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And a big fuck you to Merrick the Meek (Original Post) Aviation Pro Jan 6 OP
It is a travesty DaBronx Jan 6 #1
Yep, because trump should be in jail instead of soon to become president. again. brush Jan 6 #2
No Fuck You's to the Roberts court? Fiendish Thingy Jan 6 #3
No fuck you for them. Every fuck you goes to Garland, the head of the so called Autumn Jan 6 #5
Donald Trump would still be president -elect regardless of who the AG was Fiendish Thingy Jan 6 #7
A real AG would have seen the real and present danger on J-6 and not dawdled to face the dragon. GreenWave Jan 6 #21
Trump could have been indicted on January 20, 2021 Fiendish Thingy Jan 6 #25
Had Garland done his job the stolen documents alone would have kept him from Autumn Jan 6 #39
You seem to have forgotten who the judge on that case was. Fiendish Thingy Jan 6 #45
The truth would have been released. Trump would have been prosecuted early enough so that hag could Autumn Jan 6 #48
Yeah, fuck them too, but trump should've been in jail long before... brush Jan 6 #29
No, a big FU to the American people who voted for this deviant who tried to overthrow the the government. JohnSJ Jan 6 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author onecaliberal Jan 6 #6
Absolutely. Well said. brush Jan 6 #32
I always felt like it was a weird trolling flex to nominate Garland Politicub Jan 6 #8
Right. Going after the chief insurrectionist should've been... brush Jan 6 #33
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Jan 6 #9
47 months and counting, thank you Merrick the Meek. republianmushroom Jan 6 #10
And why is Article 3 of the 14th Amendment being ignored at this juncture? yellow dahlia Jan 6 #11
Because it is way, way to political for our AG, Merrick the Meek and the DOJ. republianmushroom Jan 6 #12
Try every week for the next 4 years. Mr. Sparkle Jan 6 #13
I forget where I read this LivingInASociety Jan 6 #14
Well, there is still time. Be patient dalton99a Jan 6 #15
patient for what exactly? berksdem Jan 6 #16
We don't know what he's doing behind the scenes, we must be patient. Bluepinky Jan 6 #46
Dunno. Inconsistant. On one hand, you don't give a fuck. On the other hand, you give a "big fuck you" 3Hotdogs Jan 6 #17
Along with DENVERPOPS Jan 6 #18
I have no problems with Mueller gab13by13 Jan 6 #36
Those reports will never see the light of day. Democrats were no help there either. Autumn Jan 6 #40
Well said APro! Clouds Passing Jan 6 #19
NO more repugs as AG or FBI director. Way too partisan. GreenWave Jan 6 #20
The husk of... 2naSalit Jan 6 #22
I hope he cries every day for the way he destroyed America out of bribes, threats or just plain cowardice. lark Jan 6 #23
The worst part is ScratchCat Jan 6 #24
I don't hear from his defenders anymore. nt doc03 Jan 6 #26
Empty Wheel is still defending him gab13by13 Jan 6 #28
Oh yes, the "pyramid strategy" has been the go-to answer for years Orrex Jan 6 #34
I do. They are still on the job anytime there is a thread about Garland. Autumn Jan 6 #42
Thank goodness he avoided the appearance of a political agenda Orrex Jan 6 #27
Way back when Garland went public saying he would not be partisan, gab13by13 Jan 6 #30
All the while DaBronx Jan 6 #31
That must be why he went after Hunter Biden. Emile Jan 6 #49
Do you feel the same about Biden? Garland's boss. Kaleva Jan 6 #35
Remember when Garland released the lying Hur report? gab13by13 Jan 6 #37
But Biden kept him as AG Kaleva Jan 6 #41
Biden admitted Garland was the wrong choice. It wasn't Biden's job to investigate Trump. Autumn Jan 6 #43
And yet Biden still kept him as AG Kaleva Jan 6 #44
The DOJ was not Biden's job. The shit would have hit the fan had he fired the old fool. Autumn Jan 6 #47
Milquetoast Picaro Jan 6 #38

DaBronx

(528 posts)
1. It is a travesty
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 11:52 AM
Jan 6

That i am only hearing this name now. Absolutely perfect. Merrick the Meek! Forgive me if I have missed this reference in the past.

Fiendish Thingy

(19,023 posts)
3. No Fuck You's to the Roberts court?
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 11:57 AM
Jan 6

Why do you let the real villains off scot-free?

IMO, They should all live short and miserable lives, with reputations that are appropriate to their deeds, and not protected by the misguided scapegoating of Garland.

Autumn

(46,912 posts)
5. No fuck you for them. Every fuck you goes to Garland, the head of the so called
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:14 PM
Jan 6

Justice Department.

