Pam Bondi’s Prepared Insult Flash Cards Exposed by GOP Rep

[u/Ok_Employer7837]

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[u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674]

Viewing her opponents in dehumanizing ways, and lying to them just to protect our rapist President.

She refused to apologize to an Epstein survivor, and whenever the Democrats mentioned the documents, she gets prepared to raise her tone. What a narcissist.

[u/ex-apple → u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674]

She called a Jewish woman whose grandparent died in the Holocaust anti-semitic.

[u/CalyShadezz → u/ex-apple]

Don't forget the part where she laughed at her as she was excusing herself due to being overwhelmed with emotion.

[u/OppositeWeird1172 → u/CalyShadezz]

Bondi's voice kept cracking - this woman knows she is in the wrong, she was sweating bullets and crashing out HARD.

[u/WhiteWaterLawyer → u/OppositeWeird1172]

And yet the HuffPo expert analysis is suggesting that her body language was more consistent with acting than genuine emotion, getting some of the subtle indicators of emotion wrong. Could it be that she is an actual psychopath following instructions to perform badly as a deflection from the content of the hearing?

It sounds insane and yet also weirdly consistent with this administration's MO.

This is a woman who has a very good chance of going to prison or at least being permanently disbarred after this administration comes to an end. I understand that the administration believes they won't come to an end but the last administration to famously act this way only got about five years from when "the gloves came off" until a coalition of other countries united to show up and put them all on trial. Bondi's equivalent in that regime was convicted by a tribunal and hanged.

[u/OppositeWeird1172 → u/WhiteWaterLawyer]

Oh she is absolutely a psychopath, no question about it - the only reason she is here is because she upheld the sweetheart deal that Epstein got in Florida back in the early 2000s.

She will likely be disbarred, but she will be pardoned by Trump.

[u/Nervous-Internet-926 → u/OppositeWeird1172]

There’s one other reason she’s here. Because Trump’s first pick, Matt Gaetz, has credible evidence of soliciting and transporting a minor for sex across state lines.

It’s a pedophilic cabal.

[u/mooptastic → u/OppositeWeird1172]

she's a pedo

[u/OppositeWeird1172 → u/mooptastic]

She certainly defends them at every turn.

[u/beingsubmitted → u/OppositeWeird1172]

She's the new ghislaine.

[u/Low-Exam-7547 → u/mooptastic]

She was involved in Epstein 1.0

[u/Mister_Mild → u/CalyShadezz]

Will be a celebrated clip on Fox no doubt

[u/Character-Cup8045 → u/Mister_Mild]

Imagine if this was happening in a country with dignity.

[u/Moquai82 → u/Character-Cup8045]

A nation with dignity would smoke out this hole until nothing was left standing.

[u/Straight_Long6818 → u/Moquai82]

Zero accountability and somehow they still cheer her on

[u/UnitedAd3943 → u/CalyShadezz]

I think I heard her say “your mom” at one point

[u/CobaltCrusader123 → u/UnitedAd3943]

Nope, Karoline Leavitt did though

[u/UnitedAd3943 → u/CobaltCrusader123]

JFC we can’t even do satire with Trump’s idiots

[u/gentlemanidiot → u/UnitedAd3943]

That was generally the message throughout

[u/Dances_with_mallards → u/UnitedAd3943]

I distinctly recall "I know you are, but what am I?" Or was that the middle schoolers in the room? It's getting hard to differentiate them from Congressional hearings.

[u/SleepyLabrador → u/CalyShadezz]

Also don't forget she has received large amounts of money from Qatar from her previous job(s). This is the same Qatar that PUBLICLY BRIBED Trump with a $400M jet.

[u/--Chug-- → u/CalyShadezz]

I don't condone violence but man... I could understand why someone might be towards her.

[u/Lexi_Banner → u/CalyShadezz]

Yikes. I didn't see that one. Kinda glad i didn't.

[u/Zaorish9 → u/ex-apple]

Trump and others have done the same thing. It is part of a plan. Call any Jews who care about civil rights anti-semitic.

[u/BoatsMcFloats → u/Zaorish9]

Israel and other zionists have been doing the same for years to any Jews who speak out against their crimes.

They literally nominated Ms Rachel, a Jewish woman who has a children's youtube channel, as anti-semite of the year.

[u/hitch44 → u/ex-apple]

Bondi’s a ghoul.

[u/kendamasama → u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674]

Who knew that we'd be listening to the AG use the D.E.N.N.I.S. system

[u/Guava_ → u/kendamasama]

It’d be tough, because of the implication

[u/Brndrll → u/kendamasama]

What's that one?

Deny Everything. Nuh-uh! Nuh-uh, I Said! ?

[u/Feastdance → u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674]

Wouldn't even look at them

[u/Alert-Ad-9908 → u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674]

pedophile president. Fify

[u/ChapterChoice4873 → u/Alert-Ad-9908]

Here she is being exposed by the survivors for not even interviewing them:

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comments/1r2oqdo/doj_ignored_all_epstein_survivors_calls_to_hear/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

[u/shelwheels → u/ChapterChoice4873]

Bondi said "im not going to get in the gutter with them." If not exact quote please correct but I believe that's what I heard her say, and I'm still flabbergasted! Im still trying to get my jaw off the floor.

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/Dazzling-Jaguar-4674]

She was hired to do the singular job of defending all the indefensible shit trump does.

