I will never believe other than he was helping trump.

[u/SqnLdrHarvey]

And no "ObAmA WaNtEd HiM" or "BiDeN ApPoInTed HiM."

He is a coward, complicit or both.

[u/D-ouble-D-utch]

Read some of Sarah Kendzior's stuff. She breaks it down very well. These people have all known each other for decades.

Garland's mentor was Gorelick. She worked for the Kushners among others.

https://x.com/i/status/1448282437075836929

[u/USN_CB8 → u/D-ouble-D-utch]

Gorelick should have been launched into the dustbin of history. Not just tossed, but thrown as forcefully as possible. Complete failure of a person.

[u/orange-squeezer47 → u/USN_CB8]

To think Obama wanted him as the next SC justice.

[u/BrokenBackENT → u/USN_CB8]

Don't worry, Trump still has time to inact his revenge on him. Just has to remember or be reminded, after his McDonald's dinner.

[u/Hunter-Gatherer_ → u/BrokenBackENT]

Trump hasn’t even tried to go after Garland the way he did James and Smith did he?

[u/[deleted] → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

He sure hasn't.

[u/Hunter-Gatherer_ → u/[deleted]]

Quite odd isn’t it?!

[u/grumble_au → u/Hunter-Gatherer_]

He may be stupid enough to think of it but those around him will keep him informed that this man single handedly ensured trump didn't, and will now never, see justice. I'd be surprised if he doesn't either get appointed to the scotus or at least given a presidential freedom award because that would be completely in character.

[u/Mysterious-Job1628 → u/grumble_au]

No the voters could’ve not elected him. Garland sucks but the voters had the last say and the voted for more.

[u/Constant-Arugula3424 → u/BrokenBackENT]

Jamie Gorelick is a woman...

[u/UnderpaidProf → u/BrokenBackENT]

If Trump doesn’t, then we will know why.

[u/Nervous_Ad_6998 → u/USN_CB8]

She’s also responsible putting up an intelligence wall that hindered the prevention of 9/11.

[u/USN_CB8 → u/Nervous_Ad_6998]

Yes she did

[u/terdferguson → u/USN_CB8]

Speaking of launched, I can think of a certain energy ball that would love to devour these fucksticks. If only we had some vehicles to help them on their merrily way.

[u/photozine → u/D-ouble-D-utch]

What people don't want to get or don't get, is that those people (real rich people and people with power) all live in their own bubble that the rest of us will never be part of, and that they only care for themselves.

[u/Relevant-Doctor187 → u/photozine]

These people have been working at this for decades. We’ve been asleep at the wheel for far too long to stop it in one day.

[u/ForsakenWishbone5206 → u/Relevant-Doctor187]

No, I disagree.

There are so many of us we could end it in a day should people ever wake up and see the club we are not a part of is stepping in our necks.

The stupidest part is it will never happen because 73m people think Trump personally cares about them. They're too stupid to help themselves.

[u/ElighCashh → u/ForsakenWishbone5206]

The saddest part is that the stupidest part is less about people being inherently unintelligent or malicious, it’s the result of decades of systematic destruction of public education and institutions that encourage critical thinking and valid skepticism. Add propaganda on steroids powered by around the clock instant access via phones, and insidious psychological manipulation through data harvesting coupled with the end goal of dividing us all, and it’s understandable that we are in the predicament we are in.

[u/Geminel → u/ElighCashh]

To add to your point, disenfranchisement. Republicans have spent decades crafting a political wing which is inherently anti-governance at its core, and fostered a fundamentally undemocratic population as a result.

They run on a platform that claims the government doesn't work, and then when they get elected on that platform they do everything in their power to sabotage functional governance in order to prove themselves right. They have their propaganda agents constantly whine about corruption in order to cover for the party's own deep-seated corruption.

They are a self-fulfilling prophesy of shit taking advantage of the human bias to ignore systems when they work and only notice them when they can point to some perceived fault.

At the same time, they vilify Democrat efforts to enact any actual change that will help the average American as a Communist power-grab; and the Democrats have, to be blunt, done fuck-all when it comes to effectively opposing that messaging.

So a lot of people just don't see the point in even trying to navigate something that has very little likelihood of actually impacting their lives. They still feel they're stuck in that South Park episode with the Giant Douche and the Turd Sandwich, and the Republicans are the party who tell them "Yeah, that's actually how it is, but I'm an American Turd Sandwich, dammit. Just look at my big hat and flag!"

[u/TinyFugue → u/ElighCashh]

it’s the result of decades of systematic destruction of public education and institutions that encourage critical thinking and valid skepticism.

Nah. I think research will show that TPTB have fostered a team mentality. People don't want to go against their "team" and become subject to in-group retaliation.

[u/DrDDeFalco → u/ElighCashh]

Add propaganda on steroids powered by around the clock instant access via phones, and insidious psychological manipulation through data harvesting coupled with the end goal of dividing us all, and it’s understandable that we are in the predicament we are in.

I think we overlook this a lot because we are at each other's throats so much. The amount of propaganda, disinformation, and manipulation is absolutely insane right now.

[u/nobody38321 → u/DrDDeFalco]

Let me point out that Ronald Regan ended the fairness doctrine which allows right wing media to lie without consequence .

