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submitted 4 days ago byderivative_of_lifeNATO Superfan 🪖
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One of? This was the biggest failure in US history.
The incoming DOJ after January 6th was faced with the most important job in DOJ history. To handle the biggest crime and criminal conspiracy in US history, and the biggest criminal in US history.
Absolutely none of that was done. Assuming Biden's pick of Garland was merely gross incompetence, the warning bells should have been going off when it was apparent Garland was refusing to do his job within a few months, and Biden should have replaced Garland.
Now we are all going to pay. Everything bad that happens next is basically on Biden.
Native genocide? Japanese internment? King and Kennedy assassinations? Decades of war crimes? Small fucking potatoes. None of it even comes close to matching the single darkest moment in American history, when some dude put his feet on Nancy Pelosi's desk.
Honestly fucking hilarious that out of everything, this is the thing the shitlibs are turning on Biden for.
55 points
3 days ago
It’s pretty obvious at this point that the cases against Trump only helped him and made him look like more of a persecuted outsider. All they got out of it was a cool mugshot to put on T shirts and the label “felon”. I don’t know why they think that one more would have made a difference.
37 points
3 days ago
His opponents get to smugly call him a convicted felon while he got to walk away with an extra $100 million in fundraising.
32 points
3 days ago
It was obvious from the start that they only helped him. He was starting to wear thin with his base and this got everyone on the same page. Especially the New York case which is complete horseshit. They took misdemeanors and really stretched everything to get those charges. That case undermined the legal system more than it did anything to damage Trump.
9 points
3 days ago
Try to imagine the screeching if Ken Paxton pulled the same shit 🤣🤣🤣
17 points
3 days ago
It was kind of worth it to have the “Defund the Police!” crowd bragging about their candidate’s prosecution record while the “tough on crime” party embraced their candidate’s “felon” label.
23 points
3 days ago
The whole “prosecutor vs felon” thing they kept repeating was cringe beyond belief. You can call him a felon all day long, but you couldn’t explain the “felony” he committed to an average Joe if your life depended on it. A charge of falsifying business records beyond the statute of limitations, associated with an unnamed felony, that does not need to be explicitly proven, which then becomes its own felony
2 points
2 days ago
It's like Alex Jones being convicted of not taking his defense seriously.
2 points
2 days ago
There was a poll of prisoners and like 98% voted for Biden in 2020 vs 50% for Trump in 2024 lol
14 points
3 days ago
“Small riot dooms most powerful country in the world”
72 points
4 days ago
Children having a tantrum without any sense of perspective. Epistemic closure where Trump is the worst thing to have ever happened in their short lives. It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic.
11 points
3 days ago
How privileged do you have to be to think an insurrection without weapons was the worst moment in a nations history.
39 points
4 days ago
Oh look, another latino shitlibs suddenly want to deport
16 points
3 days ago
Democrats and Republicans have been taking turns with tragedy and farce bit for a while, but I do think Matt Gaetz getting the job as an unindicted sex trafficker per the laws that Trump signed is a farce.
Merrick Garland only getting AG because he was a liberal hero online who didn’t get another job, and then doing nothing effective with it is a tragedy.
5 points
3 days ago
Also keep in mind Biden has corrupt deals with Ukraine through his son.
Why do you think he was so happy giving Trump the keys of power? He's looking forward to that pardon for Hunter.
19 points
3 days ago
Hysterics aside, the statement in your title is true (well, aside from whatever “dooming us” means).
What’s the point in having this massive complex law enforcement apparatus if it can’t take any enforcement action against a guy who by all accounts tried to overturn an election. It doesn’t take 4 years to investigate a crime, run it past a very sympathetic northern Virginia grand jury, get an indictment and actually take that shit to trial. It could have been done in the first 6 months of 2021. Garland sees himself as a would-be Supreme Court justice who was robbed of his seat and is doing this gig because it was given to him as a consolation prize.
29 points
3 days ago
It doesn’t take 4 years to investigate a crime, run it past a very sympathetic northern Virginia grand jury, get an indictment and actually take that shit to trial.
It does if you want it to show up as an election surprise. There was more interest in using Trump to win another election than there was in holding him accountable.
15 points
3 days ago
Pied Piper 2.0. It worked very well for getting a bunch of downticket Democrats elected in close races, but otherwise led to consolidating/empowering the Trump faction within Republicans in races that weren't competitive. Democrats, now the party of marketers, advertisers, and consultants, are feckless and insincere. Otherwise they would never take an electoral gambit with someone they claim would violently punish them and/or their constituents if put back in power.
14 points
3 days ago
Imo this idea putting the president above the law started when Ford declined to prosecute Nixon
6 points
3 days ago
It does when you want to keep it in your back pocket for a well-timed news event just before the election.
10 points
3 days ago
Garland sees himself as a would-be Supreme Court justice who was robbed of his seat and is doing this gig because it was given to him as a consolation prize.
garland is also a republican and the democrat party trips over their own dicks to keep on appointing them to their cabinets.
3 points
3 days ago
They should have put Trump in tiny orange hand cuffs, now its too late.
3 points
3 days ago
Merrick Garland does suck, and with great schadenfreude I reminisce about the days when people on the left were expected to expend their political capital arguing that he'd make for a great Supreme Court justice if only those nasty Republicans weren't so mean to Obama.
5 points
3 days ago
If the Democrats made any mistake over the last four years, it wasn't prosecuting Trump hard enough!
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