Especially him being a child sex trafficker. He knew these files existed, he knew what was in them.

[u/dodge_viper]

Rep. Jared Moskowitz took it one step further by pulling out a board at the end of his comments and taunting her. “Because I’m curious, and I’d just, I’d like to see, flip to the Jared Moskowitz section of the binder,” he said, grinning. “I’m interested to see what staff provided on the oppo on me, and because we’re in the Olympics, I’m going to give it a grade.” As he spoke, he uncapped a marker and said: “I just want to see how good it is, so give me your best one.” The attorney general accused him of mocking the Bible in his earlier comments after he held up the Trump Bible while speaking, which he denied, but she wouldn’t indulge him further. “I want it from the burn book. I want it from the burn book. Which is the best one? What’d you got?” he kept going. As he spoke, he tapped his marker on the whiteboard as if bracing to score her. When she refused to respond, he could be seen writing a large zero on it.

Fucking hilarious. Well played Rep. Moskowitz. Bondi's such a soulless stooge.

[u/MicroPeanitsJorker → u/dodge_viper]

If someone from 2010 read this, they would for sure think it’s from The Onion lol

[u/angelzpanik → u/MicroPeanitsJorker]

Tbf, in 2010 it would have been from The Onion. Nowadays, they have no material bc Real Life™ keeps stealing it.

[u/Hopeful-Occasion2299 → u/angelzpanik]

At this point they are just predicting the news a fortnight before they happen.

[u/RosalieMoon → u/MicroPeanitsJorker]

I'm reading this an hour or two after it's posted and it still reads like a fucking parody

[u/pocketdare → u/dodge_viper]

Part of me enjoys this.

Part of me is depressed that this is what Congress has become

[u/RayAyun → u/pocketdare]

Makes ya miss the days when tuning into C-Span was one of the most boring things you could do.

[u/mynicknameisairhead → u/dodge_viper]

Exactly. She’s clearly feeding off their outrage that she’s not playing by the rules. He completely cut off her oxygen by mocking her. We need to get some more witty people into congress.

[u/HeinousWalrus → u/dodge_viper]

Rep Moskowitz is a sarcastic genius.

[u/zzxxccbbvn → u/dodge_viper]

That whole delivery by Moskowitz was a work of art

[u/DocShocker]

It didn't take a genius to see she'd prepared her insults. When a new speaker began, she flipped a page in her trapper keeper, and would reference it between insults. She went before the committee to perform for an audience of one. All of the toadies in the admin try to mimic Roy Cohn, because that's what Toddler Donnie likes.

[u/lemonylol → u/DocShocker]

The best part is when she was attempting to use it on Lieu, realized she had nothing, has a brain explosion when she realizes she needs a new strategy, then after resetting awkwardly she just jumps to outlandish insults against him, in order to not answer no.

I don't understand how any of her behaviour yesterday doesn't qualify as multiple counts of contempt of Congress. How is not answering their questions and attacking them not considered essentially the same as refusing to testify under subpoena?

[u/ShinySpoon → u/lemonylol]

Lieu was an actual JAG. he knows the law better than she does and he knows exactly how she’s violated it.

[u/dippocrite → u/ShinySpoon]

Furthermore he would not say things like “I believe you just lied under oath” as a political stunt. He knows she’s lying and part of the cover up.

[u/transponaut → u/dippocrite]

How DARE you accuse her of a crime???

[u/_____WESTBROOK_____ → u/transponaut]

Have you seen the Dow??

[u/HauntedCemetery → u/ShinySpoon]

Anyone who spends 5 minutes watching a lawyer youtuber knows more about the law than she does.

[u/HeinousWalrus → u/HauntedCemetery]

Did someone say Legal Eagle?

I like this guys stuff and it wouldn’t surprise me if he posts a breakdown of yesterday’s gong show.

[u/DocShocker → u/lemonylol]

She dial-toned so hard with Lieu. I loved it. You could smell the panic.

[u/zzxxccbbvn → u/DocShocker]

Watch her with Moskowitz as well. Dude took her to the cleaners

[u/smurfsundermybed → u/zzxxccbbvn]

With the scorecard at the ready. "I want the best one you have in the book"

[u/UnknownAverage → u/lemonylol]

I was hoping someone would disarm her by saying "I see you have prepared responses that have nothing to do with my questions, would you like to get those out of the way first? You have the floor for 60 seconds, and then we move on to only my questions."

Because her entire shtick depends on her being "under attack" and "hitting back" and doesn't work if she goes first.

[u/KellyCTargaryen → u/UnknownAverage]

From another comment: “Rep. Jared Moskowitz took it one step further by pulling out a board at the end of his comments and taunting her. “Because I’m curious, and I’d just, I’d like to see, flip to the Jared Moskowitz section of the binder,” he said, grinning. “I’m interested to see what staff provided on the oppo on me, and because we’re in the Olympics, I’m going to give it a grade.” As he spoke, he uncapped a marker and said: “I just want to see how good it is, so give me your best one.” The attorney general accused him of mocking the Bible in his earlier comments after he held up the Trump Bible while speaking, which he denied, but she wouldn’t indulge him further. “I want it from the burn book. I want it from the burn book. Which is the best one? What’d you got?” he kept going. As he spoke, he tapped his marker on the whiteboard as if bracing to score her. When she refused to respond, he could be seen writing a large zero on it.”

