Matt Gaetz as ATTORNEY GENERAL

The casting director for this season sure as fuck has a sense of humor.

I honestly think I’m going to vomit.

I am now Mister Bill.

Is this stuff funny? I'm finding it hard to find this stuff funny.

This has got to be a joke

He may not get confirmed; he's not well liked at all. Best he can hope for is a recess appointment.

This one IS too funny—he couldn’t extricate himself from a paper bag

Jesus fuck... this is true.

I guess this is just going to be a full-blown criminal enterprise now.

Nothing surprises me anymore. Why don't they all just spit on the Constitution when they're being sworn in. Absolute pieces of shit.

I honestly thought this was fake, like the Lauren Boebert for Secretary of Education post. Just unreal and beyond awful.

I feel sick.

I move to DC, like Cockgobbler friend!

Showtime MUST bring back the series The Circus.

Matt Gaetz??

I honestly thought Attorney General was going to Mike Lindell.

Disgusting.

Donc, cette routine de la plus grande nation sur terre, vous serez tous d'accord maintenant, plus de ces absurdités, n'est-ce pas?

Also, diese Routine der größten Nation der Welt, da werdet ihr euch jetzt alle einig sein, Schluss mit diesem Unsinn, oder?

Quindi, questa più grande routine della nazione sulla terra, sarete tutti d'accordo ora, basta con queste sciocchezze, giusto?

だから、この地球上で最も偉大な国のルーチンは、もうあなた全員 - が同意するでしょう、もうそのナンセンスはありませんよね?

So this greatest nation on earth routine, you'll all agree now, no more of that nonsense, right?

Makes sense of the push for recess appointments.

You are a banana republic.

This is all Biden’s fault. All of it. They should press charges immediately after January 6. They should have done it. Unless there is some bigger conspiracy.

Who is equivalent to Matt Gaetz in the Hitler cabinet?

Recess!

Just waiting for one of the Menendez Brothers to be appointed head of ATF.

Gaetz = Goring, the heroin addict and bordello connoisseur.

Yet another degenerate in a high position of power. Idiocracy, here we are.

I'm now worried.

It's real

Kakistocracy: government by the least suitable or competent citizens of a state. "the danger is that this will reduce us to kakistocracy"

Oh my god. Is Terry Gilliam picking the cabinet?

Lincoln had his team of rivals, Trump has his team of drivels.

R25, they don't have anyone who's smart enough to be Heydrich, do they?

Can House Republicans afford so many losses with their very narrow margin?

He only gets in by recess appointment.

They may think so—but no

We're ALL in danger, girl

I actually think we are headed for WWII .

Holy fuck how is this real life?

When I first heard this on twitter I thought it was a joke

Um, R37, there's something I have to tell you.

The absurdity of this is almost hilarious.

Underage girls, beware!

Can the traitorous POS make these people "Acting"?

On the bright side, R37, it ends well, all things being equal.

There's also gotta be a place in the Cabinet for Marge Greene.

But I thought the conservative Mama Bears were going to root out all of the pedophiles? Looks like they just voted them into higher positions in DC.

He'll be easily outwitted.

R41 yes: recess appointments = same

[quote] Why don't they all just spit on the Constitution when they're being sworn in

R11, who is this Constitution to whom you refer? I don’t know her.

Laura Loomer for First Lady!

It’s like a clown car was just emptied in the White House.

[quote] Who is equivalent to Matt Gaetz in the Hitler cabinet?

R22, possibly Wilhelm Stuckart, although Stuckart was possibly less personally corrupt.

If you heard about Pete Hegseth and thought it couldn't get worse....congrats, you were wrong

[quote]もうあなた[bold]皆[/bold] が同意するでしょう、もうそのナンセンスはありませんよね?

r18 Corrected kanji (mina for "everyone/all") is highlighted above. 全員 (zennin) is more commonly used to refer to a specific group of people like a sports team or work crew. 皆 is more inclusive (i.e. literally everyone regardless of affiliation).

Google translate isn't the best source for getting Japanese grammar accurate. In fact, it's the worst. This bothered me. I don't know the other languages you used and have never studied them. Anyone else who's familiar with them want to take a stab at grading their accuracy? This could be fun?

He is intentionally trying to destroy this country to payback Putin.

Could he even pass the background check? Obviously, Trump will waive just as he will when he nominates Tulsi to ODNI even though she was on the no fly list.

I know people who will eat that bitch for breakfast with a spoon. He's in for a very rough and humiliating ride.

Absolute fuckery.

R53, of course he is. The next 4 years are going to see the systematic undermining of any government or military body he is unable to actively destroy.

I can’t remember which rightwinger it was who said that the ideal government was one which was small enough to be strangled with bare hands, but that is very much what Trump will leave behind: a weakened state, distrusted by its current allies and unable to mount a political or diplomatic defence against its enemies.

Since Senate Republicans rebuffed Trump's pick for majority leader (Rick Scott) in favor of Thune, hopefully they'll refuse to confirm Gaetz and Gabbard.

Hopefully.

Like an anus shoving out a steamer, Bannon is pushing for Gabbard.

I have no more Fuks to give. Not wringing my hands over this, not pretending Gaetz is going to get any push back from a Republican congress. It's done, let the Repugs have their own panic attacks they brought upon themselves. They will all fall in line, they always do. Sometimes you have to give people enough rope to hang themselves. It will be a shit show, might as well sit back and watch the circus. Or side show of freaks in this case.

I am going out later to walk along the beach and enjoy the day. You should too.

[quote] The Trump Cabinet is a freak show. No words can properly describe this toxic menagerie of unfitness. Senate Democrats, plus Collins, Murkowski and at least two more GOP members, have a moral responsibility to reject Gaetz, Gabbard and Hegseth.

This is deeply concerning!

The Godfather Part IV The White House Years

Matt Gaetz? That's because all Trump's other lawyer buddies got disbarred for participating in the Insurrection. LOL! Trump wanted to dismantle government, what better way to dismantle the DoJ than by putting Matt Gaetz in charge. Everyone will quit.

One week in and they are TRASHING this fucking country into the ground. Jesus Christ I wish I had an escape route.

Well, that's one way to avoid going down for drugs and fucking underage girls.

Couldn’t he have given this job to the crazy Kracken lady? Or to Rudy Giuliani’s hair dye? Or the pillow guy (to be played by Richard Kind in the movie). They were my favourite characters in the first season.

[quote]Everyone will quit.

NO THEY WILL NOT. Grow up, they will fall in line like they always do. You are living in a total fantasy land if you think there will be any one with morals or character left in the Republican party.

Nicolle Wallace said on air, “I actually exhaled when I saw this. I thought I was smoking crack”.

My Pillow Guy will be made head of Housing and Urban Development, just watch.

Insanity. Not Kidding.

I must confess I am quite enjoying this week’s antics in Trumptown. As a Brit, it has been a lonely time as people on D/L gleefully noted just how firmly we have fucked ourselves over with Brexit. Now, in just one short week, America is giving us a serious run for our money.

I like America too much to get any real satisfaction out of the thought of the long-term damage this will do though: every government office headed by a lunatic and/or a traitor. It’s going to be a sad and chaotic four years.

R69 I was talking about DoJ employees. Like Jack Smith

And yet, Sen. Simpson will no doubt to confirm Gaetz.

Gay Republicans are happy with Trump.

[quote]I was talking about DoJ employees. Like Jack Smith

Smith and his team were already resigning before this.

Lawyers more qualified to be AG than Matt Gaetz:

R12

Wait. What?!

GOP senators who installed John Thune as majority leader are not likely to confirm Gaetz as AG. Just a hunch.

Maddy the wheelchair guy should have hung in there the way he kisses Dump's ass he would get a good position

The Age of Chaos begins....

Many of the MAGA comment-makers at right-wing spots like the Daily Mail are actually shocked by this and are criticizing it - and they NEVER criticize Cheeto. They think it's a bad move.

Marjory Taylor Green will be picked head of Jewish Relations and Space Force.

MTG 4 NASA.

Susan Collins is currently in the red zone as a result of this announcement.

It's going to be absolutely hilarious as the GOP starts leaking all the negative shit they have stored up about him to try and derail this - especially if Trump attempts a recess appointment.

I thought he might go with JoAnne Worley.

God's not that merciful, R88.

R83, many of his fans will cheer anything, but this and SecDef will be unpopular with the more knowledgeable MAGAs.

Anyway, I will be surprised if Gaetz gets confirmed because he's hated on a personal level by many in Washington.

Tucker Carson will be next. Head of media relations?

[quote] I will be surprised if Gaetz

I what world do you live in where Republicans will stand up to Trump in public?

