"Yes what I've read about. That actually happened to real people! If we can only learn from our own experience we'll go around in circles forever. I'm- Anakin, you know I am, I'm sorry the Republic can't do anything about the Hutts, but we can't. They aren't part of the Republic. We have made some progress with diplomacy, we have. What should we do instead, conquest? Imperialism? That's what it would be, we'd have to colonise Hutt Space and put them down by force, and even if we'd win and even if we could afford it - would it be better?"

"Point of order: You don't have to overthrow the Hutts personally if you can arm a slave revolt."

"...Senator, Czerka still tries making assassin droids every few decades.  Also, the Republic nationalized Czerka once in our time - or, somewhat before it, actually.  That didn't stop them then, and it hasn't stopped this millennium's incarnation nearly as much as you'd hope."

"...I do agree with Senator Amidala on the matter that you cannot conquer your way to a better galaxy, though, because it destroys the very things you want to promote."

"We tried that. The Hutts remotely detonate all the leaders and anyone they ever spoke to, and then find ways to punish us. We managed it, once, it was probably more expensive than an invasion would have been, and the Hutts just cut off trade until they surrendered again. They had to pay reparations. I'm sorry, both of you, I really am, but - slave revolts are a romantic idea, but they don't actually work."

There's an idea for what he could do, after the Jedi throw him out. Get a list of all the most important Hutts in the galaxy and kill them all, one by one, until they get the message. 

"...If that's what you did, you were doing it wrong.  You don't put the very people you want to help in danger by directly approaching them when there's a metaphorical blaster held to their skull --!"

"...No-one who's ever been a slave was consulted in the planning for that, were they."

"There's a blaster held to all their skulls. Standard procedure, it turns out, it wasn't just Anakin's family and it wasn't just Tatooine. The Hutts would probably rather kill them all than be overthrown by slaves."

...

"...But no, no they weren't."

He could do a Force Choke over holocomm and really is there a reason he needs that? Maybe the cartel all just died of some disease that makes Hutts stop breathing, very sad.

"Yes, I karking well know.  I have had to defuse them.

"Not everyone who's ever been enslaved on a Hutt planet still has a bomb stuffed in them, and even then not everyone who has a bomb in them right now has the detonator held by someone as trigger-happy as the average Hutt.  There are ways to be discreet that clearly the Republic couldn't be arsed to figure out.

"Not to mention that it should be kriffing obvious to take out the detonator controls first --

"...You weren't responsible for this, I should rather save my anger for the people who were."

"It is kriffing obvious, so kriffing obvious a Jedi tried it. They're fail-deadly, it turns out, he killed a whole city of slaves that way. In fairness, it did take out one or two of the masters too, but that sounds like the dark side to me. Fighting the Hutts is hard or they'd already be dead. - I'm sorry, I- don't feel very much like myself at the moment." It isn't that she's not angry, it's that she has to be the reasonable one all the kriffing time- she is exhausted and frightened and needs to rest and pull herself together before they put her in charge of the Republic. "I understand. I... can tell this is personal for you, in a way it isn't - quite - for me." She glances at Anakin. "I'm sorry."

"..."

There are two impulses fighting in the middle of her heart.

One is that that Jedi was clearly not up to par if that wasn't something he could see coming and nevermind Sidious's whatever the fuck he did.

The other is that she really needs to do something nice for Padmé, because she's under so much stress right now and contributing moreso was awful of her, except she doesn't know quite what.

"It's not you who should be apologizing; I've been rather pointlessly adding to the stress you're already under right now just because the continued existence of the Hutt Cartels, especially in a nominally-unipolar galaxy, offends me both personally and professionally.  ...You know what?  I'm going to blame this on Sidious and his ilk.  It's probably not quite correct.  People can be impressively cruel entirely on their own recognizances.  But that it keeps going wrong...  That - that explosion - that shouldn't have happened.  I don't have words for how much it shouldn't have.  That sort of impending disaster, the Force would be screaming in my ear.  I can't think of any amount of Darkness that could obscure my hypothetical direct instigation of a mass casualty event.  So - something was wrong."

"But...  Let us change the subject, perhaps."