Garland hater ping
Yes, the pace of things is frustrating.
Yes, there are issues with Smirnov.
But if Garland is to be hated, then it would be consistent to hate Fani Willis. Garland was investigating, then appointed Smith, who charged tRump. Only after that Willis charged tRump. She did not require Smith to charge first; it just happened in that sequence.
Shouldn't haters be hating on Alvin Bragg? He charged first only by a few months, but that investigation started at least two years before Garland and Willis.
But if Garland is to be hated for being "slow", does that mean Willis was sleeping until waking up late in the game? No. There are things we wish had been done more quickly and things to dislike about Garland, but let's be consistent and steer a realistic course.
Let's realize that if Willis took her time to get it right, it also took Garland / Smith time to get their cases right.
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Conjecture replacing facts and reason.
"they should actually perform their function and prosecute the criminals and actual crime"
-They actually do. Apparently, not to the extent you would like, but that is, by definition, a subjective judgement, which is not founded in fact.
"I maintain there is space well within the scope of the law for more determination with a more firm approach and if there isn't I am left more than a hair befuddled at prosecutorial fervor and/or lack of accountability"
- The scope may be more limited than you perceive. I only glanced at the volumes of rules and regulations governing DOJ, and they areway more extensive than I could imagine. There is a purpose to it: the powers DOJ possesses are immense and easy to abuse.This is why there are strict limits to what DOJ may or may not do, and the circumstances in whichaction is required or forbidden. Determination and firm approach are, again, subjective measures, while the rules and regulations are not.
"if these perpetrators were leftist or for sure black the whole enforcement and prosecution situation would be hair on fire and harder than diamond "
- Substitute "leftist" for "patriot" (an euphemism for "trumpist"
and ""black" for "true American" (an euphemism for "bigot" , and this is the criticism of DOJ I hear from the right, nearly word for word. Without denying the institutional racism present in all strata of US government, this too is conjecture and, intentionally, hyperbole. I can easily argue, as subjectively as you do, that what you describe is, due to the extensive scope of the rules that govern it, less likely to occur at DOJ and FBI than it is, for instance, in Congress.
"Sorry man, way too passive, political, and deferential to the right."
-See above. As the old adage goes, if you offend everyone equally, you must be diong something right. Note that, like your statement, this is not an argument. The argument is in the OP.
He was stifling anything above the rube/"enlisted officer" levels until Chump was so brazen and ridiculously defiant with the records that he ran out of options or there would be nothing out of the DOJ."
- This is downright factually false, and again, doesn't pretend to be anything but speculation on your part.
"A black mob trying to sack the Capital would be too dead for court. Period."
-Probably the truest statement in your post. The National Guard would have been called in immediately. But DOJ is not in charge of National Guard, or the Capitol Police, for that matter. As a matter of fact, Garland wasn't even AG at the time. For the record and as a matter of fact rather than conjecture, of the Jan 6 crowd estimated to be around 2500, more than half had been arrested on Garland's tenure.
I think the term is inept. It's a big department and 2 big cases, 4 if you count the ridiculous unwarranted Biden cases is really pretty fucking sad. 
Words of wisdom by the other certain faction
Boo hiss to this thread. 
Unless someone invents a time machine to go back and change everything, this is now.
I don't understand people who don't comprehend that rushing a trial is a bad idea. He could be acquitted! Imagine the victory lap MAGAts would take if prosecutors weren't prepared, and he skated in September or October. It's not like prosecuting a former "president" happens every day.
Also...this rot is deep, and international. It absolutely includes Putin and who knows who else. Maria Butina happily sacrificed herself to push the "Russian second amendment" to Goober Goopers while laundering rubles through them and possibly -gag- sexing them. 
The world has seen how stupid MAGAts are. They would absolutely believe Russia has a "second amendment," especially with the cheap Russian honey pot cozying up to them.
That infamous photo taken by Russian (not any American) media five seconds after the oozing sore swore to defend the constitution, where he yuks it up with the other two fat ugly Russians in the Oval Office, for some reason Butina has been cropped out of it. She was there, to the right of them. She's another link nobody talks about anymore, one of many.
When she was shipped off to Russia, she was suddenly a "journalist" and harassed Navalny in his jail cell. I have not forgotten these things! The Mueller prosecutors didn't investigate for months or years to just shrug everything off, despite vocal cynics, paid cable pundits, and arrogant know-it-alls.
Russia has been laundering and bribing these traitors for years, and there's a lot of them THAT WE KNOW OF.
I just can't anymore with this "Garland is weak and we're gonna lose our democracy because of him not doing anything, blah blah, low hanging fruit, not doing it my way...etc." Just NO.
