Mueller She Wrote nails it.

[Native]

Leonard Leo, Harlan Crow, Ginni Thomas, Martha Alito, John Roberts, Sam Alito, and Clarence Thomas love it when you blame Garland and Biden for the fact that the Supreme Court stopped the cases against Trump.

https://bsky.app/profile/muellershewrote.bsky.social/post/3lbsehf5zqx2d

[gab13by13]

1. What does President Biden have to do with it?

[Native]

2. He picked Garland.

I can't tell you how many times I've seen people lumping them together whenever they're ranting about Garland.

[sheshe2]

8. Yup.

[Hekate]

32. And they're off and running again like a dog after a squirrel

[bikes and bunnies]

22. What do you mean "lumping them together?"

Garland was literally Biden's first and only choice for AG.
Isn't he therefore responsible for Garland's shortcomings?

What happened to "The Buck Stops Here?"

I voted for Biden. I would have voted for him again.
That doesn't mean I'm going to throw my critical thinking skills out the window.

Another fuck up: Not getting rid of DeJoy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, "he couldn't have fired him directly." Got it.
But he could have been more aggressive in choosing postal board members who would have fired him.

[Native]

23. I'm perfectly aware of all of that. I was just answering this person's question.

[live love laugh]

31. Are you joining those who "blame Biden" as the OP says?

[sheshe2]

34. Welp...

Who has authority over the Postmaster General?
The U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors has sole authority to hire and fire the postmaster general, the highest position in the organization. Though pressure mounts from Democrats and watchdogs to remove DeJoy from his seat at the top of the agency, Biden lacks the power to do so.
Most decisions are settled by majority vote, and at least six members must be present for a quorum. There are nine governors in total. Both the Postmaster General and Deputy Postmaster General are voting members of the board, though they they are barred from voting on certain issues like pricing.

No more than five of the nine governors may be from the same party.

Removing the Postmaster General requires an absolute majority vote of the governors in office.

https://www.federaltimes.com/federal-oversight/2022/08/24/can-biden-fire-us-postmaster-general-louis-dejoy/

[Scrivener7]

3. Mueller She Wrote has been saying, "Patience, grasshopper" to us since 2021. She doesn't nail anything.

[republianmushroom]

5. You have that right. IMO

[Mr.WeRP]

14. This. That and emptywheel have been completely discredited

[thebigidea]

21. Marcy Wheeler was full of shit the entire time. And incredibly arrogant and condescending about it

Any comment that had the SLIGHTEST difference of opinion, no matter how polite or well-argued, would get slammed mercilessly. Or just deleted. I'm never going back to that blog and wasting time on the ramblings of an overseas blogger with ZERO relevant legal experience.

[Celerity]

48. Wheeler has been a libertarian darling for ages and often went after Obama hard, yet some who attacked people here

on DU for not joining her fan club and/or calling out flaws with her also used association pathways to have a go at people they did not like.

Typical 'it is ok for me to do it, but others cannot do it to my sacred cow' gambits.



https://libertarianinstitute.org/author/marcy-wheeler/

https://theintercept.com/staff/marcy-wheeler/



https://newrepublic.com/article/135933/limits-obamas-drone-war-really



https://scotthorton.org/



https://www.antiwar.com/blog/author/marcy_wheeler/



https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/16/obama-nsa-review-group-whitewash

[KPN]

53. Darn, we been duped again!

[CrispyQ]

51. There was plenty of that condescension here, too.

Lots of long cut-and-paste answers, or rather scolding's, to anyone who dared criticize Garland.

[paleotn]

24. Agreed!

Had Garland done his goddamn job, they'd be figuring out how to incarcerate the orange bastard instead of him running for president again. Garland dithered, now Rome burns.

[Bluetus]

49. Correct. The SCOTUS stopping the cases is an issue, but

Garland taking two years and enormous public pressure to START the cases was unforgivable. We knew the SCOTUS-6 were in the tank for Trump. We didn't expect Biden to appoint an AG that would also be in the tank for Trump.

[brush]

4. Garland the AG failed to prosecute and jail trump way before the corrupt SCOTUS 6 had anything to do...

with the insurrection and giving trump immunity. As for Joe Biden, he has indicated that appointing Garland was a mistake.

[republianmushroom]

6. Agree

46 months and counting

[In It to Win It]

11. The appeal would have gone to SCOTUS anyway before the prosecution was completed.

SCOTUS still would have sat on it and held it up no matter when they got it.

[brush]

19. We don't know that. An appeal would go to circuit court from district court. The corrupt SCOTUS...

their bias towards trump would be clearly evident if they overstepped the circuit court which could hardly go against the evidence of trump's guilt we all saw on TV.

Roberts himself, with his court/legacy already permeated with public corruption rumors...Thomas, Kavanaugh, Alito, Gorsuch, would certainly have hesitated to dispute the circuit court's ruling.

There's enough blame to go around, starting with Garland. We've got an authoritative regime staring us in the face and coming to power soon.

