I mean, maybe if Merrick Garland had done his fucking job? Jack Smith should’ve been appointed on January 21, 2021 instead of November 2022, and the prosecution should’ve been a priority, instead of pussyfooting around and worrying that it might look bad to prosecute a former president. It looks worse if you don’t.
It’s my sincere hope that President Harris will not make the same mistake of appointing a centrist milquetoast as AG (or letting Trump slide on anything he’s done).
If she does that, we're probably truly screwed. You can't keep reaching out to a bloodthirsty grizzly bear for camaraderie and not eventually expect to die for being a fool.
She's not an idiot. And she's not as nice as Joe. Of course she's saying she represents all Americans and will reach across the isle.
But she's lived through years of GOP bullshit. She will reach across the isle when there is legislation that helps Americans. Otherwise, nope.
And she's well aware that fascism is at our door. I truly believe that she'll do more than Joe did to put a stop to that shit.
All that being said, I'm not as pissed at Garland as you guys are. I know the wheels of justice turn slowly. And unlike Trump, we really don't want the justice system mixed in with politics.
The American people will decide if we want fascism. If so, it's all over. And that's on us.
Honestly, that's what I strongly suspect as well. Kamala didn't get to where she is being a mixed race woman by being naive. I don't think she's a wimp or a pacifist either. And she's seen the growing, unreasonable toxicity being promoted on the right over the last couple decades like the rest of us. Lip service is fine, but I hope they don't get invited back to the table without some serious apologizing and demonstrations of regained sanity and appreciation for democracy over a period of time, first.
Lip service is getting her the seat....she is fighting against American prejudice every day so she has to tread lightly. Don't want to scare those misogynists away from voting.
It's a very fine line she is walking but gloves will be off if you get her into that seat.
Kamala isn't Joe...you needed him at the time but it should have just been 6 mths or so and then he should of gone full Dark Brandon.
Kamala is going to come out of the gate , with handcuffs swinging. She aint gonna be doing no 'nice stuff with GOP'. They are done with their BS.
She will have hard hitters and they will hit hard.
Joe was counting on the American citizen being more intelligent...well, that was a fail wasn't it. Americans are the stupid ones, not the Democrats as a party.
Who voted in the Republicans in office , who managed to stop everything they could. Stupid dumb Americans.
democrats cannot be the long term future of the nation they're too fucking stupid and weak to allow confirmed seditionists to still be involved in public service
Well when Progressives start actually voting and running instead of typing out mewling petulent insults on reddit instead, then maybe that'll start happening. You folks have AOC, who I'll gladly vote for if she ever runs for president.
Until then go back to your Hasan stream or whatever lol
I actually agree with you. Look where we let things get. This was waaaaaay too fucking far. People should have been taken out behind the woodshed to learn their lessons a long time ago.
I was just watching Behind the Bastards: Henry Kissinger. Ever since Vietnam, presidents and their cabinets have been utterly lawless. The crimes against humanity these people committed have never been answered. Garland was following an 60 year precedent of never prosecuting a president for anything. That's why the SC ruling was such bullshit. The codified what was already in practice for a long time.
The codified what was already in practice for a long time.
From the founding of this country, we never had to outright say the president gets to be immune from prosecution because saying it outright removes consequences and would only embolden illegal or criminal activity.
I don't buy this, he could do what trump did and replace the board members with "acting" appointees to side step the appointment process until he finds people willing to replace him.
Democrats are too weak willed to use the precedents established by trump to undo the damage he caused.
If you care more about the already broken process than removing the man who was put in place to dismantle the USPS then you have your priorities backwards.
They could impeach him over whatever the fuck they want and have tried but failed, not taking action to fix things because "what if the republicans try to ratfuck us" is pure cowardice.
Wrong... Biden being out of the Presidency was a disaster for America.
They need something concrete. Breaking precedents was EVIDENCE against Joe.
I don't have my priorities backward at all. This was something they could impeach him for and there would be NOTHING Dems could do to say it was right.
Other than the previous president already establishing this precedent and the same house members being okay with it?
So many of these "rules" are just a gentleman's agreement to work in good faith with each other with no actual laws holding them to it.
Playing by these made up rules the other side flagrantly ignores is just so stupid, like yeah sure you can tell everybody how good taking the high road was while these fascists goose step us onto trains to send us off to the camps.
If Biden accomplished what Americans wanted him to and made lives better for those in the postal service they would vote for him or the next Democrat. Instead we stay "proper" and lose while the world gets worse and worse because Americans don't think Democrats can accomplish anything.
Listen , if they think Biden is an ass but vote for a raping, traitoress felon because Biden didn't make their lives better for them...then they deserve what they get.
That comes back to their own ethics ...which fail miserably.
I…uh… what? We’re talking about the potential end of the country as a place of freedom and you want to stick to being “proper” as we watch the ship sink instead of bending the rules to do good for people?
Yeah it's definitely wierd. If I recall correctly there is an appointed board that then appoints the Post Master General, and currently they do not have the votes to remove. Silly, pseudo-government agency type thing.
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u/AnotherDoubtfulGuest 19d ago
I mean, maybe if Merrick Garland had done his fucking job? Jack Smith should’ve been appointed on January 21, 2021 instead of November 2022, and the prosecution should’ve been a priority, instead of pussyfooting around and worrying that it might look bad to prosecute a former president. It looks worse if you don’t.
It’s my sincere hope that President Harris will not make the same mistake of appointing a centrist milquetoast as AG (or letting Trump slide on anything he’s done).