I can think of a lot of worse picks.
Trump is trying to legitimize pedophilia. He doesn't want to be the only one guilty of it in his circle
Trump is training Gaetz up to become the next Epstein
Pass it on
The infighting is the point.
The dear leader is most threatened by his closest advisors, ministers and generals.
They are in a powerful enough position to topple him.
So it's crucial that they constantly fight each other.
I’m just really hoping Trump will piss off republicans in Congress fast enough that they stop supporting him before he can cause any real harm.
I too hope they waste the next few years with factional infighting. The senate Republicans have already gone against his personal pick for majority leader and picked a boring neocon.
A standstill is probably the best you could hope for right now, but not exactly a positive outcome.
There's zero chance of a positive outcome. The best we can hope for is the least destructive outcome.
These were the same people who swore in January that they wouldn't vote if DeSantis didn't get the nomination, and who cringed to death when Trump sold NFTs
Can we agree as a society that Gaetz should only ever be referred to as Florida Man?
Florida Pedophile, and I'm in.
Looks like they're finally starting to find out.
I perceive this as a loyalty test. Trump will see who opposes Gaetz and put them on his enemies list. Then he'll eliminate them to "drain the swamp. "
Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly.
--Teddy Roosevelt
That's how it should work, but anyone expecting that from the Trump administration and his subservient partisans is delusional.
The poor, poor people on Lemmy having to suffer more Reddit content on Lemmy.
Pretty sure Twitter still takes the cake on that one
It's like how we screenshot 4 chan.
Have they not considered the infighting
Trump's last attorney general was the son of a paedophile who was Epstein's mentor and gave him his career start.
A paedo Attorney General is part of Trump's brand.
Trump himself is a pedophile. Which a lot of them know full well and just dismissed as irrelevant because it's Trump.
What are those phrases? Like follows like and birds of a feather flock together?
The whole obsession was always super transparent. They literally fling around old 4chan pedo slang.
Personally I like "Shit tends to clump together."
And "the turd doesn't fall far from the asshole"
Birds of a shit feather flock together, Randy.
Didn’t know that about Barr’s dad. Gross.
What does their father have anything to do with them? Regardless of your opinions about pedophiles, you should judge people on their own merits, not those of their family members.
Donald Barr hired a young unqualified Jeffrey Epstein to teach at a prestigious Manhattan all girls school in the 70's.
Barr protected Trump from Epstein because it protected his father.
That phenomenon is called Epstein Barr Virus.
Oh, don't worry. I'm sure they'll fall in line in a couple of days and act like Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.
It's funny you put it that way. People are saying Trump will start WWIII and I think you're closer to the truth. He and Putin and Xi will all stay out of each other's way and maybe occasionally fight a proxy war here and there to maintain power in perpetuity.
Why go to war with each other when you can just leave each other alone and let everyone else do the fighting?
Besides, Trump is beholden to Putin and Putin and Xi are buddies (Putin might even be beholden to Xi at this point considering Russia's money issues). Who is going to go to war with who?
They will all wag each other's dogs. Giggity.
The US was late to WW1 and WW2. Trump wants to go 3 for 3.
Stalin and Hitler tried what you suggested...
Their pact was more about having mutual levels of power though. Putin clearly has power over Trump and it sure looks like Xi has power over Putin.
Trump's official power will dwarf Putin's by orders of magnitude on January 6th.
How long until he gets replaced and Trump releases the info to burn the bridge entirely and install an even worse person?
I think it's slightly different than what you're suggesting. I'm thinking he's picking the worst people he can pick for these jobs so they get denied and his next pick, which is almost as bad, gets approved instead.
Either way, he mostly gets what he wants... and if whatever attorney general finally does get approved ends up fucking up, which they will, Trump can say, "not my fault, I nominated Gaetz."
That's brilliant, which means that trump isn't thinking that. He's picking the absolute worst people, because he always chooses the absolute worst options for any given choice. We already lived through this reality for four years.
I think you’re assigning a level of intelligence that Trump simply doesn’t have here. He’s absolutely not planning for anything more than 10 seconds ahead. He’s got a list of people he knows will do anything he says and he’s installing them wherever with no rhyme or reason.
Sorry, I'm not trying to suggest this plan was come up with by Trump himself. It would be the people behind him.
Hard disagree on this. This has Trump's stench all over it. Every person being tapped for these positions is a Trump sycophant, and none of them are even remotely qualified to do the job he's trying to assign them.
I agree that Trump is not good at planning, well, anything. But none of this feels like a plan. It's all: "I like PersonX. I will hire them." If it feels like a very stupid, short-sighted, and childish thing, it's because Trump is a stupid, short-sighted child.
There is no plan for what happens if Gaetz doesn't get confirmed, just like there was no plan informing his selection of Gaetz. If Gaetz doesn't get confirmed, Trump will make a few all-caps posts on Truth Social, and then nominate another sycophant. He's got so many to choose from these days.
Does seem like a Roger Stone tactic.
Trump has always been a puppet.
I think that's probably giving him too much credit. He's not really a democratic politician, he's a fascist.
My bet is that he is constructing a loyalty test to weed out opposition within the ranks. Anyone who doesn't fully give into the cult of personality gets put on a list of people he can't trust.
He doesn't really care about gaetz, but gaetz has pissed off enough people within the party to act as a good tool to test the waters of his own party.
Never, until he doesn’t obey Trump.
Gaetz was reportedly two days away from the House Ethics Committee releasing its report on his… activities with minors - which was going to be damning. Gaetz instead quits congress to nullify their jurisdiction, and Trump gets easy blackmail over his new AG.
Obviously having a crony run the Justice Department kills all of Trumps investigations, but it also lets him steer the department as he pleases.
Extremely stable geniuses.
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