The way to prove you are better than Biden is to be better than Biden.
Trump’s arrogance, petulance, and revenge seeking is on full display with his pitiful choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney General.
Fox News has an excellent discussion of this idea in the following video.
Above: Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo discusses the House ethics investigation into Matt Gaetz and whether he’ll be confirmed.
Partial Transcript
Fox: Can Gaetz be confirmed in a recess appointment?
Yoo: This is an untested area of the Constitution. I don’t think the Senate is going to confirm Gaetz. This is putting on my hat as a former general counsel to the Senate. All these problems will lose him a lot of votes in the Senate. …. The Senate is trying to stay open because President Obama tried to do this too, and appoint a lot of officials when the Senate was not in session. So now Trump is looking at this new provision that’s never been used before which is if the House and Senate disagree about adjourning, the president can adjourn, and that would create a recess. This has never been used before.
Fox: So in your opinion, he should not be confirmed.
Yoo: If I was a Senator, I wouldn’t vote to confirm him. President Trump would be making an unforced error to recess appoint because it would actually slow the kind of reforms he wants to execute at the justice department.
Fox: Has the judiciary been damaged because of all these charges against Trump?
Yoo: I think that the state court judiciaries in New York and Georgia have taken a big hit to their reputation, especially the courts in New York City. People have to ask is the rule of law effective in New York City. The Federal courts, I think the outcome was better because the Supreme Court of the United States accelerated the case, took review, granted the president immunity, and essentially tried to shut down the lawfare that was being conducted by the Biden justice department and the special counsel. The New York courts, their reputation has taken a serious hit because of Judge Merchan, letting this case go forward by Alvin Bragg on tissue thin accusations and serious problems that will lead to the conviction being overturned on appeal.
Yoo for Attorney General
Compare the above thought process and understanding of the department with the pathetic qualifications of Gaetz.
Gaetz is woefully unqualified for the job. He only practiced for two years in a small law firm in tiny Fort Walton, Florida. He went into politics two years after law school, getting elected to vacant seat in the Florida state senate.
There’s no indication he ever practiced law after that. And he has no sense of what can be done.
And Gaetz has never run anything. Look at House infighting making a farce of their budget demands.
Is that who you really want for Attorney General?
Fight Over Gaetz
Gaetz resigned from the House hoping to avoid disclosure of an ethics committee investigation on Gaetz.
Consider this clip of Kevin McCarthy vs Gaetz.
In an obvious attempt to bury the sleaze, House speaker Mike Johnson will “strongly” urge his GOP ethics chair to shutter investigation without letting Senate see files.
Lovely. Inability to see and judge the results is all the more reason to block this inexperienced clown from the job.
It must be really smelly to refuse to let the Senate see the report.
Gaetz Flashback
Gaetz is largely responsible for all the House infighting that led to the ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. The deal Johnson got was hundreds of billions of dollars deeper in the red
Can Trump Force a Recess with Help From the House?
A House Power Grab is underway.
In naming a set of unconventional nominees to run federal departments, Donald Trump this week also took steps to push for a broader goal: realigning the balance of power among Washington’s major institutions so that more authority flows from the White House.
Senate Republicans signaled that Matt Gaetz, the president-elect’s pick to lead the Justice Department—one of the most sensitive jobs in Washington—would likely fail to win confirmation because of sexual-misconduct allegations and his antagonistic tactics that alienated colleagues.
The Constitution says that if the House and Senate disagree on when to go into recess, the president has the power to force them to adjourn. Under one scenario, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) could speed to the floor a measure to adjourn both the House and the Senate. If the Senate disagreed out of fear of the president making appointments in its absence, Trump could adjourn both chambers anyway and proceed with placing his choices in office.
It is unclear whether such a maneuver would be legally sound. But in a federal government with total Republican control, the only barrier could be resistance from enough Republicans like Rep. Mike Simpson (R., Idaho), who said he wouldn’t go along. “The Senate has a job to do,” Simpson said in an interview Thursday. “The recess-appointment procedure was not meant to avoid that process in the Senate, at least to intentionally avoid it.”
Legality of the Idea
The above paragraphs were the subject of an email discussion between a few of my friends.
One friend writes …
The Constitution gives the Senate the power advise and consent, consistent with the system of checks and balances which is the foundation of the entire constitutional system That great responsibility was not put in place, just so that it can be subverted at will.