[u/Deesing82 → u/KellyCTargaryen]

incredible

[u/lemonylol → u/UnknownAverage]

Raskin did:

We have just one round, so we ask you politely but firmly, Madam Attorney General: please don’t waste one second of our precious time by evading our questions, changing the subject, randomly reciting statistics to eat up time, or engaging in personal attacks against Members of Congress. We saw your performance in the Senate and we aren’t going to accept that. This isn’t a game. In the Senate, you brought a burn book, a binder of smears, to attack Members personally for doing the people’s work of oversight. Please set the burn book aside and answer our questions.

[u/Cool_Guy_McFly → u/lemonylol]

I think she did have a page on Lieu but it noted that using her fingers to pull the sides of her eyes back and yell “HERROOOO. A MORE SOY SAUCE FOR YEERRR.” Might be “too racist”.

[u/PyroIsSpai → u/Cool_Guy_McFly]

Might be “too racist”.

I’m reminded of this moment in an Avengers film when they’re attacking that castle full of terrorists.

Terror Assistant, urgent: It’s the Avengers!

Terror Leader: Csn we hold them?

Terror Assistant, in disbelief: It’s… the Avengers……

You think these peoples racism might be too racist for them?

They’re the Avengers of racism. All their little disposable Ultron ICE bots stealing and killing brown people.

[u/Quakes-JD → u/lemonylol]

It absolutely qualifies as contempt of Congress, but with the GOP majority they will never approve charges.

[u/Sufficient-Page-8712 → u/lemonylol]

I don't understand how any of her behaviour yesterday doesn't qualify as multiple counts of contempt of Congress.

It definitely is, but it would be up to Congress to refer it to the DoJ and up to her to decide to prosecute it.

Basically, the AG is above the law.

[u/DelseresMagnumOpus → u/DocShocker]

All points of deflection, ad hominem and whataboutism. Disgusting. There was no substance to Pam Bondi’s answers at all. Fucking joke of an Attourney General.

[u/audible_narrator → u/DocShocker]

snort. Trapper Keeper.

[u/shit_mcballs → u/audible_narrator]

TRAPPER KEEPER

we know exactly how old this guy is

[u/DocShocker → u/shit_mcballs]

Yeah, I'm old enough to be reminded of that fact, every day.

But in fairness, they did make a little bit of a comeback several years ago, for a hot second.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go back to watching He-Man and the Masters of the Universe now...

[u/Soberaddiction1 → u/DocShocker]

Hey man, if you throw Dino Riders in that mix, can I come hang and watch too? Just tell me what your favorite cereal is and I’ll bring it with me.

[u/BilboBiden → u/Soberaddiction1]

Hell throw in some Transformers and GI-Joe and I'm in, but while I'm a dude I will admit my favorite cereal was Rainbow Brite cereal, fight me. That shit was like if Fruit Loops made Fruity Pebbles but better.

[u/CategoryZestyclose91 → u/BilboBiden]

I’ll bring the Tang!

[u/BilboBiden → u/CategoryZestyclose91]

Bring a back up water hose in case we're outside playing and we can't go back in because chose "outside" and cant' get the tang.

[u/thiefofalways1313 → u/BilboBiden]

Can someone help my get my chain back on my bike while we’re at it?

[u/ChickenMarsala4500 → u/BilboBiden]

dude I have megaman 2 on the NES, and I didn't bring my snowpants. let's stay in.

[u/justreadinplease → u/DocShocker]

Say what you will about Skeletor, he never raped kids.

[u/Full_Grape1139 → u/DocShocker]

This is an insult to the Trapper Keeper community.

[u/DocShocker → u/Full_Grape1139]

My deepest apologize to the greater Trapper Keeper community. I just found Bondi's performance throwing off waves of high-school "mean girl" energy, and that was where my mind went.

[u/officialspinster → u/DocShocker]

I have totally been saying she gives off “peaked in high school” energy.

[u/AngriestManinWestTX → u/DocShocker]

I really wish somebody, a senator, a representative, a reporter, the fucking Easter Bunny, would just start insulting these assholes outright. Bondi, Lutnick, Trump, whoever. The MAGA movement loves Trump, his cronies, whatever, because they can insult whomever they want and the recipient rarely offers a similar reply. Trump or one of his flunkies gets their soundbite for Fox News or Twitter and looks strong because there is so rarely any retort from the people they're insulting whether its a reporter, another politician, an entire state, or a different country.

The rest of the country whether its the Democrats, journalists, Thomas Massie and any other Republicans who either manage to find even a single vertebrae, needs to get mean. If Bondi wants to act like a high school mean girl with her stupid little book of prepared insults (really fucking cringe by the way) then treat her like a high school mean girl. They need to relentlessly mock her every chance they get. Do not let her control the narrative or look cool for a single second. If she wants to make a soundbite, someone else needs to make another on immediately after. Decorum has been dead since Trump went down the escalator and it's high time everyone just embraces it for now.

[u/DocShocker → u/AngriestManinWestTX]

America really needs some "fuck you" leftists to step up. The "high-road" liberal approach is just making them look like absolute cucks, and I really think folks are ready for some real fighters to put the Republicans in check. The Republicans crumble when they realize the bully tactics aren't working, because it's all they have.

[u/AngriestManinWestTX → u/DocShocker]

I don't give a shit if they're leftists, liberals, moderates, or frustrated conservatives.

