It’s kind of wild that they think Merrick Fucking Garland is a partisan Democratic tool. Politically he’s almost certainly Joe Biden’s worst appointment and has been doing them favor after favor throughout his tenure.
But in this case it seems like an entirely good thing? The offer was made by an actual friend, the guy himself wanted this, his wife too, and they’re both pretty cognizant about what this is and isn’t.
The U-Haul of protesters feels alt-right [1][2] and some have done false flag operations at protests to try to escalate conflict, but it’s certainly possible for disparate groups to use the same transportation methods. Just feels fishy.
Don’t care. I do care he took a hundred thousand dollars in gifts for this son from rightwing billionaires. He’s not important because he’s supposed to be a great dad, he’s important because he’s supposed to be impartially deciding matters of national import.
1 is yellow journalism, 2 is aggressively stupid, Joe Biden had two other adult children, one of which was a veteran, prosecutor, and AG, and 3 has been a years-long effort by Republicans which has never turned up anything to actually implicate Joe Biden.
None of those are things that an actual objective journalist would care about, it’s just a play to be “fair and balanced” and attract conservative clicks. The last is the only one that would be newsworthy if true, but the Trump children have been unarguably profiting off him and his presidency and no one has chased that story for years.
I’m happy this stupid trial might be on its way out from the news headlines. It was utterly unimportant, but the media was trying to hype it as the mirror to Trump’s trial. Literally the only legitimate news story was Biden saying he wouldn’t pardon his son. That’s it. Everything else is just news organizations failing to resist rightwing manipulation and/or their deeply held belief in finding a “both sides” for every issue.
If you check out the offending appointee, there’s not really anything in her history that suggests she’d be expected to vote like this. Like sure, who knows what beliefs she professed in private vetting, but public information doesn’t look like Biden appointed a risky choice likely to be friendly to big money.
“There’s every reason for people to believe X, but I’m not going to comment on it” is commenting on it. If your friend said “there’s every reason to believe GSF murdered a hobo for fun, but I’m not going to comment on it”, you’re not going to thank them for not commenting on it.
Biden has been WAAAAAY too deferential to Israel, and this is kind of a weak ass way to say it, but it was definitely said.
The Republican use of the “fascist” accusation is entirely about muddying the waters to imply it’s just meaningless political noise. Same way “fake news” followed people rightfully pointing out that conservatives were getting actual fake news.
I just don’t think this is Blinken’s doing, or more accurately I think he’s doing exactly the job Biden is asking of him. But I’d be happy for him to be the fall guy to mark a pivot. Whatever it takes to right the ship.