Recess appointments were written into the Constitution at a time when communication was slow, travel was by horseback, and Congress did not meet virtually continually as it does today.
I think that any attempt like this would be taken up quickly by the Supreme Court.
The Constitution is clear that the Senate has the power to advise and consent and that cannot be taken away by a willful act by the very person relative to whom this Senatorial power was intended to balance.
The last sentence above is critical, and it shows very clear thinking. However, we do not know how the Supreme Court would rule.
The intelligent person hopes we don’t find out or Trump is smashed if we do.
Trump is unwisely out for revenge, picking an inexperienced clown for the job. To address lawfare, Trump wants more of it.
For more discussion, please see Trump’s Cabinet Nominees, the Good, the Bad, and the Very Ugly
Gaetz was both bad and ugly. But Trump made some good choices too.
Also see Mike Johnson Is the New (But Not Improved) Kevin McCarthy
Kevin McCarthy proposed $1.47 trillion and that included something the border. We are at least $1.8 trillion now, and I suspect closer to $2.0 trillion.
Dear Republicans, please wave the white flag and surrender!
Gaetz delivered Johnson.
Congrats?
The worst aspect is what Democrats might do the next time they are in power.
Trump and his supporters don’t give a damn about that, they want revenge now. But these same hypocrites would cry foul if Biden had tried to do what Trump seeks now.
The irony of it all is that Gaetz is so unqualified Attorney General it would blow up in Trump’s face. Yoo would be a much better pick.
I rest my case.
“Good luck getting co-sponsorship from a Sen. Gaetz if you blocked his AG appointment.”
Senator Gaetz – what a flyingF hoot
It is this exact blind MAGA idiocy why
1. Two senators in Georgia are Democrat instead of Republican
2. One senator in PA is Democrat instead of Republican
3. A Democrat is governor of AZ instead of a Republican
4. Kari Lake blew up a second time in Arizona as I called
You seriously have to be brain dead with TDS Type II to support Gaetz for Senate
Humorous Comment of the Day – It Fits Right In
https://x.com/HashZappa/status/1857876236229554318
I agree that Trump’s political endorsements generally backfire. I don’t see the Gaetz pick as analogous. The Senate might reject Gaetz and approve Gabbard. And if they reject Gaetz,the senate gets to feel that they exerted their power, and he’ll appoint somebody else. What’s the big deal? I hope the Senate rejects Hegseth. He looks like someone who considers himself a hard-ass, and he’s way too pro-Israel and hawkish.
Hebseth is the perfect pick. 20 years of miltary experience with zero connectivity to the military industrial complex.
And what’s wrong with being overly pro-Israel?
And Jim Mattis didn’t come across as a hard-ass?
The issue is his lack of political savvy in terms of running organisations.
We need less savvy and more honesty, in running our organizations, don’t you think?
Savvy leads to BS, while honesty leads to change! We need much more of the latter..
“20 years of miltary experience with zero connectivity to the military industrial complex.”
And yet, he’s dumb and clueless enough to be rolled like a barrel by them. Guaranteed. US taxpayers will, surprise surprise, be forced to pay even more to the MIC with this Fox clown in charge, than they already do.
“And what’s wrong with being overly pro-Israel?”
See above….. Duh!
Who did you think benefits; and who’s forced to foot the bill; for the F15s that Israel just agreed to buy “with the funds they get from The US?”
“Look, Ma! I’m in favor of wasting Americans’ money on everything under the sun which makes the MIC wealthier and more powerful, but I’m, like, ‘against’, like the MIC and, like, you know….Yeah!!!”
If you’re against the MIC, you choke off their funding. No childish yabuts.
Scott Ritter makes the case for Gaetz:
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/why-matt-gaetz-matters
Great article, thanks for sharing it.
Exactly, and thanks!
The dems violations of “our democracy” is a causus belli. Expecting tranquility is a dangerous utopia,
You cannot let the Russia collusion hoax attempted coup go unpunished. This was an act of treason against a democratically elected president. Gaezt maybe the only fully beast mode type pick you could trust to not back down on this. Barr turned into a backstabber, Trump can’t risk another establisment backstabber.
