"When asked if he believed Gaetz has the character and experience needed to be attorney general, GOP Rep Mike Simpson replied, “Are you shittin me, that you just asked that question? No! But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated”" sakdljfkl omg newrepublic.com/post/188393/... - ThreadSky

audrelawdamercy.bsky.social • 113 days ago

"When asked if he believed Gaetz has the character and experience needed to be attorney general, GOP Rep Mike Simpson replied, “Are you shittin me, that you just asked that question? No! But hell, you’ll print that and now I’m going to be investigated”"

sakdljfkl omg
https://newrepublic.com/post/188393/republicans-senators-react-trump-matt-gaetz-attorney-general

Comments

ohrobin.bsky.social•113 days ago

This performative surprise was already played out by 2017.

bob.vesterman.com•113 days ago

Joe Manchin quoted as having a surprised reaction to the news, in an article explicitly about the surprise of Republican lawmakers to the news.

To be clear, I'm not arguing.

spfhockeyfan.bsky.social•113 days ago

I can’t believe they are surprised. This has to be a performance.

thepigeon.bsky.social•113 days ago

Gaetz looked surprised, but that's just his normal face now.

ampersine.bsky.social•113 days ago

Botox and your girlfriend's Clearasil is a hell of a combination

vdogg11.bsky.social•113 days ago

Honestly, I don't think anyone, Dem or Rep, was expecting Matt F'ing Gaetz! I think the surprise is genuine.

connieclark.bsky.social•113 days ago

It should be!

davebrarian.bsky.social•113 days ago

*nervous chuckle* what the fuck?

joelfast.bsky.social•113 days ago

I can't blame them for saying that.
The entire Trump Administration is a joke

badhorse.bsky.social•113 days ago

Whole damn country is a joke now.

joelfast.bsky.social•113 days ago

You're not wrong about that

ginninor.bsky.social•110 days ago

And they have the power to cancel him… but my bet is they won’t because they’re afraid of their own party

thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social•113 days ago

Someone needs to replace Epstein in Trump's circle.

clumsyninja.bsky.social•113 days ago

Matt Gaetz isn’t even qualified to run a vacuum, let alone the DOJ.

bertch313.bsky.social•113 days ago

The entire DOJ is illegitimate on stolen land

ratsinmyhair.bsky.social•112 days ago

Of course he can't run a vacuum, he'd end up paying it for sex.

scaypgrayce.bsky.social•113 days ago

Simple solution: kill the nomination.

ellie.thecancellations.com•113 days ago

What in the fuck

wingedisis.bsky.social•113 days ago

@joekatz45.bsky.social even better

joekatz45.bsky.social•113 days ago

Jesus

resistancesister.bsky.social•113 days ago

Milquetoast Garland had the experience & the cred to do the job, but he seemed more beholden to the Heritage Foundation than to the country and look how that turned out.

chironcentaur.bsky.social•113 days ago

Beavis is now our atty gen
May the gods help us

jons253.bsky.social•113 days ago

Did you know that Trump isn't actually President yet? And that even after he takes the oath of office, he still has to get his picks approved by Congress, which is going to be tightly divided? Beavis isn't in charge of anything yet, and he's pretty widely hated.

chironcentaur.bsky.social•113 days ago

Yes I am aware, I wasn’t born yesterday

artistlike.bsky.social•112 days ago

I am already tired of the reporting on Trump, as if anything he will do should surprise anyone.

Trump threatened to nuke North Korea via Twitter during his first month in office.

He reportedly wanted to actually do it and blame another country.

Electing him is American voters' suicide attempt.

artistlike.bsky.social•112 days ago

No one has any right or reason to pretend to be shocked.

Donald Trump is a comic book supervillain come to life. He surrounds himself with comic book henchmen—wretched, gnarled, criminal lackeys.