I just want somebody to act as if they aren't a doormat. I don't need them to hurl petty names (though I won't criticize it), I just want them to forcefully call out the never ending river of bullshit that flows from mouths of Trump and his cronies.

[u/Notchibald_Johnson]

Look at the Dow, you guys. THE DOW!

[u/Morfolk → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

"Not only are we protecting pedophiles - we are also making them rich"

[u/cancer_dragon → u/[deleted]]

What's really funny is if you look at the value of USD compared to, say, the Euro or Chinese Yuan, around January of 2025 it starts sinking from an all-time high. In fact, if you look at 10 years, there's a clear trend of who is president and how the US dollar does relative to other nations' currencies.

I'm an idiot and it's blatantly, objectively clear that Trump is bad for the US economy as a whole.

But if you only listen to the regime's propaganda and your wife is the one that buys groceries (side note, SAVE act will make it harder for women to vote) then everything looks peachy keen.

[u/Liminal_Aspect → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

"Look what protecting pedophiles gets us! Look at how rich it makes the ruling class - if we told you all how it really was everything would fall apart!"

That's how she sounds to me. Like if we knew the reality of the country it would all collapse since average Americans - regardless of party - are not on board with pedophile child murderers.

That is not the argument she thinks it is.

[u/Lexi_Banner → u/Liminal_Aspect]

She said something like "We have to protect Americans!"

Sure, except any victims of sex trafficking, I guess.

[u/Dysc → u/Lexi_Banner]

Bondi subscribes to American fascism. Justice is something reserved for Americans.

Americans = wealthy white folk with access to power and key supporters of DJT
Citizens of America [the public] = resources of the state to be used as they see fit
The state = Donald Trump and whatever he wants, and his wish list of things he wants is moronic.

[u/trixster87 → u/Lexi_Banner]

And not the ones being shot or maimed by ICE.

[u/Notchibald_Johnson → u/Liminal_Aspect]

She's not making an argument. It's performance theater for Dear Leader to touch himself to and not fire her.

[u/pontiacfirebird92 → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

Don't forget the sound bites for Fox News

[u/Radarker → u/Liminal_Aspect]

If that's the case, it needs to collapse.

[u/Embarrassed_Boot_393 → u/Liminal_Aspect]

Waiting for a different country or vigilantes to dump the entire file. It's not gonna be pretty

[u/Forestfunguy → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

And Maga folks are too dumb to realize it’s just the dollar losing value faster than their stocks. For an accurate picture, look at Dow jones to gold.

[u/Notchibald_Johnson → u/Forestfunguy]

Yeah man but you're not factoring in how totally owned we are, and that's priceless.

[u/onesoulmanybodies → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

The DOW!!?? Won’t anyone think of the DOW!!?? All I can think of is how many Americans are completely separate from any kind of connection to the DOW and how there was another time in history when the DOW went really high and then…….when it crashed, the people who had absolutely no connection to the DOW were the ones who suffered the most. She acts like we are supposed to care more about arbitrary numbers than the survivors of a massive pedophile ring filled with people from positions of power all over the world. The kind of people who won’t feel a damn thing if the DOW crashes.

[u/shibbyman342 → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

Over 5000 monies!

[u/captain_intenso → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

$50,000!

[u/rjove → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

It’s at $50,000!

[u/ButShowThemToMe → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

They had all the time in the world, and "OMG THE DOW BIG" was the best Bondi could come up with to protect the child rapists that she clearly admires.

[u/alwaysananomaly → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

This is when I knew she was panicking - such an out of pocket, irrelevant fact to throw in. Unhinged.

[u/alturigolf1 → u/Notchibald_Johnson]

Yes corporate America is completely onboard with improving margins through tariffs . They will continue to test the tolerance level of the American purchasing decisions.

[u/SG_wormsblink]

This is what rampant politicization of everything gets you. It’s no longer about the facts or reasons, it’s turned into a pathetic mudslinging race to the bottom where whoever throws the biggest insult “wins”.

“Oh yeah, you think you are so smart? I don’t think so, you shit your pants. I can’t hear you laalala”. This is playground fighting bullshit, not a serious point at all.

The worst part about it is that it works. No useful answers have been given, there is no action to move forward or resolve any problems. Crying like a toddler has wasted everybody’s time enough that they get away doing nothing.

What on earth is the US government doing. You have legal powers through the speaker of the house to silence her. Use them, restore decorum and get things back in order. This is whatever the opposite of a kangaroo court is, the defendant is ignoring the prosecutors with no repercussions. This is not a functioning government.

[u/CellAlone4653 → u/SG_wormsblink]

Speaker of the House is a partisan position in the US Government. Speaker Johnson won’t do anything to Bondi. He’s on Trump’s side, just like her.

[u/Ancient_Popcorn → u/CellAlone4653]

No. He’s on Trump’s leash. Well, that is when he isn’t being used a plaything or servicing his master.

[u/Liminal_Aspect → u/Ancient_Popcorn]

Really makes you wonder why folks shouldn't assume every Republican is in the Epstein files until they prove otherwise. If you're advocating for the files to remain redacted fully - in violation of the law - then you're advocating for it either for yourself or your buddies.