Also the weaponization of the justice system against Trump with the mar a lago raid, 3 phony cases in NYC, etc…… cannot go unpunished. This was Stalin like behvior. If it is not punished the Dems WILL DO IT AGAIN.
Yes, but Gaetz is a temporary appointment if he gets through at all.
Exactly…and those GOP senators that vote against him sign their career ending move
“Trump’s arrogance, petulance, and revenge seeking is on full display with his pitiful choice of Matt Gaetz for attorney General.”
And despite all that, he got 75M votes and 312 EC votes. Not a single personality trait that Trump may or may not have matters zilch, when it comes down to rooting out the deep state across the DOJ, FBI & CIA. What matters is loyalty to the vision. And the vision is to take back America across all levels of government.
And Yoo is a Bush guy, so he’s a Never Trumper from the get go. I wouldn’t put stock in a word this guys says.
And wouldn’t be a hoot if Trump nominated Gaetz to do him a solid in terms of a FLAUSA gubernatorial run all the while having Michael Flynn waiting in the wings as the real pick.
That would be EPIC!
Agreed. Trump got screwed so bad in 2016 with so many terrible establishment uniparty RINO picks for his cabinet, etc… – that he is “erring” on the side of full beast mode. You need a AG that is going to go hard exposing crossfire hurricane & all the weaponization under Biden. Yoo would be more weak sauce like Barr.
What style of necktie did Poppy last wear? Jeb! (please applaud) looked very impressed at the photo during the funeral service. Made up for the wrinkled coffin flag.
Good way to see who is loyal to Trump’s agenda and who is not. Make them show their cards. Better to know early on than be surprised later.
– “Good luck getting co-sponsorship from a Sen. Gaetz if you blocked his AG appointment.”
> I don’t think Greta is nearly that petty. In fact I think he would talk it over with Trump, and see what he needs to do differently, to earn that spot next time around. He’s young, smart, and a true Conservative! I like him personally, as the choice.
– Senator Gaetz – what a flyingF hoot It is this exact blind MAGA idiocy why
> Not at all in my eyes. I would say Biden, Harris, Newsom, Hillary, etc.are. FlyingF hoot, if there ever was one, but no way is Garth even remotely close to that league of imbeciles.
– Two senators in Georgia are Democrat instead of Republican
> Two Senators in Georgia that must GO! Give it some time… He isn’t even sworn in yet!
– One senator in PA is Democrat instead of Republican
> One Senator in PA that must GO! Give it some time… He isn’t even sworn in yet!
– A Democrat is governor of AZ instead of a Republican
> One Governor in AZ that must GO! Give it some time… He isn’t even sworn in yet!
– Kari Lake blew up a second time in Arizona
> Well they didn’t spend a dime to get her elected, so either Now is not her time, or they are waiting for the table to be set better, and they will Run & Support Her!
– You seriously have to be brain dead with TDS Type II to support Gaetz for Senate
> I’m rather intelligent and knowledgeable and Love Gaetz in ANY Role a True Conservative should be placed within!
Unlike You Mish, to be so “Nasty” In fact, I believe you would, or should remove people behaving like that. I like to hear all sides, and that includes those I disagree with, but you could be much more Professional and pleasant about it…
“Why Matt Gaetz matters“
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/why-matt-gaetz-matters
The sh t show will continue unabated ,the march of the clown brigade 4 more years 4 more years!,clowns to the left of me joker’s to the right you know the rest
“Trump is unwisely out for revenge, picking an inexperienced clown for the job. To address lawfare, Trump wants more of it.”
Democrats are peddling a narrative that Trump wants revenge against them. What the democrats fear is receiving justice for what they have done to Trump. In the hush money case, Trump’s constitutional rights were violated. Leticia James has also been put on notice, for her actions. Fani is also looking at legal troubles.These people have abused the law, under the color of authority.
ZH: “Trump made the decision, according to Politico, after his longtime confidant Boris Epshteyn lobbied on Gaetz’s behalf the night before.”
First, we need to know why Epshteyn allegedly lobbied for Gaetz to be AG. I for one do not know who this person is. Another writer, posted on ZH, argued that Trumps picks for cabinet are more qualified than Biden’s. HHS Becerra is the ex AG of California, while RFK. Jr is an environmental lawyer, someone who would be working with scientific experts, to argue cases in court. He also has qualified doctors on his staff at Children’s Health Defense.
love it
MISH IS triggered
when he doesn’t get AG then use him as special prosecutor – better to rake DIMS over coals
Gaetz seems to be a negotiating pawn.