[Montauk6]

30. TBH, when it comes to furthering their warped ideology, I'd be surprised if legacy means that much.

[arthritisR_US]

33. Yes, you are in trouble and so is the world.

[brush]

35. Don't you mean 'we', kimosabe?

[arthritisR_US]

36. Sorry, I don't know what that is .

[brush]

37. Too bad you don't get the reference, but what does your post me...

you are in trouble?

[Celerity]

47. a play off of this:

[90-percent]

52. Mad magazine

Late fifties? Maybe Wallace Wood?

-90% jimmy

[arthritisR_US]

38. Really good point. Thank you

[MadameButterfly]

41. Garland also responsible

for Hunter going to jail

[Fiendish Thingy]

7. Yup

Garland is not the villain of this story.

[JT45242]

20. Not THE villain but A villain in the story

Whether he be considered a lackey, a timid failure, or something else by later historians...

He is a villain in the story of THE VILLAIN, trump -- in much the same way that Chamberlain is A VILLAIN in the story of WW2

[90-percent]

39. Chaimberland quote

TFG is giving America "dictatorship in our time", More history that rhymes.

-90% jimmy

[MadameButterfly]

42. I think the equivalent would be

Garland is giving America dictatorship in our time
or maybe "impartiality" in our time (which back-fired just like Chamberlain's peace)

[FakeNoose]

27. Maybe he isn't the "bad guy" but he's a very big "red herring"

We all spent lot of time waiting for something to happen at DoJ.

[MadameButterfly]

43. While Brasil has indicted Bolsonaro

wiwth presumably time to get the job done

[Blue_Adept]

9. Mueller She Wrote continues to be another resistance grifter

Best ignored.

[Native]

12. Perhaps, but the timeline was for the trial to start in March. It would have gone down had the whole immunity thing not

happened. And we know who we have to thank for that.

[paleotn]

26. Immune for official acts. Is insurrection and swiping classified documents an official act?

[MadameButterfly]

44. That's why he shouldn't have waited around for 2 years

The immunity thing was a delay but not an end to the case. The election is what ended it.

[KPN]

54. Yep! A wolf in sheep's clothing.

There is growing distrust of what seemed like highly trusted sources and opinion leaders -- especially among the younger ranks as a result of this election. A lot of it extends to the Democratic Party as a whole.

Words are just words. It's action and/or lack of real action that ultimately count.

Seems to me like our party better be open to a massive make-over -- that is, if it's not already too late.

This is just a feeling I have based on what I hear from my kids, nieces, nephews, their spouses and friends since November 5.

My fear is that entrenched leadership will either continue to pay lip service or paint the disgruntled and restless as "populists".

[mcar]

10. Thank you!

[onecaliberal]

13. Who is garlands best friend? You listed him above.

Garland protected Trump and the other republicans in Congress. Period.

[MadameButterfly]

45. Garland was chosen by Obama for SCOTUS because

he thought a Republican Senate would confirm him. Biden didn't have to make the same compromise.

[Mr.WeRP]

15. That's rich coming from the folks who said Garland was on top of Trump's prosecution

Them and emptwheel have proven they know nothing.

[Ponietz]

16. MUELLER? SMDH

It’s still Mueller time for the gullible it seems.

[czarjak]

17. Real Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy

Clinton's correct. Again! Dems aren't perfect. Repugs are what they are. The Party Of The Rich. Period.

[kiri]

18. This is wrong--Biden did screw up

Biden/Garland were in potent offices, had power and authority and resources. Backed by the people.
Leo et al. did not.

The Garland failure was monumental. Leo et al. simply took advantage of the opportunity Biden gave them, gift-wrapped.

[paleotn]

25. Horse hockey!

Garland should have gone after Trump in 2021. Had he done so, the cases would be over before we got into the 2024 election. And we'd now know that insurrection isn't a goddamn "official act" as president, so scratch the SCOTUS bit. Garland dithered, now Rome burns.

[Godot51]

28. Sadly true, but

When the deck is stacked against you in a game of chance one can fold their hand, accept the loss and play on, or leave the table and the game.

Leaving the game is basically what Garland Mueller did in a game that was not a game of chance. It was a game for the rights of the people against a future fascism.

Real life is not a game. If he had been a good, righteous man, he should have slogged on against the odds. His job was "justice". He failed at this.

He shares a great deal of the responsibility since he folded in the face of difficult odds and basically gave up the game. Both moves were nothing but bad.

I'd say he left the game when he shouldn't have.

[Cha]

29. & Corrupt Cannon.

[HootieMcBoob]

40. Merry Fitzmas? Not this year.

Fitzmas never arrives.

[Native]

46. so true!

[Bluetus]

50. I guess this is what we should expect from somebody who thinks Mueller did heroic service

If it were me, I'd stop linking my own persona to Mueller. It is like wearing a T-Shirt that says "I am the most gullible person in the universe".

Not a good look for a person who wants to be taken seriously as some kind of pundit.