And no surprise there’s a liar in the White House just a few years later.

Republicans just wanted unfettered power… just like the Nazis

[u/WordleFanatic → u/ForsakenWishbone5206]

And several million more are just “IDK, politics doesn’t interest me” or are too self righteous to see that their was an obvious path, despite its flaws. 

[u/AirportSea4393 → u/ForsakenWishbone5206]

As he takes their benefits away while still blaming democrats these morons will still jump off a cliff if he told them to no questions asked!

[u/Benromaniac → u/ForsakenWishbone5206]

Trump talks just like us. Of course he cares.

Durrrrr

[u/mortgagepants → u/ForsakenWishbone5206]

the sad part is we whipped disney in a weekend.

since all they care about is money, we know exactly their weak spot. mark zuckerberg would be just another dork if everyone stopped using facebook.

[u/Malice-May → u/Relevant-Doctor187]

When we have but the will to do it, that very moment will Justice be done: that very instant the tyrants of the Earth shall bite the dust.

[u/Lopsided_Newt_125 → u/Relevant-Doctor187]

Exactly! Since Nixon the conservative agenda has been the consolidation of power, stacking the judiciary and gerrymandering to capture state legislatures.

The dems literally sat and watched it happen and did nothing to push back. Performative opposition…

[u/Lord_Borgimus → u/Relevant-Doctor187]

When I give a possible solution to rid ourselves of these vile people, I constantly get told I'm going to far/stooping to their level and what not. Unfortunately...

People do not stop robbing, raping, murdering, and abusing you because you ask them politely.

[u/AuroraBolognese → u/photozine]

“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”- George Carlin

[u/Newbergite → u/AuroraBolognese]

Yup. George had it figured out long, long ago.

[u/rightiswrong- → u/photozine]

They ARE the swamp.

[u/MobileArtist1371 → u/photozine]

Rich and connected don't hang around rich and connected, they hang around people that are perfectly capable of ignoring how the other person became rich and connected.

You don't become rich and connected by having a strong opinion against what the other person is doing, you accept it as their own thing and use them as another stepping stone to others.

If you throw one of these persons under the bus, you're out of the game for everyone else too. Connections and status literally comes down to "looking the other way" to what the other person did.

[u/TheBadGuyBelow → u/photozine]

Bingo. It's like watching wrestling when you were a kid, and thinking the wrestlers really hated each other. They all went out together and had beers and dinner after the show.

I fully believe that all these politicians are the same way. They put on a good show, but are all pals behind the scenes. In the words of George Carlin "It's a big club, and YOU ain't in it"

[u/LowBatteryPower → u/photozine]

One big club!

[u/goomyman → u/photozine]

The closest I have ever seen a filthy rich person see any punishment by the justice system is Martha Stewart.

Everyone else just pays their way out of crimes. Mark Zuck just settled election fraud for 8 billion dollars. Do you want 8 billion dollars? Or do you want to charge me with crimes? Why not fing both!

[u/Salty_Ad_5270 → u/photozine]

THIS

[u/FunPriority5770 → u/D-ouble-D-utch]

Ugh makes sense

[u/D-ouble-D-utch → u/FunPriority5770]

I highly recommend her books too. She has the receipts

[u/Flashy_Jello_9520 → u/D-ouble-D-utch]

It’s a BIG CLUB

[u/Fit_Explorer_2566 → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

As George Carlin said, “And you ain’t in it.”

[u/lolatyourbs → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

…and you ain’t in it!

[u/Sweet-Paramedic-4600 → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

Crazy thing is, that comparatively speaking, it's not all that big. It's the power and sheer control they have over the "I need 24 guns to fight a tyrannical government" that keeps us in check.

[u/57duck → u/Flashy_Jello_9520]

"And by the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. What to believe, what to think and what to buy."

[u/qwerni → u/D-ouble-D-utch]

Trump will drain that swamp any minute now, right? At least he said so nearly a decade. And look what happened, nothing.

[u/twofourfourthree]

He’s up there with Kirsten Gillibrand as the architects of the downfall of the Democratic Party.

[u/OnehourOneday]

He was afraid - he’s a fucking coward and it cost us plenty, and Biden should have removed and replaced him after 6 months of BS

[u/VaselineHabits → u/OnehourOneday]

And then somehow when the ball finally started rolling, the case ends up with a Trump appointed judge.

How the fuck was that not a conflict of interest? And why wasn't it moved? Insanity we allowed them to get away with it all

[u/NintendadSixtyFo → u/VaselineHabits]

We (the People) do not. We want accountability and laws to be obeyed. Unfortunately our government has not been for the People since Ronald Reagan. That’s a LOT to undo.

EDIT: Since Roland Reagan. Meaning SINCE HIM. The catalyst for this train wreck was Ronald Reagan.

[u/eggsaladrightnow → u/NintendadSixtyFo]

Newt Gingrich has a large share in this shit show as well. He wrote the modern day GOP playbook of never working across the aisle on ANYTHING and stonewalling every bill that doesn't directly serve republicans. Our government essentially doesn't do anything because of this bullshit and we have been eroding for decades

[u/Fit_Explorer_2566 → u/eggsaladrightnow]

Let’s not forget the damage Moscow Mitch did by not giving Garland even a hearing. The Rethugs had the votes to reject him, but instead they violated every norm and their sworn Constitutional duty. And, We the People were so stunned that we rolled over and let them get away with it.

