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You can ramble all you want, it still amounts to "I'm glad we didn't actually do anything to stop this because stopping it would have been worse somehow." Fucking grow up. You act like it's a foregone conclusion that things would have devolved, when it's categorically not. Brazil and South Korea were able to handle these situations without this pissing around "wE hAvE tO fOlLoW tHe pRoCeSs" because their processes actually fucking worked when the "process" in the USA has been broken for fucking decades already anyway. We already had two justice systems, Trump just made it visible to fucking middle class liberal white people who are somehow shocked that the shit that's been happening to minorities for fucking decades is now the norm. The system was already broken and built so the rich and powerful could exploit it and due to that we needed someone willing to throw a monkey wrench in the gears of that broken ass fucking system, not people piddling around and going "we just need to trust this totally fucking broken system that lets the wealthy buy their way out of consequences literally every time." Biden had that chance, he squandered it, and now you and him are both whinging about how fucking bad it is while taking zero responsibility for the fact that he fucked up majorly in numerous ways, including ways that didn't have to take four fucking years if we'd had an AG that wasn't a fucking "gimme" to the Republicans because he didn't get his Supreme Court spot. Oh boo hoo for Garland, he deserved that consolation prize so he could slow walk everything so he didn't "look political" while looking deeply political in helping fucking criminals get off scott free. Maybe if we hadn't been handing that motherfucker a consolation prize we might have an AG that did their fucking job and did it fast and with the seriousness it deserved and wouldn't have even needed Biden to get directly involved. There were so many fucking chances to do this within the bounds of the broken system you keep choking on the dick of, and yet, somehow, none of that happened because we hired the biggest pussy in history to be AG for no good fucking reason except to glaze the same Republicans who are busy trying to put us in camps. Jack Smith could have and should have been deployed day one not two fucking years later after pissing around going "shucks I just don't know what to do!" The fact that he wasn't is part of the evidence that the system is broken and built to fail everyone except the wealthy and powerful to begin with.
Brazil and South Korea followed due process and rule of law as written in their constitutions.
The problem with the US is that due process and rule of law weren't followed faithfully, which is in no small part due to the 6/3 conservative Scotus throwing their sycophantic fuckery into the mix.
You can criticize the actual issue, which is that the US's legal system favors the rich and that the Scotus is corrupt. But if you want to focus on the fact that Biden didn't break the law in order to save us from the law being broken, you're gonna lose me.
You made various points that I don't disagree with, but since you decided to pepper them with insults based on a misrepresentation of what I'm saying, I'm not going to bother engaging with them in any level of detail.
I will say however that Jack Smith did all he could in the time that he had. Major investigations don't come together overnight, especially if you want to press charges that have a chance of sticking in court. The Supreme Court punted the decision on whether to allow prosecution to proceed. Don't blame Jack Smith for doing all that anyone could have done, in a system that was already rigged against him.