Regardless of all the misinformation you’ve spread over the last few years, one thing remains unquestionably, undeniably true:

Your searing, blinding white hot hatred for Merrick Garland burns with the intensity of a thousand suns.

I defer to Master Yoda on hatred:

The main informant that Garland trusted in the Hunter/Joe investigation is going to prison and yet Garland allowed the bogus investigation to continue. Yet Garland dismissed the Gaetz investigation because of unreliable witnesses. Who can be more unreliable that an informant who gets his information from the KGB?

My scars have nothing to do with hate. My scars are the result of so many people attacking me because I keep posting the truth about Merrick Garland.

Why not post the Empty wheel link that is your only defense of Garland?

I don’t defend Garland, I defend reality, by refuting your unsubstantiated opinions that you present as verified facts (yes, sometimes you include actual facts in your Garland bashing, but only as a path to insisting on a particular meaning gleaned from those facts).

Did Garland dismiss the Gaetz investigation, or was it the US Attorney in Florida?

Emptywheel appears to be focused on the challenges ahead, and the journalistic malpractice occurring on a daily basis. She has covered the Trump investigations exhaustively, and, aside from Smith’s final report, I’m not sure what else there is to discuss unless new information surfaces. There is no need for me to post past links from her site, as you never read them anyway, or if you did, your blinding hatred for Garland kept you from understanding the point she was making.

I needs to be changed, and many times, punched in the face.

apologist kids are sporting:

"We shit on you, insulted you, name-called and swarmed you FOR YEARS and insisted the DOJ was going to do something. Ok, it never happened, and now we know it won't, but there's no way we're going to admit we were wrong. So NOW, we're going to tell you to 'let it go.' Sometimes we'll also insist you're a bad Democrat if you don't let it go. Because we don't like to talk about it. For obvious reasons. So move on, all! Nothing to see here!"

I do like your addition: the portrayal of yourself as one of the brave few standing against the many. That is just hilarious.

I will agree, though, that most of the scores of people who engaged in the swarming have been reasonable enough to admit their mistake. Only a handful still insist that the glaring evidence of their obvious wrongness is meaningless because Marcy Emptywheel says so.

Grasshopper.

But shouldn't you be letting this go? Or is that just the people who disagree with you?

What are you talking about?

The investigation, indictment and prosecution of Trump by DOJ is part of the public record, and refutes the claim by you and others that “DOJ did nothing”.

Indeed, my original response to gab was to encourage him to “let go” of his burning, all consuming hatred for Garland, as a form of self care to better prepare for the challenges ahead. Of course, the choice is ultimately his to make. Despite the distressing outcome of Trump’s court-enabled evasion of justice, I carry no such hatred, so there is nothing to “let go” of.

In the meantime, I will continue to defend reality and the facts that contribute to that reality.

(See quote in my sig line for more info)

Also, "what are you talking about?"

You can't be serious. Really, that's too much. This is parody, right?

Sure, those things were “behind the scenes”, but much more is known now than was known in 2021-22, hence my confusion over your comment that apparently referred to DOJ actions “behind the scenes” that you seemed to imply were taking place right now . I’ve made no such claims about current DOJ activities.

Someday, perhaps we will all know even more about what went on internally at DOJ during the Trump investigations, but what we do know at present definitely refutes any assertions that DOJ “did nothing”.

My advice to “let go” of hatred stands for all of us who hope to maintain the emotional stamina required to cope and resist during the next four years. True, deep-seated Hatred is an all-consuming, crippling emotion that can cast aside love and compassion (see how the insurrectionists treated their own families, some even threatening to kill their families).

Hatred of Garland, and scapegoating him for Trump’s evasion of justice, when the finger of blame should be pointed squarely at the courts, is, as you say, probably limited to those who disagree with me.

Not sure why you jumped on this because it is so obvious Garland sat on his hands. If he had held Trump accountable early in (knowing he uses the courts to delay) rather than waiting too long and allowing Tramp enough time to rebrand, regroup and….delay.

Step by step, if you please.

Remember, anytime a “more aggressive” AG might have prevailed in a lower court on a particular issue (immunity, executive privilege, attorney-client privilege, admissibility of evidence), that ruling would have been appealed to a higher court, and a stay issued blocking any movement on the prosecution or trial.

There would have been no end of issues litigated, and in the end, the outcome would not have been different- there would have been no trial before the election.

BTW, DOJ began a preliminary investigation of Trump before he left office in 2021, and Garland launched a formal investigation, with a dedicated team of prosecutors, in June 2021. He did encounter resistance from career staff at DOJ and FBI, but, as the abundant evidence shows, did not “sit on his hands”.

Why do you ignore the critical role of the courts in enabling Trump to evade justice?

I’d be happy to read anything you post about the content of the OP. If there’s a good factual defense of Garland, let’s discuss that and weigh the merits of two opinions/analysis.

I’m less interested in reading insults directed at an individual.

Which is in itself a violation of TOS.

When dozens, sometimes hundreds, of folks have rec’d his Garland scapegoating posts without question, A handful of us, about 4 or 5 IIRC, have consistently challenged gab’s false statements and faulty conclusions (opinions drawn from facts, which aren’t supported by those facts) repeatedly and often at great length and detail with numerous factual sources.


The investigations have been closed, and the charges dismissed. There is no need to rehash the tiresome “debate” over whether Garland is the true villain in this story.

Scapegoating requires minimal critical thinking skills, and provides bountiful emotional rewards, often at the expense of a clear perception of reality. 77 million Trump voters have proven that to be true.

Not supported by facts in evidence.

