With nothing better to do with this time, the Retired Old Man watched today's House Judiciary Committee hearing on U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland (you know, the man who should be on the Supreme Court instead of Kneel Gorsuch).

There's four hours of my life I'll never get back.

"During a grueling and combative hearing before the House Judiciary Committee," the Times reports, "Many of the claims and insinuations leveled against Mr. Garland by Republicans — that he is part of a coordinated Democratic effort to shield the Bidens and persecute Mr. Trump — were not supported by fact. And much of the specific evidence presented, particularly the testimony of an investigator who questioned key decisions in the Biden investigation, was given without context or contradictory information."

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-California) accused the committee of attempting to interfere in the multiple on-going prosecutions of Donald Trump (R-Loser) by making the committee "a kind of criminal defense firm for the former president.” 

Schiff went on that committee chairman Gym Jordan (R-Maga) would have it that the rule of law should apply to almost everyone — just not the leader of the Republican party. “According to this alternate proposition, if you were the president of the United States, and you lose your re-election, you can violate the law and Constitution to try to stay in power. And if you are successful, well, then maybe you get to be president for life. And if you fail, there is no repercussion." 

“This proposition is also well known to the world," he added, saying "it is called dictatorship.”