There’s a narrative that Gaetz was a deliberate head-fake — a distraction to boost the real candidate — but I am always suspicious of narratives that attribute four-dimensional chess to trump as opposed to knocking over the table and eating the checkers.
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These guys aren't as smart as y'all think they are
His 🤡nominees are meant to fail. He's being manipulated (again) into thinking their his choices
His 3 SCOTUS picks were members of the Federalist Society.
When Gaetz failed Bondi was nominated. She's FS
After Gaetz, Bondi is palatable to GOP senators.
Rubio is also FS.
"What sauce would you like with you nuggets,sir"
This is all the two Steves. Parasites driving the host around like an insect
I am sorry, I meant clever criminals.
But not Trump. He has his own instinctive kind of clever, but planning at this level? Nope, he is dumber than a bag of rocks.
That was Epstein opinion, not mine alone.
See also: Policies, nick names, catch phrases
Of course, Gaetz was used to make the real pick more tenable.
We have to stop being so naive.
🙄
Still, I'm not convinced he actually thought he'd make it through. He needed an excuse to resign before the Ethics report came out.
He's thrown his own kids under the bus.
Matt can't do anything for Trump, but maybe he promised DJT his secret how-to formula on scoring underage babes and paying them off without anyone knowing. /s
'Long-Game'.
Except courts appointments, I don't know why you included that, that's just normal governance
Dems push, ..... but.................
Federal judges are being tested in nearly insurmountable ways to decide for the EPA, FDA, and all other regulatory agencies, on top of case challenges and GOP 🐂💩
Keep throwing stuff out there to draw our outrage and start the endless coverage cycle while the truly important things the Dems are (or should be doing ) can't be heard over the noise
he's the distraction for a gigantic theft.
he's bin Ladin getting another shot at the WTC.
It's dumb and unproductive, but it works I guess.
That way, we will be grateful for whoever else they might pick…
what if Trump was on that report so he nominates Gaetz resigns before said report comes out, then he throws his original pick In there when he is clear. It was a deflection.
Cabinet picks will be the only ones that are “nominees”—the rest will be pure appointees.
He convinced the orange moron to give him an out from getting disgracefully expelled from Congress.
He won the moment he was nominated. AG would have been gravy.
In this case it was always going to be Paxton. Which this Texan can confirm is worth weeping and gnashing of teeth.
With each dismissal of a highly unqualified nominee, the bar for a competent nominee is lowered.
"Well, Pam Bondi is better than Matt Gaetz." Becomes "Pam Bondi is qualified." Pretty quickly.
He dumped Bannon after SNL portrayed Stevie as the puppeteer of Trump and the real power in the White House.
No one steals the limelight from King Trump and lives to tell.
Trump needs to be made worried about Musk, Miller, Vivek, Vance, RFKjr, etc.
Caillou: Trump
Yeah, that makes sense.
Nothing new.
All about him getting all the attention.
Which brings to mind this-
https://youtu.be/-_Fav3iPTE0?si=7pJO-OmT1Qwb5v4G
That is after all how we ended up with a game show host for President.
A perfect choice for DT's schemes
Myself, it's the Republican mental illness of wanting to trigger people.
“how passionately do they kiss my ass on command”
and/or:
“how do they look on TV”
The Right Wing has an endless supply of under qualified goons lined up to pucker
Gaetz quit his job for this lol
I mean when the fancy strikes-Trump is generally horrible to his most loyal henchman sure - but Gaetz was still in favor with the sun king
"politics is tough. And it’s, many cases, not a very nice world, but it is a nice world today.
"And [we'll have] a transition that’s so smooth it’ll be as smooth as it can get."
Ah, such eloquence, like no one has ever seen before.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2024/11/13/remarks-by-president-biden-and-president-elect-trump-in-a-meeting/