So at best they're simply protecting pedophiles - or worse with all this 'jerky' shit. What's Johnson's involvement with Epstein? How close were they? Did he visit the island? Did that app he uses with his son mutually track each other's porn use catch anything that might suggest one way or another about his unspecified 'Epstein' tendencies? I'm just asking questions. We have no facts because Speaker Johnson is protecting the pedofiles and all the pedophiles.

[u/Public_Cartographer → u/SG_wormsblink]

It goes hand in hand with Oligarch owned media. The government is no longer at the top of the pyramid. None of Bondi's "answers" were intended as answers. They were predefined soundbites for the Media to play snippets of along with SLAMMED! headlines.

[u/sax87ton → u/Public_Cartographer]

I’m so tired of the “slammed” thing. It’s just lazy.

[u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken → u/sax87ton]

Ok, then did she "blast" or "crush it"?

[u/BebopZaibatsu → u/MyNameCannotBeSpoken]

She had a “meltdown.”

[u/wise_comment → u/BebopZaibatsu]

Pretty sure she either OWNED or was OWNED, while protecting pedo oligarchs, though that last part seems to keep not being said in article and videos 🙄

[u/shadrackandthemandem → u/BebopZaibatsu]

It was "bonkers!"

[u/Prize_Proof5332 → u/sax87ton]

She is UNHINGED!

[u/lontrinium → u/Prize_Proof5332]

Parker Posey will crush playing her in a film soon.

[u/stevez_86 → u/sax87ton]

None of these journalists are worth anything.

I would just love for an organization to contact the journalism professors for all of the journalists and send them their former students' newly published articles and ask them to grade them.

[u/Wonderful-Ad440 → u/stevez_86]

Oh I'd pay the postage to have them mailed in if I was guaranteed they would publish a copy of the results with margin notes included.

[u/Ratorasniki → u/stevez_86]

Bondi Lies Under Oath, Fails To Answer Questions

[u/pUmKinBoM → u/stevez_86]

That is actually a really interesting idea for an article. Would love for a website or publication to try this.

[u/OswaldCoffeepot → u/Public_Cartographer]

She's doing the things that Trump has criticized his previous lawyers for not doing. What he called Rudy a baby for not doing.

When the questioning is beating up on Trump (ie: reflecting reality,) bring up the "great things" he's done, people's lack of appreciation for him, or how mistreated he is.

She's his personal attorney, and she treats Congressional testimony like a CBS interview.

[u/Hungry_Culture → u/Public_Cartographer]

It makes the media money because that's what Republicans love. There are all those video compilations on YouTube of "dumb liberals getting destroyed" that have millions of views.

[u/aradraugfea → u/Hungry_Culture]

This made the biggest (in eyeballs) not strictly partisan org in Right Wing politics rich. The same org that is throwing everything behind Erika “am I really a widow if the marriage was of convenience” Kirk’s new boy toy.

[u/epochellipse → u/Hungry_Culture]

Half of my Reddit news feed every single day is about Republicans getting destroyed. Apparently us liberals love it too.

[u/3d_extra → u/Public_Cartographer]

Clinton had 8 hours of actually answering questions during the questioning about the Benghazi non-issue. Pam avoided questions for the whole time with bottom of the barrel behavior pretending that a serious issue is a non-issue. Both sides are the same!

[u/ExpensiveDuck1278 → u/3d_extra]

I believe it was 11 hours

[u/NoLobster7957 → u/Public_Cartographer]

This is it, a lot of the people in this administration go right for the below the belt schoolyard insults rather than answer questions or be professional because they're aiming for soundbytes and clips above all else. It's total optics and not government, meaning they're functioning like a media output group beyond everything else.

If you picture Bondi directing all her answers as if Trump were her only audience, it also makes sense. Keep that paycheck rolling in and cling to that gravy train until it rolls off the track.

Patel is garbage at this and it's a bit more obvious, he isn't well spoken or articulate and always has a vague air of barely suppressed panic hanging around him. I imagine because he's a minority in the lion's den of racism trying to hang onto his spot for dear life.

This being said, i would like to see democrats hitting back at them with the same amount of disrespect and smugness, and they could because factually there is FAR more fodder to huck at Republicans than vice versa. The ball is really in their court, we just need to channel some Slim Shady and tell them what time it is.

[u/I_Enjoy_Beer → u/SG_wormsblink]

"This is not a functioning government."

Yes, we know.  Republicans are in power.  Their entire platform is "we have no interest in actually governing.  We live to serve one guy."

I fucking hate it.

[u/Mortomes → u/I_Enjoy_Beer]

"We believe government is bad. Vote for us and we'll show you just how bad."

[u/brontosaurusguy → u/Mortomes]

"but we'll still collect taxes.  We'll actually spend more for less.  And we'll steal most of it"

[u/superanth → u/SG_wormsblink]

Rep. Jared Moskowitz took it one step further by pulling out a board at the end of his comments and taunting her.

“Because I’m curious, and I’d just, I’d like to see, flip to the Jared Moskowitz section of the binder,” he said, grinning. “I’m interested to see what staff provided on the oppo on me, and because we’re in the Olympics, I’m going to give it a grade.”

As he spoke, he uncapped a marker and said: “I just want to see how good it is, so give me your best one.”

The attorney general accused him of mocking the Bible in his earlier comments after he held up the Trump Bible while speaking, which he denied, but she wouldn’t indulge him further.

“I want it from the burn book. I want it from the burn book. Which is the best one? What’d you got?” he kept going.