R43 Large Marge is up for Secretary of Pipe Bombs and Bleach Blonde Bad Built Butch Bods

r91 Testicle Tanning Czar

For someone hung like a light switch, Garland has managed to fuck us all.

Love this for him. I doubt he’s confirmed, but if Trump gets a recess appointment (not sure yet where those stand), Gaetz is out of Congress and will eventually flame out in the pit of vipers that is the Trump Administration Part Duh. And likely the end of his political delusions.

Let it burn.

uh oh......Matt Quote------->>“We were richer, inflation was low, and there were [bold] two genders,” Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla." [/bold]......

Matt Gaetz crushing ED pills fallowed by Red Bull before his all night sex parties? And he bragged about this openly in Congress?

[quote]Tucker Carson will be next. Head of media relations?

God, I hope Judge Jeanine Pirro gets Press Secretary.

Roger Stone must have prior commitments?

Excellent choice!

Like me, I'm sure Gaetz will do his best to protect Trump and his fellow Republicans from the rule of law.

AG Gaetz, be sure to do all you can to investigate Hunter Biden.

Anything for Big Marge?

She'll be fuming if the clown car drives off leaving her at the roadside

Murkowski is a no. So is Collins, but we know about her soft spot for sexual predators.

I was just texting my middle sister, telling her I fervently wish the West still had writers like Vonnegut, Camus, and Ionesco.

Because THIS? Is absurdism gone rabid.

Biden needs to pardon Hunter. And there are some very unflattering pics of Gaetz being used on Twitter. At least there is a little comic relief here and there.

If memory serves, MTG and Gaetz were on opposite sides of the Kevin McCarthy ouster. Not sure if that means anything now.

Kevin McCarthy must be hitting the bottle tonight.

Should we be learning Russian or Chinese?

Farsi I think R108.

Well I certainly didn’t have this on my bingo card.

[quote] Biden needs to pardon Hunter.

Fuck you.

Tommy Tuberville threatens any Republicans who are planning to vote against Gaetz

Horrible man

They have completely captured the media. It's 24-7 now coverage now, and they're not even sworn in.

[quote] Kevin McCarthy must be hitting the bottle tonight.

Yup, welcome to the club. Sooner or later we all get a seat at this tavern.

Mike Johnson, we're saving a seat for you.

I am so proud of Daddy.

CNN Host asking if this is all just a chess move so that the other appointees dont look as bad. The other host said, no 3D chess there, it's what Trump actually wants, it's that simple. Finally some truth from CNN.

Will he take Nestor as his date to political functions? Let Nestor have some fun with "Daddy"

Miss Lindz thinks it's tremendous!

[quote]At least one Senate Republican indicated he viewed Gaetz’s nomination favorably.

[quote]“He’s smart — clever guy,” Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said of Mr. Gaetz, adding: “I usually support presidential picks to be in their cabinet. I’ve done that for both sides. That’s my disposition.”

I suspect CNN is right r115. Trump wants another criminal in charge of the Department of Justice (ha, wonder when they'll change that name) to quash any and all investigations into an administration that fully intends to be the most corrupt in history. I'm sure there are more competent people to do that, but having so many skeletons of his own will keep Matt Gaetz in line.

I saw an interesting comment on Twitter, saying that Gaetz is probably a better pick than many other candidates. Gaetz is so corrupt, crass, stupid and generally hated that it might be better to have the immense power of the AG in his hands rather than in those of someone who could be more effective.

[quote]Representative Max Miller, Republican of Ohio, told reporters that many members of the G.O.P. conference were shocked at the choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney general, but mostly out of happiness that the Florida Republican might no longer be a member of the chamber.

LOL

Max Miller cuttabitch

He was despised in the House . Another sleaze to enter the freak show.

My prediction. Trump, will be impeached a third time. Only this time it will succeed and he’ll be removed from office. around early 2027. Too many crooks and loons stewing the soup.

…stirring

R122 is in a K hole of drugs right now. Or he's a comic.

Obviously the coke is flowing at Mar a Lago. They must buy it by the ton.

Joe Rogan going to get the medal of honor. 1,000 dollar bet Dump will do this.

If he gets in, 15 year old girls of DC beware.

[quote]coke is flowing at Mar a Lago.

Yep, how long will it be before we here Don Jr. will be head of Drug distribution, uh I mean Drug Enforcement?

R125 it’s always the wrong batches that get cut with fentanyl

However, I do think that this time, he's learned a lesson.

Breaking Bad has moved to the White House. How soon will be see that beat up trailer meth lab around back?

R122, I wouldn't rule it out. If the bottom falls out in the polling the Ratpublicans start running for the exits, impeachment could be the only strategy. Nothing is out of the question any more, not even impeachment. They're about as as solid as their delusions. They have no idea how this plays. No one does. It could last, it could collapse.

Why is anybody surprised by these cabinet choices? The United States is now a dictatorship. Dictators DO NOT WANT people who think to be in positions of power. They're dangerous to the dictator. And in Gaetz case, if you have some dirt on them (which Trump surely does) you dangle that carrot over their head to keep them compliant.

When you surround yourself with buffoons (Gaetz, Gabbard, the Faux News guy, etc), who will rubber stamp everything you do, it makes your job easier and makes you look brilliant in comparison (or at least Trump thinks so).

When will the MAGA Inquisition have Merrick Garland (and maybe Biden, too!) arrested for treason and charged with sedition and various other trumped up crimes? A very small part of me gets grim satisfaction from the thought of this, as it was Garland’s and Biden’s failures that led us to the horrors that we’re about to go through.

“People should look at the government as US, not as THEM and not in terror.” - Janet Reno, rolling over in my grave.

Jack Smith was brave and did everything he possibly could.

Trump may well get his firing squad for Liz Cheney and the rest of his detractors.

I don’t care for this Twilight Zone reboot.

I've had sufficient.

I had no idea any of this was going on until I began reading here today. Not watching news is working, I was in a great mood until I set foot in here. I suppose I also need to stop visiting what was once my favorite lounge.

Matt Gaetz just resigned from Congress according to speaker Mike Johnson! But what does that mean?!

I have an impending sense of doom. Not joking.

Look for Bobert and MTG to be nominated to the Supreme Cournt.

I want to keep up my Harris-Walz yard sign. For a few years.

r142 he's getting a little ahead of himself. It'll be hilarious if he did that and his nomination doesn't go through.

[quote]My prediction. Trump, will be impeached a third time. Only this time it will succeed and he’ll be removed from office. around early 2027. Too many crooks and loons stewing the soup.

What color is the sky in your universe?

Don Jr. and the Trump Family would be truly unleashed and untouchable. Scary.

I'm at the phase of insanity where I find serious threats to my safety hilarious. This news made me do an actual spit take. I was drinking a glass of water. Once I mopped myself off, I started laughing uncontrollably.

I hope they don't kill us all so that we can sit back and enjoy this unfolding disaster.

I'm hearing the resignation nullifies any current House investigations against him.

The cult leader wanted a Senate Leader who would call more recesses, so that he could make appointments during them and thus bypass the confirmation process.

Placing loyalists in key positions, dismantling the democratic process and the rule of law all the while making it look legal, this is Dictatorship 101.

The Clown car keeps unloading!

This brings to mind a scene from I, Claudius, in which Caligula appears to the Senate and announces that he’s become a god. Everyone just . . . stands there. Claudius’s mother snaps that he should have been “cut down like a mad dog.” True. And yet they didn’t.

[quote] I was in a great mood until I set foot in here.

There's a foot in here? How did I miss it?

You know that's the way delusional Donald sees himself at R143, not the fat orange fuck we all see in reality.

Disaster is pretty much a guarantee, R149. People will be having voter's remorse by the end of November. We knew this silly shit would happen if Trump won and he's not even in office yet. And a competent Kamala Harris was a bridge too far for so many of our fellow Americans.

with the exception of the chief of staff, this cabinet is shaping up to being the typical trump clown car of deplorables, assholes and court jesters

As I'm part of the 'Rest of the World' group here....I am laughing my arse off at this orange clown shit show. Sorry fellas I'm sending thoughts and prayers.

Cocaine and under age girls for everyone.

covfefe

Can the ethics committee make their findings public now?

R162, they no longer have jurisdiction over the matter. Of course, the report might mysteriously become public, but it’s too late to do anything about it.

Trump is just fucking with people to see what he can get away with.

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson sure wanted Gaetz out of the House causing problems for him.

I think he's picking people he thinks will piss democrats off the most, not who is most qualified. Most of these people will be short termers. They'll fuck up so badly early on it'll be open season on them and they'll flee like the wind.

That is if they get confirmed.

The arrogance of Gaetz resigning before confirmation. What a FuckingTard.

