Summary
Democrats blame Attorney General Merrick Garland for delaying prosecution of Donald Trump over the January 6 Capitol attack, allowing him to win reelection before facing trial.
Critics argue Garland wasted critical time before appointing a special prosecutor in late 2022, enabling Trump to evade accountability due to DOJ policy barring prosecution of sitting presidents.
While Trump faces ongoing civil lawsuits, his return to power threatens pardons for convicted rioters and continued revisionism about the attack.
Despite public disapproval of Trump’s actions, he successfully leveraged misinformation to regain the presidency.
No shit, we should have prosecuted and jailed him the second that shit happened. Instead, we spent the entire time debating whether a president can be prosecuted, and then concluded, nah bro, presidents can’t be prosecuted, lol.
This is on Brandon. Fucking idiot thought decorum or whatever the fuck was so goddamn important. He is a failure of historic proportion.
But think of how NOBLY the Dems have lost the Republic! Completely polite and norm-abiding as what remains of our democracy is torn to shreds and pissed on!
Something something high road
When they go low… We sit idly by and get buried in their shit
Just a couple months ago, you would have screamed at anyone who engaged in such talk on the grounds that they were Russians that wanted Trump to win.
Yeah, that’s about the reading comprehension I suspected you were working with in our interactions a couple months ago.
Centrists insisted that his critics were all Russians who would be gone as soon as the election was over. You all knew they weren’t.
Condescension is no replacement for defensible positions. And it sure as hell wasn’t a replacement for a good candidate.
Centrists insisted that his critics were all Russians who would be gone as soon as the election was over.
Again, you’re proving that your low level of reading comprehension has been consistent these past few months, but not much else, considering that’s not even close to what was being said.
Doubling down on condescension is also no substitute for defensible positions.
Merrick Garland wasted more than a year. That worthless waste of oxygen should be remembered as the reason we lost even the pretense of a democracy.
I never understood why Biden picked him. Obama only nominated him for SCOTUS because he thought he could get him past the GOP held senate due to his moderate beliefs (in the pejorative conservative sense).
Because Biden is not and will never be a progressive.
“Nothing will fundamentally change”
AND WHO FUCKING APPOINTED MERRICK GARLAND?
It wouldn’t have stopped him from winning the election. Trump escaped accountability when the Senate failed to convict him in his second impeachment. That, and the first impeachment, were the only convictions that would have barred him from running. Two impeachments, one coup attempt, one felony conviction, and we still elected him. Pretty sure that’s on us.
Technically he is barred from holding office. He’s was shown to incite the Jan 6 insurrection in Colorado as a matter of fact.
The US Supreme Court said that Colarado couldn’t prevent him from running, it would be up to congress to reject him.
Of course congress won’t, but they are totally within their rights to do so now. Other people have been barred from holding offices over it.
Where “us” isn’t even the majority of basically any demographic but “uneducated”. Cool, good to know it’s my fault
Our fault.
DNC tried to get away with as much as shenanigans as they possible could while simultaneously calling this the most important election of our lifetimes. They get a massive share of the blame as well. Biden/Harris’s policy choices, when they made any at all, were awful.
They will never get him.
Death is the only thing that he will never be able to escape.
The day his bloated, twisted body can take no more will be a good day indeed.
I really need to take up tapdancing classes for when the day comes
Absolutely spineless administration
How about looking inward, Dems? How about accepting responsibility for not proffering a candidate who could beat Trump?
Self reflection? Sounds like you’re racist and sexist for not voting hard enough! /$
Every article and a majority of the comments keep framing this as “Democrats fail to…” and “Democrats need to …” and even that feels disingenuous. The DNC and the current administration is to blame. The wording tries to spread blame to the voters as well and I have no idea what we as voters could have done with the “campaign” we were given.
Agreed. Voters didn’t get a choice. There weren’t democratic primaries.
Let me just stress: On that day.
As voters we should be participating in local politics as well. Gathering to protest. We need to actively participate in the society we live in. Becoming dependent on the system to protect our rights had failed us so now we have to defend those rights ourselves.
Droll, baby, droll!
Can’t Biden remove the power to pardon without, say, 3/4th of Congress or something…that would be funny.
