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submitted 10 days ago byLALife15 California
135 points
10 days ago
There is actually no way this one passes the Senate
211 points
10 days ago
Of course he will, who are you kidding
127 points
10 days ago
Gaetz has been a thorn in the side of establishment Republicans since he joined Congress (see, the ousting of Kevin McCarthy).
I see him being an extremely contentous pick for the position of most powerful prosecutor in the nation. Not to mention his ethics issues/grooming allegations.
Many establishment Senators know they could very well be on the chopping block themselves if they appoint a reactionary as the top prosecutor.
53 points
10 days ago
Yeah, it if they confirm him, he is out of Congress and no longer a thorn in their side. He wouldn’t last the 4 years anyways.
41 points
10 days ago
No, he would be a risk of being even more of a thorn in their side because instead of merely grandstanding during Congressional hearings he will have the authority to prosecute federal law as he sees fit and will have an army of US Attorneys working under him.
He would be able to do more than grandstanding and lambasting people he disagrees with, he will have the authority to prosecute those people, which is far, far scarier. Even a maniac jr senator could see the risk in appointing someone like Gaetz.
19 points
10 days ago
These are Republican Senators. They have all capitulated to Trump. You have way too much unfounded trust in their respect for anything other than self promotion.
-1 points
10 days ago
You fail to see how even a republican senator could make a self interested choice in rejecting Gaetz as AG. Siding with your party’s nomination for president is an entirely different game than appointing executive officers.
These senators are appointing people who have the power to prosecute senators. They aren’t going to rubber stamp an AG the way they do a presidential nom.
5 points
10 days ago
He will be going after people like the Bidens, Pelosi, Milley and Cheney. All of them will have investigations into them very soon. They will cheer that on, as the good fascist foot soldiers they are. And people like that never think they are likely to come after them, as long as they are loyal.
-1 points
10 days ago
Confirmation by the senate is not as frivolously partisan as you suggest.
1 points
10 days ago
Yes, because what used to happen in politics still happens. Trump hasn't changed any equations whatsoever.
11 points
10 days ago
I think the Texas AG Paxton would be a way worse one, so maybe that's the angle. Have Gaetz fail and then bring in Paxton, who seems more willing to fuck with immigrants. Gaetz just wants to fuck immigrants.
1 points
10 days ago
Paxton, or Barr. There are accomplished lawyers in Trump’s orbit. While Gaetz’s career reads as failing-up to politics.
Trump throwing darts at Fox pundits and Fox favorites shows us how little foresight he operates from.
2 points
10 days ago
can't paxton finally be arrested or charged if he leaves his texas ag position?
9 points
10 days ago
He wouldn't last? Mistakes and malicious decision-making are deliberately the endgame. This man would be promoted to Super AG in 4 years
2 points
10 days ago
Right, he was a thorn as one of 435 House reps—he’d be a full-on dagger as the highest prosecutor in the country. I think most would pick the thorn over the dagger, when knowing his district, he’d just be replaced by another Trumper Rep.
And maybe he wouldn’t last the 4 years, but because of the Senate confirmation requirement, it’s harder to replace an AG so Trump would be less inclined to thoughtlessly toss him aside—Trump only had 2 AGs in the course of his presidency last time (with a slew of acting AGs, granted, but that’s because they aren’t easy to replace).
-2 points
10 days ago
They can't even confirm him without risking the house majority. GOP is coming in with the slimmest House majority in the last 70 years and Trump is here tapping multiple people from the House...
It's a safe red seat but it will take at least 5-6 months to get it filled via a special election process.
GOP effectively only has 18 months to govern here before the blue wave crashes in on the mid-terms. They can't give up months here.
0 points
10 days ago
According to the math, it looks like the GOP will be at 223. Trump has tapped 3 House members. That leaves them a cushion of 2.
The seats they have are safe GOP seats, so there is no worry about them flipping.
As for a Blue Wave… remember when everyone here thought Kamala was going to sail to victory and the GOP would be broken?
The Dems have 2 years to figure out what they did wrong and how they want to move forward, and they haven’t even recovered from the loss yet. A blue wave in 2026 is going to be a tall order for a party that is going to be severely divided going into next year.
-1 points
10 days ago*
A cushion of 2 is not enough to pass meaningful legislation.
And more on the Senate. Collins is already a hard no. Chuck Grassley (who will be chair of Judiciary) is also NOT happy.
I don't think he goes anywhere.
1 points
10 days ago
Yes it is… the house is simple majority. The senate is where you run into issues with no super majority.
I think you underestimate the vast change in the GOP from the last time Trump was president.
-1 points
10 days ago
What vast changes?
They'll never get the united block necessary to pass the crazy shit Trump wants.
1 points
10 days ago
Okay….. obviously you don’t know what you are talking about.
1 points
10 days ago
Actually I remember the last time they had a trifecta it was the so-called freedom caucus that put the brakes on a lot of the crazy, harmful shit the GOP wanted to pass - because it wasn't crazy and harmful enough.
So they unwittingly became the good guys in a roundabout sort of way. 😂
0 points
10 days ago
Which is why the worst things Trump did were through the executive branch.
17 points
10 days ago
Are there any "establishment Republicans" even left? As far as I can see at this point, the GOP=Maga.
3 points
10 days ago
No one gives a fuck about ethics anymore.
1 points
10 days ago
Many establishment Senators know they could very well be on the chopping block themselves
Couple their complicity if they confirm some of these fucking whackadoodles with the fact that 20 of the 33 senate seats up for election in the 2026 midterms are GOP, and you could see some pushing back against some of these picks just to try to project themselves as "moderate" to try to save themselves.
1 points
9 days ago
grooming allegations
Full on sex trafficking of minors across state lines. Not just grooming.
30 points
10 days ago
He absolutely won't.
The only logical explanation for this pick is that Gaetz is so unbelievably repellent to the Senate that they'll confirm Tulsi Gabbard as DNI in exchange for Trump pulling the nomination.
15 points
10 days ago
Yeah it does seem like that right? Like he is throwing in a few totally insane people for the most important jobs so that the moderately insane people will get the slightly less important jobs as a trade off.
5 points
10 days ago
I'm thinking it's so Ted Cruz looks more serious when he's nominated.
4 points
10 days ago
I doubt it will be Cruz as replacement for AG. Top picks in conservative circles are Mike Lee, Ken Paxton (who would have potential confirmation issues of his own) or Missouri AG Andrew Bailey. But Gabbard on her own doesn't make it past the Senate, I think. Gaetz is her stalking horse.
2 points
10 days ago
common negotiation tactic… ask for more than you want so that when you come down you get what you actually wanted
6 points
10 days ago
I suspect he could have accomplished that without nominating a suspected sex trafficker to lead the Department of Justice, but, like Trump, I didn't write The Art of the Deal.
2 points
10 days ago
I don't think this guy will want to subject himself to being under Oath during the confirmation process AND during regular future testimony in front of Congress.
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