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This administration looks at empathy like it's a disease to be eradicated. Don't put your hopes in them, you will be greatly disappointed.
Empathy is one of the earliest symptoms of the woke-mind virus. Let it get outta hand, and soon you'll have mother fuckers critically thinking and shit. Unacceptable. Now where's my Brawndo‽ Like a flower, I need them electrolytes
That is her mission
The hearing was almost an exact repeat of what I have seen from Bondi in the recent past. Why did they think grilling her again would result in a different outcome?
The thing that kills me about this whole shitshow is this.
You have women working for an incredibly powerful, wealthy. charismatic, connected, bullying man. If she goes along with him she will be ok but if she steps out of line she will lose everything, maybe even be killed. It will be absolutely unimaginably horrific. She has no friends but the ones who are friends with this man, no support besides what this man allows. She is dependent on him for everything. She gets credible death threats from enemies. She derives power from her association with him and takes some pride in surviving the shit that has come her way.
Now. Obviously I am describing a woman being abused here. But am I describing Bondi or the Epstein victims?
Bondi doesn't see her own abuse. And that's the saddest part of all of this to me. She looks down on these women, thinks she's better than them. She's just like them. Just as used, just as disposable.
Bondi chose the situation she currently is in. Epstein's victims did not.
Wow. I see what you are saying and it blew my mind a little bit. Good reasoning. Thanks!
This hearing was a total disaster for Bondi. There was no hiding what a monster she is, and it's now come out that photographers captured images of her burn book which included info from illegal DOJ surveillance of members of Congress search histories of the Epstein files. Bondi is spying on Congress while they review the Epstein files, a blatant violation of the separation of powers.
I'm sorry to upend your thiughts, but the dow is going really well right now.
Isn't this the point?
That rep for the Epstein Class had every intention of going there with her little burn book to show that she's still Donvict's gal and to give a middle finger to any decent person in the country. If the victims are harmed in the process, then that's perfect, because with the conservatives cruelty is the point.
I'll just leave this here...
A psychopath is an individual with a personality disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, shallow emotions, impulsivity, and persistent antisocial behavior. While often charming superficially, they exhibit callous disregard for others' rights and feelings, frequently lying or manipulating to achieve goals. They generally do not feel remorse or guilt, and are prone to dangerous, irresponsible, or criminal actions.
Key Characteristics and Traits
Lack of Empathy/Remorse: Inability to feel guilt or genuine emotion, allowing them to exploit others.
Superficial Charm/Manipulation: Often appear normal, pleasant, or charming to mask their true nature.
Antisocial Behavior: Disregard for social norms, laws, and safety.
Impulsivity and Irresponsibility: Prone to boredom, poor behavioral control, and high-risk actions.
Grandiosity: Often have an inflated sense of self-worth.
Or in other words, she's a soulless monster who deserves shame, ridicule, and a lifetime of misery.
No one is denying that shes a republican.
Yes but not because she has psychopathic tendencies. We cannot allow ourselves to villainize people based off their birth conditions. There are a good chunk of people who due to no fault of their own were born with these tendencies, and a lot of them try very very hard to live a good and kind life, even without emotional connection.
If we start demonizing people who struggle connecting to emotions, either fully or partly, we will condemn many autistic and other neurodivergent people who happen to also struggle with expressing emotions, perhaps not as greatly as those with psychopathic behaviors.
On the front of empathy, yeah it's understandably scary to think about people without it. But again, we cannot decide that they are doomed to be cruel and malicious people without allowing them to learn and forge their own paths.
All this so say, Bondi is absolutely a despicable pile of garbage because of her actions and the role she has played in this regime. And I am absolutely never going to defend anyone even closely related to this administration. But, we must be careful not to simply decide someone's fate because of who society says they are, otherwise we form self fulfilling prophecies.
Thank you. Here's a good article on Bondi, apparently she once wanted to be a pediatrician, loved kids(!). Then she got pressured into becoming an attorney by her dad. She didn't want to be a prosecutor but got pressured into that (lady isn't good at forging her own path I guess). Got good reviews although they said she was easily bowled over by colleagues. Then Trump molds her into the AG position, where she had trouble getting into the nasty spirit.