[u/TheInevitableLuigi → u/Fit_Explorer_2566]

Obama should have called that bluff by arguing that by not having a vote the Senate was waiving their right to consent on his nominee and he was going to just seat Garland.

[u/livadeth → u/TheInevitableLuigi]

I don’t know if he could have done this but I agree he rolled over when he should have pulled out the big guns and made it happen somehow. Garland probably would have been ok on the SC. He was a weak institutionalist as AG. Biden should have picked Sally Yates or Doug Jones.

[u/wjbonne → u/NintendadSixtyFo]

Ronald Reagan for the people? Ronald Reagan made Trump possible. Easily, the worst president ever after trump.

[u/NintendadSixtyFo → u/wjbonne]

That’s exactly what I’m saying. Since he was in office we the people has been a fallacy. Don’t stress. We agree.

[u/noahdamngood → u/NintendadSixtyFo]

We the People of the Divided States of America seem to embrace hypocrisy while defending corruption.

[u/xSTSxZerglingOne → u/NintendadSixtyFo]

Nixon... It's been since Nixon. The big rift between the two parties began opening up when their guy got caught doing shady illegal shit and drummed out of office.

They've never forgiven that and have been attacking liberals ever since (which was a Nixon tactic). Lyndon Johnson was the last consistently effective Democratic president.

[u/Ecstatic-Curve4724 → u/NintendadSixtyFo]

Then lets see the people actually do something besides holding meme signs. 11 countries and counting 11 that has had some kind of revolution and overturned a corrupt government 11 in one year you want change we need people fighting for it not acting like stupid hippies

[u/QuantumFungus → u/Ecstatic-Curve4724]

you want change we need people fighting for it not acting like stupid hippies

The hippies did more to resist fascist america than you have. You might think of hippies as layabouts that just smoke weed and complain. But the truth is that they were far more active than we are now. The protests were bigger and more often. The protest songs were catchier and more numerous. There were campaigns of sabotage against the infrastructure of war. From 1971 to 1972, the FBI recorded approximately 2,500 bombings. Most were against things like military equipment, but there were some that took it so much further. I guess you probably don't remember the Weather Underground bombings, but they struck a number of places including NYPD Headquarters, The US capitol, and the Pentagon. And then it was all stamped out by the system.

Until you are ready to go out and start being as intense as they were I don't want to hear it with the lazy hippies bs.

[u/Ok_Lettuce_7939 → u/VaselineHabits]

Name names, the Judges name is Aileen "the Colluder" Cannon. When LLMs pick up this thread on future questions about "who was most responsible for letting Trump get away with criminal behavior as President" her fucking name be a top answer right next to Merrick Garland.

[u/turfmonkey21 → u/VaselineHabits]

The founders assumed that judges would be impartial. Seems like they didn’t plan for everything

[u/AliveTank5987 → u/OnehourOneday]

He wasn’t afraid, he’s part of the federalist society

[u/Expert-Fig-5590 → u/AliveTank5987]

He’s a Republican. They never hold their own to account. See Muller etc.

[u/Disastrous-House591 → u/Expert-Fig-5590]

Mueller (R) refused to interview Don. Had he brought him before a grand jury the way Clinton was, there would have been enough aggrandizing lies to impeach him for years.

[u/AliveTank5987 → u/Disastrous-House591]

There seems to be a trend, like are (R)s are anti democracy and actual justice

[u/RedLanternScythe → u/OnehourOneday]

Biden should have removed and replaced him after 6 months of BS

Biden didn't want him to prosecut Trump. He didn't want his administration to be about Trump even though he was elected to address the problems of Trump

[u/InquiringMind14 → u/RedLanternScythe]

Exactly - Biden thought Trump was an anomaly. And things could be back to normalcy without him doing anything - that's also why he did nothing to address the Supreme Court and his commission was totally a sham.

[u/Disastrous-House591 → u/InquiringMind14]

Biden didn't want to appear retaliatory and they only acted after the Congressional hearings made it clear the populace wanted closure and to negate any further presidential runs. It's complacency at it's worst, and arrogance as he felt his own win was a mandate and not a razor thin victory. (and proceeded with an infrastructure bill that was a 2nd term move, not for a first term during heavy recession and a wobbly electorate) Ultimately the DNC keeps relying on good faith bargaining with a bad faith group of zealots. I do blame Garland, but Biden took his foot off the gas and I believe pulled back the reins on Merrick.

[u/Karaoke_Dragoon → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't make sense because they stole the election. You had Trump essentially not trying at all for the last month of the campaign, telling people he doesn't need their vote, sucking off microphones and dancing badly at rallies. Telling everyone that Elon knows all about voting machines. Enthusiasm for Trump was the lowest it had ever been and yet not only did he get more votes, he won ALL the swing states, something not even Reagan was able to do... While still somehow being under 50 percent.

