This is not a defense of Pam Bondi.
Like Kristi Noem before her, Bondi has aligned herself with a political project that has little regard for human life, institutional norms, civil rights, or governmental independence. She not only championed the project, she energized it, publicly championed it, and helped push it forward as one of its most visible faces. Such proximity may seem like power, but it functions like a carefully placed storefront to appear trustworthy while hiding the back rooms where the real horror happens. And although the machine operates invisibly, its influence is felt intuitively. Under this regime, daily life feels like a frenzied, chilling series of horrors, shaped less by stability than by a sense of constant chaos that no one in power has the will to fix.
she removal The Attorney General has now reached a moment when all Americans feel trapped in the same wheel of fate. The completely unthinkable happens at the highest levels of government, public pressure boils in multiple directions at once, and news headlines begin to plummet alongside coverage. stock market. The administration has responded not by changing course but by replacing a woman whose departure would dominate the news cycle for a period of time to breathe. This gesture is framed as a bold new transformation, or perhaps a “boss is back” moment, as if something meaningful has changed, even though the underlying structure remains intact and largely unexplored. We’ve seen this before and we’re watching it happen again.
Bondi hasn’t stumbled into the currently vacant role. She spent years building a record that made her worthy in the first place, a career that enforced a narrow vision of who belonged, who was protected, and who was allowed to exist comfortably in American life. Long before she arrived at the Justice Department, she had already demonstrated a desire to translate that vision into policy, litigation, and public debate.
Taken at face value, her resume reads more like a series of anti-LGBTQ+ ideological pledges than a record of public service.
Here are some of Pam Bondi’s works. biggest hits.
She fought to keep the ban on same-sex marriage in place, arguing in court that allowing same-sex marriage would cause “serious public harm” even as the country moved toward recognizing same-sex marriage as a constitutional right. She defended Florida’s ban on adoption by same-sex couples and worked to keep it in place despite the direct harm it caused to families and children already living that reality. She also pursued legal challenges aimed at blocking same-sex couples from accessing basic protections, including the ability to dissolve marriages, which the state itself has refused to recognize.
More recently, she has helped advance policies targeting transgender people under the umbrella of protection, supporting research efforts aimed at excluding transgender women and girls from public life, raising a sense of crisis over a population so small that it is barely recorded in statistics. What is framed as protection actually functions as a narrowing of who is allowed to exist in public life without scrutiny.
Her career has also drawn continued criticism from civil rights groups, who have accused her of violating voting rights, targeting diversity and inclusion efforts, and pointing out government institutions for actions they see as violating long-standing civil rights frameworks. Critics argue that these moves are not isolated but part of a broader pattern that treats racial equality as a political threat rather than a democratic imperative.
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And Bondi is no friend of women either.
Bondi’s record on reproductive rights reflects the same underlying logic. It opposes access to abortion, supports efforts to restrict reproductive health care, and promotes arguments that view women’s autonomy as questionable or conditional. She suggests that many women who seek abortions do so under pressure, a claim widely rejected by reproductive health experts, but useful for reframing choice as coercion. She also supported efforts to weaken protections around access to medical clinics, positioned reproductive freedom as something to be restricted rather than protected, and aligned herself with broader efforts to roll back federal safeguards.
Overall, the throughline is not complicated. That pattern holds true whether the target is LGBTQ+ people, women seeking control over their own bodies, or communities of color fighting for equal protection under the law. Rights are treated as negotiable and autonomy becomes something to be managed. That hateful usefulness is what brought her to the center of power, and it’s also what made her disposable. It’s no coincidence that the people asked to absorb that fallout are women.
Misogyny is not a cultural side effect in this machine. It is an integral part of the structure.
Women find themselves in a position where visibility and vulnerability collide, called upon to defend policies formed within predominantly male power structures, and left to absorb the fallout when those policies begin to crack under scrutiny. Their presence serves as a kind of moral cover. It’s like seeing the most immoral person you know wearing a conspicuous large gold cross as a kind of signal of virtue. This cross is a symbol meant to project justice while protecting something darker. It softens the image of the system and complicates criticism, but does nothing to shift power or enforce responsibility.
That kind of duality is exactly what makes comedian Dolsky these days. Erica Kirk’s skit was very good. Viral whiteface impressions work because they don’t exaggerate the truth. The contradiction is already fully visible, and people are responding to it with a new, or at least a new, unbridled clarity. When the public mood changes so rapidly and the desire to condemn this behavior becomes so widespread, the regime will not be able to correct its course. It seeks peace.
And the easiest place to find it is among women who are already ready to be rejected by the public.
Bondi fits this moment too perfectly. She embodies contradiction, leaves a record, and is highly disliked by the very audience who are now demanding accountability. This makes her useful in a different way.
Kristi Noem’s trajectory has made that pattern a roadmap to success. And now the pattern has become so obvious that people start writing unfunny jokes. Who will be next? Susie, Tulsi, Caroline? Let’s start betting. Perhaps the manosphere can provide valuable insights from online prediction markets. Perhaps these women have become modern-day gladiators. We just like to build it up and watch it fall apart, right?
Bondi’s usefulness had an expiration date, and like the women before her, she was sure to reach it. And when women like Pam Bondi begin to realize that many of their personal freedoms have been stripped away by the very governments they worked for, maybe there will be light. I didn’t hold my breath.
For now, I’ll say goodbye to the latest victim of misogyny.
Josh Ackley He is a political strategist and frontman of the queer punk band Dead Bettys. Please follow us at @momdarkness and listen Spotify music.
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