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no_hypocrisy

(54,636 posts)
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 08:39 PM 19 hrs ago

Pam Bondi

I revisit my education and experience for undergraduate and graduate schools.

I have a total of nine years, three diplomas. I am both a certified public school educator and a certified attorney.

I graduated from an independent women's college, so I learned to be prepared to participate and to speak up with confidence. Unfortunately, that didn't translate into law school where clumps of beer-drinking male compatriots had no problem sneering and jeering at me when I could answer a question they couldn't. Meant to humiliate me.

At this point, maybe I would have dropped out or let them control who I was. Or become Pam Bondi and let nobody touch me. I would be right no matter what. Or Woody Allen in The Front, where he refused to answer any question.

I promise that I never observed a Pam Bondi in any of my law school classes. If anything, I witnessed women more brilliant than my college. I wanted to be more like them. And yes, there were times I could answer questions that they couldn't.

Pam Bondi is an embarrassment to all attorneys, but particularly to women attorneys who had to work twice as hard to be get into law school and three times as hard to graduate and pass the Bar.

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Ocelot II

(129,858 posts)
2. No, that's Alina Habba.
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 09:06 PM
18 hrs ago

She is, or at least was, general counsel for her second husband's parking garage company. Bondi is the former Florida AG who took a 25K campaign contribution from Trump and then dropped the state's fraud investigation of Trump University. Lindsey Halligan is an insurance attorney who was Trump's appointee as interim U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia until a judge held she had been unlawfully appointed. Unfortunately Trump has a fair number of female attorneys who are embarrassments to the rest of us, and who seem to have no qualifications beyond looking like vapid Fox News blondes.

NBachers

(19,306 posts)
3. When my sister started practicing law, the judge asked her if she was 16 yet. Many underestimated her, and paid ruefully
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 11:18 PM
16 hrs ago

As a criminal defense lawyer on speed-dial by many respected members of the statewide legal community and beyond, she paid her dues and still fights the good fight.

What you say is true.

BigmanPigman

(54,853 posts)
4. She's not just an affront to female lawyers
Sat Feb 14, 2026, 11:34 PM
16 hrs ago

but is an affront to women general. Actually she is an affront to human beings in general. She is the prime example of the very old stereotype of dumb blondes. I'm surprised she doesn't have a nickname yet like "Blondie".

If she were on the Dems' side tRump would have made a derogatory, immature "Blondie" post or maybe he could have combined two for one..."Blondie the piggy" (before she lost 50 pounds).

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