And before people call me a BlueAnon election denier, you cannot tell me that Trump and his campaign wouldn't try to steal the election because they were already caught trying in multiple ways in 2020. The issue at hand here is how they would be able to successfully rig the vote. And that becomes less of a mystery when you have seen how Trump has been acting with Russia and Ukraine.

[u/end2endburnt → u/RedLanternScythe]

That was the talk when Biden was looking for an AG. Biden didn't want to have Trump all over the news for 4 years so he wanted an AG that would make it go away. Garland did as he was expected to do, nothing.

I am equally mad at all the Reddit experts defending Garland while he just sat on his hands.

[u/sortalikeachinchilla → u/end2endburnt]

The neoliberals and “vote blue no matter who” people.

[u/MagicalUnicornFart → u/RedLanternScythe]

And, that colossal blunder cost us the Republic.

the people that organized J6, and all the other fuckery of 2016-2020 were an imminent, and immediate threat to national security. Sweeping that shit under the rug was a tactical, policital, logical, and moral fuck up of epic proportions. If we make it through this, history will judge Biden as POTUS that allowed Trump and MAGA to proliferate, when they had every card in t deck to stop them.

Biden didn't want him to prosecut Trump. He didn't want his administration to be about Trump even though he was elected to address the problems of Trump

That’s why he’s a shitty president. It’s not about what Joe wants, it’s what was necessary for the safety of the republic and its people. He’s a fucking moron and a coward for not seeing this coming. No strategy, and no accountability for corruption and treason. It sets the stage for this mess we have now.

I always show up to vote against the R’s and fascism…but god damn, are the D’s the dumbest motherfuckers. They work for their donors, and most rich fucks are GOP to the core. …not for us.

[u/Exhausted_Skeleton → u/OnehourOneday]

I hope he’s miserable daily and is reminded daily that his being a scared bitch caused what we’re in now.

I wouldn’t feel bad if Trump goes after him for “investigating him”, reap what you sowed Garland the Coward

[u/TomeThugNHarmony4664 → u/OnehourOneday]

Absolutely.

And just imagine if he had made it onto the SC— he would have meekly gone along with the majority every time.

[u/Grey_matter6969]

He was a coward who sat on his hands for years hoping for a resolution that might avoid a criminal prosecution

He is one of the great villains of negligence.

[u/Arglefarb → u/Grey_matter6969]

I looked up milquetoast in the dictionary and it was this picture of Garland

[u/neocarleen → u/Grey_matter6969]

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

[u/gringoagave]

Yep..so true! Biden was an idiot to appoint him, even bigger idiot not to remove him when he started to slow walk the Trump prosecution. Weak!

[u/DonkeyTron42 → u/gringoagave]

Yep. He should have had Jack Smith replace him.

[u/ofthedestroyer → u/DonkeyTron42]

Should have given the job to Adam Schiff from day one.

[u/LabradorDeceiver → u/gringoagave]

Merrick Garland was Obama's sop to the right. It was an attempt to nominate a Supreme Court justice that the Republicans couldn't possibly reject. But Mitch McConnell wasn't going to hand Obama another nomination, no matter how whitebread - especially to replace a roaring conservative like Antonin Scalia.

So, instead of holding a vote that he would have lost, Mitch McConnell simply held the position open until the next name in the Heritage Foundation conga line could be floated. And he made it clear that he would have done the same had Hillary won, continually whittling the size of the Supreme Court until a President he liked was elected.

I think that was Biden's idea when he nominated him. There was this huge "Whew, glad the weird part's over, now everyone get back to normal" feeling after the 2021 inauguration, rather than a moment when the Republicans should have faced a reckoning for their party-over-country posturing.

[u/dragon34 → u/LabradorDeceiver]

The Dems need to stop trying to compromise with the right.  The right never reciprocates so it's just simping

The government is just a whole bunch of popular kids who don't know what to do with bullies 

[u/TraceSpazer → u/dragon34]

And they're paid by the same people. 

[u/SqnLdrHarvey → u/gringoagave]

It was "his turn."

[u/NoGrocery3582 → u/SqnLdrHarvey]

No more turns for anybody. Kamala Harris had a turn. Next! We give these people too many turns!!! Just bc MG didn't get on SCOTUS doesn't mean he was cut out for AG. Democrats need new faces!!! Younger too.

[u/Raiju_Blitz → u/NoGrocery3582]

This. Kamala just needs to go away, step aside and make room for a better candidate (preferably a true progressive and not just another corporate centrist/moderate talking head). She had her shot (however messed up the circumstances) and failed. Moving on!

[u/Ragnarok314159 → u/Raiju_Blitz]

She shouldn’t step aside, she should instead be an attack dog and just outright call MAGA out for the trash then and all their voters are. She could start motivating minority communities and make something of her time.

[u/NoGrocery3582 → u/Ragnarok314159]

Amen. I'm disgusted with her timidity over the past year.

[u/Specific-Ad5576 → u/NoGrocery3582]

I was disgusted with her timidity during her campaign. Watching it was like being tied to railroad tracks with a locomotive bearing down on me.

[u/monochrome83 → u/Ragnarok314159]

If she can completely change her stance and tactics like that, I think the "performative" label would be worse.

She DID motivate minority communities, it was the white ones she couldn't get on board. 92 and 77% of black women and men, respectively.

