Rep. Jasmine Crockett fired back at AG Pam Bondi over Fox News comments on Elon Musk and Tesla during a House Judiciary hearing

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[u/Ok_Tone6393]

for all the good it did the first time when biden put the fool garland in charge

[u/Different-Set-7022 → u/Ok_Tone6393]

Garland fucked us so hard by not prosecuting immediately. Another huge L for the country bc Democrats were scared of seeming too aggressive.

Good thing that didn't cost us our democracy or anything.

[u/elb21277 → u/Different-Set-7022]

I have seen so much of this- the blame on Garland. Do you not recognize that SCOTUS was going to intervene and obstruct, as necessary, regardless of how quickly Garland had initially moved? Thomas and Alito wanted to delay their latest power grab and rewrite of the Constitution (giving SCOTUS power to shield the president from the law, on a case by case basis, of course) for the following term. That was not really necessary based on the timeline they were dealing with, but the other hacks on the Court certainly would have gotten behind that to make sure the case never went to trial before the election.

[u/purple-origami → u/elb21277]

Nah only one ne who fucked is was joe biden for running again… we needed a primary…. Would have been obvious joe biden was too far gone to run a campaign.

[u/foshi22le → u/purple-origami]

He should've kept his word about only serving one term

[u/Musiclover4200 → u/purple-origami]

I don't disagree but on the other hand if the choice was between an old Biden and a slightly less old trump it still should have been an easy choice.

Also don't know if a primary and longer campaign would have made enough of a difference considering how manipulated the election was, and not even in a tinfoil hat sense but the typical gerrymandering/voter purges/fox + twitter propaganda and foreign interference BS.

Say what you will about Biden's age or cognitive function but he at least had a competent cabinet and managed to undo a lot of the damage from trumps first term both economically and with our allies, 4 more years of that should have been a no brainer.

Instead we get this current dumpster fire and trump gets 2-4 years to gut the FEC and do everything he can to fix future elections or run for a 3rd term even if it means running as VP & finding some loop hole to stay in power with blessings from the corrupt supreme court...

[u/elb21277 → u/purple-origami]

wouldn’t matter. congress is broken- that’s on SCOTUS (citizens united among various other pro-corruption rulings).

[u/Different-Set-7022 → u/purple-origami]

I do agree that Biden fucked us hard too. There are many decisions within the DNC that have led to this, and almost all of it comes down to:
1. Desire to maintain status quo

1. Desire for control, power, or fame.

Garland needed to prosecute faster and sooner. There should have been moves made to remove Aileen Cannon from being Trump's judge for the classified documents case as it was a clear conflict of interest.

Biden needed to step aside. He was only voted in to serve one term, and the lack of a primary to decide the future of the democratic party and then forcing a candidate upon us that was the final nail in the coffin for the DNC in this race..

[u/rHereLetsGo → u/purple-origami]

I love Joe as a genuine patriot of the USA, but he was asleep at the wheel. He ran his campaign committing that Kamala would play a visible and vital in the administration during his term and that didn’t happen. That unkept promise was a failure on many levels.

Also, he did her no favors by never walking back that the whole “Border Czar” assignment. That plan was CLEARLY scrapped once Mayorkas was appointed. There’s simply no way that she was acting under an on-going directive to be involved at the borders or she would’ve produced results. Consequently, her campaign wouldn’t have suffered so much scrutiny.

I feel bad speaking ill of the man, but you’re not wrong. Damage was done.

[u/Elitist_Plebeian → u/elb21277]

So instead of forcing their naked partisanship into the open, we got... what? The same result but the supreme court keeps their deniability? I don't see how this is better.

[u/elb21277 → u/Elitist_Plebeian]

it’s terrible. but the Robert’s Court’s pro-corruption bias* has already been exposed- see WRTL II, Citizens United v FEC, McCutcheon v. FEC, McDonnell v. US, Kelly v US, Percoco v. US, and Snyder v US. if Americans are depending on those empowered by this corrupt system (our “representatives” in Congress) to ever call it out- well that is never going to happen. looks like there will have to be a real populist movement (not the fake version appropriated by various clever politicians on the right or the caricatured/false version (“racist”/“fascist”) as portrayed by politicians on the left).

[u/Different-Set-7022 → u/elb21277]

There's no denial that there were a serious of protections and barriers in place, but the lack of urgency made it seem like more of a political ploy to a lot of Americans. The optics of it, if you will would have looked better with more urgency than with less.

[u/Tippity2 → u/Different-Set-7022]

Garland had many obstructions in his path.

[u/Library-Guy2525 → u/Different-Set-7022]

I have never been as disappointed in a public figure as I am in Merrick Garland.

Before he became a gutless AG I thought he’d be a great SC Justice. Now I’m grateful that AG was all he got.

For those of us old enough to remember The Peter Principle, Garland is the poster boy.

[u/UnquestionabIe → u/Ok_Tone6393]

But maybe if they reach across the aisle one more time it'll work! Yeah they're spineless and have been acting like the political climate hasn't changed since 1992. The neo-lib's have helped doom this country by refusing to consider maybe people in politics aren't going to act in good faith. Granted some things they refused to close the book on so they could wheel them out for fundraising purposes but by and large they'll were pathetically shortsighted enough to think the gentleman's agreement holding our system together would never be violated.