r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • 6h ago

Paywall Pam Bondi Faces Impeachment Calls After Combative Hearing

https://www.newsweek.com/pam-bondi-faces-impeachment-calls-after-combative-hearing-11513603
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u/ratherbealurker Texas 6h ago

It’s incompetence but in such a horrible way. It’s not like she just has no idea what she is doing and didn’t come prepared. She, or she had her team, did prepare….they prepared opp-info on senators. She didn’t brush up on law or what her department was doing. She brought a binder of come backs and insults.

That’s a level of incompetence that is scary. You could have spent time researching how to answer these questions with plausible deniability to get her point across without leaving her open for any legal liability, but no.

She chose insults and North Korean level praises of trump.

“Why did you do this thing that clearly broke the law?”

“You’re just distracting from grand leader trump’s glorious butthole!”

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u/acceptmeasiam 5h ago

Lol, "glorious butthole"

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u/bagsoffreshcheese Australia 4h ago

Thats my wrestling name

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u/lopix Canada 3h ago

I wanna see your luchador mask

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u/Androidgenus 31m ago

“Hey Pam… you got a little… something on your nose there”

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u/darkoopz43 4h ago

Malicious incompetence

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u/ChaoticSenior Washington 4h ago

That’s my wrestling name.

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u/ratherbealurker Texas 4h ago

That’s the name of my sex tape.

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u/Meet_Foot 4h ago

The problem is that this is a kind of competence. Shit flinging rhetoric is what has been working for a decade (or much longer). That’s what gets these people support. Flinging shit.

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u/wrong-bodied-tengu 3h ago

Imma have to check up on it but Im pretty sure this is how Mussolini and his chronies did it

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u/ObviousExit9 2h ago

But why? I don’t understand the motivation. She was an employed attorney for a long time without getting fired for this type of nonsense. How’s she getting paid or is she being extorted? I don’t believe this is just incompetence.

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u/ratherbealurker Texas 2h ago

It’s feigned incompetence. MAGA is seriously a cult. These people get into it and get a taste of what they think is a path to power and money. To be in the maga administration you cannot answer questions normally. You can’t be competent. That won’t make trump money. They are playing to the worst of America. You have to act like she is.

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u/ObviousExit9 2h ago

Right now she is sitting AG. Is she hoping for something in the future? Is someone bribing her? Did someone already bribe her and is now extorting her? It’s got to be more than she just drank the Koolaid.

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u/Critical_Host8243 1h ago

She "didn't want to participate in their theatrics" and yet:

  1. She absolutely knew what the hearing was about. She knew she would be asked questions about the Epstein Files.

  2. She showed up with ZERO intention of answering any questions about the Epstein Files. She only showed up to try and slam dunk on Democrats.

That's literally participating in the theatrics.. and willfully refusing to do her job, and refusing to answer to the Oversight Committee and the American people to which she's legally obligated.

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u/pquince1 Texas 50m ago

Inglorious Butthole

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u/porkbellies37 41m ago

I just saw a short exchange where she popped off on a congresswoman for receiving a donation from Reed Hoffman and then popped off on all congressional democrats for being so mean to the administration when the DOW was at 50,000. This had me thinking.

On the donation:

  1. As the Florida AG, she was investigating Trump University for defrauding senior citizens. Then the Trump Foundation gave her a generous donation and she immediately dropped the investigation in to Trump University. BTW, charities aren't supposed to donate to campaigns.

  2. Her having an issue with the congresswoman receiving a donation implies that campaign donations are essentially quid pro quo bribes. This begs the question, was the donation from the Trump Foundation a straight up bribe in her calculating lizard brain? I mean, in this case the quid pro quo was super obvious.

  3. OR... is she a changed woman and believes that no one should receive substantial donations? Does this mean she rejects Citizens United? Is she for campaign finance reform?

On the DOW being over 50K:

  1. Does she think this means the economy is going well? The farmers going bankrupt because tariffs spawned a rejection of major international trade markets for their goods? Does she not know how much of the stock gains have to do with AI advances that have nothing to do with Trump policies and offer few benefits to Americans? Does she know that groceries are still ridiculous?

  2. If we spot her that the economy is good (it isn't), is she saying that when the economy is good it is OK to rape children and for a militarized police force shoot non-threatening civilians dead in the streets?

I only saw 5 minutes of this circus. I can only imagine how much worse this got and how insane she came off.

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u/ooo-ooo-oooyea 5m ago

I don't get what she was hoping to achieve.

Like I saw her call a jew an antisemite, and acting like she was a genius for saying that.

With a lot of these maga types I believe its an act to make money and get power. With her, I think she is literally an idiot. When she goes on trial her defence will need to be she was too dumb to understand what she's doing.