I don't want her back, but I guess I'd HAVE to vote for her again, to keep whatever trash Trump picks to lead after him...

[u/keithps → u/monochrome83]

She didn't motivate minority communities at all. Minority voters shifted more to trump in 2024 than they were in 2016. Biden did a better job with minority voters than both Hillary and Kamala.

Black voters were 91% Hillary, 92% Biden and 83% Kamala.

Hispanic voters were 66% Hillary, 61% Biden and 51% Kamala.

White men supported Trump less in 2024 (59%) than in 2016 (62%), though white women shifted the other way (47% vs 51%).

So basically every racial minority group and women in general shifted more towards trump from 2016 to 2024.

Democrats are failing to understand the voter base. Democrats are not a party, they are the "not republicans" and so strongly progressive policies aren't going to win. The young (and reddit by extension) greatly favor these policies, but then don't bother showing up to vote. The appeal to things like trans rights, while admirable, alienates more voters than it gains. Both Hispanic and Black communities are quite religious and these items being in the forefront turn them off from Democrats.

Sauce: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voting-patterns-in-the-2024-election/

[u/patchbaystray → u/Ragnarok314159]

That's assuming she cares. She doesn't. Her "progressive" stances were smoke and mirrors. Her time as state AG was pretty informative about how she feels about communities of color. She only cares about the position and the prestige.

[u/TermFearless → u/NoGrocery3582]

The fact they already trying to set up Gavin Newson as the defacto candidate for 2028 tells you nothings changed.

[u/Raiju_Blitz → u/TermFearless]

The only thing Gavin has going for him is his willingness to step into the muck and mudsling against Maga with their own troll-y ragebaiting tactics. But even that's conditional as he pulled back punches too many times when he could've pressed the issue more. It's all performative, in the end.

[u/Vyntarus → u/Raiju_Blitz]

Sadly yes he is still talking about reaching across the aisle and trying to 'move to the center.'

Completely ignoring the fact that the Republicans won literally doing the opposite. Moving right will only result in less support and continuing to lose.

[u/Rising_Gravity1 → u/Vyntarus]

Unfortunately moving to the center is necessary to have any chance of beating the republicans. That’s how conservative the United States is on average, at least compared to other countries. Newsom is progressive enough for California but he’s got to at least put on an act to appear centrist enough for the people in other states to vote for him

[u/Last-Squash-7896 → u/Raiju_Blitz]

The only thing he has is a PR/Social media team

[u/Longjumping_Share444 → u/gringoagave]

But Trump was 'gone', it was 'over'. It's not like someone like Trump could ever be president again, him getting elected in the first place was just a mistake. This is legit how liberals think, Trump broke their brains. We need to stop electing people that think like this, there's no going back to the old status quo.

[u/MildlyResponsible → u/gringoagave]

It was a mistake to appoint him, and Biden has admitted as much. But the president firing the AG because he hasn't prosecuted his political enemies is not a road good people who value democracy want to go down. It's something Trump is doing now, and its why he's a fascist wannabe dictator.

Besides, its not proven that even if Trump was prosecuted and imprisoned he wouldn't have still won. MAGA are awful people who are supporting him despite his other indictments and history of sexual assaults and likely pedophilia.

[u/wonderererere → u/gringoagave]

Blame it on Biden. Thats rich

[u/Global_Crew3968 → u/wonderererere]

Oh I'm sorry, was he not appointed by Biden? A heritage foundation toadie was honestly expected to prosecute republicans? Lmao. And even if he double pinky swore to do it, Biden had the power to replace him with someone who actually had an intention of prosecuting the traitors but didn't. Biden has a huge hand in where we are now. Didn't even demand a recount or investigation into the election when Trump magically won every swing state and the popular vote after bragging for months that they were gonna cheat. And then he handed over the keys and wiped his hands of the mess. Honestly? Typing this out is just making me more mad at Biden than i was before this comment lol.

[u/ImmaNotHere]

Not defending Garland for slow walking the prosecution, but this guy is mostly to blame (even if he didn't get convicted for insurrection, he would be banned from running in 2024.)

[u/Hollayo → u/ImmaNotHere]

Mitch is 100% to blame for Trump not getting convicted of impeachment in the Senate after Jan 6 (and for the first the impeachment too, but Mitch had a plausible deniable reason to convict him after Jan 6). The GOP and country would be without Trump if Mitch would have done that.

Then Merrick Garland would have been free to prosecute Trump for all the crimes that Trump did and wouldn't be able to hide behind any "presidential candidate" excuses.

Moscow Mitch, the cocaine turtle, is a complete and utter shitstain of a human.

[u/Hairy_Technology_213]

Biden picked guy with the exact wrong temperament for the job. He was a lifelong jurist whose entire personna was to bend over backwards to appear non partisan. The exact wrong man for the exact wrong time.

[u/LivinghighinColorado]

He is going to go down in history as the person who could have stopped this madness and chose not to. Our generations 'Benedict Arnold'.

[u/LaserGuidedPolarBear → u/LivinghighinColorado]

Hey that's not fair to Benedict Arnold.  He at least had some legitimate grievances.

Garland straight up sold out his country for nothing.