Will the MyPillow guy be HUD Secretary or something?

Maybe Gaetz knows he wouldn’t survive the ethos report. But I don’t see how that helps him get confirmation. He has a lot of enemies.

At the moment I would say Gaetz, Pete from Fox News. and Tulsi will not get confirmed.

R169, probably not enough bribery possibilities there.

MTG as Secretary of Clenis.

“The committee planned to vote Friday on releasing the report. Ethics loses its jurisdiction over Gaetz when he leaves Congress.”

The report should be leaked.

It will be.

This is only the beginning of the madness. The fact Russia blasted Melania’s nudes all over Russian state TV was a signal. Russia, China, and the Saudis will rule the world now. If that doesn’t terrify you, you’re hopeless. We are about to go through some things as a country and they will not be pleasant in the least. It’s about to get bad bad bad. I hope you don’t believe me. We’re a stupid, foolish country too consumed with hate, fear, bigotry, ignorance, easily misled. Congrats!

more evidence that Trump just doesn't care

It’s like Michael Ontkean and Harry Hamlin did really conceive while making love, and bore an ugly spawn possessed by Donny Osmond!

MAGAts on my socials think his picks so far are perfect and hilarious since leftists and the media are upset. And that the Pentagon is "triggered" is just the best!

Let me repeat that, they think it's funny that *The Pentagon* is upset.

It's like they are all brain damaged.

Matt left Congress. He quit. Just before the Ethics Committee releases a damning controversial report on him. Today this happened. So he is not in Congress right now. Maybe our future Attorney General is no more. De Santis is delighted to get rid of him and so is the House of Representatives.

I am very surprised that Lindsey Graham didn't come up as the new Secretary of Defense.

All I see...

Butthead

Such strange looking people

Is he the one who was sleeping with that guy he adopted?

Hopefully someone will dig into his "adoption" of Nestor

So, let's get to the part that actually matters: do those here think Gaetz is hot?

Trump nominated him so he would have an excuse to resign from the House and thus get the Ethics Committee report quashed.

Trump never expects Gaetz to be confirmed.

This was simple quid pro quo so Gaetz has a seemingly legit excuse to resign.

R189 Sure, Jan

It just shows that Trump is perpetually stupid. He can’t even get cabinet picks right (he’s rushing for no good reason. Are he and Elon doing speed?). I’m already encouraged that Senate Republicans are not going to let him get away with bad decisions.

R191 He’s going to get his way. Republicans are not going to stop him. He’ll recess appoint and they won’t do SHIT about it. Elected Republicans are the weakest, most spineless lemmings ever created.

^ Senate GQP may make a show of denying Gaetz or Hegseth, but the rest will easily sail on through. We are fucked.

Dems need to get their head out their asses and need to fully commit to winning the numerous open seats that the house will now have since 3 Republicans member have beed tapped to serve the Trump administration.

But knowing Democrats they will nominate a bunch of conservative Democrats to run, the electorate will choose the more extreme right winger cause why bother with Con lite when u can have the real Con...., then the DNC and moderates will blame progressives again for these losses too.

Pedophiles take care of their own, apparently.

Bobert - The secretary of internet porn restrictions.

John Bolton, who served in every Republican WH administration since Reagan, says today is not a good day and calls Trump picking Matt Gaetz as Attorney General the "worst cabinet pick in American history."

The Daily Show:

Matt Gaetz as Attorney General is a new low, but not as low as the age of consent is about to be

Marjorie Taylor Greene for the Department of Mental Health & Wellbeing.

I have a feeling we will be missing ou; “war hawks” sooner than later.

This is all Joe Biden's fault!

Might as well just hire random Trump supporters off the streets to fill those 50,000 government jobs (that they would be completely unqualified for) if he wants only bootlickers working for his government and there's a major shortage. I mean he's already doing that but those people (incompetent as they are) at least have some experience in politics. I think Hitler did the same thing back then.

I watched that interview on Meet the Press R197. John Bolton was extremely blunt about both Gaetz and Stefanik. He did not hold back. He was not pleased.

Kekistan is risen!

All part of a very clear agenda which Trump promised according to a former Irish ambassador to the USA.

I've heard several reliable political commentators say Trump is expected to properly go after his political enemies with this set up. Gaetz oversees it for Trump and Trump tells him what to do.

We better strap in.

R133 ...Because it's surprising.

Ask your congressperson (if they’re a dem) to read the Gaetz ethics report into the Congressional Record.

R206, turn off cable news.

[quote] But knowing Democrats they will nominate a bunch of conservative Democrats to run, the electorate will choose the more extreme right winger cause why bother with Con lite when u can have the real Con

No. Americans votes for conservatives because they want conservatives. Progressives are destroying the country with their soft on crime bullshit. Get your head out of your ass already.

Trump is the one who's clearly bent on destroying the country. Elect a clown, expect a circus.

The timing of the resignation allows DeSantis to set a special election in eight weeks. So his replacement will be seated in January.

Unserious.

[quote]Americans votes for conservatives because they want conservatives. Progressives are destroying the country with their soft on crime bullshit.

Sadly, I agree with your first statement.

Your second statement, however, is a load of horseshit. A large, smelly load of horseshit.

I was gonna get into it & write a lil’ blurb about it, but you know what?

Nah…

This is what we get. We may not deserve it, but here it is. And it would do most of us some good to remember that the majority of those who voted for this aren’t currently capable of understanding why this is American Shit Show, Part II, while also keeping in mind that many of them won’t understand it, ever.

When he lowers the age of consent to 15 are ya’ll celebrating? Keep those vapes in your car for the hockey players!

I’m willing to bet a few bucks that R210 has yet to be directly affected by any crime, whatsoever, and believes that electing a bonafide criminal charged with & convicted of multiple felonies as the next POTUS, is the specific type of criminality he can live with.

See? It’s not really a crime when they commit crimes while being white, & wearing a suit.

And while he implores that we pop our heads out of our own arses, he continues to ensconce his own head up the arses of men and women who are master grifters and drug addicts who spend their free time playing golf, and hitting up 17 year olds for sex online, while sending them money via Cash App, so that they can access transportation in order to cross state lines, snort some lines, & sit on his face.

All of these conservative values! All of these crime fighters! How did we get so lucky to have them protect and save America from itself! Whatever shall we do within this newfound utopia!?!?!

R193, Trump is testing the Senate. Anyone who murmurs a word of resistance to any of these appointments will be identified as "disloyal."

MTG should surely get the space program.

R217 summed it all up perfectly.

R18 I don't know what you want to say with the first half of the sentence in any language. As long as we see it as entertainment and pretend it has no bearing on our day-to-day lives, it's certainly going to be a great season (see R1 .) (It obviously does affect us so don't come at me please - just a bit of gallows humour).

[quote] What I’m hearing privately from a few key GOP senators: yes, they’d prefer to not have a messy fight over Gaetz. Not their favorite. But they also don’t have a lot of energy for pushing back. Trump runs the show, they say. If Gaetz can reassure them, they’re open to backing him.

[quote] Attention Senate Democrats:

[quote] Practice these words, first at home, and then in front of a TV camera:

[quote] “Release the Gaetz report. The American people have a right to know all about the underage desires of Trump’s attorney general nominee, our very own Pensacola Prince Andrew.”

The oppo research - from both sides - is gonna be staggering.

Gaetz is who you nominate when your first choice of Jeffrey Epstein and your second choice of Michael Jackson are unavailable.

Clearly, Trump wants to weaponize the DoJ as he has been threatening todo. Gaetz will be his tool. I say leave him in and let the courts decide. Because as vile as they are, they will not stand for Gaetz.

Ronny Jackson for HHS. You just know it.

Lindz says Matt Gaetz should be confirmed

Whatever blackmail Trump has on him must be HUMILIATING

Question for the GOP Senators (and let's admit, a few of the Democrats): What the fuck is your reason for being there? What the fuck do you intend to do other than say yes to Trump every day in every way? And if that is your role, does your existence as Senators matter at all? How?

I'm happy to get rid of the Senate

"I say leave him in and let the courts decide."

With Trump packing so many federal courts with judges hand picked by him in his first term, with more to come during Trump's second term, is "letting the courts decide" a viable option?

R228, there is no blackmail. Lindsey does this because he LIKES it.

I don't think Gaetz will become the AG. It will be some other hideous cunt but not Gaetz. I'm pretty sure the report from the Ethics committee will be leaked well before his confirmation and it will be pretty damning. I am almost convinced that Matt made a deal for Trump to make this announcement to give him cover to quit and "save face" And then after the report is leaked he will withdraw his nomination and scream about the deep state blah blah blah.

Patiently waiting for the report to be leaked.

Gaetz is going down, so to speak.