Ask for the world and get the other nominees slip thru quietly.
Let the Dem’s focus on attacking Gaetz.
Wasn’t Yoo the Bush administration guy that provided the legal justification of the Unitary Executive and War on Terror nonsense?
When a business is in trouble and change is needed, the Board will usually bring in someone to shake things up. That person generally will be successful initially. The key is knowing when the turn around is over and some form of normality needs to return.
The loudest voices against Trump appointments are those that want normalcy now. All that does is imbed the priblem. Just look at Christopher Wray if you need an example. Lot of support – nothing changed.
If FOX is saying any of his picks are bad that is the right pick. FOX is a fake opposition network. The recess appointment will stick. It is a relic but there is a reason the relic is still around. Getting rid of that rusty wrench goes both ways.
Biden has set the bar so low that practically anyone can be better than Biden.
I agree 100%. Furthermore, the several RINO senators who voted for/failed to block Biden’s unqualified cabinet nominees (which is most of them) are now howling about that same low bar they acquiesced to under Biden.
I agree Trump’s nominations are smoking out these chameleon lizards.
Well Harris wasn’t, so there’s that…
FBI investigated Gaetz,and made NO ARREST, the same FBI who went after Trump, that should be a RED FLAG right there, over the accusations against Gaetz!!!
Since they made no arrest, proves the accusations are FALSE!!!!
Biden did make appointments of people who had ZERO experience for their appointed jobs in GOV’T,!!
Where are the links to your complaints about people appointed by Biden (Barrack) and who were confirmed by the Senate??
The people voted for accountability of the Establishment/DEEP STATE!!!
Trump should just put out a statement that simply reads: If Gaetz Is Not Confirmed, I will nominate Ann Coulter to the position. Thank You Senators, please submit your consenting votes.
Top trolling… which is what Trump (and Musk) has a knack for – they bite every time.
I hope Gaetz gets the job. We need to clean house of all the garbage that’s been destroying this country. He’ll find assistance from someone who knows the system a bit better, but hopefully will let the dog (Gaetz) chase the foxes (the filth in government).
Trump’s instincts, honed by years of media infighting in the biggest market in the country, New York, are essentially good. He recognizes that the names you want on your marquee are not necessarily the biggest stars, but those who best serve the screenplay and the message you want transmitted. In Trump’s case, his message is Be Loyal To Me and his screenplay is the take-no-prisoners approach of Apocalypse Now.
His two most important choices for his cabinet will be AG and Def Sec. The Attorney General looks iffy on paper, but it is crucial for Trump that he have the solid backing of his own legal team. He knows how important lawyers are in the scheme of things. His Defense Secretary is slightly less iffy, but a Fox news host? Really? How intriguing! Perhaps Trump was staying up late nights, munching donuts, watching current and rerun Fox episodes to get a feel for where the hosts stand on issues. Perhaps he wants entertainment value in his cabinet. You can’t blame him for that.
Ultimately, what serves the American people is what quells the nervous vibes of their president. President Trump will be calmed by being surrounded by loyalists who are entertaining at what they do. Unable to stand the mediocrity of the written word, Trump will be ever-more a visual President during his second term in office and dedicated more to PowerPoint presentations than dense treatises of text. Good luck, Trump. You’re gonna need it.
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Trump and his crew have about 15 months to pull off whatever agenda they aspire. After that if all is not peachy in the country the swing voters that went with Trump in 2024 will jump over to the Democrats in the mid-term
I don’t know why you’re stuck on Gaetz. Piss in the pool and see what happens. Trump was convicted of 30+ felonies. One has to be brain dead to believe that will stand. It was a political smear on an entirely new level, as w/ Smith, Fanni etc. So why believe the Gaetz smear? Witnesses are a dime a dozen.
I think Gaetz is either just Trump trolling the Dems knowing he won’t get confirmed. Or he got so badly burned with establishment canndidates like Barr who stabbed him the back, that he wants to err on the side of a beast mode type pick.
I do think for this nation to heal, justice needs to be had for the Russia collusion hoax attempted coup. The deep state tried to frame a democratically elected president from 2016-2019 and no one went to jail. This cannot stand.