There is far more factual evidence that the Roberts court intentionally and deliberately aided and abetted not only Trump’s escape from justice, thwarting Garland and Smith’s efforts to hold him accountable, but also assisting the Republicans in their transforming of America into an autocracy.

That is your opinion drawn from the facts.

Incompetence would require proof of good intentions, but poor, unskilled execution, whereas fact based reality has shown while there was indeed intention to investigate and prosecute to the full extent of the law, with a team of experienced prosecutors on hand, the execution of the investigation was obstructed by career employees at DOJ and FBI, as well as by SCOTUS.

Complicity would require evidence of Garland’s intentions to assist Trump in evading justice, and in Garland directly obstructing the investigation and prosecution. There are no facts in evidence to support this conclusion (and no, Garland moderating panels at the Federalist Society nor the passage of time between the launching of the investigation in June 2021 and the indictments are not PROOF! of Garland’s complicity)

been walking away laughing while the DOJ was prosecuting obscure and rarely enforced technical laws against Democrats.

Quotes from imaginary Yoda are not really assuaging at this point.

Without all the facts, the story is incomplete.

Other than Hunter Biden, which Democrats were prosecuted for “obscure and rarely enforced technical laws”?

You completely ignored the facts regarding the delay and obstruction by the courts and the role it played in enabling Trump to evade justice.

The fact is that no number of apologies is going to validate the slow walking and milquetoast handling of Republicans by Garland's DOJ.

Lots of MAGA insurrectionists (who I’m assuming are republicans) are behind bars.

Trump is not, and that isn’t due to any “slow walking and milquetoast handling” (your subjective opinions not supported by the facts), but is largely due to delays and obstruction by the courts.

As I said in another reply, pick your preferred AG- Schiff, Kirschner, Weissman, Yates, etc. and the outcome - no trial before the election- would have been the same.

And the big fish swam away.

Trying to overthrow the government seems pretty political to me and any actual moves to hold Trump accountable would have been made totally political by the Republicans anyway, so I guess Garland just chickened out?

You can dissect it and split hairs claiming facts, but overall, Garland let Trump and the Republicans slide.

It was the courts that allowed him to swim away.

As for the medium size minion fish, it was Jack Smith , not Garland, who declined to seek indictments of those co-conspirators (although most were identified as unindicted co-conspirators). If the courts hadn’t obstructed justice, and Trump went to trial, those co-conspirators would have likely been called as witnesses and pressured to flip.

Well, it turned out that's for damn sure.

Precious little law or order resulted from Garland's tenure.

According to Bob Woodward, his inner circle--people closest to him--pushed for Garland.

Source: WAR, by Bob Woodward

It's the same reason Biden initially would not pardon Hunter...

Until he realized, with the election of Trump, that Americans don't give a shit about appearance of impropriety.

If Biden had fired him and the subsequent AG's actions resulted in pro-Biden or anti-Trump outcomes, then Biden, the AG, and the outcomes would have been attacked 24/7 by the reichwing propaganda machine and every Republican in government.

It was a mistake to pick Garland, a mistake that Biden openly acknowledged. But by then it was too late to replace him.

....that the person who pushed Garland into AG job is the same person who is or was personal attorney for the Trump crime family to know that Garland for AG was an op.

AKA "Mistress of Disaster" for questionable decision making in the past.

Now there is a rush to get him sentenced January 8th, I believe. Smirnov has dirt on everyone, including Congressional Magats.

Something is rotten in Denmark with the push for an early sentence. Marcy Wheeler is laughingly calling what Smirnov did and what Hunter did to be similar, give me a fucking break.

Musk/Trump may want to get Smirnov sentenced during Joe's presidency and that will give Trump an excuse to pardon a Putin stooge. Trump will claim, as Marcy has claimed, that Smirnov got too stiff of a sentence. Smirnov won't have to worry about going near windows in high buildings.

His judgement or lack thereof is profound and I hope the little weasel does not get a Presidential pardon.

Not to mention all the posters "self deleting."

I'm not even typing her gd name.

Every time it back fires.

and I have zero proof about this but something smelly is going on at DOJ. It usually takes 3 months to sentence someone and Smirnov wants to be sentenced in less than 30 days.

I am saying that Musk/Trump are working out the best logistics for him to pardon a Russian mole FBI informant.

Marcy Wheeler is claiming that what Hunter and Smirnov did should have gotten similar sentences, that is a joke. So when Smirnov is sentenced while Joe is still president once Trump takes over he will quickly claim that the Biden justice department overreached in its sentencing so then Trump will have an excuse to pardon a Russian mole.

Maybe Garland is clueless as to what is going on?

Bookmark this post, if I am wrong and Trump does not pardon or commute Smirnov's sentence, I will own up to it.

am sitting, it reads like an extremely sexist insult.

Russian assets will be at the top of the list. The rule of law is only going to be used for retribution. Pam Bondi will make Garland (weak pos) look like Atilla the Hun to actual criminals in government.

*Spell check won't let me type piñata.

it's a scary world out there!

Dean Obeidallah was right...

We Democrats need fighters and Garland was not a fighter.

Garland did not do his job to protect our democracy. The end result speaks for itself.

Wonder why Pre. Obama ecccommended gutless Garland to be an S S Court Justice ?

I doubt we will ever see anything of substance. Its likely under review by garland.

He probably ran out of black ink.

Yes, indeed it was.

Thou shalt not suggest that Garland is anything less than a paragon of justice, alacrity, and propriety.

another tireless defender of the law.

Do you think we will ever see his unredacted report? Probably when we see Smith's.

His appointment is coming to an end. What’s the point of complaining?