Pam Bondi once again shows why she's unfit for public office (any public office)

I will never, ever get over how unfit most-if-not-all Trump administration members are not just for government service, but for non-sociopathic society in general. It is testament to Donald Trump's ability to know, from the first time he meets someone, whether they are a fellow moral grotesquery. Even taking into account the natural refusal of any decent American to work for him after his 2021 coup attempt caused a joint session of Congress to flee a violent Trump-assembled mob, you would think that somebody, at some point in the chain, would not be a pedophile-backing law-ignoring psychopath who takes pleasure in watching other people's children be rounded up by paramilitary thugs, but no. Nothing was left to random chance: If you're to work in the Trump "administration," it is a 100% certainty that you're going to be a nasty malevolent shit.

So here comes Pam Bondi, alleged attorney general, to prove the point yet again. Testifying before the House Judiciary Committee (led by Rep. Jim Jordan, because see above) in a hearing meant to clarify why her clown-car Justice Department appeared to still be hiding the extent of Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network, Bondi showed little actual evidence of being an attorney of anything. Instead, she still appears to think she is the Influencer General.

We'll mostly go to Aaron Rupar for the clips, and bless him for that. But the point I want to make here—the point obvious to anyone who hasn't had their lips surgically attached to a reality television host's ass, in fact—is that this one hearing would be sufficient ground to impeach Pam Bondi, toss her out of her cabinet position, and bar her from ever serving in government again. Congress has that power! Congress used to get very very peeved at witnesses who openly mocked them!

It's not a joke. You can see the different binders in front of her, and one of the binders appears to be an index of lawmakers with pre-written insults to hurl at each one. Who made this list for her? How many hours of Justice Department labor went into collecting Mean Girl snapbacks that Bondi could thumb through instead of answering congressional questions?

That folder could represent $100,000 worth of government labor for all we know. Or ten times that much. And that's how Pam Bondi prepared for congressional questions about her department's Epstein files.

It's remarkable that none of these hearings have devolved into fistfights yet. And you'll note, at the end of the clip, that Bondi is giddy about the impact of her gross insults.

This was the pattern throughout. Ask a question, get a pre-scripted attack from the Pam Bondi Big Book of Botoxed Burns.

This is an "influencer's" idea of being clever. And it shows just how badly Bondi is in over her head when it comes to ... anything.

The rank incompetence of Bondi's minions, and her own apparent inability to understand or care about her job, is souring even a few hard-right Republicans. And it's a shame it's only a few, but I'm again going to emphasize that House Republicans are currently led by Mike Johnson and this hearing was itself chaired by Rep. Jim Jordan, which should by itself be sufficient evidence that House Republicans would far rather rally around sex predators than condemn them. It's one of the few foundational beliefs left in the party.

But the point I want to make, though, is this. A competent Congress, if by some miracle we were to manage to have one a year from now, could easily consider just this one five-hour performance by Bondi to be sufficient reason to impeach her and throw her out of her department. There's no grand machinations to this; if Congress discovers that an impeachable member of the executive branch is an incompetent fuckwit who has turned the department into an insanely corrupt and partisan carnival of hacks, they obviously ought to act on it.

And if an impeachable member of the executive branch cannot comport themselves according to the same rules of decorum you'd expect inside a Wendy's, Congress can impeach them for that alone.

The Senate is the tougher nut, since Republicans have a near-forever lock on the institution and have already proven time and time again that they'd rather take any amount of corruption or abuse rather than stand up to the gross dude palling around with Vlad Putin. Most Republican senators appear to have self-lobotomized in an attempt to duck questions about such things.

But this is not normal. It's not even close to normal. The alleged attorney general of the United States is not supposed to be glassy-eyed insult comic who spends more time compiling material for her bits than she does doing her day job. Being disgusted by her behavior isn't just a natural human reaction, it's a simple test of decency.

So be disgusted. And file that feeling away so you never forget it, because at some post-Trump point all of these people are going to try out a "redemption arc" and the repulsiveness of their own actions needs to be eternally thrown back in their face, forever.