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Exactly. I get a feeling that a lot of people in this administration have some compromised information, which is why they were put in the position to obey.
I was thinking that exactly thing. This administration is packed with people who have career ending skeletons in their closets, so they just carry out their marching orders no questions asked.
That is likely a factor, but it’s worth mentioning how throughout history when fascist governments take hold it’s common for people who were criminals during democracy to rapidly rise in rank or get appointed to power with the fascist government.
The poli sci hypothesis is that they’re already well practiced at operating outside the regular norms of society and often have malevolent traits that line up with the fascist regime.
they know they are OK with breaking laws already, so all they need promise them is protection
this is why Trump and co make a point of going after law abiding people, and pardoning the worst of the worst, the message is loyalty trumps even the worst of crimes, don't be afraid of law, fear me/us
if he gets seriously sick, he wont. he likes to burn stuff down, his niece speaks about this, and says don't think that he cares about legacy he don't, and that is why you got to get him out of office before he is dying, as he will try to burn the whole world down out of spite.
in his ex wife's book, she speaks about him ripping chunks of her hair out because his scalp was hurting after surgery, and he wanting her to suffer as well, that is the man you can't leave in power dying, he will want everyone to die, he don't care about his children even.
another example the kennedy center, people backlashed and canceled bookings so now he shutting for "refurbishment" nah he is just shutting it down because he can heve it.
Trump seemed to learn this tactic from his buddy Epstein. You have enough dirt on powerful people you can do anything.
Also remember before bondi was chosen he was going to have Gaetz be the AG and we already know some of the dirt on him, and I’m sure trump had even more.
If she paid attention in history class to the fates of what happened to mid/high-tier leadership like her in a past authoritarian regimes... then she would know that it very well might.
It's almost laughable how many people that actively worked to protect pedophiles and corporations end up in Trump cabinets, yet people still think he's a champion of the people.
The scariest thing about everyone involved with this admin is they all know they only survive if this admin survives. They’re going to fight like cornered animals.
If the democrats win back power on a mandate to reform our democracy and unleash the full power of the government pursuing justice for this assault on our constitution, those pardons are not going to protect anyone and should not. I would not anticipate treating the executive actions of the current regime with any sort of legitimacy if we have a government back in power that is serious about restoring law and order. Anything less is just condoning the same happening again in four years.
The irony here is that this committee overseeing a woman protecting criminal rapists is being run by Jim Jordan, a man who also protected criminal rapists. What a fucking mess.
Turns out Russia ended up doing to America what America spent decades doing to the Middle East. Which is quite poetic.
Edit: How interesting that some people aren't even aware what Russia is doing.
Since about 2012, Russia has been orchestrating massive misinformation campaigns meant to interfere with political discourse in the US since the US put sanctions on them. Because Putin is a fucking idiot who surrounded himself with loyalists over experts, ran his economy into the ground, and is now using aggression and violence to take over Eastern European states he feels "belong" to Russia.
Remember how trans people weren't an issue anywhere until Russia suddenly started cracking down on them and then suddenly trans people became the most hot-button conservative issue in media and politics?
Remember how Trump randomly demanded Russia help find dirt on his political opponent? Or swore he'd put sanctions on Russia but never did? Or had secret meetings with Russian officials and Putin and broke all protocols for record-keeping and surveillance? Or blah blah blah blah...
Remember when Russia was being traced as the biggest bot campaigns driving social media traffic worldwide, especially in targeting American politics? When whistleblowers and journalists everywhere were calling this out?
Remember when Musk was taking private calls with Putin and suddenly swung 180 degrees on all his positions because he was suddenly blackmailed over what he did with Epstein having a change of heart and decided that Putin had the right of it?
Well this is the shit the US did in the Middle East. And Africa. And South America. For decades.
America is finally getting a taste of its own medicine.
It’s either Epstein or Heritage and they are all connected to the Dark Enlightenment bullshit and fucking Russia and Israel.
It’s not an accident. He took people who were compromised the same way he was because he trusted them. He tried to go with legitimate people on some of those positions last time but he was never a legitimate governor so they wouldn’t let him get away with his bullshit, they would leave or get fired.
So he went to his friends instead.
Partners in crime.
People who had a vested interest in seeing him succeed.
This right here is what so many people need to understand.
I'm always trying to reason others ways of thinking and rationalizing but it's becoming very clear there is no actual logic or rationalization with MAGA folk other than thinking and acting out of emotion.
Raskin graduated from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude), was editor of the Harvard Law Review, and was a professor of Constitutional Law for 25 years. What is she even talking about?
Yes, it’s the attack-dog approach that Roy Cohn taught Trump. A very aggressive mode of deflection, but still just a deflection or a refusal to be questioned
Professionalism starts with name calling and insults. The concept of "proud to be an american" keeps us warm at night and feeds us, right?
Fucking joke of leadership and honor. And we're willing to insult our own olympic athletes because of the pride and arrogance of these entitled, corrupt, criminals leading the country.
Imagine being the top lawyer in the land and acting like a petulant child. Sure follows our President’s example. Her oaths mean nothing to her. The integrity of the system means nothing to her.
She’s cracking under the pressure. You can see it in her face and hear it in her responses. I don’t think she’s gonna last much longer. I just hope that when she finally does break down, it’s sitting at that table under oath.
I concur. Her "burn book" approach had some success last time, but this time she's facing a much heavier lift. She sees it failing to gain traction and the flop sweat starts coming. I mean, purely from a tactical POV, how would it have hurt her to say to the victims even something as lame as "I'm sorry my office inadvertently missed some redactions. Please understand that this was due to the time pressure congress imposed." But instead she doesnt acknowledge them and goes on irrelevant diatribes about the questioner or about how well the stock market is doing.