RFK for Health and Human Services

Barf

[quote]Bobert - The secretary of internet porn restrictions.

Mike Johnson would give up the Speaker's gavel for that position.

[quote]Ronny Jackson for HHS. You just know it.

Yep, the new administration will need someone to supply them with pills galore, just like the first. Trump knows Jackson's drunk ass will once again proclaim he's healthy as a horse--no, an alpha stallion still in the prime of his life. Based on his previous appointments, loyalty is enough for a cabinet position.

[quote]RFK for Health and Human Services

The world is spinning off its axis:

^^^I thought that it was a joke until reading the full post. Jared Polis has lost his damn mind. Expect more insanity as the country prepares for the shitshow to come.

Strangely enough, the stock market is getting a bit agitated.

Yay! Polio and smallpox for everyone!

[quote]Lindsey does this because he LIKES it.

I can't find words up to the task of disparaging this craven, worthless little man, but agree he has made a calculation that he's so far gone and so long in life he may as well cozy up with this freak show.

Almost 50 years ago I did LSD. I'm wondering if I'm having a flashback. What's happening now is too fucking weird.

[quote]Americans votes for conservatives because they want conservatives

There are no more conservatives in the Republican party. They have all left. Need proof? Look at what they did to the national debt. Adding 5 Trillion to the national debt during Trump's first round was record breaking spending, and no it was not Covid. It was all tax cuts for the 1%. That's not a conservative value.

R245, let’s see what they do with the reconciliation bill. If they use it to fund the government, they could make the kind of cuts they dreamed of, although it’s not clear what they will use to balance it, which they would have to do.

Trump announced plans to nominate his personal lawyer, John Sauers, to be US Solicitor General.

Sauer is the attorney who argued that a president ordering Seal Team 6 to murder his political enemies couldn't be prosecuted.

Republican administrations have racked up debt every time they take over for many decades; it's not particularly a new thing. Then, the economy falters and Dems take back the White House, fix the economy, it thrives, then the country votes in another fucking Republican who coasts for a year or so on the great economy, claiming it's because of them, while starting the process all over again, usually through idiotic tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations. Rinse and repeat.

The Republicans greatest talent has been for spinning the lie that "Dems wreck the economy; Republicans are fiscally prudent and save the economy" when the exact opposite is true.

It's as "good" as Trump convincing the yahoos that he's a God loving, brillliant businessman and executive.

"pare us your shock at his nominating Matt Gaetz,Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth,—why would you expect anyone less sycophantic or loyal to him? He told you.

You sacrificed your country upon the altar of your own fears, ambitions and inadequacies for a two-bit wannabe “dictator”. He told you.

Spare us your lamentations."

Is Epshteyn allied with Lewandowski. Lewandowski trued to wrest control of the campaign from Wiles and La Civita, but failed and was sidelined (from Tim Alberta's Atlantic article). Corey has his own substance preferences and sexual proclivities and axes to grind.

AOC was on MSNBC alluding to the possibility that Gaetz timed his resignation to block the ethics report from being released with the intention of running to reclaim his now open seat in January.

I still want him in me deeply. As deep as three inches can get.

[quote] Ronny Jackson for HHS. You just know it.

No, Ronny Jackson for head of the US Bureau of Weights and Measures.

Because he needed ANOTHER sexual predator in his cabinet

Trump is nominating Kim Guilfoyle to be Surgeon General because she's had the most surgery

In a perverse way, I am enjoying that Trump is so incompetent. This merry band of unqualified people will get nothing done. It only becomes disastrous if we are attacked by another country due to their incompetence. But even that is on the heads of Trump voters. Let them clean up the mess.

A Trump source told CNN’s Mark Preston that Trump picked Matt Gaetz to “burn down the DOJ from the inside.”

It was a predictable result from poking the bear. Trump would not have run for president again if there hadn't been the legal cases brought against him.

R259, Bullsh*t.

Not going to happen. He will never be confirmed.

Keep dreaming

Makes sense R256.

[quote]Not going to happen. He will never be confirmed.

Why wouldn't he be confirmed?

It’s called reality people. It’s time to get back to it. Never. Going. To. Happen.

[quote]Trump is nominating Kim Guilfoyle to be Surgeon General

Speaking of which, who's it going to be? Dr Oz or Dr. Phil. And dont tell me Dr. Phil is not a medical doctor, since when does that matter in a Trump org?

He will probably bring back demon hunter, "Doctor" Stella Immanuel for Surgeon General.

Since his inauguration will open a Hellmouth, it might be for the best.

As disgusting as this is, we need to both accept reality and weaponize it. If Trump succeeds and gets him confirmed, we need to foment the same kind of demagoguery the right uses. Trump is hiring a pedophile to enforce our laws.

R264, in a world in which Trump can be elected president, twice, even after being impeached twice, fomenting an attempted coup, & being a convicted felon, anything is possible.

He’ll never get confirmed. But the best part is he’s no longer in the Senate.

R188 No. r187 Gaetz is straight. I don’t know what the deal is with Nestor, but he’s a sexual predator of young girls.

Nestor could have been a lure to bring young women around.

[quote]He’ll never get confirmed.

When have the Republicans ever told Trump no? Outside of a secret ballot?

This is going to happen, he will be our new Attorney General. Why do people keep making excuses or assumptions that Trump wont do what he says he will do? His followers are even more devoted than 8 years ago.

You put on a circus with just one clown.

It doesn’t matter what the Senate thinks. He’ll do a recess appointment.

Anyway tie this kinderfucker around his neck.

[quote]Not going to happen. He will never be confirmed.

Yesterday, the Republican-led House Ethics Committee canceled today's planned vote on whether to release the Gaetz ethics report to the public.

And new Senate majority leader John Thune said recess appointments may have to be used for Trump's nominees if there is Democratic "obstruction."

Sure seems like they're paving the way for Gaetz' appointment.

If he ever becomes the AG, don't forget what kills off republicans and it's not scandals or bad behavior, its Hubris. Thinking a little too highly of themselves and overreaching. Gaetz new position will be fucked up by Gaetz. Eventually Trump will fire him

I find it weird that all these appointments are of well known MAGA “stars” that are all well known to all of us - Tulsi, RFK, Gratz, Huckabee, the Fox News DoD guy (known to Fox viewers I guess). I miss the days when they would appoint competent, intelligent and well-qualified people you have may have never heard of for these jobs.

Wall St Journal is saying that significantly more than 3 GOP Senators have indicated they would vote No.

R270, we don’t know the full story with Gaetz. It’s possible to be a bisexual pedophile, just the way RFK Jr. gives off “animal abuser AND necrophile” vibes.

As Jack said to Rose, after the iceberg hit, "This is really bad..."

[quote]He’ll never get confirmed. But the best part is he’s no longer in the Senate.

He was never IN the Senate.

Government transparency!

I imagine once the realities of what he's going to be put through in a confirmation hearing he'll decide to remove his name from contention.

Will the report leak? McCarthy must still have friends in the House and Gaetz isn't particularly liked. Johnson sounds like he's trying to cover himself and play "protector" to his people because lord knows they've got their own sins to hide. But if it does leak, oh well...

Of course it will leak. It’s Friday afternoon. ;)

Interestingly, Mike Johnson also "adopted" a teenage boy

I'm sure Trump spent time in his first term digging through FBI background checks on Republicans in Congress.

Background checks? Who needs 'em?

As long as they are large checks, I am all for them.

[quite]Of course it will leak. It’s Friday afternoon. ;)

We're already getting a taste of what is to come over the next four years as the professionals hand power to the clowns.

Asked who will run to replace Gaetz in the House, Mike Johnson said, "We have an embarrassment of riches." He's only half right.

[quote]Of course it will leak. It’s Friday afternoon. ;)

We're already getting a taste of what is to come over the next four years as the professionals hand power to the clowns.

Of course he will be approved, of course it will be a recess appointment done with full approval of the majority of House and Senate Republicans.

Of course Trump wants to "burn down the DOJ from the inside". That's all he's about, not good governance or reform, but angry, vengeful retribution, 24/7, day and night.

This is what his followers wanted, a revolution. Let them have it - until it begins to impede on the rest of us. Which it will.

I wonder what Jeff Sessions is up to nowadays.

Ah…the good old days!

[quote] I wonder what Jeff Sessions is up to nowadays.

Working away at making cookies with the rest of the Keebler elves.

Even his sister-in-law called him a pedophile

Pelease the Kraken!

Andy Borowitz: When QAnon said they wanted to bring pedophiles to justice, I didn't know this is what they meant.

[quote]Wall St Journal is saying that significantly more than 3 GOP Senators have indicated they would vote No.

Until they don't.

