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It reeks of desperation. He knows he's running out of time. We need to keep the pressure up on every front.
I wonder how long before he fires Bondi. There aren't enough DOJ resources to chase every case he demands. And with virtually all of them being meritless, she has no hope of winning them. Sadly for Bondi, Trump hates losers. It makes me misty eyed to think of her future career 🎻
It’s a minor miracle that the law even matters anymore. Are the courts not completely captured now? How?
The US, for better or worse, really is a very distributed system. It's the only possible way that a single endeavor can grow to this size, you just can't have it all centrally managed and have anything at ground level still make any sense or get done well. It also has a pretty valuable property that a lot of the people operating it really believe in the mission of what they are doing. Prosecutors believe they're putting bad people away, grand juries believe they're making decisions about justice, National Guard people believe they're protecting the country. It's not always true (which carries its own variety of problem), but quite a lot of the time, it actually is (partly because it's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy as people are motivated to fix it at the local level if things go off the rails).
Trump doesn't understand any of that, which is why even medium-sized enterprises he's ever been involved with have always been a clusterfuck. And now he's driving the world's biggest robot, and surprise surprise, the controls aren't simple and it's not doing what he wants. We're just lucky that this decades-in-the-making fascist coup came to its climax with Angry Facebook Grandpa at the wheel instead of someone who knew what the fuck they were doing. Even Trump is having quite a bit of success with it. If it had been someone qualified, we'd have no chance at all I think.
Exactly. Just wanted to say I found this insightful. A key part of historical American success is that every branch, department, and individual completes their role in the same true reality. They may differ in political opinion, but they all have the same facts.
Trump mucks it up by asserting a different, false reality every day. Nobody can guess for sure what it will be, except MAGA 🙄.
Honest people, regardless of poltics, will eventually find themselves an enemy of the clown.
This is all backwards. Those are the things that allowed it to become this size; there’s nothing that says they have to stay because of its size, and the size could shrink to accommodate the new functioning (or lack thereof) of the courts.
Those are the things that allowed it to become this size
100% true
This is all backwards.
Not sure where you got this part, since what you just said is precisely what I said
; there’s nothing that says they have to stay because of its size, and the size could shrink to accommodate the new functioning (or lack thereof) of the courts.
Also true
Exactly.
It's true that the supreme court often bows to Trump, but the DOJ has lost frequently this year in the lower courts. Even there, traditionally the DOJ wins nearly all their cases. However, Bondi's DOJ has been so incompetent that they've lost a record number. So many, that DOJ attorneys are losing their deferential rapport with judges.
It's not perfect, and justice remains incomplete and slow, but the courts are jamming up the overreaches.
One great source of information and hope is Marc Elias's Democracy Docket series which frequently covers these topics.
Trump makes Nixon look like Abraham Lincoln.
It was pretty clear the cons weren't going to get any better once they topped Nixon just a few years later with Iran/Contra....and basically got off scott-free. They even had the fucking balls to lionize Ronnie Raygun who had the most criminal administration in HISTORY (up until that point, anyway) and try to put his fucking name and visage on everything and did everything possible to start re-writing history as soon as that geezer shuffled out of office.
This - this fascism right here - this is why Fox News was founded by Nixon aides. To create this disgusting abomination and keep it wrapped up in the flag.
saying the lack of criminal charges against top adversaries was “killing our reputation and credibility.”
Yeah, i think he did that himself. POS.
Rule 1 of the kakistocracy: It's never the boss's fault. He has to be in charge of everything, he can't be questioned on anything, but it's never his fault when things go wrong.
Also rule 1 of being a narcissist.
He’s already a credible and reputable fraud and rapist.
I mean, there are certifications. He’s secure in those.
Criminal charges? For what?
There has to be a crime?
LOL, not under this so-called administration.
Remember when all these little Eichmanns had the fucking audacity to bitch about "lawfare"?
Projection, always projection.
For not blowing smoke up the president's ass. You know the best president ever.
Insufficient toadying. Or whatever. He doesn’t care.
I wonder what all this litigation costs.