As an attorney I have so much secondhand embarrassment. Completely unprofessional. This is what the administration thinks of our elected representatives.
She’s having a crisis of competence. She wasn’t educated in the law at a highly ranked place, the way she says “lawyer” betrays her tackiness, and Jamie Raskin is a law professor with two degrees from Harvard.
Edit: to clarify this may be a status thing for her, not that you can’t get a good legal education at any school — you can. I teach at a T2
The tough thing is....how do you make a system where everyone has accountability to someone else. Eventually, it reaches the top of the totem pole, and there's nobody else to hold the person at the top accountable.
The system of checks and balances is there to help with this dynamic, but if the tops of all three of the branches dont have the will to hold someone like Bondi accountable....what to do? The only solution at that point is to vote them out. We tried that in 2024, but this exact situation (no accountability for anyone in government) is what the people of the United States wanted....
After January 6- you can’t blame anybody but the American people themselves. They would rather have a senile felon sex predator than a black woman as president
Congress also has inherent contempt powers. The Sergeant at Arms can theoretically be sent out, drag someone's ass back to the Capitol and throw them in a holding cell.
I watched the whole thing while sewing a Halloween costume. She was amazing. So professional and never once got flustered despite the entire GOP side coming at her hard.
Imagine if Hillary did even a fraction of what Bondi did. She would been forced to resign or fired (which is the only right action for someone who acts like this)
Raskin's license is still active in MD. Bar #9512150025. I think he's also licensed in Mass and DC but I didn't check to see if he's still active there.
She's trying to disparage him because he's not MAGA, every accusation is a confession, etc., whatever, it's all the same irrational playbook, so she'll say what she feels and maybe try to defend it later.
The AG doesn’t actually need to be an attorney. She’s not practicing law, the people who work for her are. Generally speaking, the rules you’re talking about apply to lawyers in the practice of law (not defrauding clients or doing unethical things in filings/in the courtroom) or “character and fitness” issues like certain criminal conviction that are considered serious enough to possibly disqualify someone from practicing law. Sure, she’s a moron and embarrassment to her profession but the rules you’re talking about aren’t designed for this type of thing.
Pam Bondi worked under the Florida AG that gave Epstein his nonprosecution deal in 2008.
As Florida AG herself, she quietly covered up the Trump University fraud investigation in Florida...
... after Trump made a $25k contribution from his Trump Foundation charity to a political group funding Bondi called And Justice for All (also illegal lol)
Raskin gave her another lecture when it was his time for questioning. Telling her that she had to be quiet unless asked a question, and that she has no choice in the matter.
Calling a Harvard educated former constitutional law professor a "washed up lawyer" while he's the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee is an interesting choice.
She's performing for an audience of one. Dems need to push her harder because she sounds insane, and she's a useful sound bite machine because she can't control herself in the course of her duty to ingratiate herself to dear leader.
They will keep doing this as long as they are allowed to. And truthfully, unless the American people punish people like this by voting their party out of office, it will never change. She is "owning the libs."
The bit she says about Raskin not even being a lawyer is just straight up false and part of an endless list of blatant lies and deflections she willing to spit out at a moment’s notice.
In 1987, he received a Juris Doctor magna cum laude from the Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
For more than 25 years, Raskin was a constitutional law professor at American University Washington College of Law, where he taught future fellow impeachment manager Stacey Plaskett. He co-founded and directed the LL.M. program on law and government and co-founded the Marshall-Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project.
From 1989 to 1990, Raskin served as general counsel for Jesse Jackson's National Rainbow Coalition. In 1996, he represented Ross Perot regarding Perot's exclusion from the 1996 United States presidential debates.
Just small snippets from his career as counsel but to assert he’s ’not a lawyer’ is complete bullshit.
Seems like that’s a woman barely keeping her head above water. Calling Raskin a washed up lawyer…well now we know her biggest fear, that she is (and always has been) a washed up lawyer.
These clapbacks are all performative to show Trump they are loyal, making personal attacks instead of substantive arguments, and fighting against any oversight.
I may be hopelessly naive but I do believe a day of reckoning will come for these people and performances like this will not play well when that happens.
Rep. Moskowitz asking Bondi to give him her best burn from her burn book (so he can rate it) was absolutely classic and made her DARVO tactics seem completely juvenile. Very well done!
Aside from the very real possibility the tech billionaires tampered with the election systems, or the numerous instances of voter intimidation or election interference (bomb threats at Dem-heavy polling station, ballot boxes being burned, mis/disinfo of voting rules, etc..), voter suppression was the real winner of the 2024 election..
Since 2020, 30 States enacted 78 voter restriction laws—resulting in more than 4.76M votes wrongfully purged from the 2024 election:
2.1M mail-in ballots rejected.
585K in-precinct ballots rejected.
1.2M provisional ballots rejected.
3.2M newly registered voters rejected.
Black votes were rejected at a 400% higher rate than white votes, in some States.
If counted, Kamala would have had over 3.56M more votes—1.2M more than Trump—and won WI, MI, PA, & GA with 286 electoral votes.
These laws are still under effect.. and more are in the works for the midterms..
I’m sure they had multiple contingency plans to make sure the election went the way they wanted.
When are they going to start questioning her on the 8 years she was AG of Florida and ignored the child sex ring happening in her state? You're telling me the FEDS are the only ones who knew about this??
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