I'm sure the conservative mama bears are up in arms over Matt being nominated for this powerful, lofty position.

Let me check my social media and look at the profiles of all of the women who used to post about Epstein and Sound of Freedom movie, everyday. You know, the fraus who hunt pedophiles at their local Walmart, at Disneyland, and (subliminally) in Hollywood movies.

.... ....

Huh. Not a one of them is posting about this. I'm flummoxed! Why do Gaetz' victims not matter to the mama bears?

Matt Gaetz looks like an inbred Kennedy, like what would happen if Bobby knocked up Eunice.

It’s good that Trump voters are already seeing him fuck up.

I don't know if all the Repubs in the Senate and House are going to go along with every Trump decree...they mostly kowtowed to him in first term but there are people in Congress who don't want Trump usurping THEIR power. And, maybe a few thinking ahead to the future after Trump is gone and the finger pointing begins.

Still waiting for this long-predicted “finger pointing,” R303.

[quote] there are people in Congress who don't want Trump usurping THEIR power.

It wouldn’t make sense for them to do anything public in the upcoming Congress, but maybe in the one after that as they look beyond Trump to see who their 2028 candidate will be. Trump will still have an influence, of course.

Not surprised by any of this and it will only get worse AND their replacements by Dump because he can’t get along with anyone-will be even worse. (I’m just laughing all the way the gas chamber)

R306 Anne died of typhus. She didn't go to the gas chamber.

He’s so ugly-it’s going to be fun to watch!

Typhus posts should be moved to the no funding for eight years to NIAID RFK Jr to head hhs thread.

Right, and Macbeth wasn't really looking wash his hands in great Neptune's ocean, R307, but you follow....

The transition's not over until Dick Cheney sings.

Make that move!

Trump is trolling the nation.

Here is my prediction. Gaetz will sail into the office of Attorney General, stop mental masturbating that some Repugs still have ethics and will stop hm.

Once it becomes official and Trump takes power, he will fire off half a dozen investigation on Trump hate list.

Here is the rub, the good little lawyers at the DOJ will not actually evidence of any crime. They will put up a little fight at first, but they will bend the knee eventually. They will put up the weakest case possible and it will get slapped down from court to court. There will be years of fighting. And even if it does get to a trial it will still be up to a jury. Trump will not succeed with this.

The bad news is, it's going to cost people on his list a fortune to defend themselves and make their life miserable which IS THE POINT of the Trump administration. Most of these people are not millionaires. Jack Smith, and all the other like Fani Willis, who were involved in a case against him will be the first targets. Then Political targets like Nancy Pelosi, Eric Swalwell, even Biden.

Finally he will try to shut down the media, like MSNBC, CNN, Morning Joe. But they have a lot of cash to deal with that.

This is all you need to know when you have a question which way the Republican party will go. Say it with me, and repeat: [bold] Cruelty Is The Point with Republicans, Cruelty Is The Point with Republicans, Cruelty Is The Point with Republicans.

R303 is the slow kid who doesn’t actually live in the US. He’s a Britboxofrocks

R307

Ann Richards?

Anne Marie?

Anne of the Thousand Days?

Annie?

Don't people like Jack Smith and Fani Willis have professional liability insurance that would cover their defense?

R314 PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!

GOD BLESS THE USA!!!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz referred to Trump's picks as a Star Wars bar. I couldn’t agree more!

[quote] Debbie Wasserman Schultz referred to Trump's picks as a Star Wars bar. I couldn’t agree more!

Republicans do the same constantly, referring to pictures of Democrats, so I guess turnabout is fair play.

R316 in their capacity as representatives of a governmental entity, they enjoy qualified immunity.

On what basis could Trump go after Smith and Willis?

R318: straight out of "Star Wars," coming to Washington D.C. in early 2025:

The Mos Eisley Cantina f/k/a The Capital Grille

No basis…sound and fury, signifying nothing. The end.

The other thing people forget is how lazy all of these people are. These are not great minds. The only thing they know how to do is kiss Trump’s ass.

If the DOJ makes Gaetz write his own legal briefs that will slow things down considerable.

I’m surprised posters take shit like this so seriously. Go ahead, appoint him. He’s not going to get up to much. I’m sure the workload of being AG is well beyond the likes of Matt Gaetz. You can give Photoshop to a monkey, it’s not going to make them a world class graphic artist. Get real.

Also, according to insiders, the word among a lot of Republican Congressmen is that they just have to deal with Trump for two years, until the midterms. And then that’s it.

Trump I’d already a lame duck President on Day 1. Then he really has no power after the midterms.

Given their lack of attention to detail, the Trump administration is unlikely to accomplish much in two years. People need to stop rolling over for them.

In Trump’s first term, it took them 18 months to deport 1,000 people. Obama deported more people than Trump.

Gaetz was the last person to have Dump's ear before this was announced. I doubt this was some great strategic move, just whatever seemed good in the moment. I just hope this ethics report on Rapey McForehead gets leaked.

Where's the QAnon crowd?

Fingering their holes atop their medbeds while looking at photoshopped pictures of Hillary being burned at the stake and Pence being outed as a Deep State robot, R329.

HILLARY ATE BABIES!!!!!

Hope AG Gaetz doesn't shut down the DL and label us "enemies of the state" for all those threads we did about him and Nestor...

R295 - Probably. Jeff Sessions looks like a very grumpy, turned out elf, but I guess Trump letting the missus and three "bio" children know he's a feckless elf they always knew he was was too much and etched itself on his already darkened soul.

CBS News:

“This is by far the biggest crisis of morale, and flat-out depression and horror that I’ve ever seen,” former Assistant Deputy Attorney General Harry Litman says of the mood at the Department of Justice after President-elect Donald Trump named former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz as his pick for Attorney General.

[quote]On what basis could Trump go after Smith and Willis?

They don't need any. Trump sues everyone he does not like and 90% get thrown out because he has no actual grounds to sue for. He will just make something up and keep throwing spaghetti at the wall to see what sticks. And if that does not work he will do it again and again and again. Wearing people down with lawsuits is his old school tactic.

Now that everyone knows there’s a damaging report, we all have to see it

Even if the report is released/leaked he will still be confirmed. It will just degrade the reputation of the DOJ even further, for them all to have to work for him, knowing everything he is and has done, and having the American people know too. Which is probably another point in his favor.

Wrong^

In tonight’s program, he will play the role of sacrificial lamb—one night only.

The old "Beavis and Butthead" meme:

He's going to be confirmed, they whine all the time but at the end of they day, they bend the knee and kiss the ring when it comes to Dump.

Prove me wrong. Show me more two or three Republicans who have confronted him PUBLICLY who have not been kicked out or on their way out through retirement.

I think Auntie Concerns aka worthless twat Susan Collins has already said she'll run for reelection. I doubt she would want to piss off the Maine MAGAts by standing up to Dump.

Why do the people of Maine keep re-electing twitchy cunt? She's 71 years old, they cant find anyone else?

I hope Sue's learned her lesson about over promising and under delivering:

"In 1996, aspiring senator from Maine, Susan Collins promised to limit her terms in office to two. That means her term should have ended in 2009. Twenty-two years later, she's still there... rumor has it, she's getting ready to run again."

And you know all of these people-Gaetz, Hedgseth, Tulsi, and the rest-will just lie their asses off during any confirmation hearing (if they actually have them).

Just like Kavanaugh, Gorsuck, and the other Supremes lied about Roe being settled law. Then they did what they wanted anyway. This'll be the same and dumb cunts like Collins will later on say "we'll he said he wouldn't do that".

Bitch is worthless.

Once they get in, it's tough to get rid of entrenched Senators. There's a lot of perks being in the Senate and while some of them are hard workers, most of them rely on their staffs to do all the heavy lifting.

And, if they retire back home to Hooterville, they have nothing to do and are old nobodies with no one waiting on them hand and foot.

It sounds like Collins is on tge Diane Feinstein track.

Remember when John Tower was rejected for being a drunk

That Time article was from Feb. 2017. The Tower nomination may still stand as the last one to go down to defeat by a recorded vote, but nominations have been defeated without a vote in seemingly every administration.

Only 44 Senators are under the age of 65 (pre-election, I think).

35 are over the age of 70.

She's a piece of human garbage. Hopefully, Maine will see that.

It's usually difficult to beat a multiple-term Senator. Having said that, Susan Collins saw a huge collapse in support in her last election. In 2014 she had won in Maine by about 37 points; in 2020 her winning margin dropped to under 9 points. Is she beatable in 2026? She could be at risk of dropping further if Trump's popularity is down by 2026 and the Democrats run a strong candidate against her.

Maine is arguably the most unusual state in New England, largely because it is predominantly rural, with only a few population centers.

