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Uh yeah. Biden appointed a pretty nonpartisan AG in good faith that the 4 years of his term could be spent simmering down the hyperdivisionalism of the previous admin and return to status quo. Didn't read the room and let Trump build 4 years of momentum without so much as a speed bump along the way
Garland actively helped Trump. Slow walking an investigation for fear of being political is itself political. In treating Trump with kid gloves unlike any other perp was political.
Garland fucked over Biden- and America- pure and simple, because he was scared of an angry toddler.
And the worst of it was; that the reason behind selecting Garland wasn't because he was particularly qualified... but because republicans fucked his nomination to SCOTUS over and people (read: biden) felt bad.
Garland wasn’t scared, he was on his side.
EDIT: this is why Kamala lost the libs when she was like “I’ll put republicans in my cabinet!”
That was one of the most infuriating things about her campaign. Even if she was saying that just somehow troll the hard right or the die-hard magabrainz, it was still just so fucking stupid. Not one Democrat wanted to hear shit like that, they wanted someone that would fight the hell back against these assholes, not swing the door open and invite the vampires into your household, FFS.
It was amazing watching centrists on lemmy who didn't want the support for their pet genocide to end bein' like "She's the vice president! She can't differ from Biden in any way at all ever!" fall silent when she decided that she needed to run to Biden's right.
Let's not forget, on that note: Biden picking him was bad but so was Obama nominating him to the SCOTUS to begin with. Replacement for Scalia or not, we see what that led to. Garland getting on the Court wouldn't really be making a difference there either.
Once again, our side plays by the rules and does "ethical" stuff while the GOP continues to fuck around while we all find out. These next four years are going to be insane.
The Dems don't even play by the rules. They play by some made up rules that exist only in their heads and boil down to "you're not allowed to oppose the Republicans in any way that matters". There's tons of legal and ethical stuff Biden could have done in the last four years and here we are, sitting on our asses in the sinking ship, waiting for the water to rush in and drown us all.
I'm with you there. I am still haunted by the idiotic things we've done to shoot ourselves in the foot, though. Time and time again, we listen to people wanting to do bipartisanship from the Dem side, and only be met by betrayal. Anybody remember Al Franken and what a self-own it was for him to be forced out?
I can go on and on, but we don't learn and our own don't want to do honest reflection.
Fuck it.
I mean, getting rid of Franken was reasonable. Refusing to challenge the Republican creeps has... well... resulted in a government of mostly creeps and that's not where i want to be. (Admittedly that specific piece is not specifically the Democratic Party's fault, though they could have done more. Not using the moral leverage they got by booting Franken was an unforced error.)
Franken was ousted for a harmless joke in which all parties were privy. In the grand scheme of things, he would have done more good in office than out.
Franken should have been running for President. Smart, incisive, charismatic. Everything we needed.
Fuck.
Yet, here we are. Tangerine Gorilla is the next president in line and a hoard of supplicant chimpanzees with the complacent centrist democrats incapable of critical reflection propping it up.
Fuck.
Wake up, assholes. Wake the fuck up.
We could have the 25 amendment if he got his head out of his ass.
That's not even playing ethical. Garland's stance was effectively that Trump shouldn't be prosecuted because it might look bad. That's the opposite of a strict ethical code.
Garland is a piece of shit who slow-rolled the prosecution of Trump for years for whatever convoluted political plan he had in mind. I've been baffled by this since 2020. Trump should have been indicted after Jan 6, not within striking distance of the election.
Merrick Garland had to have been an agent for the Trump team in some shape or form.
These next however many years America has left are going to be insane. This won't end in 4 years. Garland and the Democrats made sure a dictator was elected and the Republicans will never give up power again.
Exactly why I'm angry.
Been that way since Obama. Turns out they aren't "our side", they're the party of conservativism, neoconservativism and just happy to rely on minority votes and therefore focus on minority rights.
I use the term loosely, but as you can see with the reactions I get from others, you're either all on board or apparently they think you're a Trumper. Which takes me back to the "nuance" argument I had. Which is probably synonymous with critical thinking in this case.
Americans are terrified of Trump, which is understandable, but they then demand that a free pass be given to his opponents, up to and including their acts of genocide.
Biden should be in prison for breaking US laws saying he cant aid any regime thats plausibly accused of genocide. Our party doesnt always play by the rules and do ethical stuff.
No shit. But look how people reacted when I criticized them elsewhere in this conversation.
Yea, I hear ya. Just ignore them. I always say dont take any criticism or feedback from people you dont respect. I dont respect centrists or people who let the DNC box them in so they can vote for an AIPAC genocide (also dont respect republicans). It didnt thave to be this way but Harris/Biden and the DNC made it this way with their hostage taking and ignoring their base on almost every key issue polled. So they deserve whats coming to them, and Harris/Biden/centrist leaders all deserve to leave politics for good. Unfortunately progressives and youth cant win unless we form a coalition with the centrists, and neither can they win without us, but they pretend we owe them votes even when they sell out and make absurd choices. Thats not the way a coalition works. Dumb centrists need to learn and their childishly refusing to acknowledge this reality doesnt change the reality. Let them swim in the sewage with the rest of us until they learn they arent emperors.
I really wish I could Homer my way into a hedge.
An apolitical AG would have prosecuted Trump. Multiple times. Garland was a very political AG.
Garland is a partisan Republican.
It's weird how this "centrist" was rejected by the qons just to give a middle finger to the Black guy.
Biden appointed a Republican to slow walk the trump investigation so that Biden could run as second worst to trump again.
Garland did what he was hired to do.
Not sure if true, but a very interesting thought. Wheels within wheels, sort of. I'm not sure people are that "good" at planning though.