Summary
President Biden expressed regret over appointing Merrick Garland as Attorney General, criticizing Garland’s slow action in prosecuting Donald Trump for the January 6 insurrection while aggressively pursuing cases against Hunter Biden.
Biden reportedly blamed former Chief of Staff Ron Klain for persuading him to choose Garland over other candidates, such as Doug Jones, who was seen as more politically assertive.
Many Democrats share Biden’s frustration, believing Garland’s cautious approach harmed efforts to hold Trump accountable.
I express regret too.
Hey, anybody seen my FUCKING UNREDACTED MUELLER REPORT?
No?
Shit.
You don’t need it The summary was damning. Didn’t make a shred of difference
The American people cannot read
But like it was more than a page and there were no pictures of boobs or guns.
Correct the headline. Biden expressed regret. He doesn’t actually feel regret.
He could have sacked him at any time.
We apologise for the fault in the government. Those responsible have been sacked.
I’m sure the optics of that would be good with Hunter in the mix.
And Biden cared about optics, which is why he spent a year shoveling weapons to Netahyahu for genocide.
Buddy you’re still president. Get to work.
He’s the first president with immunity and all he’s going to do is absolutely nothing. What a fucking waste of a man.
He literally doesn’t even need to worry about polling. He could just snap his fingers and give us $100 Minimum wage, order Trump gone, and then give everyone trans-healthcare with abotions on the side, and then go “Cool, I’m king, deal with it.”
AG serves at the will of the president. This whole “woopsie” I regret it! 4 years in is a little silly. How dumb does Biden think we are?
How dumb does Biden think we are?
Have you seen the deflection from his personal choices? From helping to get Clarance Thomas into the SCOTUS by attacking his rape victim of Anita Hill, to personally giving an eulogy for Strom Thurmond, to acting like we’re stupid for paying attention to his documented words from “I won’t ever pardon my son” to “I’m a one term president, I won’t run again.”
Biden is either the 3rd most forgetful president in times of convince, behind Trump and Reagan, or he is actively calling us what he is himself.
And how does it look when he fires the guy investigating his son? That’s the same shit we derided trump for doing… tinkering with the Justice Department which has long operated with a high degree of independence for exactly these reasons.
No win situation for Biden, who assumed he would get another term in office. Don’t pretend it isn’t anything but.
The minute he nominated a rightwing AG it became a no win sitaution of his own making. So you are just assuming Bidens a straight up idiot rather than him appointing Garland out of a desire to get Trump out of trouble. Hrm, well, I accept your logic that he may just be an epic moron instead of corrupt and playing the dems for fools.
Still-- He sure does have a lot of pride in “negotiating” with the right-- where he golly-gee-shucks tends to give them more than they even are bargaining for: https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/biden-debt-ceiling-harry-reid-mitch-mcconnell/
He also generally takes rightwing positions, has decades of racist statements and decades of anti abortion and anti gay rights, so I think him faking being a blue player is not out of the question.
He also generally takes rightwing positions, has decades of racist statements and decades of anti abortion and anti gay rights, so I think him faking being a blue player is not out of the question.
Biden is a 2000 Republican, that’s how far the Democrats have moved backwards in being “progressives”.
he should regret so much more
Man, this dude is admitting a lot of regrets but he’s still not trying to prevent more. Needs a couple big hits before he goes.
This is all well and good but I don’t see any changes happening and I don’t see any lessons being learned.
We voted for Biden, not Garland. Advisors can push him whatever way they want but at the end of the day it’s his call. And voters have been sharing every frustration for the last decade or two at getting presidents that don’t actually push the real reforms people want.
IMHO, in Biden’s place, The smart thing to do would have been go full Bulworth mode the second he dropped out. If he cut the bullshit and started calling everybody out he could endorse a damp paper bag as his successor and they’d get votes.
People voted for Trump because he is a reform candidate. He may not be a reform President (he wasn’t the first time) but he talks a lot of reform on the stump.
Hillary was not a reform candidate. Kamala was not a reform candidate. Both lost.
If there is a lesson to be learned here, it’s that DNC needs to jettison a lot of the old guard that have been the face of the party for the last 50 years. Get some young people with energy and new ideas and put them in charge.
After the United CEO shooting, it would have been a great time for Democrats to put the public option back on the table. That should never have been dropped from Obamacare. But there is enough sentiment in favor of it that they could probably get it through, or at the very least make Republicans pay in the court of public opinion for stopping it. Yet another wasted opportunity.
As John McClane so eloquently put it: “welcome to the party, pal!”
He was a Trump pick originally. The fact Biden kept him was so stupid. Fuck Garland, fuck Trump, and fuck Biden.
No, he wasn’t. He was Obama’s pick for a Supreme court seat. Why are you spreading obvious lies?
And Obama picked him because he was a conservative do nothing that he thought the Republicans could agree on because, and this is important, he is the kind of person that stayed a Republican even when the party turned fascist.
Kinda dramatic that this is becoming public news though huh
Man the comments. I don’t want two parties that are abusive of power. Still it sorta reminds me of why I put biden over obama on my list of best presidents of my lifetime. I hope future ones will see things like this and take it to heart. I think biden got somewhat of the proper way. Give them one chance to collaborate and if they do bullshit then move forward without them. They can’t be given multiple chances or the benefit of the doubt. You can’t leave their people in anymore, even the ones who seem moderate, their criteria for their picks is zealotry.
When does the move forward without them start, because it’s been “give one more chance” since the 1970s.
It has. biden did take the lessons from obama and as I said gave them like one chance to collaborate then moved on. It was great relatively speaking. Its hard to move on when they are given just barely time to fix the last fuck up and then folks decide hey lets try fuck up again.
“Abuse of power” means not having a tiered justice system?
No it means using power in a questionable way. Its because of folks saying things like he is the first president with immunity type stuff.
It would have been the same outcome regardless of who Biden appointed. The oligarchy will never charge one of their own.
Trump has never really been one of “their own”. They see him like Jed Clampett. He has some degree of wealth, but the elites can’t stand him. Of course that doesn’t keep them from kissing his ass as president.
