• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Needs to resign?

    Needs to be drawn and quartered, along with every member of this cabinet.

    Trump gets buried alive, covered in concrete, and then chisled into an award for himself, that reads SIC SEMPER TYRANIS.

    Fuck all of these goddamned traitors.

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    Seriously what is up with these articles? No one has turned on shit. MAGA is a bought-and-paid-for sunken cost for these people. They’re all-in. They aren’t turning on anyone!

    Go ahead and check Raw Story’s “journalistic” history. It’s mostly just hopium/copium slop.

    “MAGA melts down after…” “Trump furious because…” “Judge SLAMS MAGA over….”

    Meanwhile, not a fucking thing is changing, progressing, being fixed, undone, or halted in any meaningful way.

    We’re being sold on action that isn’t happening. It’s an insulting pacifier that ok many people have no problem sucking on every single fucking day- several times a day.

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      There are a few MAGA at least questioning if this is what “great” is.

      Not enough to meaningfully dent his base, but it is enough of a start to get Gallup to stop reporting approval numbers.

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    A sack of shit saying shit in front of congress, much of which also houses more sacks of shit.

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    And yet they still support Trump, whose presence in the files is the exact fucking reason she lied about them…

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    But she said all the words. Trump derangement symptom. Most transparent president ever. Stock market. Greatest president ever. It should have worked damnit! Fox just needs to cut and splice a little.

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    They don’t have no patience for a woman. Read the room bondi. You think you get respect from a maga.

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    Jamie Raskin berated Bondi’s earlier Senate performance before the questioning began, saying that she brought… What did he call it? A “burn book” or something?

    Basically, instead of preparing for the actual questions she’d be asked, she prepared a book of insults and ad hominem for the people asking the questions.

    And I couldn’t help but notice that in her testimony yesterday, every time she flipped through the huge binder next to her, rather than answering the question, she’d just start attacking the person who asked the question.

    So, she did the same thing again. A one trick pony who couldn’t imagine that they’d prepare countermeasures for her embarrassing previous performance.

    And she was caught lying under oath immediately after she did so.

    Only a complete idiot would allow themselves to be put in such a situation.

    She should have resigned long ago. She should have done a lot of things, but what can you expect of a complete idiot? If she’s remembered at all in the future, it will be for her unparalleled stupidity.

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      Not only did she have a stupid “burn book” but she also brought out printed pages showing the search history of Congress members who were allowed to view the secret files, and this was photographed. They monitored, logged, and tagged the searches and documents members of Congress accessed, and she was dumb enough to hold evidence of it in front of press photographers. Now there’s going to be a congressional inquiry into that too.

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      What good is making her resign going to do? Don’t get me wrong, she should be gone, but Trump put her there and she’s doing what he wants her to do. Forcing Trump to swap one stooge for another doesn’t accomplish anything except resetting the “Trump’s AG did something bad” counter, which might actually be useful to him but doesn’t help us at all. Focus on the guy who put this obviously unqualified person in charge of the DOJ.

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        I believe there is a limited supply of practicing lawyers who will ruin their own lives and careers to support Trump, a man who will not ever return the favor.

        To make a Pam Bondi, you need to find someone who is a completely incompetent moron who can also pass a bar exam.

        I think another Bill Barr is more likely. A person who initially thinks it’s a good idea to support Trump, but later defies him.

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        There is something to be said for the friction in bringing someone new into the role. Nobody is ever as effective in their first few weeks as they are a year into the job.

        There’s no way her replacement would be good, but a revolving door makes things more difficult for him.

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          I suppose that’s true but it does seem like it would be more effective to spend the effort tying her failures directly to Trump rather than letting him offer her up as the sacrificial lamb. People seem to think he’s good at delegation and “business stuff” so hammer him with the mistakes his people make and force voters to remember how highly he once spoke of them.

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            At this point, who are we trying to convince? Nobody who’s still defending the guy is going to change their mind no matter the logic you use towards them.

            I’m fully in support of “throw wrenches in their attempts to do things” instead.

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    I watched some of the parts and I thought she did amazingly well, in MAGA terms. There is no way she could do it better with all the facts against her.

    She doged questions, she did incoherent rants, interrupted people constantly, attacked the interviewers. It was despicable, everything MAGA like. I don’t see why they aren’t thrilled about her. She was trump on steroids.

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      I don’t see why they aren’t thrilled about her.

      Because Trump sold them the Epsteins files during his campaign. He promised to release the files and the list in full transparency. Most of the MAGA base is now invested in the Epstein files and want to see billionaire pedophiles punished. Pam Bondi acted like MAGA usually wants her to act, except this time she was acting against MAGA. She interrupted and attacked the people who asked the questions MAGA wanted answers for and instead of giving any answers she dodged the questions and wasted time on incoherent rants instead of giving the information MAGA wants. She did everything “right” but she did it against the wrong crowd.

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        I know polling is useless, but I would really appreciate some good data on the “MAGA divide”. All of my family members are still on the Trump Train.

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          I don’t think there’s a divide. Anyone who has a doubt will stuff that fucker down rather than face the ridicule of the ingroup and outgroup simultaneously.

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      I tend to agree.

      Theres blood in the water and they’ve thrown her in to try to slake the shark’s appetite.

      The whole point of a fall person is to take the fall, and shes doing that well.

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        I think the thing people need to come to terms with is that while we insist on playing everything by the book, because it’s the right thing to do, they are playing by a completely different book that literally uses our own book against us. We continue playing right into their hands, and we’re eventually going to have to change our playbook very drastically, and it’s not going to be comfortable. We can’t win this by continuing to play by the same book that got us here.

        It seems like everyone’s pinning their hopes on the midterms despite the clear evidence already available that not only are they in the process of being manipulated and rigged, and they’ve still got over half a year to be even more egregious about it, but even if they aren’t or if they don’t succeed, there’s a good chance that the other side will make up their own numbers anyway and create a smoke screen of misinformation or simply refuse to follow the rules like they’ve already been doing this whole time. Even if Dems take back the house and the senate, where’s their actual power to do anything about any of this? What actual enforcement mechanism can they actually implement that isn’t procedural and “by the book”, the exact same book that Trump’s administration is ignoring?

        “The book” and even “the constitution” is just words on paper, and we’ve entered an era where the sword is once again mightier than the pen. Where’s our swords? If Trump starts doing everything by executive order again, continues stacking the deck in all the militarized federal law enforcement institutions to surround himself in his own personal gestapo and use them to enforce his executive orders, who’s going to actually try anything to stop him? Who’s going to be brave enough to take actual action against his militarized forces to stop him? And it’s not enough to just have one guy or a handful willing to stand up to him. Yeah, maybe that will embolden some more to stand up to him, but you don’t just need to have some guys stand up to him, you need to stand up and win against an army of violent thugs, you need your own army, and it needs to be a well-trained army that can actually beat these fuckers in direct combat. A bunch of angry guys shouting mean things in congress and the senate and courtrooms and hearings aren’t going to stop him, no matter what book they think still matters. The violent thugs on the ground will not stop because of any book unless Trump’s the one writing it. I think this is going to get real, real bad. I desperately hope to be wrong, but I’m not willing to concede that I am.

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    these fucking morons actually think she’s anything more than a muppet doing exactly what it’s told to do

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    I just saw some clips of that hearing and I was surprised how low they were willing to go. That’s not normal anymore, the whole thing was absurd. The system is broken, the rule of law has ended in the US.

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    Okay, so she resigns. Who thinks they aren’t going to replace her with another Bond villain’s henchman like all the rest of the admin.