Also the weaponization of the American legal system against politial opponents in the Mar-a-lago raid, Leticia James shaking down of Trumps business in NYC, the fake E Jean Carrol case funded by left wing billionaire, and the bookeeping error “hush money” case….. this Stalin-like “find me the man I’ll find you the crime” crap cannot got unpunished. Or why wouldn’t they just do it again?
Gaetz is a tool of Trump; and Trump is a tool of the disenfranchised working classes.
Was that meant to be an insult or compliment?
“In naming a set of unconventional nominees to run federal departments”. The most telling statement in the above message. Let’s see where “conventional” nominees (from both parties) have gotten us:
$2 Trillion deficits
$33 Trillion debt
20 million illegals in the country
Paying their hotel, food, health care, education, etc.
Wide open Southern border
Debt @ 120% of GDP
Inflation up 20%+ since 2019
$Billions in weapons sent to Ukraine
We are paying salaries and pensions for Ukranians
$500 million each for bombers and ships
Yeah, our “conventional” nominees have done superb jobs.
So, perhaps we should just overturn the election and let the airhead VP continue to run the country into the ground. What could be worse?
Like Kunstler, I was shocked that Hillary and Fatso were not installed on the ticket at the D convention in Chicago by the likes of Axelrod, Podesta and Cass Sunstein.
That was a non-event.
So if the budget doesnt get balanced and the debt doesnt get reduced then Trump and the Repubs and Dems will have done a bad job. No excuses. And people should remember that and vote Libertarian next time because theyre the only party that says they will do the across the board spending cuts the country needs to prevent further deterioration.
This guy poisoned the Republican house majority with his antics. We still don’t know the complete story behind his alleged ethics problems. IMO he won’t be confirmed and maybe Trumps team knows it. He has already resigned his house position so this takes him off the table. Is this by design? Hmmm…
I agree with most of your posts, Mish, but continue to believe that Gaetz is not an error. Not hoping this turns into Trump Team Chaos version 2.0 but at DOJ a big Klingon battle blade or “Bat’leth” needs swung far and hard in order to restore some semblance of law and order. Understand your frustration…Also hoping I don’t have to fall on MY “Bat’leth” in case of you being correct. For now I’m nauseously optimistic.
Is there any substance to this sexual innuendo?
Why not a court case then?
Or is it just political mud-slinging, an obvious trick that has been abused many times because it sticks even when untrue [unless Biden is accused by a woman who must always be taken seriously]. People love to say where there is smoke there is fire, but not when accusers have no accountability.
It’s a tactic they used against Julian Assange… but it went away.
Epstain and Puff Diddler illustrate how this kind of technique and tactic is deployed.
Try Bill Richardson or George Mitchell, Mish.
The funny part about this is Yoo is actually the one penning articles about retaliating against Dems: https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/05/trumps-trial-has-already-damaged-the-office-of-the-presidency/
Yoo is the lawyer who drafted the briefs allowing CIA to torture people. Like Barr, he is more “respectable” than Gaetz is but like Barr is a Bush retread. Give me a MAGA guy like Gaetz in as DA willing to stand up to the slings and arrows of the press versus a Bush retread any day.
Off to a bad start and going to get much much worse.
Trump is a chaos merchant which is the polar opposite of what we need which is wisdom in governance via a thirdness greater oneness integration of opposites. For that you have to locate the deepest outness and find ways to apply/resolve it.
Lol what wisdom did Harris have
Or Biden… or dare we say it… Obama? Bush dubya did more for Africa.
When was the last time there was “wisdom in government” in the USA? Probably Eisenhower.
Yes and he executed Operation Wetback mass deportation.
A crazy choice/decision for AG? Can anyone be surprised by this? You want clown show, we’re going to get it…
just had one the last 4 years – bearded ladies and everything!
No
What the US needs is for someone to raze the DoJ and the FBI to the bedrock. That is what Gaetz is going to do.
So it does not matter if he is qualified in the strictly legal sense. The Deputy AG is the person who will run the legal affairs of the DoJ. And as an attorney who also only practiced for a couple years I can tell you you dont need to be a practiced attorney to fill the slot of the AG. Would it be better if he had some more gravitas? Yes. Is it necessary for what needs to be done to take a wrecking ball the the Department of inJustice? No
Here is Scott Ritter’s opinion on Gaetz.
