When Balint’s time expired, and the out lawmaker yielded back, Bondi asked for a moment to respond, and used it to go on the offensive: “You didn’t ask Merrick Garland anything about Epstein,” she said. Balint shot back: “Weak sauce.”
Bondi then escalated: “And with this anti-Semitic culture right now, she voted against a resolution …”
Balint cut her off: “Oh really? Do you want to go there, attorney general?” she said. “Talking about antisemitism to a woman who lost her grandfather in the Holocaust?”
The lawmaker then got up and left the room.
None of her “testimony” was meant for anything but carefully edited clips to be farmed and replayed by millions of non-Americans on twitter to make a few dollars at the end of the month.
This is just the same rotting attention-economy that made us hate the internet and killed youtube and twitch but being applied to executive and legislative politics. They are not interacting with or engaging with the reality they’re being slapped with, they’re coasting on media frenzy and their waning political capital in the form of 28% of the population who are armed, illiterate and angry enough to march anywhere they’re directed.
Yeah it really seemed like more democrat performative bullshit to pretend to be doing something while doing nothing.