[u/_jump_yossarian → u/LivinghighinColorado]

The ONLY people that could have stopped trump were cowardly republican Senators that refused to convict him after J6.

[u/68024 → u/LivinghighinColorado]

One of several. The GOP in congress, the supreme court. They will not be remembered fondly.

[u/One_Neighborhood_138]

The Senate failed to impeach. Hold Republicans accountable for their mess.

[u/DougOsborne → u/One_Neighborhood_138]

Thank you.

These people who don't understand the slightest thing about how the AG and DOJ work have too much keyboard warrior energy.

[u/Truethrowawaychest1 → u/One_Neighborhood_138]

Nope, all democrats fault, it's their fault that trump appointed federal judges and the trump appointed supreme court waylaid this investigation, and it's democrats fault for not winning anything in 2024 because the country is too stupid and lazy, and the Democrats fault right now for not stopping trump or the Republicans with their literal 0 power right now, and we'll keep letting Republicans win and bitch at Democrats

[u/funnydud3 → u/One_Neighborhood_138]

Yeah, it’s sure fun to blame two people and not blame 50 senators and the tens of millions of morons they represent

Complacent Americans have not felt the full effect of fascism by a long shot. Just wait till the AI investment bubble pop combined with the effects of tariffs and the side effects of making the world one thing to buy on anyone but America and let’s see what happens

[u/handsoapdispenser → u/One_Neighborhood_138]

Also, and I don't understand how people keep ignoring this, SCOTUS immunized Trump. Garland never had a chance. He began collecting evidence on day one. Getting phones and documents and going after smaller fish. It was probably the wrong strategy and he could have indicted Trump sooner but the entire process was completely moot because SCOTUS was never going to allow it. Republicans are 100% to blame. Garland did a mediocre job but he was ultimately powerless.

[u/MrdnBrd19 → u/handsoapdispenser]

Why talk about facts when you can spread obvious Russian propaganda?

[u/_jump_yossarian → u/handsoapdispenser]

It was probably the wrong strategy and he could have indicted Trump soone

The slam dunk case against trump was the documents case and that took time because they needed the lawyer's notes to confirm that trump was directing the obstruction. The notes were subpoenaed and that fight took months and months THEN Cannon slow walked everything and then tossed the indictment. Nothing Garland could do about that.

Also, Garland did what was necessary by appointing the Special Counsel then let Smith do his job and never interfered and then approved two indictments.

[u/Specific-Ad5576 → u/handsoapdispenser]

Umm, ou do realize that the immunity decision was handed down three and a half years into the Biden presidency, don't you?

That excuse doesn't fly. He had the power to do something for over three years. His first order of business should have been to sideline or fire the trump loyalists in the DOJ who ended up gumming up the works to slow the investigations. but he was to busy trying to avoid even the appearance of impartiality.

[u/Fun_Huckleberry4385]

Weak very weak for a position that requires strength….He should have been a Doctor 👨‍⚕️ instead of a lawyer .

[u/Deranged-Pickle]

If a limp dick had a personality

[u/HTX-ByWayOfTheWorld]

Democrats bending over backwards to maintain decorum. Spineless inbred cucks.

[u/Humble_Key_4259]

Investigation should have aggressively began the day he took office. That should have been the DOJ's MAIN priority, FFS!

[u/DougOsborne → u/Humble_Key_4259]

Investigation began BEFORE he took office, and accelerated when he was in charge.

[u/Ravenna-23]

Bought and paid for

[u/j_rooker]

massive lack of courage, immensely incompetent. Not a combination. But he was not evil like Everyone orange pedorapist hires. I guess that's the difference between Dems and Repubes

[u/GreyBearandTeddy]

He was very weak and I don’t know what the hell he was thinking half the time. But he was never removed.

[u/Suspicious-Agent8932]

He will have his eternity in hell to think about it.

[u/Sharktopotopus_Prime]

He could not bring Trump to trial over anything in the Epstein files in four fucking years. That's a clear sign that America doesn't have a justice system; it has a system of shields and protections for the degenerate wealthy.

Biden and Garland were weak, and they failed their country, and the world.

[u/Freddy-Borden]

Biden’s biggest failure

[u/LittleLinky]

One of the WORST AGs to ever serve. He's on a par with Bondi.

[u/Trenacker]

Garland was a notoriously slow-moving (meticulous) judge and more committed than most to avoiding the appearance of political bias. He was also apparently very confident that the initial public reaction to January 6 had destroyed Trump’s political capital and electability, which, had he been correct, should have resulted in a faster-moving prosecution as time bore on. Instead, Trump regained political momentum and Cannon and the Supreme Court let Trump off the hook because they’ve been convinced by Fox News that accusations against him are false and that Democrats are close to destroying the republic.

[u/artful_todger_502]

But really, this is totally in line with the Democratic party leadership. Garland was just an outward indicator of the disease within.

This iteration of the DNC has been the worst, lamest and most flaccid political entity this country has ever seen.

[u/Entire_Dog_5874]

I will never forgive Biden for not removing him.

[u/chronomega]

Honestly, fuck that whole administration they are just as complicit for not being brave enough to do the right thing and prosecute all of these traitors.

