No Matter How Bad You Think an Attorney General Matt Gaetz Would Be, He’ll Be Worse – Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Justice Department would destroy the agency, quite possibly forever.

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/11/matt-gaetz-donald-trump-attorney-general-disaster.html

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  2. >would destroy the agency, quite possibly forever

    Obviously that’s the reason he was picked

  4. Destroying it forever is the goal.

    Trump is doing exactly what he is being instructed to do. These are not Trump’s picks.

    “The election campaign is over. To achieve success in the election, Donald Trump relied on certain forces to which he has corresponding obligations. As a responsible person, he will be obliged to fulfill them.” – Nikolai Patrushev, Russia’s intelligence chief Nov. 11, 2024

    Trump’s mission for Russia is to dismantle the United States.

    That’s what is happening.

  6. The majority of Americans voted for this. Y’all going to LOVE the next 4 years 😉

  8. Trump is going to get us into a shooting war…and there’s a damn good chance it won’t be a foreign war.

  9. Is it possible he won’t pass Senate approval for AG? He resigned from Congress so would he just go home and end up working for Fox news or something?

  10. It all depends on how quickly he can remove the age of consent. If that takes a while, it’ll take all of his focus.

  11. It will get 1000 worse than you can imagine Elon will make sure of that

  12. This is the GOP plan across the board. Drive out the career people that are dedicated to mission of these agencies and replace them with unqualified sycophants out to destroy the agencies.

  13. If you read the Heritage Foundations Presidents new book, At Dawn’s Early Light, it has excerpts like “America’s Institutions are like deadwood that only need to be lit by Republicans brave enough to do so” and “The 2nd American revolution will be bloodless as long as the left allows it to be” meaning “as long as you let us fuck everything up, there will be no war”. Sound familiar?

  14. It’s so fucking surreal.

    Idiocracy is a utopia compared to where this is heading.

  16. That is exactly what they want to do. I don’t get it they said they wanted to destroy government in its current form root out the corruption replacing it with more corruption. No matter what Skelton the media tries to throw out there no one cares.

  17. And we all thought the first Trump presidency was a crime wave. Just wait…

  19. The Republicans have been working on destroying the US for a long time. Once you see it, you can’t not see it.

    What policy (foreign or domestic) the Republicans have installed has actually made the US stronger in the past 30 years?

  20. He’s just a dictator. He wants to fire all people from the top army positions. For probably “his people” 

  21. My theory…this nomination is a feint. A nomination so bad that they don’t confirm him but the “second choice” has an easier time. And that second choice ends up being Aileen Cannon.

  22. I usually don’t agree with you clowns but this guy being investigated for sexual misconduct with minor, and the trafficking. The fact that he quit the house before the ethics investigation came out on him to stop it from being released.

    And the fact that MAGA loves him and all the above is fake news…. Can’t believe it..

  23. Some say this is being histrionic, but we are about to see every federal institution change irrevocably. A lot of people are discounting that a lot of this is just trolling the libs or putting in crazies only have a more normie actually nominated.

    No, these people intend to do everything they said, think tanks have developed a game plan, both chambers of congress are subservient, the court will “interpret” the constitution the way Joseph Smith read magic gold bars in a hat in a closet to create Mormonism to say that this is actually what the founders wanted, and half the voting base is currently unswayable from decades of anti-democratic propaganda being poured in their heads at every turn. How can they vote for a party, when the political inclination and literal name of the party is a slur? In the gravelly unsettled voice of Limbaugh “liberal and democrat party”

    The cabinet is being populated with true believers and cynics who only want to be on top of the garbage pile. And they are all prepared to jump when told by a man who may be fine and affable in the meeting with Biden but was totally ready to have his VP executed by a mob when he lost an election.

    We are all in for a very rude awakening sooner than later.

  25. So the agency founded to fight the KKK will be brought by a pedo defending a nazi.

    Nifty.

  26. From the article:

    >If Senate Republicans do not draw the line here, then a line does not exist.

    After their failure to impeach after the violent attempt to overthow the 2020 election I concluded that a line does not exist.

  28. How are people just now realizing that destroying our institutions was the plan all along?

  29. I’ve given up….I’ve resigned to the couch eating my popcorn and screaming at the tv I TOLD YOU SO!!

  30. I actually had to check to see if Gaetz was even a lawyer, which he apparently was for a moment or two.   With these MAGAt scumbags, I actually don’t know their histories or that they even have them.  I assumed they just spontaneously spawn out of a pile of dogshit. 

    Gaetz, I didn’t realize was a rich boy political nepobaby,  though I guess I shouldn’t. E surprised. 

  31. It’s not like the justice department did its job the last 8 years as it is.

  32. The Postillon, the German equivalent to The Onion, just published an article saying “Trump puts P Diddy in charge of women’s relations” 😀

    https://www.der-postillon.com/2024/11/trump-diddy.html

    It’s in German, but here’s a translation:

    Washington (dpo) – Donald Trump is causing a national and international stir with his cabinet appointments. Now another controversial appointment is making the rounds: Sean Combs, also known as P. Diddy or Puff Daddy, is to become the government’s Commissioner for Women’s Issues.

    “Diddy knows women like no other,” reads a statement from Donald Trump. “He is excellent at organizing women when they are needed. He also has great social skills and treats women with the respect they deserve.”

    The future president does not see the fact that P. Diddy is currently still in legal trouble because he is accused of human trafficking, rape, blackmail and drug abuse as a problem. “This is a classic conspiracy by the woke fakenews media,” said Trump. “My future Attorney General Matt Gaetz will see to it that this is dropped.”

    As satisfied as Trump sounds now: According to insiders, Combs was only his third choice. Jeffrey Epstein and Harvey Weinstein had previously been approached for the post. However, the former turned out to be dead, while the latter had to decline for health reasons.

  33. The law & order party everyone… It’s gonna be the biggest clown show in the world.

  35. Don’t worry. It will be a peaceful transition of power. That’s what’s important……

  36. I really don’t think he will be confirmed. But it will truly be a disaster if he is confirmed.

  37. What’s the point of a DOJ that doesn’t prosecute the instigator of a very nearly successful coup anyway?

  38. Conservative women, you put a sex trafficker of an underage girl in charge of the DOJ. I hope you are proud of yourselves.

  39. Matt Gaetz won’t be running the DOJ. