The Trump Presidency - Chapter 2

[Ksyrup]

As a licensed attorney, the thought of Matt Gaetz as the nation's top attorney is disgusting. What a joke. Of course, with a covicted felon in the WH, what's wrong with a suppressed statutory rape charge for the attorney general?

I assume this means they will attempt to prosecute every single person on Trump's personal vendetta list.

[Edward64]

Definitely a new world.

I do wonder how many of his cabinet, top special advisors will last 2 years.

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by Arles

Looks back at the 2016 rhetoric on what Trump was going to do and then compare to what actually happened. He has no "core beliefs" and the moment something becomes unpopular or he doesn't benefit from it as much as he planned, he drops it like a bad habit. He promised things like repealing Obamacare, building a wall that Mexico paid for, invest $550 billion into US infrastructure, renegotiate the Iran deal, cancel funding for "sanctuary cities" and (of course) deport all people here illegally.

Know how many of those promises he kept? 0, nada - none of those things happened.

https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...s/trumpometer/

Look at his appointments then. Look at these appointments now. He had some pretty creepy people in his cabinet 8 years ago, but they look like law abiding Mensa members compared to the likes of Tulsi Gabbard and Matt Gaetz. So much of the absolute crazy stuff he wanted to do was halted by the people around him. That is not going to be the case with this bunch.

[Lathum]

Guys. We’re not surviving this. It’s been a good run.

[RainMaker]

Gaetz is nowhere near as funny as Hegseth. It's of course bad to have a pedophile as AG but he's further to the left on antitrust and corporate power than most Dems.

[GrantDawg]

Attorney General nominee Matt Gaetz does not have federal criminal experience except in the area of sex trafficking.


@kenwhite.bsky.social on Bluesky

[cuervo72]

Guess we can put that "they'll just 25th him and get JD in a few months" stuff to bed, eh?

[GrantDawg]

Originally Posted by cuervo72

Guess we can put that "they'll just 25th him and get JD in a few months" stuff to bed, eh?

That was never happening. Trump is going to enjoy a sweet life of playing golf, and let the inmates run the asylum.

[Atocep]

I was just telling a friend yesterday that Trump's nominations so far are bad, but I was expecting worse. The Secretary of Defense and AG nominations have us back where I expected to be.

Gaetz is being brought in to rubber stamp Trump going after political enemies and Hegseth is there to purge non-MAGA generals.

[RainMaker]

There was always going to be a few oddballs in there and I imagine one of them doesn't get approved (probably Hesgeth). But most of the others are just run-of-the-mill neocons like he had the first time around. Is Gaetz really much worse than Jeff Sessions?

[Brian Swartz]

There's nothing Trump can do that is remotely as damaging as having an electorate that chose him twice. The damage is already done.

[RainMaker]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...ktok-ban-sale/

[JPhillips]

Rumors are Trump is planning on working with Johnson to use an article 2 power that never been used previously. If the two chambers disagree about adjourning, the President can adjourn them. So long as Johnson is on board, this means Trump will recess appoint everybody regardless of what the Senate decides.

They either agree to adjourn with the House and Trump makes the appointments or they disagree, Trump adjourns them, and then makes recess appointments.

t least for the next two years Trump is going to have whoever he wants.

[kingfc22]

America wanted a dictator...so a dictator they will get.

Hope they enjoy it

[Arles]

My wife sent me this and I thought this crew would enjoy it:



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[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Edward64

Definitely a new world.

I do wonder how many of his cabinet, top special advisors will last 2 years.

Most don't.

His staffing choices, or the extremely high failure rate for them, are probably my single biggest gripe about term one

[miami_fan]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

As a licensed attorney, the thought of Matt Gaetz as the nation's top attorney is disgusting. What a joke. Of course, with a covicted felon in the WH, what's wrong with a suppressed statutory rape charge for the attorney general?

I assume this means they will attempt to prosecute every single person on Trump's personal vendetta list.

Marco, Matt, and don't forget DJT is a resident now... It's officially a Florida Man administration!

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Ksyrup

I assume this means they will attempt to prosecute every single person on Trump's personal vendetta list.

A great deal of his supporters, me very much included, are going to be very disappointed if he doesn't.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Originally Posted by Brian Swartz

There's nothing Trump can do that is remotely as damaging as having an electorate that chose him twice. The damage is already done.

Which is roughly how I feel about the fact there's anywhere that the election was even close.

It's why I've never bought into the whole "MAGA" concept.

There's too many ignorant, mentally/emotionally ill, and plain ol' evil people in the country for "great" to ever be a reasonable goal.

And those three things account for pretty much every vote )cast by a real person) for Harris or Biden.

[Mota]

Is there a Bluesky version of FOFC? Asking for a friend...

[Front Office Midget]

Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA

There's too many ignorant, mentally/emotionally ill, and plain ol' evil people in the country for "great" to ever be a reasonable goal.

And those three things account for pretty much every vote )cast by a real person) for Harris or Biden.

Honestly, this sort of thing doesn't surprise me coming from JIMG, but has anyone noticed an uptick of this type of rhetoric all over the Internet lately? Thinking of severely reducing all Internet exposure from here on out.

It's really concerning if this is the attitude people have around us in the modern day.

Was there a memo I missed that everyone is supposed to hate everyone now?

[Edward64]

Almost seems like normal.

[Edward64]

On why the Gaetz pick ...

Just a moment...

President-elect Trump picked Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general for one, big, telling reason: Gaetz will proudly do the dirty work on controversial legal topics that others won't.

Why it matters: Get used to this. It's your future foretold: On some topics, Trump wants to seem reasonable. On others — like anything related to his suspicion of a hostile "deep state" — he demands his own personal, controllable wrecking ball.

A powerful MAGA insider who talks often to Trump told us the reason he picked Gaetz is simple: "He likes him."

"Everyone else looked at AG as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. They talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bullshit. Gaetz was the only one who said: 'Yeah, I'll go over there and start cuttin' f---in' heads.'"

More interesting in the article. We'll see how damning the report is.

Countless Republicans trashed Gaetz before and after his shocking nomination. His House colleagues' parting gift: a quick leak to Punchbowl that Gaetz was about to get hit with a damning House Ethics Committee report. The subject of the report: illegal drug use and sexual misconduct.

Gaetz resigned his Florida seat Wednesday, just before the Ethics Committee was set to hold a pivotal meeting on the Gaetz investigation. Gaetz's resignation ends the wide-ranging probe, Axios' Andrew Solender reports.

And then we have the below prediction. My guess is Trump will get the guy he wants, one way or another.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/senat...021449503.html

Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted that President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general would be rejected by the Republican Senate next year.

[JonInMiddleGA]

Gaetz was the only one who said: 'Yeah, I'll go over there and start cuttin' f---in' heads.'"

Let's just assume this is accurate ... I'm suddenly about 50% more enthused about the choice than I was before reading it.

[Lathum]

Can't wait to see Matt Gaetzs plan for lowering the cist of eggs

[Mota]

We're soon going to find out that they don't actually want to make the lives of Americans better, they're just vindictive B words. You know what word I mean. I can't say it. But I waaaaaaaaant to say it.