U.S. Politics, November 2024: GARBAGE DAY!!

the united states of florida

It's all horrible but I'm also finding it a bit funny because these picks are going to be absurdly incompetent. Makes me think they haven't learned many lessons about how to actually get things done effectively.

Gonna be a fun confirmation hearing

According to an oppo report obtained by @evethered, Matt Gaetz was involved in an auto-erotic asphyxiation game that led to a man's death, which Gaetz and his dad covered up. Can't corroborate the details of the death, but I did find a man who matches the alleged victim. https://t.co/jvCN1foD96 pic.twitter.com/scUwt8MYnj

— 𝙂𝙐𝙈𝘽𝙔 (@gumby4christ) March 31, 2021

Everyone involved in losing an election to a guy who turns around and makes Famous Political Pedophile #1 AG should have to go into permanent exile.

That's like more than 75M people, but I'm cool with it.

Everyone hates this guy and he a camera hog. He won’t last long. Maybe he’s just a smoke screen for the truly evil fascist they’ve got teed up once Gaetz goes down.

This would all be so much more funny if it wasn’t so fuckjn sad and pathetic.

I’m sure the show trials game show will get boffo ratings.

House Republicans had concerns about the pick as well, especially after watching Gaetz lead the ouster effort against former Speaker Kevin McCarthy that threw their chamber into chaos last year. Centrist Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) said he had “no good comment.” Trump and McCarthy ally Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) called it “a reckless pick.”

the “captive audience” decision by the NLRB is really big!

omg Gaetz, that's the first one of these that's really made my eyes bug out. I mean, it's evil but it also feels like a punchline. Surely you don't put Matt Gaetz in charge of anything you actually expect to get done?

Sessions:Gaetz::tragedy:farce

(tbh I didn't even realize he was technically a lawyer)

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nlrb-captive-audience-ban_n_67325a22e4b080b0b2b238d0/amp

Florida Trump and the Clowncar of Doom

best Randy Newman track imo

This month's thread title has consistently been otm.

Musk: 'You, bureaucrat! What exactly do you do?'

'I monitor PFAS levels in reservoirs to ensure safe drinking water.'

Musk: 'Nobody even knows what that means... go clear your desk.'

I think the Gaetz pick means he wants the AG to make a lot of noise and harass a lot of people and mostly create distractions in the foreground so the more important corruption and systematic cruelty can carry on in the background.

My guess is he's a sacrificial pick that will generate so much noise and outrage that everyone else will slide right through.

I keep misreading "pick" as "prick" in this thread and then being even more disappointed

I think you’re both probably right

Well, all three of you

Yeah it's definitely possible Gaetz doesn't make it through and someone just as craven but more competent ends up as AG — I don't even know which of those scenarios is worse.

I read a theory somewhere that creating a new agency and putting Musk and Vivek at the head of it was basically a high-level form of hellbanning them away from where they could have actual hard input into anything.

I mean, he had five Defense Secretaries in his first administration... there's gonna be some constant Apprentice-level shakeups, that how he likes to do things

The Hesgeth clown might not last three weeks

I might have a coronary when Boebert gets named for Transportation or w/e.

i seriously have to check out. like, make soups and throw the football with my son and listen to records in the dark go on long-ass walks.

yeah tbh Gaetz is a "lol we live in hell" pick which i prefer to an "oh god we live in hell" pick

Getting cooked by Peter Gammons yeah this guy isn’t making it through confirmation

Matt Gaetz is the attourney general. Good for billionaires under investigation.
Was Diddy not avaliable?

— Peter Gammons (@pgammo) November 13, 2024

xxp yeah, I just ordered some milkweeds seeds that I can plant for monarch butterflies, might as well trying to do some good in the world

well now I wanna subscribe to a podcast called "Getting Cooked by Peter Gammons"

Asked by one reporter if he thought Gaetz had the character and experience to be attorney general, Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) stared at them incredulously, waited six seconds to answer and then said, laughing: “Are you shittin’ me, that you asked that question? No. But hell, you’ll print that and now I’ll be investigated.”

I think Gabbard has a better chance of being blocked by congress, she isn't exactly a real republican.

bernie in 2003

https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGdFMVegN/

Gaetz resigned from the House? Fucking hell, that's awesome

Matt Gaetz walks into a bar

And falls into a trap door

And falls 1000 feet to his death

And nobody is sad

haha he might just be out of job

“I don’t think it’s a serious nomination for attorney general. We need to have a serious attorney general,” Murkowski told reporters. “I’m looking forward to the opportunity to consider somebody that is serious.”

“This one was not on my bingo card,” she added.

does Elon get to be Supreme Cobra Commander of Space Force now? access to that dank-Ops Area 51 alien technology

I joked yesterday about Hulk Hogan for Health & Human Services... after today, it doesn't seem so far-fetched

The DOGE won't have any actual power

Reagan spent eight years trying to reduce the size of the government and was able to eliminate... the Civil Aeronautics Board.

Not saying they won't try, but there are laws, unions, whole structures that not even a smart person can get past, let alone these clowns

maybe they'll be able to eliminate their own 'department' and then claim victory

I don’t think it’s a serious nomination for attorney general.

It is entirely serious - but it's the way Trump 'does' serious. He seriously wants Gaetz because Matt can be counted on to obey him no matter what illegal shit he wants the DOJ to pull. He will treat this putrid nomination, along with all his other crazy picks, as a test of your loyalty, Sen. Murkowski, and use it to divide the obedient sheep from the obstinate goats. If you don't go along he'll punish you any way he can, including all the illegal shit that he'll constantly be trying to get away with and hopes that Gaetz will be abetting.

Having serious deja vu today. Susan Collins expressing concern about a Trump nominee, seeing the "this is fine" dog pop up on social media.

xp it's either that or he's just rewarding Gaetz with a prize he can never collect... there are plenty of other sycophantic frauds waiting in the wings

Either way, Gaetz has resigned from the House and I consider that a win, however small

Isn't the DOGE supposed to bring its report in mid-2026? Right before the midterm elections? That's a very good time to talk about cutting Social Security and Medicare, sure.

musk has the attention span of a crayfish, we'll see how long he stays on board

irs and fbi and doj gonna be soooo busy busy busy

Elon is used to having his whims quickly validated, with his flunkys rushing to implement them asap. Inside of the government nearly all Musk's normal working methods will be highly illegal.

Hulk Hogan will be Rubio's replacement as Florida Senator

yep

Demanding Senate Republicans back Gaetz as attorney general and Hegseth as Defense Secretary is the 2024 version of forcing Sean Spicer to say it was the largest inauguration crowd ever.

These aren't just appointments. They're loyalty tests. The absurdity is the point.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) November 13, 2024