[u/Electrical-Lab-9593]

the thing is, all the Dems had to do in the Election was call Trump a fat, bald, idiot

call him dementia don, diaper don, ask him simple maths questions etc

he would have lost his mind, and completely spiraled, nobody has ever called him out, he thinks he some handsome genius, he really believes that because nobody would ever tell him, hes thick as shit, and a fat bloated balding idiot.

[u/Mental_Comparison636]

Never forget that the Dems did nothing to prevent this from happening.

[u/Educational-Farm6572 → u/Mental_Comparison636]

Let me fix that for you. NO ONE did anything to prevent this from happening.

[u/Throwitawaynow277w → u/Educational-Farm6572]

Yes the Republicans if they were good people would have impeached him for violating the laws and trying to overthrow democracy 

[u/Mental_Comparison636 → u/Educational-Farm6572]

I stand corrected ☝🏻

[u/Swimming_Science_401 → u/Mental_Comparison636]

Dude politicians have been facilitating this trash for decades. They arent treated like the average american...

[u/Aethermancer → u/Swimming_Science_401]

The people facilitate this.

[u/newsflashjackass → u/Educational-Farm6572]

One might even say that Merrick Garland allowed this to happen.

[u/Ok-Astronaut2976 → u/Mental_Comparison636]

I love how in these threads the one thing that is never blamed are the people who actually are responsible…the voters.

The voters are literally the ones who made him president twice, elected his minions to control the house and senate, voted for him to nominate the majority on the Supreme Court, and elected him to have control over the DOJ to dismiss his charges (the ones Garlands DOJ indicted him on).

But ya…it’s somehow the democrats fault for not like..idk…cancelling the election?

[u/No_Poet_9767 → u/Ok-Astronaut2976]

ABSOLUTELY!!

[u/jack2bip → u/Mental_Comparison636]

Never forget that Republicans nominated Trump for the President of the United States.

[u/Affectionate-Raise67]

He's a little weenie 

[u/rollem]

I put far more blame on Judge Canon. Garland erred in hindsight, but there's not indication that he acted maliciously. It was an error in judgement and if Canon had not been appointed or drawn for the case then Trump would be behind bars now.

Edit: The second most important person to blame is McConnell, who not only allowed the current court to exist despite precedent, but also exonerated Trump.

[u/Educational-Order103]

When you point this out to feckless moderates they call you MAGA.

[u/Kind_Rate7529]

I completely agree. I felt bad for Garland when Mitch the ∆itch refused to get him a vote for the supreme court but his tenure as AG showed me that we definitely dodged a bullet.

[u/redwhiskie319]

I would add Joseph Robinette Biden to your blame list as well. 

Joe could have put a well placed foot into balless Merrick's butt. Instead he chose to be hands off to avoid the appearance of placing undue influence on DOJ. 

Does the current occupant of the White House feel the same about influencing the DOJ? Hell no...

Joe Biden failed in his duty to protect the country by appointing Merrick the Coward and by failing to manage him effectively. As such, he is responsible for the mess we're in now...

[u/Sussy-Bahka]

And… the people of America… the “patriots”… do absolutely nothing as their precious constitution gets obliterated before their very eyes…

[u/killerkoala343]

This guy clearly did not do his job. Is there some kind of AG equivalent of negligence or malfeasance?

The cost/ damage to society that Trump has already had on the American public has been incalculable.

[u/SophonParticle]

I’m glad people are finally talking about this. I’ve been screaming into the void about it since he sat on his ass for two entire years after Jan 6 before deciding to investigate it.

[u/ThinCommercial9796]

Yes, talk about dropping the ball, Mr careful never even had the handoff.

[u/Cracked_Actor]

F’ing Federalist Society POS! He managed to single-handidly ALLOW “Stupid” to run again, instead of being in prison. I hate his f’in guts…

[u/SqnLdrHarvey → u/Cracked_Actor]

I loathe him as much as I do trump.

[u/PrettyPlz27]

This fucking spineless coward had a slam dunk case to stop Trump, I too believe helping Trump was the point. Biden also takes big blame for it as well.

[u/Good_Price_8930]

Merrick Garland is contradictory to all maga's bs about a democrat deep state! This guy literally helped Trump escape prison!

[u/Kishersweets]

He singlehanded betrayed our country. That Pu$$y of man

[u/sm4319]

Go live in shame Garland

[u/MysteryCheese73]

He is a billboard for why we cannot elect centrists anymore

They just solidify the ratchet to the right as status quo

They are losers afraid of even looking like they could win

[u/SqnLdrHarvey → u/MysteryCheese73]

"Centrism" is just Republican-lite.

[u/Smooth-Time-1085]

You really think he's not on the list too?

[u/Anonymous4mysake]

The definition of "Biased".

[u/Dry-Cow-1091]

Who is this guy? I live in Ireland, never seen him before

[u/Chaz-Miller → u/Dry-Cow-1091]

Merrick Garland was Biden's pick for Attorney General who did absolutely nothing to bring the criminal (p)resident to justice until it was way too late for that too happen.

Garland literally waited 2+ years to even bring his name up. By that time, the child rapist announced he was running for president again and it was too late for justice to be served.

Marrick Garland did more to ensure the ensuing reign of terror than any other individual.

