Would Garland having started the investigation of Trump on January 7th, 2021 been the Democrats ignoring the rule of law?
I’m just some schmuck dude, so I don’t have an expert plan to solve it all, but I keep seeing clear misses where there are opportunities to do something about this and we choose not to. I don’t have a plan for the future, but I’m smart enough to keep seeing fucking own-goals.
We’ve been putting off nailing down the issue since Nixon stepped down and was pardoned by his successor. The fact that we’ve avoided the hard questions that long isn’t the flex you think it is.
Avoiding those questions is why we let war criminals Bush and Cheney off the hook, and they paved the way for this. Literally, avoiding the question is the problem.
Yeah it’s hard and will have far reaching consequences. That’s how everything is. Putting it off because it’s hard is pussy shit and more importantly enables Republican abuse.
I’ve also literally had Democrats talking down to me exactly like this my whole fucking life (even though I’m a fucking Democratic voter…), because I have the audacity to critique them for being milquetoast pussies who don’t stand up for their constituents. There has never been a point in my 25 years of voting where I’ve voted anything but downticket blue, but fuck me for being willing to say “still not enough” I guess. Like, that’s how you depress voter turnout from your own voters, browbeating them for asking for better.
Patty Fucking Murray, a Washington Democrat, agreed with Ted Cruz that airlines should be able to keep my fucking money if they cancel my flight. Real nice fuckin lady. Real standup for her constituents, my ass. These people are influenced by corporate lobbyists just the same as Republicans are, almost all of them have cushy lobbying jobs or Talking Head jobs lined up when they leave.
First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councillor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says, “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I can’t agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically feels that he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by the myth of time; and who constantly advises the Negro to wait until a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.
Those last two sentences in there are where I am at with folks like yourself.