The Frankish Reich

Why is it always that the guy who looks and acts like the standard issue racist douchebag always has some racist comment in his past? To quote Steve Bannon on the other thread: there are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences.

As the Marxists would say: they duped the proles by harping on silly tangential things while they consolidated their global economic order. Sometimes the Marxists have a point.

And George Soros' protege becomes Treasury Secretary, while MAGA fools are distracted by trans swimmers and Venezuelan criminals.

He dismisses the idea of using the Police, and suggests that "Highland moms" (read: the yoga and Starbucks moms in a gentrified Denver neighborhood) will rally to to it themselves. He needs to spend more time in the Highlands neighborhood to learn exactly how self-centered these moms are.

"Stop at nothing" = sell arms to an ally defending itself from an invasion by an adversary, without putting weird restrictions on the right of self defense.

I'm the Matt Gaetz of PPP

So close and yet so far. I visited a few years ago. Fantastic. True. Always sad when we lose one of the keepers to the other team.

I am quite familiar with that ….

Change England to Portugal and I'm there. I'll even take Ellen's girlfriend; just not Ellen.

Yeah, the Deep State Six Ways to Sunday Secret Police tricked Matty Orgies into banging hookers. I guess that's the Seventh Way. One might ask why these Republican manly men always seem to have to pay for it.

Poorly educated and proud of it!

My educated guess: they couldn't prove that he knew the girl was under 18. Besides, she wasn't much under 18. The witnesses are, well, hookers, and hookers have criminal records, drug problems, you name it, so if they were called as witnesses in a prosecution all of that would be fair game. So they decided not to indict. Now all of those things that made it bad for criminal charges (the hookers, etc.) make it very, very bad for a confirmation hearing for the highest legal job in the country. Two very different things. Not a criminal; not an appropriate choice for Attorney General. Why Trump thought he was is, well, a Trump thing.

Maybe he should just keep his mouth shut for, like, a day or two ... apparently too much to ask.

Oh, I'm not expecting anyone I'll like.

Yeah, well I don't do NPR language standards. And you gotta admit Gaetz has a wonderful head of hair.

Nothing personal with her. Just not an appropriate choice for the job.

What happened to Gaetz's Spine of Steel? A steel folding chair?

Could be. Awkward in that Trump has already named his personal criminal defense attorneys as Gaetz's underlings. But hey, Trump.

Goodbye Gaetzy. And what a luscious high-hair scalp it is. Maybe Ronnie will appoint you to Rubio's seat. That way he can spend lots of quality time with more people who can't stand him. https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/21/trump-ag-pick-matt-gaetz-says-hes-withdrawing.html

No. I'm saying that Trump jumped the gun on Hegseth. Typically you vet candidates thoroughly before announcing them. Obviously they would have asked him the usual "anything in your past that we should know about that could affect your confirmation?" And just as obviously he didn't disclose the rape allegation. Maybe he still would have been nominated, but Trump's transition team would've been ready with their talking points instead of being caught with their pants down. So it could just be that they're back to business as usual, doing a thorough vetting ahead of time.

Many allegations about Gaetz and party drugs. Of course, we haven't seen the report. And, of course, Elon. I'm not saying that this worries me about him being a security risk; I'm just saying a regular prospective fed employee wouldn't get a clearance. https://www.wsj.com/business/elon-musk-illegal-drugs-e826a9e1

Here's a nonpolitical comment. Really. The Secret Service needs to be reorganized. I don't know a helluva lot about Bongino, but my understanding is that he came from the Special Agent/protective division. Secret Service also has other investigative divisions (the whole counterfeit currency thing, but others too.) I don't know what exposure if any Bongino has to those tasks. I believe there's a pretty strong divide in the USSS culture that reflects these widely different functions. The Federal Protective Service more closely matches the personnel security functions of the USSS. It would make sense to merge those two so that the USSS Director isn't in charge of very different functions.

I dunno, but from recent history I'd guess that Trump doesn't want to get burned again by candidates who "forgot" to disclose that there was a police report out there accusing them of rape. Or something like that.

So stupid. The article starts off by admitting that Gaetz has a history - until 2021. When he was 39. It then jumps to "but Trump was a victim of trumped up charges," but nowhere refutes the charges against Gaetz. Of course, there is an investigation of Gaetz out there, the one he wants suppressed. It was conducted by a majority Republican House committee. Let's see it and put all this talk to rest.

No! Preppy. Beautiful. Nothing overdone.