I really hate how the people in charge of the systems by which a corrupt leader is kept in check are biting their nails over what precedent they might set by actually punishing a president who in all likelihood has sold out American agents to foreign actors, and definitely has staged a coup and been found guilty of at least 34 other fucking things.
What precedent are you worried about setting? The right God damn example?
…so the years of absolute inactivity leading up to now was the result of a moralized DOJ?
Gee, I sure hope this doesn’t effect their work ethic!
Well maybe they should get rid of that memo that says they can’t prosecute sitting presidents. That’d be a start at least.
Memos aren’t law
That sounds reasonable, yet here we are with criminal cases – proceedings necessary to carry out the law – being put on hold due to said memos.
Well, the insiders of the DOJ think presidents are above the law, so this is the consequence
The DOJ has over 110,000 employees. It only takes a handful at the top to stop the honest everyday workers from doing honest work.
Somehow I think thousands of employees could literally strongarm the individuals pushing corruption and holding them back.
Like, when did we forget that there’s power in numbers?
So because your boss says some dumb fucking thing, but a thousand people on your team disagree with it and think it’s idiotic… but y’all are gonna buckle down and do whatever dumb shit your boss said anyway?
Because he can fire every single one of you and replace you overnight? In a specialized government job? As if.
This could be solved overnight if ANYONE in the DOJ had some fucking balls.
“But this one guy at the top whose only power is the name of the position and in reality he’s just some schlub in a suit like the rest of us but he’s promoting some really damaging ideas for our institution as a whole… Maybe if we care about our institution we should kick his ass to the curb.”
No, Americans are fucking cowed and more than willing to just roll over and do whatever some schlub with no real power other than being their boss tells them.
That’s why we’re sleepwalking into fascism. Because everyone in a position to stop it is a giant fucking pussy who accepts zero risk to their own personal lives to keep fascism at bay. They’re far more worried about themselves than they are about the future of the country as a whole.
Oh, that’s just dandy to hear. I’m guessing they are so demoralized that they aren’t going to do anything about it.
Well good thing the DOJ spent years dragging their feet instead of actually doing anything about it.
It makes sense for those relatively powerless employees who devoted themselves to the non-doublespeak mandates of these organizations to be “demoralized.”
Come January 20th it’s going to be the Department of Justice which concerns itself with injustice against political enemies, the Department of Health which concerns itself with unhealthy pseudoscience, we’ll have a director of national intelligence which concerns themself with undermining US intelligence, and so on… Orwell couldn’t have been more prescient.
Does it matter? They’re all going to be replaced with personal attack dogs anyway.
Lindsay Graham can fuck right off with his projection lying-ass bullshit “the people are sick of lawfare, we’re done with that now that Democrats are out.”
Seems that any day that ended in a y, demoralized the DOJ with as much gusto as they seemed to lack actually charging and prosecuting, always errering on the side of caution, allowing the fascist criminal to take control of the United States government, well, as lock as they didn’t stick their necks out, they’ll still lose their jobs, to people who will destroy the entire rule of law. Good work, folks, excellent public service.
It’s gotten to them that there is no justice, even in the Department of Justice.
If they’re screwed anyway, they’d have little to lose mounting a last ditch prosecution?
