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In reply to the discussion: I guess Garland slowly building the case from the bottom up [View all]
Bluetus
(2,752 posts)130. Did we learn a lesson from this?
Last edited Tue Nov 26, 2024, 03:00 PM - Edit history (1)
The lesson is that we must never take any advice from the "when they go low, we go high" crowd.
We are in a battle for the very existence of our democracy, and we need to act like it. Those who insist that we must always be the adults in the room need to step aside. It is clear they aren't part of any solution that will work.
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But who is going to print the history books of this topic? Bezos? NYTimes? Washington Post?
LiberalArkie
Nov 2024
#39
I don't know about that. The Federalist Society member Garland could very well be a deeply burrowed rethug mole.
brush
Nov 2024
#134
I agree with that. SC Smith I'd say was trying to do his best to try and convict trump. Garland IMO nerver was...
brush
Nov 2024
#141
Garland won't release anything. Wouldn't want to embarrass any Republicans.
Lonestarblue
Nov 2024
#5
Well, I can't rule it out but I've seen little that couldn't just be what would pass for random yahoos taking charge
TheKentuckian
Nov 2024
#137
I regret believing Marcy Wheeler's bullshit. Emptywheel had no special insight, no experience, no relevant expertise.
thebigidea
Nov 2024
#60
As angry as most of us are, can you imagine how Jack Smith feels? A waste of his last two years?
hlthe2b
Nov 2024
#7
Merrick is a fraud. When history called for a hero - we got... a zero. Oh well! RIP rule of law.
Blues Heron
Nov 2024
#8
Garland spent vast resources protecting billionaires from bitcoin theft and TSF from Iran's Revolutionary Guards.
usonian
Nov 2024
#9
No DOJ protocol against prosecuting the relative of a sitting president
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 2024
#75
Sticking to "appropriate" and "norms" when being attacked is where Garland leadership failed, you hit back hard and ...
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#89
it's not as if the person Garland was prosecuting was his boss' rival in the election
bigtree
Nov 2024
#108
still bringing fact-free derisions about a legal process you haven't bothered to understand
bigtree
Nov 2024
#81
We understand we're fucked and Garland could've done something to start a special council sooner all the rest is words
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#90
Don't agree on principle but its not my assertion a SC would have made evidence available any sooner.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#98
Trump was not the only SC target, I don't know what you're position is here. Garland could've called for SC on day ...
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#100
There was enough empirical evidence against Benedict Donald to start special counsel on day one.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#88
You could've just said "... I agree..." and left it at that. The rest of your words don't address my assertion.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#92
Your first sentence would've been 100% improvement and a good justification for SC on day 1... We agree
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#125
Biden and Garland's meritless, delusional faith in institutions they were part of
RockRaven
Nov 2024
#18
But Marcy Emptywheel says there are secret and magical things happening!!1! Patience, Grasshopper!!1!
Scrivener7
Nov 2024
#27
Yup, for trump not to good for the country, but, the case is not to political, thankfully.
republianmushroom
Nov 2024
#30
I think you're wrong on at least one point - Manchin and others wouldn't have voted for changing the Supreme Court
groundloop
Nov 2024
#43
Merrick Garland will go down in history as a spineless AG who allowed the country to go fascist. n/t
PatrickforB
Nov 2024
#37
Even if he isn't declared a spineless AG (but he will be), and the fact that he's prosecuted give or take 1000 other
SWBTATTReg
Nov 2024
#53
Most of the defense of Garland is filibuster and sophistry that doesn't address the issue that Garland *COULD* have ...
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#94
That's a whole other discussion, right now I'm normalizing the FACT that Garland could've started the SC on day one.
uponit7771
Nov 2024
#104
I find the timidity, and rolling over to be the worst gut punch for many of us , and for Lady Liberty.
Evolve Dammit
Nov 2024
#44
She is a clickbait CT kook and should be ignored by any serious person. Nt
Fiendish Thingy
Nov 2024
#116
Wheeler has zero fucking credibility. Zero. She hasn't called a damn thing correctly in years.
thebigidea
Nov 2024
#62
He was building a very limited case by only targeting the pawns in the Trump criminal operation.
jalan48
Nov 2024
#103
I suspect we are living in a time that history will remember as the worst in our country's history.
Scrivener7
Nov 2024
#122