1) Not only does it keep electing "moderate" Republican Susan Collins, but its other Senator is an Independent -- Angus King (although he caucuses with the Democrats, like Bernie Sanders).

2) Since Trump came on the scene, Maine has split its Electoral Votes between the Democrats & Republicans in 2016, 2020 & 2024.

"An attorney representing two women who testified to both federal and House Ethics investigators about Gaetz’s alleged misdeeds is coming forward with new details about what his clients told investigators. Lawyer Joel Leppard is set to do multiple network TV interviews Monday as he pushes for the release of the House Ethics report, and he gave Playbook a sneak preview last night.

His clients, he said, told investigators they attended more than five and as many as 10 “sex parties” with Gaetz during his first term in the House. At those parties, they testified, there were “group sex situations” and illegal drugs were present. One of Leppard’s clients told investigators she witnessed Gaetz “having sex with her friend,” who was underage at the time, against what she recalled as some sort of game table, according to Leppard."

[quote]R312: Trump is trolling the nation.

Actually, it's Putin who's trolling the nation. Trump has always only ever been a Russian asset.

R351, Collins is said to have a great reputation for constituent services: she will actually do things for people in her state. She brings home the bacon. That her level of support has dropped so much has to be tied to national political issues, i.e., Trump.

[quote] Collins is said to have a great reputation for constituent services: she will actually do things for people in her state. She brings home the bacon.

She’ll be in a good position to bring home bacon to Maine in the next two years.

Even if the Gaetz report comes out and it is messy, does anyone think the repug senators will have the balls to vote no on him?

[quote] Even if the Gaetz report comes out and it is messy, does anyone think the repug senators will have the balls to vote no on him?

In normal times, the senators, especially those from the president's party, would give the president the option to withdraw the nomination & avoid embarrassment. Since Trump has no shame, & he wants to lord over "his" senators the power of his MAGA goons, I think Trump would want to force a vote. And I think he might very well like his chances of prevailing in this scenario.

The fact that he's a pedophile can only endear him to Donnie.

[quote]Why do the people of Maine keep re-electing twitchy cunt? She's 71 years old, they cant find anyone else?

She’s only 71? She’ll be ready to run for President in about 8 years.

I delivered the Latino vote to daddy Matt & of course Pres. Trump.

[quote] 35 are over the age of 70

Some of them are more appropriate for Jurassic Park rather than the U.S. Senate.

No background checks for some Trump nominees, they know they wouldn't pass.

Everything depends on how relentless the media is. If they ALL make a big deal out of Gaetz and the Fox Weekend Anchor, then it will cause the Congress to back away from them and advise Trump to cut them lose.

To get rid of the Fox Guy all they have to do is get some of the biggest defense contractors to bribe Trump. Show him that he will personally benefit ...and so will his family... if he dumps the guy. Gaetz I would take for a boatride in a gator infested swamp.

Per Fox…

What, they couldn't give Tulsi and Matt the half assed Kavanaugh go-over? You know, just pretend they did it and call it a day?

We need Nestor to testify about his "adoption"

Gaetz might have been thrown up as the sacrificial nominee so Trump's other awful nominees could sail through.

Doesn't seem like it, R368:

"President-elect Trump is personally calling senators to press them to confirm former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general, according to senators who have spoken with Trump.

Trump is digging in on his embattled and controversial nominee and is sending an unmistakable message to Senate Republicans that he expects him to be confirmed."

Trump Pick Matt Gaetz Accused of Participating in Up to 10 Drug-Fueled Orgies

A lawyer for two accusers of the Trump attorney general nominee is pledging to spill the beans.

We’re doomed if a handful of Senators refuse to do the right thing by rejecting this nomination. Not only is Gaetz unqualified he is extremely dangerous. Trump has been calling Senators begging them to confirm Gaetz. He’s already starting off incompetent so good for him.

Mandate my ass.

I tried to tell you about the cocaine orgies!!!!

Imagine the horror of that face at R370 engaged in a drugged-up, sex-filled orgy. Ugly creep bastard.

I would have to be drugged out of my mind to engage in anything physical with him. He is hideous.

He used Nestor's venmo account to pay for sex!

^ Sorry, PayPal not Venmo

Dear Matty. I actually do hope you get the DoJ. I do. Because they have some smart career lawyers at DoJ who will fuck you up and having you chase your tail like the dog you are. And J. Edgar Hoover wrote the playbook for the million ways the FBI will fuck you up. You are a total POS and you are never going to be ready for this. Never. And honestly, your buddy who was nominated for the DoD? Yeah, the Fox News Guy. He's in for so much shit he will leave in a straight jacket.

Matt Gaetz paid for other sexual encounters via a second Venmo account belonging to a then-19-year-old Gaetz calls his “adopted son.”

As Mike Johnson said, let Matt Gaetz be confirmed without any unnecessary messiness.

You guys are wasting your time. Dump is going to get everything he wants, without background checks, without a debate. I am not saying they should not be exposed, they should but don't get your hopes up that Republicans, even 3 or 4 of them are going to stand up to Trump at this point, they wont.

The most you are going to get is a very, very concerned Susan Collins.

Not worth losing sleep over it. Time better spend moving on to a different fight.

Posting on Datalounge is the definition of wasting time, r381

In the real world, there is a difference in tone this time. In 2017, we thought we could bring Trump down with whatever disqualifying offense or misstep we could uncover. It’s unclear that any of these made much of a difference.

Just rolling over now and waiting for another fight is just as foolish as thinking that overwrought gotchas are going to stop Trump..

One woman testified she witnessed Gaetz having sex with a minor, a 17-year-old friend of hers.

The co-president weighs in:

R384 He’s giving a real run for hating him more than Trump.

Elon’s in lust

How are sales of Teslas going?

Trump is a lame duck. Republicans shouldn’t be afraid of him.

They're genuinely afraid of his voters, R388. Both electorally & otherwise.

[quote] They're genuinely afraid of his voters,

As politicians should always be mindful of the voters, if they expect to be re-elected.

R388, agreed, but he’s got a little runway before that will be real. He’d wasting cycles on appointments of fellow sex offenders. Every day closer to the when Republicans have to save their own skins is a good day.

I'm counting the hours until Donnie and Elon get a divorce. But then I remember Putin is their Daddy and I get discouraged from even hoping for a legal separation.

Some news outlets reporting that hackers have gotten access to damaging testimony regarding Matt Gaetz.

About fucking time.

I’m hoping Trump fights it all the way and then suffers a humiliating loss. Who the fuck does he think he is? Gaetz is imminently unqualified and a sexual predator. Fuck these clowns.

Yeah, hackers. LOL! Who ever leaks it is probably pissing on themselves with fear. So blame hackers. IMO I think they should be hackers from Iran.

Whatever happened to Anonymous? Weren't they supposed to be some sort of righteous hackers? Seems like they just disappeared.

[quote]Gaetz is imminently unqualified

I believe you mean eminently.

R384, Elon sure uses some violent images to describe what he hopes Matt intends to do.

Shocker! Large Marge says there a bunch of perverts in the Republican caucus!

"all your sexual harassment and assault claims that were secretly settled paying off victims with tax payer money

the entire Jeffrey Epstein files, tapes, recordings, witness interviews

but not just those, there’s more, Epstein wasn’t/isn’t the only asset"

^ These freaks go on and on about "the Epstein files" as if Trump wasn't Epstein's best friend

God Bless you, Marjorie! God Bless you!

I'm so conflicted in wanting Gaetz to get the post because it will bite them all in the ass--hard. Most of the GOP hates him and they're being put in an impossible pickle: vote against him and agitate Trump; telegraph that he's a non-starter, forcing Trump to do a recess appointment, which will bring it's own hell; or vote him in and demonstrate what utter cucks they are and willing to sacrifice any power they have in order to making a pedophile, reviled asshole AG.

On the other hand....WTF! These fucking nutcases are running the country. They can't appoint him, Kennedy, Gabbard, or the Fox News guy with the white supremacy tattoos.

Well, since this country is completely fucked, might as well be entertained by the orchestra as the Titanic slowly sinks into the depths. So, sure! Appoint all these psychos and let's have one last laugh before the shooting begins.

My first thoughts at reading the report of the sex parties were: 1. Of course he had to pay for sex because how would he have it otherwise; and 2. Those had to be the dreariest, grossest, unsexy sex parties in the history of sex parties. Just the thought of them makes me want to get deloused.

All I keep hearing in my head the past two weeks, with all of these compromised, inexperienced suck-up appointments and talk of retribution measures (Junior Mint, today), vengeance, high tariffs, and the gutting of basic government departments (FBI, ATF, etc) is Tim Walz's simple question from just a few months ago: who asked for ANY of this?