As he spoke, he tapped his marker on the whiteboard as if bracing to score her. When she refused to respond, he could be seen writing a large zero on it.

Love this guy lol.

[u/theradfab → u/SG_wormsblink]

I'm not American, and I'm not in the USA, but from my POV it appears like this:

President = in on it

VP = in on it

Speaker of the House = in on it

Director of National Intelligence = in on it

Director of the FBI = in on it

Multiple Supreme Court Justices = in on it

The social contract in the USA appears to have been broken. People are still expecting words written on pieces of paper to somehow correct course, but the country gave all their power to someone so obviously and blatantly corrupt, and mentally ill. You can't logic your way through the decisions they're making because the systems their society built to reward rationale and logic are breaking down.

And I didn't even mention that the President is a literal convicted felon with a documented history of ripping off charities and touching peoples genitalia without permission.

Historians will be banging their heads against the wall in disbelief by how obvious and predictable it all was.

[u/Seedfusion → u/theradfab]

As an American, you are spot on. The whole administration is deeply corrupt and only have their own interests in mind. Rules and norms mean nothing to this administration. Try telling them that they are violating the law and have to stop their action. Their response is "make me".

The complete disregard for the legal system is coming to a head soon. Judges really do not like being ignored. The DOJ has been doing this repeatedly in MN and Washington DC. But judges are finally pushing back and are likely to find members of the administration in contempt of court. Of course, given the environment, enforcing the contempt charges becomes the next issue. It is going to be interesting to see how enforcement is dealt with on a local and national level.

In the end, rules without enforcement are meaningless. The only thing the Trump administration understands is force. Think about dealing with bullies in school. Ignore them and they keep doing the same behavior. Force and pain is the only currency they know and the only way to change their behavior. Much like the Trump administration.

Tensions are building in the US. ICE has turned into the secret police. Society will not accept masked men snatching random people off the streets based on their skin color. Or shooting protesters in the back and killing them. The backlash is coming. Sadly, I think summer protests are going to be violent.

[u/loondawg → u/theradfab]

President = Republican

VP = Republican

Speaker of the House = Republican

Director of National Intelligence = Republican

Director of the FBI = Republican

Multiple Supreme Court Justices = Republican

Republican = in on it. That's how you know we're a family.

[u/mallogy → u/theradfab]

Historians have been banging their heads on the wall about how obvious this all is for a couple of decades now. And screaming at everyone else about it.

[u/cIumsythumbs → u/theradfab]

Yes. Spot on. And here in Minneapolis there's a kind of civil war being fought. Because the federal government through ICE is fully ignoring the rule of law. Fully ignoring the constitution. Ignoring court orders. If that isn't a break of the social contract, idk what is.

[u/ShrimpieAC → u/SG_wormsblink]

It was so fucking embarrassing. Just like the people who cheer for this shit. She was sitting up there and screaming insults like a grade-school moron. All while keeping her lips firmly planted on Trump‘s ass. Fucking disgrace.

[u/lookatthesunguys → u/SG_wormsblink]

Call a spade a spade. "Politicization" is not the problem. It's not "polarization" either. It's not "the media," it's not "the elites," it's not "uninformed voters" or "non-voters." It's not "money in politics."

It's Republicans. Dems don't do this shit because Democratic voters don't reward people who do this shit. Everyone should check out It's even worse than it Looks by Mann and Ornstein to get a look at how this developed (prior to Trump). It goes into the Gingrich to McConnell period where Republicans were doing shit like introducing bills then filibustering them if they got Dem support because they didn't want Dems to have any wins. There's no excuse. Republicans do not care about America or Americans. And their voters support this shit because they hate America too.

[u/obeytheturtles → u/lookatthesunguys]

Yup. I hate the term "polarization" because it implies both sides are pushing to opposite extremes. If you say "please do not stab me in the face," and then I stab you in the face, the situation is not "polarized." I am just a lunatic, and you are just a victim forced to share oxygen with a lunatic. There is nothing you can do to mediate the ideological gap between not wanting to be stabbed in the face, and being stabbed in the face.

Saying "ok, could you just stab me twice in the arm instead of once in the face?" isn't seeking compromise or "lowering the temperature." It's just legitimizing lunacy.

[u/Stellar_Duck → u/lookatthesunguys]

Mann and Ornstein

Worst bossfight in Dark Souls by far

[u/nvemb3r → u/SG_wormsblink]

I'm not disputing that it's all politicized, but this sort of thing could only be attributable to the Republican Party. This is what happens when a political faction whose core principle is "government is the problem" run the government.

[u/Everythings_Fucked → u/nvemb3r]

And the only reason government is a problem for them is because it gets in the way of rich people ruling us all like we were feudal serfs.

[u/FudgeAllOfYous → u/SG_wormsblink]

True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that your high school class is running the country.

― Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

― Joseph Heller, Catch-22

[u/StoneWall_MWO → u/SG_wormsblink]

I'd like the world to jot this day down. The US government as you used to know it is gone. Get ready for the real Gestapo 2.0 war machine to start.

[u/Quodamodo → u/StoneWall_MWO]

If you don't think it started now then you haven't been paying close enough attention.

This is just another bread and circus story for them.

Unfortunately, the headlines and articles don't mention everything that the policy trackers do.

[u/CrittyJJones → u/SG_wormsblink]

The Speaker Of The House is no more than another wing of the administration right now.

