Summary

President Biden expressed regret over appointing Merrick Garland as Attorney General, criticizing Garland’s slow action in prosecuting Donald Trump for the January 6 insurrection while aggressively pursuing cases against Hunter Biden.

Biden reportedly blamed former Chief of Staff Ron Klain for persuading him to choose Garland over other candidates, such as Doug Jones, who was seen as more politically assertive.

Many Democrats share Biden’s frustration, believing Garland’s cautious approach harmed efforts to hold Trump accountable.

  • @[email protected]
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    471 month ago

    The Dems don’t even play by the rules. They play by some made up rules that exist only in their heads and boil down to “you’re not allowed to oppose the Republicans in any way that matters”. There’s tons of legal and ethical stuff Biden could have done in the last four years and here we are, sitting on our asses in the sinking ship, waiting for the water to rush in and drown us all.

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      111 month ago

      I’m with you there. I am still haunted by the idiotic things we’ve done to shoot ourselves in the foot, though. Time and time again, we listen to people wanting to do bipartisanship from the Dem side, and only be met by betrayal. Anybody remember Al Franken and what a self-own it was for him to be forced out?

      I can go on and on, but we don’t learn and our own don’t want to do honest reflection.

      Fuck it.

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        11 month ago

        I mean, getting rid of Franken was reasonable. Refusing to challenge the Republican creeps has… well… resulted in a government of mostly creeps and that’s not where i want to be. (Admittedly that specific piece is not specifically the Democratic Party’s fault, though they could have done more. Not using the moral leverage they got by booting Franken was an unforced error.)

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          81 month ago

          Franken was ousted for a harmless joke in which all parties were privy. In the grand scheme of things, he would have done more good in office than out.

          • @svtdragon
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            31 month ago

            Franken should have been running for President. Smart, incisive, charismatic. Everything we needed.

            Fuck.

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              1 month ago

              Yet, here we are. Tangerine Gorilla is the next president in line and a hoard of supplicant chimpanzees with the complacent centrist democrats incapable of critical reflection propping it up.

              Fuck.

              Wake up, assholes. Wake the fuck up.

    • @Chocrates
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      11 month ago

      We could have the 25 amendment if he got his head out of his ass.