Trump is in office to get the border under control, deport the illegal criminal migrants, get some handles on the urban crime issues, and keep prices LOW (good luck on that!) - that's it, that's the program he was elected to do. None of the rest of the crap was anywhere near the top of the list of concerns of most Americans.

Hey, Nestor, time to come forward and tell your story

HYPOCRITICAL PUSSY HOUND-Just like the rest of them and their dear leader.

Hey dummy at R400, she’s hoping to reveal Democracts. You ain’t too bright…

R405, the federal government can't do most of the things that people want it to do. It can't radically restructure the economy. And no one can deal with the border because illegal immigration is just part of it. Our appetite for illegal drugs is endless, and no one is sealing a border through which $19 to $29 billion dollars flows every year.

She’s openly blackmailing Republicans to not object to Gaetz.

Trump sold the rubes on ending illegal immigration and lowering prices while his real goal is to weaponize the federal government.

Bless your heart, R408.

I'm confused about why he paid. He went to sex parties. Are the women free there?

Not when you look like that and you have the personality he does, R413. If you do, you pay. Unless you just want to stand in the corner and beat off by yourself.

R412. Yes. I was wrong. She’s more interested in busting Matt and her own party than “the Dems.”

😵‍💫👽

[quote]Trump sold the rubes on ending illegal immigration and lowering prices while his real goal is to weaponize the federal government.

Bingo! He's always been all about vengeance and retribution on all of his perceived "enemies". He'll have about two years worth of time to get a head start on this, and you know he'll come charging out of the gate foaming at the mouth on Day 1, in January.

I feel slightly ill at the prospect of what he has planned, but also fascinated at the same time to witness this trainwreck. Even more interesting, the reactions of many swing voter Americans who voted for him, thinking his 2nd term would be different from the 1st and that he was actually running to get stuff done. The dawning realization that he's out to destroy our government and weaponize if totally for his own ends, will be sad yet satisfying to watch in real time.

Hacked!

So Cro-Marge is saying she filed a sexual harassment claim on someone? Is she implying it was against a Democrat or a Republican? She's so nuts it's hard to know what she's getting at.

^ no dummy—it is about the OTHRS

SNL should do a takeoff of On Patrol Live with the cops it covers stopping all the lawbreakers, Trump included, coming to the White House.

It was against a Republican and she isn’t trying to bust Matt. She’s trying to blackmail her fellow Republicans into supporting Matt by threatening to release their dirty laundry as well.

It’s strange that Trump is investing all this energy to get Gaetz confirmed. Is he being blackmailed by Putin (or Gaetz) to force Gaetz through? I’m sure there are other goons he could more easily get through. The hard attraction he has towards Gaetz is weird.

Mary! Reading this thread , so full of hysteria

^ Nestor, is that you?

Now Linda McMahon (who's being sued for covering up the ring boys sexual abuse scandal) is joining the cabinet, too

We need more abusers and abuse enablers!

[quote]Now Linda McMahon (who's being sued for covering up the ring boys sexual abuse scandal) is joining the cabinet, too

Will Vince shit on Susie Wiles's head?

I hope he shits on Trump's head instead

R421 ass backwards, you’ve got it.

my only hope, albeit a slender one, is that even his own party in Congress is answerable to other interests in Big Pharma, Financial Services, Commerce, etc. and will block as much of the crazy as they can. Fucking with Medicare and Social Security ought to be a major "don't even try..." I think our job is to get involved with local groups who can mobilize voters to raise hell to stop some of these excesses.

I think trump wants matty because he reminds him of himself at that age - raping and molesting minors.

Statutory Rape... Human Trafficking... Perjury

Receipts:

Dump BELIEVES that he has a mandate, which is why he's trying to get all of these nutcases in the cabinet. Dementia Donny is in control, I don't see this working out well.

Dump's elecction vote has officially fallen under 50.0 percent

4% still to be counted in both OR and CA….it will be a but narrower still.

bit*

Now there are nude selfies, apparently

The problem is with Musk and Vivek, and a few other loose screws, he has no one who will put on the brakes. And the Media goads him. They hype dissent which causes him to dig in. He needs an exit ramp and they better find him one so he can back away from some of this shit.

I want to see what his parents look like. He's clearly a product of incest.

Matt is eager to bring his unique brand of joie de vivre to the usually staid AG's office.

cunts

I said this earlier but maybe not in this thread: The Trump Transition team has not even signed the paperwork for a transition to get office space and funding. And they refuse to sign because there is a requirement for disclosure of donors who might give to the Transition. This is gonna be a fucked up mess and everyone is gonna be fighting with everyone. Musk and Vivek and others can dance around, but the fact is, at the end of the day Trump is the POTUS and neither he nor his Chief of staff and closest long time advisers are going to let Musk and Vivek run around thinking they have the power to do things in Trump's name. Personally I'd rather see a shit show where nothing gets done for at least the next two years.

I know you'll be shocked:

He won’t get confirmed. Several R Senators are demanding to see it.

Even if he's not confirmed, R444, the same objecting Republican senators may not stand in the way of a recess appointment.

^ Update

Where's Nestor?

All you need from Political Wire:

“Here’s the bottom line: If the report cleared Gaetz at all, Republicans would be clamoring to release it. If it only contained the already-leaked allegations, they’d probably agree to release it in order to move on.

The fact they’re still keeping it under wraps tells you everything you need to know.”

Exactly. It’s why he resigned because he couldn’t withstand all the scandals revealed to n the report. Now they want us to believe it doesn’t matter and he’s qualified to be AG. Stop gaslighting us Trump and company!!!

He resigned to keep the report from being released. And the timing of the resignation allows him to run in early January for his old seat if he doesn’t get the AG job.

More of their bullshit game playing. Truly despicable people led by pet toad Mike Johnson.

Musk & Murdoch are in Putin’s orbit.

It's really bad.

[QUOTE]House Republicans actually voted today to block the US Senate from receiving their report containing sworn witness testimony and documentary evidence about the nominee for Attorney General of the United States paying a child $10,000 for sex.

Matt Gaetz sex payments Exhibit:

Talk about defining deviancy down. Bill Clinton’s nomination of me to head Justice was scuttled in 1993 because I had hired an illegal immigrant to be a babysitter.

Is “just because” anal?

I'll bring the popcorn.

Then again, Kavanaugh ended up getting confirmed.

I’m very concerned.

Kavanaugh is just a regular guy, not used to the political savagery. Gaetz is my only used to it, he generates it for his own amusement. A hearing on steroids won’t faze him.

Is it true..... Gaetz is gone?

HE WITHDREW!

I withdrew to spend more time with Nestor

He's just going back into the House in January.

[quote] HE WITHDREW!

17 year old girls are glad to hear this.

GATEZ IS GONE-GOOD-FUCK THAT PIECE OF TRUMP SHIT.

Don't worry, he'll be replaced by an equally heinous nominee for AG.

I'm a lawyer!

R467, I wonder what monster Trump will replace him with?

Ken Paxton?

From earlier today, this was a harbinger of the news today.

R469, ugh! You think like them. Paxton would be a good choice for Trump but a horrific choice for us and the DoJ. He is terrible. He is corrupt and nasty, and he is a lawyer. A smart, underhanded, conniving bastard. So I pray he is not chosen. I think Donnie should choose one of his own lawyers... if he can find one who hasn't been disbarred for Jan. 6th.

Elon Musk was defending Gaetz. Of course

Gaetz is out of Congress!!!! He resigned his seat so they wouldn't release the ethics report! He's OUT!!!!

Now we really only have two truly bad people to remove Tulsi Gabbard who is a true national security risk, and the Fox TV Guy who was nominated for Defense. We can live with Bobby Jr. and Dr. Oz. We can even live with the Wrestling Lady. I hope he doesn't go too crazy with the FBI Director.

Bobby can go to USDA. He really is dangerous for HHS.

Maybe Fox News will hire Matt Gaetz now that he needs a job.

Oh, my. I would *love* to see Jr. go after corporate farms, Monsanto et al. over GMO. That would be amusing and pointless.

Gaetz's tweet on X that announced his withdrawals ended with what seems to be Team Trump's new, ominous catchphrase, "let's Save America!". This ostensibly replaces the outdated "Make America Great Again" slogan, that apparently has outworn its usefulness.

Save America from what?? What are we being saved from. I know what I need to be saved from, and it will be sitting in the WH come January 20th.

RELEASE THE REPORT

And now he's not even a Congressman anymore.

He'll get some White House Advisor job

Fox News hires = affirmative action for brainless, corrupt white people

The only silver lining with Paxton is that those of us in Texas will no longer be alone in suffering from his fuckery. We can all suffer together.