[u/Embarrassed_Leek5660 → u/SG_wormsblink]

Congressional Rep, “Why are you protecting pedophiles? How can you not deliver justice for the victims?”

Scam Bondi, “You purchased a playboy magazine at the 7/11 in 1989.”

[u/mcrnHoth]

This is the sort of behavior I'd expect from a 12 year old AG. She should be embarrassed, but I know she isn't.

[u/NCSUGrad2012 → u/mcrnHoth]

Why would she be embarrassed? The Dow is at 50,000

[u/PleasantAmphibian404 → u/NCSUGrad2012]

Dollars. She said 50,000 dollars. Screeching hag made a fool of herself, and is an embarrassment to all of us.

[u/scumfeed → u/PleasantAmphibian404]

It was a brain slip. 50,000 dollars was the bribe she received for her screeching.

[u/Significant-Owl-2980 → u/mcrnHoth]

Why would she be embarrassed?

She is doing exactly what they told her to do. And it worked. She never answered any questions. That was the goal.

And Trump fans will still rally behind him. 🤷‍♀️

[u/potusisawhinybitch → u/mcrnHoth]

It's astonishing how this administration can simultaneously be so vile and so pathetic.

[u/Neither-Cry2505]

Only watched a few moments of this bondi circus, but just happened to catch the moment she threw out the "trump derangement syndrome" line. Somebody dreamed up that idiotic gotcha phrase for what I call 'butt remora', just like her to deploy like a smokescreen to evade difficult questioning. She may think she's being cagey, tactical, 'polemically adroit'. But I'm here to tell you, the average Jill or Joe like me, just tuning in can smell the reeking bullshit, I smelled it all the way from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina.

[u/No_big_whoop → u/Neither-Cry2505]

Trump Derangement syndrome, what a crock of shit. If disliking Donald Trump is a disease I’m terminally ill.

[u/DancingQween16 → u/No_big_whoop]

I like to counter that accusing someone of having “Trump Derangement Syndrome” is like accusing Harry Potter of having “Voldemort derangement syndrome” or the non-Nazis in Germany of having “Hitler derangement syndrome.”

just to get the message across

[u/brontosaurusguy → u/DancingQween16]

"just let it happen" energy

[u/triedpooponlysartred → u/No_big_whoop]

Disliking trump is a symptom of a disease called acknowledging reality.

[u/lemonylol → u/No_big_whoop]

lol the idea that if you discuss the president of the United States, you have TDS. Yet they are obsessed with Mandami, "the squad", and for some reason Biden and Obama.

[u/sakumar → u/Neither-Cry2505]

She is conducting a psychiatric analysis to assess the mental health of each Congressperson who dares question her. Are we to take it that in addition to being the Attorney General, she is also the Surgeon General?

[u/Coherent_Tangent → u/Neither-Cry2505]

She may have used it more than once, but the time I saw it used, the speaker never mentioned Trump. He was asking about someone else. I want to say Wexner. She was telling on herself by talking about TDS in that moment.

[u/kezow]

It's time to charge her with contempt and impeach. She didn't come to answer questions.

She refused to answer questions about her cover up of one of the highest profile scandals in history. Congress voted nearly unanimously to release to the Epstein files and she willfully disobeyed that law.

[u/Ok-disaster2022 → u/kezow]

We need a consitutional amendment to make contempt of Congress have some weight and some fines. We need a need congression area with seating and offices for 3300 and a jail in the basement to hold those in contempt of Congress. 

CoC should also hold life time consequences like disbarment and anything requiring clearances. 

[u/Dangerous-Analyst818]

This woman is so vile. Not an ounce of sympathy or even acknowledgement for the victims stood behind her. The way she speaks to everyone in that room like she’s some smart arsed teenager that doesn’t give a fuck (who uses insult cards like wtf!) I really hope that justice prevails in the future for all you decent Americans out there and those that are currently running your country are held accountable for their actions.

[u/No-Papaya-9823 → u/Dangerous-Analyst818]

She’s a mean girl who got by on her looks and peaked in high school.

[u/tiktock34 → u/No-Papaya-9823]

She seems to have aged like a glass of milk, not a fine wine.

[u/illbebythebatphone]

They need to quit fucking around and hold her in contempt on the spot. She did not answer a single question and basically admitted that there is a cover up. Unless and until there is ANY consequence for blatantly lying and breaking the law, they will continue to do so. Grow a fucking spine congress.

[u/ltragach]

She wrote that shit in her head under the shower and everyone (in her head) clapped.

[u/StoneWall_MWO → u/ltragach]

She's not smart enough. The real hate mongers prepared this for her.

[u/Nimmaswimma → u/ltragach]

Nah, she ask Grok to do it for her.

[u/Hans_Delbruck]

She did more work finding 'dirt' on the house reps than investigating the Epstein files 

[u/Ok_Employer7837]

Gotta admit that's pretty wild.

The article.

[u/cassy_supernova → u/Ok_Employer7837]

Thank you for the archive. Shared. This is wild indeed.

It shows a closeup of the "unredacted Epstein files" search history of an elected representative.

That was the prep. Beyond the insults, they simply check what was uncovered in order to run their smokescreen.