This isn't a sociopath, this is a sad pushover of a person with no backbone who got used until she become a perpetrator. One wonders about her childhood and what abuse she suffered, or why she's got no self esteem at all.
That said eventually your actions do dictate the kind of person you are - no matter why she is this way, she's a pile of garbage now, yes. Pedophile protector, woman hater, nasty wretch of a human.
Was it because she started screaming about how much the DOW is up? (much less than it was projected to be under competent leadership)
Small nitpick, only because I see it repeated a bunch right now, I am so sorry for being annoying like this please don't hate me
It's the Dow, or Dow Jones, or Dow Jones Industrial Average, or DJI. But it's not DOW, those initials mean other things.
Again I am so sorry I hate that I even posted this I really do just mean to help and not be the ahctually person
Another nitpick I'm surprised I haven't seen: she said The Dow was up to 50,000 DOLLARS. She even hedged for a bit because she doesn't know what units we use to measure the Dow.
She could be right. They may have tried bribing whoever reports those numbers with $50,000 to provide more favorable numbers. When they found out that Dow Jones isn't a person, they probably tried to play it off as a Four Seasons incident.
Meanwhile, D. Jones is calling GDT to find out if this is a residual check.
It's the DOW if you yell it though?
Never mind the child rape, have you seen the economy!
That is literally unironically what she said, yes.
Why aren't you guys even talking about THAT?! At this hearing that's totally about this other thing!???
Also Blondi: did you guys even apologize to President TRUMP (she has a weird way of saying his name; she sounds like a cult member talking about their cult leader FFS) for investigating his crimes?
she sounds like a cult member talking about their cult leader
There is a very good reason why she sounds like that...
is dow up because tech is shitting the bed? or is GOP just rewriting reality again?
It’s up because the value of the dollar is falling
TBH with employment down and costs of living soaring I couldn't care why the DOW is up, the DOW has always gone up, I'm more interested in those Epstein questions she refused to answer in order to scream about the DOW.
The stock market is not the economy.
The market is more akin to a casino.
everyone working for trump is just a muppet, under direct orders from trump along the lines of "don't answer any questions, just talk about how great i am"
so..DOW. that's all anyone's ever going to get
I don’t wish harm but to very few people, and Pam Bondi is one of them. I would pay big money to be able to punch that bitch right in the kisser.
Funny you should say that. In this administration everything is for sale, you just can't afford it.
I'd buy tickets to that show
Just make sure you wash the shit off your fist afterward.
if you have empathy/ a conscience/ a soul--trump is not appointing you to anything
Pam Blondi the lapdog
Bondi’s the kind of person whose first response to hearing about the Epstein file, or any rape, is, “What were they wearing?”
Or checks the state of Dow Jones and uses that as a jumping-off point to praise a useless dumbass like Donvict and say he's the bestest president that ever did presidenting and did you guys even apologize to him yet?
The best part of the hearing was when the Democratic woman who pointed out that of course we are asking questions about what YOU and the DOJ did in relation to Epstein, since that's what the hearing is about. Blondi tried to pretend she was really baffled that people were not talking about all the shit she wanted to distract with, LOL.
The lack of commom decency from these "federal officials" reveals their false claims of holding certain beliefs as their own, rather than just an advertisement to gain entry to these offices. So of course it's treason when their lies fall on un-groomed ears so they are 'performing' as their freedom depends on it. The flippant responses to seasoned congress members - the newly installed beligerant and farsical congress members - the lack of quality acting is only complemented with the actual white supremist beliefs echoed and chanted repeatedly, while kissing up to thier own in the most bizarre fashion of 'authority' worship I have seen outside of B-movie dialog.
It's only a matter of time before Trump throws people under the bus, and hopefully she will be among the first.
Because that’s what she did, so it is right that they feel that way. DOJ don’t give a shit about them. Only the people in power.