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/why-matt-gaetz-matters
And here is a good piece from Jim Rickards
https://dailyreckoning.com/trump-will-bring-justice-not-revenge/
As he says, what is coming is justice, not revenge, an important distinction.
The Deep State has been destroying the very foundations of the country. Rooting them out is now the most important priority
Gaetz won’t do a damn thing because he will not be approved
Rickards is a nut case on nearly everything. But OK I’ll bite.
OK I read it. Did not say much. But you don’t bring “justice” with lawfare on the other side.
That’s not lawfare… do you even know what the definition of “lawfare” is?!
Justice is definitely not revenge!!!
Revenge would be foolishly charging the other party, of things that are not worthy, and will be dismissed. In other words, wasted taxpayer money, on attacking your opposition, for crimes they didn’t commit. Trump/Gaetz won’t do that. Biden and Harris Did, but I digress…
I’m all for lawfare. This “turn the other cheek” nonsense has gotten us nowhere. Start listening to Jesse Kelly: the only thing the communists understand is power and pain. Gaetz can inflict it. I don’t care about the rest of it.
Stick to econometrics. We have enough political analysts.
All people’s deputies should pass minimum qualification criteria. It would do wonders to composition of political representation.
Addition: In Athenian democracy, holders of political office didn’t get paid.
It’s not like today’s crop is doing it from the goodness of their heart.
The main obstacle is, they themselves would have to vote in the new system.
In the Athenian democracy, only land owners voted. Therefore, it was a plutocracy, so not that different from western democracies.
“I rest my case.” Sorry “counselor” you lose your case.
Compared to John Yoo, Gaetz is more than qualified and Yoo is a beneficiary of a corrupt DOJ system that has gone unreformed for more than 40 years. Would Yoo fixed the DOJ, or perpetuate the problems?
Perhaps Mish forgets that Yoo is the one who wrote the memo authorizing torture of prisoners during the Bush era? Perhaps he forgot that Yoo was indicted in Spain for war crimes? Perhaps he forgot that when OPR recommended that Yoo be referred to the bar association for disciplinary action, Margolis quashed the referral even though he found Yoo’s opinions were wrong and flawed, and that Yoo exercised poor judgment. Yet Yoo was never once punished for his actions. Everything was quashed, which is par for the course in the DOJ. If one is part of the club, any wrongdoings are whitewashed. If outside the club you end up prosecuted like Trump was because federal statutes are so overbroad and vague everyone can be prosecuted if someone in the DOJ decides they don’t like you.
I might not like Gaetz, but I am certain he would shake things up at the DOJ and that is long overdue. Name someone else who would shake things up?
Gaetz would not shake up a dam thing.
He has no experience at doing anything, quite frankly, unless you call the budget disaster in the House as “shaking things up”
It was already a disaster.
https://scottritter.substack.com/p/why-matt-gaetz-matters
Senator Eric Schmitt. But he removed himself from consideration.
Hakeem along with Gaetz 218 vs 208 vote ousted the speaker of the house. Gaetz couldn’t have done it alone. Harris lost bc a ten years boy could have decided that he is a girl.The CIA, the DOJ and Schiff’s gang violated presidential rights. The dems preach morality after they lost.
you can’t win a crooked game by playing by the rules, surely this should be obvious…
You can’t win a war with idiots either as Trump’s prior missteps prove.
Exactly. Mish I am disappointed. The Dems run the Marxist power without any ethics playbook and Sessions either administrative state complicity or incompetence singlehandedly derailed Trump’s first term. The Russiagate nonsense needs to be punished. Certain disgraceful Democrats are rerunning Russiagate on Tulsi Gabbard, an honorable veteran who is much less likely to be compromised to a foreign power than Debbie Wasserman Schulz is to Israel…
This ain’t business as usual, with the same old tired playbook and insiders running the show. We voted for change and change is what is expected. Is another milquetoast Washingtonian giving us Groundhog Day, over and over what you want?
People voted for change in 2016 too.
Trump then wasted two full years with infighting, stupid appointments, and attempting to repeal Obamacare.
Meanwhile, asinine “stop the steal” and revenge picks cost Republicans at least 5 elections.
Hint: You don’t get change by nominating idiots.
Trump went with company men. Not this time. Popcorn.
