Demokraten machen Merrick Garlands schleppende Trump-Untersuchung für Wahlniederlage verantwortlich: „Fataler Fehler“
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Merrick Garland was terrible Biden should have fired him earlier.
The fact that democrats couldn’t beat a man that never should have been allowed to run for office is not what I’d call a screaming endorsement of the democratic party. I think the DNC is really, really reading this evidence the wrong way.
How is it a “mistake” if that was Garland’s plan all along. Democrats are whimps. They are still trying to cater to Republican voters. i.e. giving Cheney a prominent role in Kamala’s campaign while neglecting the base. I bet my left pinky they will allow “moderate” Republicans to run on the Democratic ticket at the expense of progressives in the next few elections
Should have started on Jan 7th with an indictment by the end of the year. Biggest mistake of all time was waiting until the next election cycle had basically started which led most uninformed people think it was just politics instead of a serious crime
Merrick had secrets he had to look the other way
Biden could have stacked scotus
He could have ordered his Justice dept to aggressively prosecute
He could have gotten rid of Louise dejoy
He could have decriminalized and rescheduled cannabis
He could have given Ukraine everything they need to stop Russia
He could have yanked the dollar out from Israel
He could have done all this and more
Instead. Nothing fundamentally changed. The status quo was maintained
Didn’t Dems just certify the election without so much as a peep too? Checks and balances, guardrails don’t work when no one seems to give a flying fuck.
Why did Biden appoint a federal judge who was on the Federalist Society’s shortlist as Attorney General?
The buck stops there.
Merrick Garland is to blame for Trump not facing justice, but to say Garland’s is what caused the Democrats to lose the election is ridiculous. Democrats lost the election due to having no open primaries and an uninspiring, corporatist platform that did nothing to confront the major structural problems facing this country.
I have a feeling Garland was at least sympathetic to Republicans.
Slow rolling prosecution of trump guaranteed Biden was facing trump in the election, the only Republican he could beat.
Blaming Merrick Garland for his part in the plan is ok but the buck stops further up the chain of command.
Garland is a lifelong Republican,he put party over country. That’s the republican way.
Fuck Merrick Garland. A sheet of plain white paper has more ambition than that sack of shit.
No shit
Who appointed him?
You can blame the child for shitting his pants but who do you blame for letting him spread it around the house?
And as a reward for all of his nonpartisanship, he got….nothing. Absolutely nothing. He prioritized being seen as fair over actually being an effective leader, and as a result nothing got done. It is utterly unsurprising that Trump got back into power once you realize that all of the forces that put him *in* to power are securely in place. The cycle continued because we never really tried to stop it in the first place.
People need to realize that the goodness of an action depends largely on the result, not on the action itself. That’s why it is good to put Nazis in jail because they are Nazis, and bad to put gay people in jail because they are gay. And instead of realizing that, we’re capitulating to the Nazis, letting them tell us that it would be hypocritical to put them in jail if we oppose doing it to gay people. We’re letting them decide the terms of the debate and then getting shocked when we lose.
Let’s look at the time line shall we? Covid happens and the administration lies. Thousands leading to millions die due to his deceit. Most countries this could be considered crimes against humanity. So there’s a chance to get rid of him there. Then he loses the election has an insurrection. What I’m sure will be rephrased to front yard party. After he gets the history books rewritten. Happens and they vote to
Impeach. Now the proud American gop should vote impeachment right? As they support the constitution and below that all the damn time. Nope they all vote against banning him to run again. To quote a turtle he’s not in office anymore!! When he was the acting fucking president. They spit in the faces of us!!! Especially the families who lost love ones that day. Garland deserves blame but not all the blame.
Garland is just the symptom of the D’s problem. Fucking gutless and complicit.
Democrats should never EVER cower in fear to “perception of bias” again.
Waiting 4 years to get to this point are 4 years wasted and sometimes I ask myself why was this not an urgend item on the Biden Administrations agenda?
I blame Nancy Pelosi for sending everyone home for a week, instead of suspending rules and immediately moving into impeachment
Garland sucks, but he wasn’t even AG until two months later
He didn’t slow roll them – some of the crimes were outside of the statute of limitations by the end. He outright stopped them, something he was publicly honest about doing. It was clear early on that he was corrupt and preventing Trump from being held responsible.
“Fatal mistake. Oh well!” -Democrats (while smiling and handing over the reigns of power)
The fact that Biden didn’t take Garlands slow walking of the insurrection seriously is a damning indictment of his leadership and respect for the constitution. You can’t blame the Republicans for the election loss, that sits squarely at the Democrats leadership. They haven’t been a consistent opposition to Republican messaging and their propensity for giving old fogeys they “turn” at leadership posts has suppressed rising stars.
Any wonder why Gavin Newsome started getting out there before the election? As he said, someone has to get there arguing the opposing viewpoint. Pete Buttigeg was there too, but given he worked at McKinsey and Company he should be treated with suspicion. Where was their most popular public figure, AOC, in the campaign?
It took Garland over 2 years to appoint a special counsel. Nothing about that is a showing of trying to be fair. That’s just being impartial on Trumps side. Plain and simple. Biden should have fired him in the first 6-9 months of doing nothing. Both Biden and Garland are culpable of incompetence and putting our nation in this position.
Really gonna let the Democrats cop out of this by scapegoating Merrick Garland? Yeah he could have done a better job but blaming him is like blaming the field goal kicker when losing by a touchdown.
Hot take, trump could have been convicted in all 3 and still won. Not because trump was anything special, but because dems refuse to criticize institutions, norms, and especially the capital class that the public hate.
When you lose an election to a man that should be in prison, I’d say we have a lot bigger problems as a country.
It may be shifting the blame, but I do think it was a major problem for the Democrats. If there was smoke, why no real substantive fire?
Yes I think he did. However democrats lost the election because of their own actions.
Merrick Garland was an absolutely colossal waste of oxygen for four years.