The mission statement of the Department of Justice (DOJ) is to:
Uphold the rule of law
Keep the country safe
Protect civil rights
Enforce federal law
Defend the interests of the United States
Ensure public safety
Prevent and control crime
Seek just punishment for those guilty of unlawful behavior
Ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans



He looked out for one man. Donald fucking Trump.

Fiendish Thingy

(19,023 posts)
7. Donald Trump would still be president -elect regardless of who the AG was
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:22 PM
Jan 6

The Roberts court would have ensured there was no trial before the election, and the AG, any AG, would have been powerless to stop them.

GreenWave

(9,771 posts)
21. A real AG would have seen the real and present danger on J-6 and not dawdled to face the dragon.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 01:51 PM
Jan 6

Instead Garlic went after the dragon's poop.

Fiendish Thingy

(19,023 posts)
25. Trump could have been indicted on January 20, 2021
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 02:36 PM
Jan 6

And the Roberts court would have ensured he would not have stood trial before the 2024 election.

Scapegoating is easy, and requires minimal critical thinking.

Autumn

(46,912 posts)
39. Had Garland done his job the stolen documents alone would have kept him from
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:52 PM
Jan 6

the presidency. No fucking politician could have supported him after that.

Fiendish Thingy

(19,023 posts)
45. You seem to have forgotten who the judge on that case was.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:25 PM
Jan 6

What could Garland have done differently that would have changed the obstruction of Judge Cannon?

Autumn

(46,912 posts)
48. The truth would have been released. Trump would have been prosecuted early enough so that hag could
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:45 PM
Jan 6

have been replaced. But no matter what the truth would have been told.

brush

(58,442 posts)
29. Yeah, fuck them too, but trump should've been in jail long before...
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:07 PM
Jan 6

the corrupt SCOTUS 6 got involved with their wrong, wrong, wrong 'official act' bullshitl

Merrick the Meet failed miserably.

JohnSJ

(97,022 posts)
4. No, a big FU to the American people who voted for this deviant who tried to overthrow the the government.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:07 PM
Jan 6

and the same to those who refused to vote or voted third party.

There was no ambiguity who the sociopath was, and they still voted for him.

add most of the illustrious press to this list, wall street, etc.

The country will be paying dearly for this.

Except for essentials, I will go OUT OF MY WAY, NOT TO BUY AMERICAN.


Response to Aviation Pro (Original post)

Politicub

(12,309 posts)
8. I always felt like it was a weird trolling flex to nominate Garland
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:26 PM
Jan 6

He failed at what should have been his top priority - making sure Trump was persecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There was no greater duty for someone in his shoes.

Of course, that didn’t happen. I’m glad some of the rioters have experienced some fleeting justice. But Trump should have never gotten close to ever being president again.

It’s too late now to do anything about it.

brush

(58,442 posts)
33. Right. Going after the chief insurrectionist should've been...
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:13 PM
Jan 6

Garland's first order of business upon taking office. There's nothing more obvious. He tried to overthrow the government.

Response to Aviation Pro (Original post)

yellow dahlia

(583 posts)
11. And why is Article 3 of the 14th Amendment being ignored at this juncture?
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:48 PM
Jan 6

There is no rule of law!

Is there no Constitution as well?

republianmushroom

(18,530 posts)
12. Because it is way, way to political for our AG, Merrick the Meek and the DOJ.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 12:55 PM
Jan 6

It has been ignored for 47 months and counting.

LivingInASociety

(11 posts)
14. I forget where I read this
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 01:15 PM
Jan 6

Or who wrote it, but the writer opined that Garland is at heart and by temperament a judge, so putting him in a prosecutorial position was not the best fit. Too bad the rule of law has to suffer for it.

berksdem

(742 posts)
16. patient for what exactly?
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 01:21 PM
Jan 6

nobody is riding in on a white horse to save the country at this point.

Bluepinky

(2,343 posts)
46. We don't know what he's doing behind the scenes, we must be patient.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:27 PM
Jan 6

We need to wait for the right time for him to indict Trump. Funny how he wasn’t afraid to go after Hunter and Joe Biden, but he seemed terrified of Donald.

3Hotdogs

(13,732 posts)
17. Dunno. Inconsistant. On one hand, you don't give a fuck. On the other hand, you give a "big fuck you"
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 01:23 PM
Jan 6

to Merrick.

