When Balint’s time expired, and the out lawmaker yielded back, Bondi asked for a moment to respond, and used it to go on the offensive: “You didn’t ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein,” she said. Balint shot back: “Weak sauce.”
Bondi then escalated: “And with this anti-Semitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution …”
Balint cut her off: “Oh really? Do you want to go there, attorney general?” she said. “Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust?”
The lawmaker then got up and left the room.
Your scenarios require Democrats to not learn ANYTHING from their past behavior, and it’s consequences. We cannot allow them, and especially incoming Democrats, to repeat their past poor choices.
We are in unprecedented territory, and it will require unprecedented solutions to redeem them is nation in the eyes of its citizens, the world, and history. We cannot fall back on the proven failed past Democratic strategies of politeness and scolding and expect MAGAs to suddenly become moral. They are ignorant and anti-intellectual. Scolding them like the terrible children they surely were, and still are, isn’t going to change them.
It is imperative that the Democratic Party shift their position, and see MAGA as the proven serious National Security Threat that they genuinely are, and it’s leadership and much of its elected following as Domestic Terrorists, and deal with them as such.
In the future, we cannot be polite or fair to these people. They are LITERALLY mind-bogglingly corrupt, traitors, racists, and pedophiles, and we have no obligation to treat them politely at all. We see how they treat those that they hate, and most of those people have done nothing at all. MAGA has EARNED far harsher treatment.
They know it, too. We don’t have to play dirty, like they do, we just have to play Hard Ball, and mercilessly charge them with every CRIME. It isn’t about being MAGA, it’s about launching and participating in an Insurrection. It’s about stealing hundreds of Classified documents. It’s about taking bribes. It’s about using pardons to commit obstruction of justice, etc. None of it is political, it is all criminal, and they should be tried, prosecuted, and sentenced for those crimes. They understand that what they’ve done should be met with long prison sentences, and in some case capital punishment. They would enthusiastically, gleefully do it to any of us, and we don’t even deserve it. They do.
Time to play Hard Ball.