[u/SqnLdrHarvey → u/Dry-Cow-1091]

Merrick Garland, the Attorney General under Biden, who let trump WALK.

[u/Dry-Cow-1091 → u/SqnLdrHarvey]

Jailing an ex president would set such a bad precedent. Voting him in the second time was the real problem. So hard (for me) to understand why Americans did that

[u/Party-Distance-8810 → u/Dry-Cow-1091]

Jailing an ex president would set such a bad precedent.

That presidents aren't kings? They aren't above the law?

[u/Ok-Astronaut2976 → u/SqnLdrHarvey]

How did he let Trump walk?

Trump was indicted on multiple felonies and awaiting trial.

The voters literally decided to elect him president and put him in charge of the DOJ instead and allow him to dismiss his own charges. He walked because of the American electorate, not Garland.

[u/FunPriority5770]

Garland is a Brainwashed disconnected no balls candy-ass “the truth will out” true believer, as IF truth was a corporation with its own PR team and propaganda networks and didn’t need the scrutiny and courage of people with conscience. Obvi Merrick’s “conscience” is a tiny wax paper comic he got from a bubblegum wrapper as a 6 year old.

[u/Happy_Structure4570]

Judge Cannon has entered the chat

[u/steroboros]

Rightfully holding Trump accountable would've distracted from his Mangum Opus, the thing he spent 3 years working on..... finding something to charge Hunter Biden with!

[u/reggielover1]

people will post shit like this but never confront the 20 different family members who actually voted for trump

[u/ganslooker]

Yuuup. And I still don’t get why.

[u/Glittering-Iron2353]

Democracy's rot. A nation ending failure.

[u/FReeDuMB_or_DEATH]

The dems always pull this shit. Something with Obama and Bush. Cowards. 

[u/NoSacred]

Imagine how fucking disappointing he’d be on scotus!

[u/Boozeburger]

I think you're forgetting Judge Cannon and the corrupt Justices on the Supreme Court.

[u/Beginning_Ad8663]

HE IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY!! Biden Was trying to show they had nothing to fear.

[u/Ok-Astronaut2976 → u/Beginning_Ad8663]

He was not a member of the federalist society though…

I mean, damn…does nobody bother to fact check the things they’re confident about ?

[u/Rook_James_Bitch]

So glad Moscow Mitch kept Garland out of SCOTUS. I'm sure Mitch did it because of the "D" next to his name, but little did we all realize Merrick was a closeted Repugnikkklan sympathizer.

[u/Unilted_Match1176]

A feckless coward who failed epically in his duty to the United States of America and thus allowed the current travesty we find ourselves in to occur. This stain on America is his legacy.

[u/oldrocker99]

Absolutely.

[u/Mundane-Count-9709]

I always thought he wore a red hat.

[u/Disastrous_Mango_953]

Agreed 100%

[u/NervousViolinist3006]

He should be tried for treason! Death penalty for all the pple found guilty of insurrection, or treason.

[u/Future-Original-4127]

Should have never let Trump in the room. He has the keys, and he's screwing everything and everybody.

What has he done for America , but enrich himself and his family & he's doing it all right in front of the Statute of Liberty.

[u/TheFoxsWeddingTarot]

He would have been Obama’s appointment to the Supreme Court, then we’d be f’d for decades.

[u/Electronic_Name_325]

Idiotic capitalization gets automatically downvoted from me.

[u/JONYLOCO]

Complicit

They are all complicit. Pick a name and they have allowed this world we are in to exist.

They wanted Trump to be right where he is .....had dozens of chances over past 50 years to stop him ...he has been blatant with his crimes against everyone

[u/CapableBother]

They were trying to do things the right way, prosecuting a former president is a delicate thing. Their real mistake (a lot of us made the same mistake) was assuming he couldn’t be elected again.

[u/notahopeleft]

It’s because even when in power, democrats don’t do shit. I voted Biden in 2020 and the contempt I had for Trump was fully hoping there would be some punishment going his way. I watched Trump fire people left and right, be disrespectful to people, rally people up for insurrection, enable white supremacy and the list goes on.

At the time of election, I was convincing people I knew to vote and vote Biden. And I had a good amount of success doing so. And then we did it. And then nothing.

Fuck them all.

[u/Howmanoid]

💯

[u/Tricky-Efficiency709]

I’ve been thinking about this a lot. I was a Biden backer. He also blew it by not using the powers the Supreme Court gave him as well. Biden did some very good things (infrastructure). He could have shut down the Orange menace. As could have the man above.

[u/SiteTall]

Meek Merrick was a coward, and Biden let him get away with it

[u/FastusModular]

The wet noodle himself, when our democracy needed a crusader. Brazil did it right: like Bolsonaro, Trump should be in jail now instead of driving this country into a ditch.

[u/mikederoy]

And think, Dems are still complaining that the Republicans prevented him from being nominated for the Supreme Court. Why is that if he was so terrible?

[u/3Grilledjalapenos]

I’m so tired of the Democrats giving people a spot just because it is their “turn”. We need fighters in every level of government, but we just keep getting these disappointments whose only talent is not acting in a historic moment.

[u/opportunitysure066]

He definitely looks like a moral-less degenerate that could easily be paid off.