The intelligence level of the tools you use is not the reason why things don’t happen… it’s because you use the wrong tools.
This time will be different.
Trump was upheld, and not the other way around…
There will be more unqualified moral-vacuum appointments, and half will be gone by January 20th if history is any indication
“To address lawfare, Trump wants more of it.” It’s not lawfare if the party is actually guilty of a crime.
Bluntly I am tired of the regime DOJ. Matt is great for shock value and blowing out the walls. And yes he’s not intelligentsia like many here.
The DOJ and FBI are clearly partisan organizations and need to be cleaned out in wholesale. As a libertarian minded person myself, they should be stripped of much of their powers as they trample on the rights and liberties of Americans.
“The worst aspect is what Democrats might do the next time they are in power.”
The Dems could appoint Hunter Biden as head of the Drug Enforcement Administration.
he has indicated he would prefer to be Inspector General (of the evidence room, specifically powdered substances)
Mish sit on his hands when more qualified candidates like the 51 Dem expeirienced ex agency heads signed a letter that stated Hunters Laptop was Russian disinformation trying to influence and election and used a Dem Dossier to investigate the president . Yea we shoiuld forget all that and play nice . You could not do any worst than Merrick Garland thank goodness he did not get on the supreme court because he is a zero but probably better than the one they did stick on the court .
The old Republican playbook of turn the other cheek and play nice while the Democrats run the Saul Alinsky and Stalin playbook to grab power without any rules or niceties needs to stop. Fight fire with fire and stop with the cucking out.
I’ll take Fetterman for $500 on the Gaetz appt:
“I mean, I would describe it as god-tier level trolling, that has triggered a full-on China Syndrome to own the libs in perpetuity,”
Fetterman told an NBC reporter in a clip that has gone viral on X.
Trump has a loyality-test for the Senate here … then he nominates Bondi with Gaetz moving to Senate.
Nope! Matt will not be confirmed and has already resigned. Why? Marco Rubio will resign his Senate position and Matt will be selected as the new senator of Florida by the governor. They can run a special election in Matt district and win easily. Trump will pick a new Attorney General. It’s all part of the game. You people just don’t get it. Your feelings and emotions are so bothered you are distracted.
👆🏽The members of the US Senate have to have this in the back of their minds: If they nix Gaetz’s confirmation & he’s appointed to the US Senate by Gov. DeSantis, he will make their lives hell with legislative maneuvers. Good luck getting co-sponsorship from a Sen. Gaetz if you blocked his AG appointment.
should that fail, Gaetz could be put in charge of the FBI. Ahh the future seems brighter each morning since the election…
DeSantis will never appoint this shady punk to be a U.S. Senator. If appointed he could not win an open election for senate even in FL. This is all fantasy. Yes, Gaetz and Trump are both disrupters but Gaetz has none of the wit, humor and charisma of Trump. I’m a big time Trump supporter but I don’t like this guy and that’s not going to change.
Surely senators are elected?
^This. Spot on.
Yep, Trump’s 4D chess confuses linear-thinking people; however, they are playing the hand dealt.
Who’s AG then, Bondi?
Or try IANAL: Steven Miller – he’d put the country first!
At the moment Trump has only strengthened his position. Trump does not need Gaetz but the establishment will have to spend bullets to deny Gaetz the nomination. Worse for Gaetz is he ends up in the Senate representing Florida. Worse for Trump is he gets an AG who is more acceptable to the establishment than Gaetz.
Absurd.
Mish, the Gaetz nomination results in Gaetz as AG or Gaetz in the Senate. If you feel otherwise please explain how.
You can’t watch the game, Mish, without a program.
Agreed 100%. Where do folks come up with this s***?
I appreciate your opinion and read you regularly. But since the beginning of this campaign, I fail to understand how you could consider Trump anything but chaos. The man thinks he’s the messiah, here to overcome Satan. “Quis Ut Deus”. He’ll push through all his nominees without regard or consideration for the Constitution. He’s on a divine mission. A mission that is so important even the economy can be sacrificed to its altar. We’re going to pay a heavy price for his election.
PS: A literal simplistic interpretation of the biblical “An eye for an eye” gives him the cover he needs.
