statements assume knowledge - like her claim that Jack Smith should be crimnally prosecuted.

bpaige.bsky.social•38 days ago

All these “experts” sitting behind their keyboards are so smart. 🙄

mlamb.bsky.social•38 days ago

Democrats refuse to leave their egos at the door. All of them want clips of their grandstanding for fundraising and cable segments.

bpaige.bsky.social•38 days ago

Well you got one thing right. You are a “shit poster”.. and an all around expert

pcollirigger.bsky.social•38 days ago

When she said she would reverse the weaponization of the DOJ, they needed to ask, "Do you think the prosecutions of Donald Trump were weaponization?"

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

You want that topic covered, but you cannot word he question in a way that allows easy answers or weasle answers. that's one of he bigges issues. not "what" they ask about, but HOW they ask it.

clo0620.bsky.social•38 days ago

Honestly, it doesn’t matter she will be confirmed. All his picks will be confirmed. There is no separation of the branches anymore.

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

1. She will be confirmed. 2. Not true that conducting a good/better confirmation process "doesn't matter."

clo0620.bsky.social•38 days ago

I think the confirmation hearings are necessary but it’s just formality. The backroom handshakes and arm twists have been done.

altiam.bsky.social•38 days ago

Great questions! Accountability is crucial.

fdsj.bsky.social•38 days ago

Congressional hearings aren't designed to reveal anything about nominees/witnesses. They're designed to be performances by the questioners.

microblap.bsky.social•38 days ago

Sure. But shouldn't the performances actually be good? And, not this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-lZYqCnEXA

marciat.bsky.social•38 days ago

Exactly the problem that was on display yesterday in hearings!

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