MGAnon Ad Nauseam

In his desperation to MGAnon baselessly some more, Elie is going to bitch that Garland is not enforcing PA's laws on sweepstakes for them. https://t.co/MpCtMuYzpf

— emptywheel (bluefin tuna) (@emptywheel) October 28, 2024

One sovereign is not greater than the other in all matters.

And to the argument Garland should have acted on 1/21/21 (yes, that’s the reply tweet), or even the day he was approved by the Senate, recall the lesson of the 64 challenges to the 2020 election, all of which were rejected. Why? Say it with me now: “LACK OF EVIDENCE!”

Which leads into this:

Reupping, to stave off more MGAnonery. Here's what the timeline of the Jan6 investigation really is.

4/21 to 9/23: Exploit phones
4/22 to 12/22: J6C delay on transcripts
6/22 to 4/23: Executive Privilege fights
8/23 to 12/23, 8/24 to present: Prosecution
12/23 to 8/24: SCOTUS

— emptywheel (bluefin tuna) (@emptywheel) October 28, 2024

Criminal indictments have to go through grand juries (it’s in the constitution), and grand juries have to be presented with evidence. Which is why the preliminary to going to the grand jury is an investigation. There are also issues of due process (privilege, 5th amendment rights, etc.) As I’ve said ad nauseum, reality is not a TeeVee show.  Knowing someone is guilty and proving it in court: two very different things.

“Lock ‘im up!” is MAGA’s idiot cry. It doesn’t suddenly become clever when we do it.  Expecting Merrick Garland to have magic prosecutorial powers is Trumpian shit. Leave that stupidity to MAGA.

He who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself; and if you gaze too long into the abyss, the abyss will gaze into you.

I’m not a fan of Nietzsche, but he got that one exactly right.