I expected chaos and I did not vote for Trump. I voted for Mish. Seriously, and I said why.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/i-wrote-in-mish-for-president-of-the-united-states/
However, forced to pick between the two, it’s not remotely close. Democrats would take over the media, ban hate crimes, increase lawfare on everyone who disagrees, continue idiotic energy policy, pack the Supreme Court etc.
They are the real threat to Democracy. But as expected, Trump wants revenge and picks an idiot who can’t possibly deliver to deliver it. Gaetz is bad for many reasons.
But Harris would be worse than Trump if Democrats also had the House and Senate.
Time to fight fire with fire I say. I don’t want to hear about “reaching across the aisle” or “uniting the country” or any of that BS… I don’t want to get along with people who lie, cheat, steal and murder. The Swamp needs to be drained, and that won’t happen without a B.I.G. FIGHT.
Donald survived nearly 10 years of stupendous waves of attack, e.g., lawfare galore, NSA, CIA, FBI, made-up lies and and false stories designed to slander the Trump name, Deep State sabotage, financial attacks designed to ruin and bankrupt the Trump brand, coercion, blackmail, GOP backstabbers……. and you just name it. And Trump survived it – including a bullet that was almost parked in Trump’s brain. Trump is just an amazing man.
Come back and run your damn mouth when you and your family’s lives ha e been put on the line by evil people who want to kill you.
Then at least pick someone qualified to do that. Gaetz is an inexperienced idiot.
Ken Paxton, Attorney General of Texas, would have been my first choice. But I don’t blame Trump one bit for choosing somebody who isn’t going to be suckered into a “bipartisan” compromise. Are we learning, yet? You don’t “compromise” with “The Blob”. You freeze it to death.
And this is my last word: Trump wasn’t “experienced” as a politician, yet he sure did better than a Bush. Matt may not be “experienced” but he’s a war-time man. A man who would do damage to Trump’s enemies. And like it or not, that’s what America has come to, viz., Marxist enemies- vs – Team Trump.
Experience isn’t necessary for a grenade, it merely is to be tossed into the fray.
The DOJ and the FBI attemted a coup against a presidential candidate and a president elect there is no question the insiders tried to frame Trump with Russia collusion and much more .Multible insiders Rosenstein , Barr and Wray and the people involved used their power and agencies for this and then covered it up and no one was held accountable . The insiders used Mueller to cover up the likes of Strock and Page and many more attemting to bring down a president that was duely elcted by the people and the states . These people are thugs and there is nothing worst than a dirty cop and that is what they are . So I am not going to worry because whoever ends up in the job can’t be worst than that crowd . Alarms should go off when they send a dozen FBI agents in to arrest Roger Stone for a process crime in the middle of the night with ar15s and tipping off CNN so they can be there with the cameras rolling .I would heir nobody who is affiliated with the government if I was Trump .
AMEN!!!
“It is unclear whether such a maneuver would be legally sound”.
The above statement is 100% false. 100%.
Article 2. Section 3. Clause 2.
There are no conditions. The clause is clear and straightforward and legally sound.
While it is true that no President has ever invoked the clause, it is also true that there are zero court cases in this regard.
Therefore, the quoted statement is false.
If you would like to argue that while the Constitution gives POTUS the power, no court has ever tested the breadth of that power, that would be acceptable.
Get a fucking grip on reality.
You do not know how the Supreme Court would decide. And neither do I or anyone else.
Thus, by definition, it’s unclear.
Your interpretation of the law does not make it so.
You need to calm down, his post was not so aggressive to warrant that reply.
Yoo for Attorney General ???. The neo-con who wrote the torture approval opinion for Bush and Cheney. Might as well keep Garland.
Justice not revenge.
Correct. Trump wants Revenge.
Not quite, the people want to piss off the establishment, hence they voted for the middle finger incarnate. It’s not just about Trump, it’s about the millions of pissed off working class Americans who get pissed on by the establishment.
Lawfare. This is a slander against Gaetz. If any of this were even proveable it would have been prosecuted. I wonder what Democrat is running a child trafficking scheme. Diddy Epstein. They always accuse others of what they do. This is not a wise move to attack the new attroney general. Go gettem Gaetz. This is a replay of General Flynn. Trump is not going to fall for this again.
Gaetz is not unqualified. There are even Democrats like Jared Moskowitz who say as much.
The mistake wasn’t Matt Gaetz—it was Merrick Garland!