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I don't even know how to assign culpability in whatever measure to whatever individual person, but at the end of the day, these fucking clowns sat around with their collective thumbs up their asses for four years with all the power of the federal justice system to bring to bear onto the world's most provably guilty man, and they didn't accomplish a fucking thing. I don't want to hear Jack Smith say a goddamned word about how much they could have done. I know how much they could have done. The fact is they didn't, and all this present catastrophe is the result of them not doing their fucking jobs.
I blame Merrick Garland for slow-walking the case and ultimately Joe Biden for appointing such a useless limp noodle to look "moderate" to people who would never give him credit for absolutely anything anyway.
The Democratic Party wanted to run against Trump again because that's the only way the neoliberals can sell their lesser evil horseshit.
Probably true. And they got their gift in spades after the last election. Any hope of pulling them to the left, because the party apparatchiks might lose elections if they don't start appealing to the majority of Americans, pretty much went out the fuckin' window now that the Republicans are historically unpopular forever. Chuck Schumer can relax and just point to Trump any time someone tells him he's in any danger.
LOL you still think you will have elections and that the orange paedophile will respect the results
It must be nice to be that naive
There are some comments in my history listing "cancelled elections" as one of the important reasons to vote against Trump, back before this whole thing happened.
My overall point here is that if anyone was thinking that refusing to vote for Kamala Harris was a winning strategy to "push the Democrats to the left," they got it catastrophically backwards (and yes actually the fact that we might not even really have elections going forward depending on how things go as a really important reason why).
Are you sure they're historically unpopular? I keep seeing people on Social Media go gaga for Trump and cheer on his cruelty to trans people
Remember the industrial scale quantities of sunshine they were blowing up everyone's ass about Merrick Garland and "the process", not to mention, Georgia.
Jack Smith is not the problem.
Like I say I have no real idea whose culpability applies exactly where and to what degree.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/timeline-special-counsels-probe-trumps-efforts-overturn-2020/story?id=101537003
So Merrick Garland shit the bed by, apparently, just doing nothing at all FROM JANUARY 2021 UNTIL NOVEMBER OF 2022. Then Jack Smith gets involved.
And then we're still talking to the grand jury in JUNE OF 2023. At that point, Jack Smith was involved, and had been for almost a year.
THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE
HOW DID THEY NOT UNDERSTANDING THAT ACCOMPLISHING THIS SHIT IN TIMELY FASHION WAS MORE IMPORTANT THAN GETTING IVANKA FUCKING TRUMP TO TESTIFY OR NOT
I am sorry for yelling, but it's just a bunch of shit. It's important, one of the most important things for the world that could have happened between 2021 and 2025, and it was their job, and they fucked it up and slow-walked it, and we're all paying because of their dog shit ness.
I hear you, it’s just the case that legal processes take a really long time. This is where they should have looked like they were cutting corners, but judges are their own political party and they don’t like rushing things.
It wouldn’t be an issue if republicans respected the rule of law, but they absolutely do not.
Yes, but there are cases where things get hurried along. Judges grant emergency orders all the time for particular reasons. There are plenty of important cases that manage to take less than four years when it's fucking important.
They thought they could take their time and do things "normal" and complete, because Trump wouldn't come near power again. It was obvious even at the time that that was stupid and wrong, and failing to treat it as an emergency on par with September 11th or something was a massive fuckup born of complacency and timidity.
No one ever went broke underestimating the American public, as they say.
This just the same miserable excuse we were getting for inaction at the time. There were no excuses for it then, there are no excuses for it now, and engaging in excuse making for the failures of the Biden administration is exemplary of the definitive failure of liberalism.
Bullshit. He could've been plainspoken like this at any time, but he played coy about it instead out of some misguided sense of "norms" or "decorum" or whatever, despite having a front row seat to the slow-walking and obstruction and willful feigned ignorance of those above and around him.
He could've made the plain fact of Trump's guilt impossible to ignore, but he didn't. That means he shares the guilt. Is it the majority of it? No. But there's plenty to go around, and it is some.
Wtf are you talking about. Being “plainspoken like this” before trial is a great way to lose at trial. That’s why prosecutors don’t ever do it. Ffs.
For some reason they just decided that there was nothing they could do about this serial rapist/fraudster/literal traitor despite mountains of evidence. This one guy just gets a free pass, despite being one of the most heinous human beings to ever walk the Earth.
You are 100% right, they had all the evidence they needed and did nothing
Idk why anyone expected anything else when garland was made AG. Especially with how long it took to have the investigation started