Lol did this, like, not come up in the fucking job interview???
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Not only is it not House of Cards, itās dumber than Veep.
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LMAO I figured they wanted the shit to move slow because they wanted to run against Trump and try to nail the timing for the trials to be in the summer of 2024.
Biden picked Garland as his attorney general with the stated desire to restore a semblance of independence at the Department of Justice that he and others believed was lost under Donald Trump. He announced the nomination the day after the Jan. 6 attacks at the Capital ā a backdrop that Biden offered up as proof that someone of Garlandās stature and temperament was needed in the post.
āYour loyalty is not to me,ā Biden said. āYou wonāt work for me. You are not the president or the vice presidentās lawyer.ā
Democrats close to Biden fear Garland has become too consumed by that instruction to appear impartial.
āWhat Democrats do is they bend over backwards not to look partisan, and then they end up hiring people that are partisan but in the other direction,ā said a Biden donor, granted anonymity to speak freely about the top law enforcement official in the country. āThereās no question in my mind that the villain here is Merrick Garland.ā
Hereās some chefs kiss right here
Biden, for his part, has kept his frustrations with Garland private, even after publicly admonishing Hur in a press conference on Thursday for saying he couldnāt remember the year his son Beau died.
You just had your people leak it to the press dude, and in that very article, youāre trying to take a victory lap for keeping the frustrations private?
Somewhere, Mitch McConell is laughing his ass off. Blocking Garland to SCOTUS is still paying dividends OUTSIDE of SCOTUS in 2024.
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I mean, thereās not allowed and ānot allowed.ā
āWhatās a reasonable timeline to open an investigation into an executive whoās just left office?ā
āHow would you handle investigating a high profile politician in the opposing party, in order to carry out justice while making it clear you were impartial?ā
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Of course! But thatās not how this works. Iām an asshole republican lawyer who can frame your shit however you want so sorry bro youāre demented. Iāve never done a deposition, but Iāve had to do training for how to give one, and itās a giant pain in the ass. Hemming and hawing over details like that is just how people talk.
Iām not whistling past this. Iām sure this kind of crap is a problem. As you like to say, the media is in on it. What frustrates me is that you are buying this as legitimate, and itās just not.
Heās going to be 86 at the end of a potential second term. Concerns over his memory and cognition are valid, just as they are for Trump. Both have shown signs publicly of memory issues or confusion.
I guess thereās a chance the full testimony reads something like, āLetās see, in 2009 was I still Vice President? Yeah, we won in 2008 and got sworn in in 2009.ā
But I would think if that were the case, Biden would be demanding the DOJ release the tape or the transcript. So I think itās likely he was confused enough that they donāt want that. I find that concerning - like I donāt care if he canāt remember if Carter won in '76 or '80, but I am concerned he canāt remember the year of the second biggest accomplishment of his career, given that you can work back in 4 year jumps.
Throw in the dead people he referred to instead of Macron and Merkel, and heās obviously having moments of confusion.
I mean, point blank, should he be the nominee? Do you think heās functioning at a high enough level with memory, cognition, executive function, etc to be a responsible choice to be the nominee?
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I donāt think Biden has declined so badly he canāt do the job, but thatās the perception, the media is going to run with it, itās not fair but this has been known forever.
Like yes, conceded, total BS he gets criticized for not remembering stuff at a deposition when thatās totally standard practice when facing a hostile questioner. Doesnāt matter!
Also, letās say heās still 100% (heās not). 82-86 are years basically everyone declines meaningfully.
LOL, dude, itās set. Biden is the nominee for better or worse. Who else is going to run? Some unknown lightweight no one has heard of?
Thatās a related problem.
Basically the only famous Democrats who arenāt over 70 are Kamala, Pete and Gavin.
Republicans have so many more young people to choose from.
The fact that no one can think of anyone with any name recognition is a systemic failure of the Democratic party that has been festering for years.
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I think there also an aspect of its inherently harder to be a democrat because many are genuinely trying to do the right thing and on all sorts of topics well meaning and intelligent people may disagree what is the right thing.
Being an upcoming R is so damn easy, the message is so united within party.
Thereās some truth to this, but also the dinosaurs in the Democratic Party wonāt get the fuck out of the way.
A microcosm of that can be found if you look at the past few Speakers of the House. Boehner retired and fucked off in his 60s. Paul Ryan did the same, and he wasnāt even 50.
Compare that with Democrats, where in the 2021-22 session, the top 3 house leaders were all over 80 years old. Theyāve re-shuffled leadership, but all 3 of them (Pelosi/Hoyer/Clyburn) are still taking up oxygen in the House of Representatives.
I feel like this also symptom of many D (at least initially) trying to be well meaning career public servants/politicians. But Rs are much more likely to favor the ānon-politicianā who comes in to implement policies to help their business interest or comes in then goes and grifts on company boards or whatever. Obviously we gotta find a way to get the old Ds to retire but I do think itās partially explained as it was the Ds life work/identity a higher percent of times than Rs.
Dum dum dem voters keep reelecting the fossils. Repubs get primaried or leave office before getting primaried.
I mean you can criticize @commonWealth 's acceptance of the āJoe Biden has dementiaā narrative all you want, but if this is how heās reacting, I am very shook about the rest of the electorate.
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Gretchen Whitmer, Josh Shapiro, or Raphael Warnock would all be way better nominees and presidents. No current national name recognition is a good thing in some ways. It means they havenāt been the subject of a years long right wing media smear campaign yet. Once theyāre nominated, everyone will learn who they are pretty quickly.
In a year where everyone from junkies to normies are like, āSeriously? Biden and Trump again??? These guys suck,ā picking an unknown is a feature not a bug.
Picking an unknown also means you can run into campaign ending October surprises and the eDems are terrified of that possibility. Much better to run candidates who are old as hell and have no secrets to uncover because anything really juicy was already covered 30 years ago.
Gavin Newsom is easily the best realistic emergency replacement candidate in terms of likelihood of winning. Michelle Obama would be better, but itās clear she has no interest in the job. Thereās still time for Biden to go back to his original promise to only serve one term and allow a replacement candidate to be picked by the party. But sweet summer child if anyone thinks thatās happening.
Only way I see it happening is if he bombs the State of the Union big time. That could cause enough pressure with enough time left to maybe make it happen.