Gaetz & Trump are two morally and criminally corrupt Florida men who abuse women & kids.

bonstrous.bsky.social•113 days ago

fafo times. lordy.

nearbirdstudios.bsky.social•113 days ago

Link under the article 😆

axolotje.bsky.social•113 days ago

And next position is for…. Marjorie Taylor Greene

lorendavidson.bsky.social•113 days ago

The one plus about this appointment is that Aileen Cannon will be pissed.

omegamom.bsky.social•113 days ago

We all did.

padaniels1313.bsky.social•113 days ago

We're fvcked....14 ways from Sunday

bajoran-orbison.bsky.social•113 days ago

It's not *good,* but intraparty dysfunction could end up mitigating their malice.

adgwatches.bsky.social•113 days ago

This is one of the better avenues forward to be honest. If they tear themselves apart like the Caesars we might stand a chance of the violence staying relatively contained

otakuman.bsky.social•113 days ago

There’s going to be a reckoning in the Republican Party and we’ve got no choice but to sit back and watch as they destroy themselves.

cornopolous.bsky.social•113 days ago

I’d venture the Dems with microphones could do a whole lot to stoke those divisions. Probably not smart enough to, sadly.

backlitkeyboard.bsky.social•113 days ago

Trump just quashed their credibility.

joekatz45.bsky.social•113 days ago

Simpson probably thinks he's kidding

entropy42.bsky.social•112 days ago

Trump's transition team: The worst of the worst!

The people voted for change,
but Trump delivers DAMAGE

America lost this election

q.e.d.

indypnw.bsky.social•113 days ago

It in the end, they’ll all fall in line and vote him through

vinchenzojackal.bsky.social•113 days ago

I am reminded of the fact that when tyrannical European monarchs were on power trips and wanted to abuse their authority, they appointed animals to roles of government for the purpose of not only mocking societal order but also threatening obedience from anyone who might oppose their decisions.

vinchenzojackal.bsky.social•113 days ago

This type of mockery of law, order, justice, and a functioning government has been done all across the history of European empires, from the British Empire to the Roman Empire. Tyrants do these ridiculous picks because they want to find our who in the nation has disloyalty to their mindless whims.

rickgeissal.bsky.social•113 days ago

Did anyone think Bill Barr had the character to be Attorney General?

craigmranapia.bsky.social•113 days ago

A surprising number of people who should have known better did - though most of them don't really like having their own words read or played back to them.

rickgeissal.bsky.social•113 days ago

I agree that is the case now, but my question was, who thought so before he took office under Trump.

craigmranapia.bsky.social•112 days ago

I'd have to do a deep breath to collect receipts but I'm pretty sure I didn't hallucinate my WTF? at to the pretty positive reaction to Barr's second pass as A-G. OK, you have to allow for Beltway/media brain but even allowing for "it could be worse" he was disturbingly well received.

yealurowluro.bsky.social•112 days ago

Prrrrrrrrrrrrrp!

clearlyundone.bsky.social•113 days ago

Of course that’s a question a MSM reporter would ask. Sheesh.

linmeneguin.bsky.social•113 days ago

I had to open it to confirm because I was convinced it had to be The Onion.

badhorse.bsky.social•113 days ago

Same I thought the quote was made up until I went and checked the article.

springer294.bsky.social•113 days ago

But they will vote to confirm him

knitdan.bsky.social•113 days ago

They could just…not confirm him

They still have that option

deargodwtaf.bsky.social•113 days ago

I don’t care what performative display of disdain a GOP Senator puts on they will all bend the knee. Just like when the GOP in Texas all stood up to Paxton then every single one capitulated

octopusjones.bsky.social•113 days ago

Perfect cronyism.

You don’t have to know how to do the job, you just gotta do what you’re told.

yocum137.bsky.social•113 days ago

Oh Mike. There are so many other valid reasons to investigate you.

#FuckingIdaho

jasondtx.bsky.social•113 days ago

They didn't think entirely wrongly here.

milesarzaluz13.bsky.social•113 days ago

What if we, as Americans, threw eggs and cabbage at him every time he made an appearance?

kmmickvega.bsky.social•113 days ago

Cowards.

wintermute115.bsky.social•113 days ago

Wake me up if he votes against confirmation.

deathginger.bsky.social•113 days ago

Who better to protect the RIC from accusations of being a pedophile while leaving receipts all over the place?

bertch313.bsky.social•113 days ago

Every military operation is a way to get at children that aren't on cameras

They used to just take them off the street and they can't anymore

flyfifer.bsky.social•113 days ago

Gaetz is the Stress Test, the test of Loyalty, Subservience. If Trump can get them Whipped to confirm Gaetz, then anything goes and it's downhill toot toot

redglowv2.bsky.social•113 days ago

Agreed. God I hope they have the courage to fight back, but it’s bad when all your hope is with unreliable partisans who have already well demonstrated their fecklessness

adgwatches.bsky.social•113 days ago

It’s catastrophic is what it is. We are on the brink