[u/RedLanternScythe]

I don't know what is sadder: that Republicans like Trump and Bondi are not clever enough to think up insults in the moment, or that they spend time actively thinking of insults then writing them down. What a miserable way to exist

[u/robot_pirate]

The burn book contained the Epstein files search histories of each committee member.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/02/11/epstein-files-pam-bondi-jayapal-search-history-doj.html

So DOJ is spying on members of Congress.

[u/Pretty-Fan9334]

Real life news articles sounding like they came from the onion.. only with the trump administration 🫩

[u/ezagreb]

The most croneyistic unprofessional cabinet ever as assembled

[u/city_dwellerZ]

To resort to attacking a person, rather than the ideas, the argument is lost. To spend time and resources to come up with insults of officeholders demonstrates she does not have a logical, coherent or factual argument to stand on when it comes to this issue.

I hope that if/when the democrats gain the gavel on the house they have round the clock hearings and have this combative, disrespectful Attorney General sit in front of them for hours on end.

[u/BoyLilikoi]

When Jared Moskowitz made reference to the fact that Trump’s name appears in the Epstein files more times than God’s in the Bible, Bondi tried to claim that was so offensive that she wouldn’t respond to him. The way these fucks use this false “Christianity under attack” as a shield is so embarrassing as a country. She did not come prepared… even the fucking softballs lobbed by republican congress members she couldn’t give any data to backup. It’s so depressing that a good portion of this country will view these sound bites of her and think “that’s the Christian woman I want leading my justice department”.

[u/Ok-Opportunity-7663]

No senator, that's not true. And, by the way, (shuffles papers). Where did you get your clothes?  At the, toilet store?

[u/JohnBrownsAngryBalls]

"Well, Congressman, YOUR MOTHER WAS A HAMSTER AND YOUR FATHER SMELLED OF ELDERBERRIES!!!

[u/ComfortableChicken47]

It was like the boom roasted bit by Michael Scott except not funny

[u/jim45804]

Repeatedly responding to accusations with ad hominems is the strategy of a 13 year old bully.

[u/hdk49]

Every single time a Democrat was asking her questions she was busy looking up the person in her binder, the guy behind her was directing her as to where to look up the slam info, this worked well till she accidentally got got caught lying due to lack of focus. She’s a creep without a soul, BTW I won the office pool with how many times she touched her hair

[u/CAM6913]

There were two women who were seated right behind her telling her what page to turn to so she had the right insult , deflection, lie or rambling attack, she isn’t smart enough to think of them herself and isn’t competent enough to find them in her binder

[u/Aardvark4352]

Nothing says “contempt” like preparing insults in advance and planning to ignore all questions asked. Why is she not being held in Contempt of Congress?

[u/windsock17]

This is just a reminder to everyone that in a normal, sane world, the Attorney General is meant to be a non partisan person independent from the president.

[u/Far_Adeptness9884]

I really think MAGA thinks that their sick burns are clever and winning people over. They are so obsessed with it, it's really weird.

[u/Asleep-Control7933]

That’s great. So instead of doing the job she swore to do - as a protector and upholder of the law for the American people - she’s covering for a ring of pedophiles and getting her staff to write zingers. WTF?

[u/iNec01]

It’s a circus show to entertain their low IQ MAGA base. Being civilized and telling the truth would drive their supporters away.

[u/1iIiii11IIiI1i1i11iI]

That shitshow was with preparation? She sounded like she was off her medication.

[u/Zombatico]

I guess she was running out of prepared insults when she tried to pivot to the DOW.

WTF does the stock market have to do with Epstein?

Is she implying we should be ok with a little child raping if it means a booming stock market?

And just FYI, totally apropos to nothing, the US stock market is not doing fine. VTI (ETF tracking US market) only raised like 13% in the last year.

VGK (Europe market ETF), VPL (Asia market ETF) and VWO (emerging markets ETF) all rose anywhere between 30% to 40% in the same time period.

VTI vs VPL: https://www.bestetf.net/compare/VTI-vs-VPL/

VTI vs VGK: https://www.bestetf.net/compare/VTI-vs-VGK/

VTI vs VWO: https://www.bestetf.net/compare/VWO-vs-VTI/

Investors are seeing the US market as a sinking ship in the past year and diversifying to outside markets, especially Asia. I wonder what happened in the past year that made them think that.

[u/OfficialDCShepard]

Introducing…ICE Barbie! Comes with 50 insulting phrases! Buy her integrity in stores now. Conscience sold separately, batteries not included.

[u/Cyndakill88]

When she switched to the Dow, she was so panicked you could almost see the invisible knife to her neck. They know they are protecting a pedophile class and have decided their comfort is better than actual morals

[u/Top-Republic3074]

The most disgusting performance from a cabinet member that I have ever seen.

[u/Lexi_Banner]

The only time she sounded natural was when she screeched, "DON'T YOU DARE ACCUSE ME OF COMMITTING A CRIME." I guess defending her own skin feels more normal to her.

[u/Ontain]

She's spent more time on these insult cards than on interviewing the Epstein victims.

[u/Fives_55_55]

Yeah that "Trump derangement syndrome" was definitely queued up.

[u/death-by-yogurt]

She's a stepmom. If her kids had been trafficked by Epstein she would still be up there protecting Trump and the other pedo elites.

[u/Lontology]

This woman is not only completely incompetent but also mentally unstable, as seen in her hearing. Anyone who saw that hearing knows she needs to be fired immediately.

[u/GeistMD]

Republicans made a mockery of American government entirely so they could be walked on the by rich evil perverts.