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sheshe2

(96,696 posts)
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 10:51 AM 3 hrs ago

Dear Pam Bondi, (A Letter From A Father)

John Pavlovitz

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This, from @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social, is really perfect. open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

Joyce White Vance (@joycewhitevance.bsky.social) 2026-02-12T15:16:59.008Z


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How does someone become Pam Bondi?

I’m not speaking about your education, your professional experience, or your career path, which are easily retrieved with a few keystrokes. I’m talking about the meandering road to losing one’s soul.

I wonder how an apparently intelligent human being finds themselves sitting in that chair in front of the watching world in a moment of such gravity, so completely bereft of empathy, so seemingly unencumbered by other people’s suffering, and so strident in the face of simple accountability.

I try to imagine how you, the person entrusted with stewarding the Law in the highest seat of power here, arrives at a place where that Law has seemingly become irrelevant.

Are the money and the power so intoxicating that they have rendered your conscience inoperable?


More; https://johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dear-pam-bondi-a-letter-from-a-father?r=5n3e&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true

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Moostache

(11,123 posts)
14. I think it goes deeper than that.
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:48 PM
20 min ago

They see their role as entitled rulers of the world. They see anyone who deigns to challenge their "divine right of kings" as a heretic and a weed that must be pulled before it infests the garden.

These people are all Dunning-Krueger masters and all believe their own bat guano. The sincerely think ONLY about themselves and only in context of what their boss will do to them if they fail to please him. Notice the remarkable difference in number of people fired in this Trump disaster versus the first one? I may be wrong, but it seemed like Trump was firing senior staff in the first tragedy on an hourly basis... These current bootlickers and bags of pus all seem to know two things - 1) they have no real skills or values that qualify them for their assigned roles and 2) the man who assigned them is a capricious fool with no attention span, dementia and personality disorders that combine with the temper of a 5-year old who never received love OR correction.

The toxic mixture is what we see everyday now...

GusBob

(8,195 posts)
5. What happened to Pammy? The Atlantic did a profile on her last year
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 11:24 AM
2 hrs ago

Where that question was asked by old friends on how much she has changed

I guess she is a huge dog lover ( a trait which crosses political boundaries I have noticed). It must've rankled her when she was tied to the puppy killer Noem yesterday by Raskin?

She used to call reporters sobbing, begging them not to run bad stories about her. She was extremely image conscious .

It was reported that the WH is not happy with the way she is handling the Trump/Epstein stuff, but DT is protecting her

The answer was she is she got corrupted by money and is on a power trip, according to old friends

Raine1967

(11,670 posts)
7. I read the other day that her mother was a kindergaten teacher.
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 12:59 PM
1 hr ago

Source: https://www.wsbtv.com/news/trending-now/pam-bondi-who-is-the-possible-candidate-for-us-attorney-general-job-/869666544/"

Her father, Joseph C. Bondi Jr., was a city councilman in the Tampa suburb of Temple Terrace and served as mayor from 1974 to 1978.

Bondi’s mother, Patsy Loretta Hammer, was an elementary school teacher in the Tampa area who taught kindergarten, first and fourth grade.

Bondi has a sister, Beth Bondi McIntyre, and a brother, Brad Bondi.



I don't know what happened to her, butshe didn't seem to learn anything in Kindergarten, or her Mom.


calimary

(89,345 posts)
8. "Are the money and the power so intoxicating that they have rendered your conscience inoperable?"
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:07 PM
1 hr ago

That would imply that you HAVE a conscience in the first place.

popsdenver

(1,903 posts)
13. The ONLY difference between
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:45 PM
23 min ago

Pam Bondi, (especially, all the women in Trump's CABAL).....and the female, street walker, crack whores, in cities across the nation is:

There are things, that the Crack Whores WILL NOT DO, FOR ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY........Unlike Bondi, Noem, Boebert, etc etc etc.......

gohuskies

(1,226 posts)
9. Worst AG ever, John Mitchell has nothing on this creature
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:13 PM
55 min ago

Truly the worst of the worst sycophants in Mango Mussolini's lawless cabal. She needs to be the first in line for impeachment followed by Noem, Kegsbreath and Patel. Her behavior and lack of empathy towards the victims of Epstein's sex crime enterprise should earn her a cell in a federal prison, perhaps Supermax for the damage she is propagating by corrupting the justice system. Obviously, she must be wearing kneepads when she goes out of her way to service and please her overlord.

popsdenver

(1,903 posts)
16. Knee pads are a pre-requisite
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:51 PM
17 min ago

if in hopes of getting a position in Trump's CABAL. True for women and men alike........

Of course, the women also have to get a "midlife make over," which obviously includes: Major Facial and Body Plastic Surgery, Liposuction, copious Melania look alike hair style and facial plastic surgery, and mostly what I call the required:
"Republican Rack"
(As well as, the mandatory, Republican Lobotomy............)

Oh, and Colorado Supermax, has isolated cells for 400? inmates....and it still wouldn't be near enough for the top Trumphumpers in his CABAL..........but it would shut down most of them doing any more damage. Those inmates have NO contact with the outside world, period. And are in their cells 23 hours a day, and no contact with any other prisoners, as well as: no email, no phone, etc....Permanently removing them from all of society...........as they should be.........

betsuni

(28,904 posts)
12. My eyes swell like that from allergic reaction -- Bondi's body is horrified by what she's doing, is freaking out.
Thu Feb 12, 2026, 01:35 PM
33 min ago

She was probably given snorts of White House Special Blend Go-Go Dust for the performance.

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