Dump will put him in an even more outrageous position-watch.

R469/R471, while Paxton is arguably even more loathsome than Gaetz, he also has even more political baggage. A couple of years ago, all SIX of his handpicked deputy AGs narked on him to the FBI after finding out he was accepting bribes along with screwing the wife of a powerful real estate developer. He'd be even less likely to pass Senate muster than Gaetz. The top option now is apparently Missouri's AG.

Also, Paxton is odious, but he's not stupid: he knows full well that Trump cabinet picks tend to have exceptionally short shelf lives. Since there's no way he could work as both Texas AG and for the US, he's likely staying put. AFAIK he was never even considered, and for that reason.

Dum Fuk Gaetz. If he wanted to win Senate confirmation, he had to pleasure Miss Lindz big time. He failed to do so. When Miss Lindz is happy, the Senate will approve. Then, the media backs off, for they too, adore Miss Lindz.

Paxton is going nowhere…he wants to be Governor: Abbott with legz, on steroids.

Sooooooooo Pam Bondi now....

Pam Bondi is a corrupt sack of shit

[quote] Maybe Fox News will hire Matt Gaetz now that he needs a job.

[quote] And now he's not even a Congressman anymore.

[quote] He'll get some White House Advisor job

Alas, as Marc Caputo is reporting, Gaetz still has the job he was elected to on Nov. 5th. DeSantis never set a date for a special election. So he'll be back in Congress in January.

DJT pulls another disturbing sycophant out of the dirty bin of deplorables.

getting all worried and heart attacky over stuff that hasn't happened and may never happen is something we all might want to take a look at.

The nice thing about Bondi is that she's stupid.

Really, truly stupid. But that won’t save us.

Has Dump grabbed Pam Bondi's pussy? She's blonde and toothy, just his type.

"So he'll be back in Congress in January."

Considerably defanged, but still back.

Doesn’t the report get released if he comes back?

At some point, yes.

Since each session of Congress is distinct, I believe every ethics report issued by one Congress is unique to that Congress.

Pam Bondi, chilling with Matt and Nestor...

Rr497 you are mistaken. Even if you were correct —so what…all the info is available.

So who is gonna replace Marco Rubio?

R497^

Ahem

Any shirtless Nestor pics?

Hate to burst everyone's bubble, but Matt Gaetz CAN RETURN to Congress if he wants. I think AOC pointed this out too. Basically he resigned his current job in Congress to take the AG job. But he was already elected to serve in 2025. So just like trump, all his investigations go a way by resigning this term, but he can start anew in 2025 if he so choose.

R503, ask Matt

I didn't know Matt Gaetz is Florida panhandle trash. Everything about him makes sense now.

The House Ethics Committee meets again on the 11th of December to decide what to do with the report - they have NOT made a final decision yet.

With Gaetz returning to the House and no longer tied to Trump, why wouldn’t they vote to release it? They only need one vote.

According to my local news station which did a "verify" story today on whether Gaetz could return to the House, the sources they consulted said that since he had officially resigned from the House, the option of saying "whoops" was off the table, and De Santis would be legally obligated to hold a special election. Gaetz could, in theory, run again for his seat, but he also said in his resignation that he would NOT serve in the House again. That clip would probably be used in any kind of political race in his district as an ad.

Did he resign from both his current term and the new term in the next Congress?

The former yes—not yet official re the latter. This was already covered well up the thread.

I see in a news article that he did write the words that equate to him resigning from the new Congress. That's why his only path is to run again.

I read somewhere he does not have to run again, all he has to do is petition someone in power for a re-reinstatement.

Why, R512? He only resigned from THIS (the 118th) Congress. The NEW (119th) Congress - the one to which he was elected - begins in January.

Each numbered Congress is a distinct, self-contained, unit. Thus, for example, if an article of impeachment had not been sent to the Senate in the Congress it which it was passed, the new Congress would have to act anew respecting that particular article for the Senate to have any jurisdiction.

On further thought, that passed article of impeachment may even be a nullity if it's not disposed of by the Senate during that particular Congress.

R508 if he goes back to Congress, the Ethics Report will be a big issue. So he is finish.

Trump will find him something when things settle down. There is no senate confirmation process for Trump's personal staff in the White House. He could make Gaetz an Advisor to the President. What a total mess that would be. Gaetz would disrupt everything.

R517 Agreed. Remember, Trump cares nothing about norms, rules or laws. He will find some position despite all his baggage.

[quote] if he goes back to Congress, the Ethics Report will be a big issue.

I'm not so sure a new Congress has jurisdiction to release a report from a prior Congress.

Has Nestor commented?

I’m surprised that this thread isn’t up to date with today’s news.

This is so fucking trippy. Totally mind blowing

Gaetz says that he will NOT return to Congress. Instead he will make videos on Cameo.

r523, so typically of the Trumpers, always cashing in on the short term grift opportunity. Gotta hand it to them, they are so predictable.

At least he's not selling gold sneakers (yet).

Gross, who the fuck would pay that child molester for videos

$500 for a Cameo from that asshole? And yet some idiots will pay that.

This just in: reporting this evening is the Trump & Co want to gut the DOJ, replacing it with staff who will make it their top priority to investigate the Election Fraud of 2020. Not kidding, that's what I just saw.

Did ANYONE ask for this? A re-hashing of the fake election claims from four years ago? How come they aren't investigating fraud from this current election cycle hmm?

This is what he had in store for Gaetz, and what he has lined up for Barbie Bondi.

^ I'm all for that!

Watch...they'll "prove" election fraud for 2020....which would then make Trumpf ineligible to be president in 2025 since you can only be elected president twice.

Gaetz has been moved quietly to a new parish.

R522: So what's the story?

[quote] This just in: reporting this evening is the Trump & Co want to gut the DOJ, replacing it with staff who will make it their top priority to investigate the Election Fraud of 2020.

And how the Emmy vote was rigged against this ultimate victim.

Do we think it's Gaetz for Governor 2026??

Trump just nominated "Doctor" Seb Gorka as Director of Counterrorism. Yuck, that guy is nuts

[quote] Watch...they'll "prove" election fraud for 2020....which would then make Trumpf ineligible to be president in 2025 since you can only be elected president twice.

No. The president is elected by the electors. The official electors appointed by the states in 2020 elected Biden. Proving election fraud in any state will have no effect on that.

Forget Matt Goetz, Dataloungers. He's over. He's finished. It's over for Matt Gaetz.

You sound as though DL-ers would be disappointed if that proves true, R536.

How's your heart now, OP?

Forget it, Jake. It's Floridatown

R536 Think of poor Nestor

Trump may give Gaetz an administration job that doesn’t require Senate approval. Similar to what Bannon had.

[quote] Trump may give Gaetz an administration job that doesn’t require Senate approval. Similar to what Bannon had.

I don't believe Bannon ever was on the White House payroll.

R541, I was thinking that too. He could always put him on the WH staff al la Bannon. They President's personal staff doesn't require Senate confirmation. However. They still have to go through the FBI background check.

My mistake.

[quote] He served as the White House's chief strategist for the first seven months of U.S. president Donald Trump's first administration, before Trump discharged him.

Has anyone ever looked like a bigger drunken derelict than Steve Bannon?

Rebekah Mercer: Bannon’s sugar mama.

R545 - Yea - I don't get it - DUMP is so conscious of appearances that having a real live gargoyle as his advisor was an odd choice. Plus, Bannon looks dirty and I doubt his personal/oral hygiene are up to basic standards. That may be why he wears layers and layers of clothing - all the time.

[quote] The group, which was co-founded five years ago by JD Vance, sprouted from an informal set of dinners into a powerful coalition of Republican donors who have given more than $100 million to Rockbridge projects since 2019, according to a person close to the group, helping lead Silicon Valley’s march to the right. For Rockbridge, Mr. Vance’s election as vice president was a crowning achievement — and a tantalizing opportunity to wield new national influence. But Rockbridge has largely kept its activities stealthy, mindful of how groups of wealthy conservatives like the Koch Network have drawn attacks from both liberal detractors and Republican wannabes. As caravans of black S.U.V.s shuttled in the billionaires from their private jets last week, members of the Rockbridge roster could be spotted around the hotel: Rebekah Mercer, the scion of one of the most prolific Republican donor families, greeted well-wishers in the lobby. Working the happy-hour scene at the hotel bar were two close friends of Elon Musk’s — Ken Howery and Luke Nosek, whose time with Mr. Musk at PayPal made them megawealthy themselves.

Bannon's body is probably covered with ulcers and oozing sores. Ugh!

R548 when they say PayPal, I think Peter Theil. Thanks for the article. I wondered WEHT The Mercers. It seemed like they disappeared when Mueller got involved.