DENVERPOPS

(10,448 posts)
18. Along with
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 01:33 PM
Jan 6

Mueller............who I believe was a lifetime Republican, but didn't want to push for anything, because he didn't want to destroy his beloved Republican Party

gab13by13

(25,798 posts)
36. I have no problems with Mueller
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:28 PM
Jan 6

Mueller, under Barr, indicted or got guilty pleas from:

George Popadopoulas
Paul Manafort
Rick Gates
Michael Flynn
13 Russian Nationals
3 Russian companies
Richard Pinedo
Alex van der Zwaan
Konstantin Kilimnik
12 Russian GRU officers
Michael Cohen
Roger Stone
Sam Patten

Mueller also teed up prosecutions of Trump;

Obstruction of justice
"individual one"

The only reason that Mueller did not indict Trump was because he was a sitting president.

Bye the by, when is Garland going to release the entire Mueller report? How about the Smith reports?

lark

(24,430 posts)
23. I hope he cries every day for the way he destroyed America out of bribes, threats or just plain cowardice.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 02:11 PM
Jan 6

His wife should have divorced him and taken all his money - it would only be fair for payback on the destruction of us!

ScratchCat

(2,513 posts)
24. The worst part is
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 02:32 PM
Jan 6

That Donald Trump was never detained and interrogated for allegedly having high level, top secret documents at his personal residence while foreign nationals and known spies visited said residence, but Joe Biden and Mike Pence were "forced" to submit to interviews over the retention of a few PDB's.

If that doesn't sum up the bizarro world we just lived in, I don't know what does.

gab13by13

(25,798 posts)
28. Empty Wheel is still defending him
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:04 PM
Jan 6

What I bitched about was Garland's pyramid strategy, to only go after unwashed Magats. How the fuck did that work out?

It wasn't just Garland's failure to go after TSF, there were plenty of other people who were never president who Garland could have investigated and prosecuted.

The J6 committee even sent Garland criminal referrals for Ken Chesebro and Mark Meadows and Garland shit canned them.

Garland took Scott Perry's phone and made a big deal out of it, then gave it back to him and Perry started investigating the FBI.

The people in Trump's inner circle who Garland could have sent to prison are now big shots in Trump's administration.

If Garland knew that the Supreme Court was going to protect Trump, that makes him complicit. There are crimes that Jack Smith can prosecute "candidate Trump" for but time ran out.

Orrex

(64,472 posts)
34. Oh yes, the "pyramid strategy" has been the go-to answer for years
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:16 PM
Jan 6

"He's building a case," the cheerleaders insisted. "You can't rush these things."

It's so great that we didn't rush these things, or Trump might have escaped accountability.

Orrex

(64,472 posts)
27. Thank goodness he avoided the appearance of a political agenda
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 02:53 PM
Jan 6

Yeah, an insurrectionist traitor rapist racist bigoted felon will avoid any and all real accountability for any of his crimes, but Garland maintained his pointless charade of meaningless neutrality, so justice is served.

gab13by13

(25,798 posts)
30. Way back when Garland went public saying he would not be partisan,
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:08 PM
Jan 6

I asked the question that was never answered sufficiently, who was Garland speaking to? Democrats weren't committing crimes.

Garland told Magats he would not be partisan against them and boy, he wasn't, he was partisan against America.

DaBronx

(528 posts)
31. All the while
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:08 PM
Jan 6

He steadfastly clutched his pearls that were gifted to him by Susan Collins no doubt.

Emile

(31,596 posts)
49. That must be why he went after Hunter Biden.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 07:18 PM
Jan 6

Hunter Biden was not an elected politician and Garland maintained his neutrality.

gab13by13

(25,798 posts)
37. Remember when Garland released the lying Hur report?
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:35 PM
Jan 6

Hur trashed President Biden and Garland released the entire report.

Joe was furious at Garland and his White House counsel sent Garland a blistering letter condemning Garland's release of lies.

That argument that we can't bash Garland because Joe appointed him has seen its better days.

Kaleva

(38,779 posts)
41. But Biden kept him as AG
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:56 PM
Jan 6

Maybe you feel Biden shouldn't be held accountable for that. That the buck doesn't stop with Biden .

If one bashes Garland, then one must also bash Biden.

Autumn

(46,912 posts)
43. Biden admitted Garland was the wrong choice. It wasn't Biden's job to investigate Trump.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 04:58 PM
Jan 6

Last edited Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:39 PM - Edit history (1)

Autumn

(46,912 posts)
47. The DOJ was not Biden's job. The shit would have hit the fan had he fired the old fool.
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 05:41 PM
Jan 6

It's enough for me that Biden admitted he was a bad choice.

Picaro

(1,863 posts)
38. Milquetoast
Mon Jan 6, 2025, 03:58 PM
Jan 6

Is exactly the term that leaped into my head whenever I saw him.

He was really not the right man for the job.

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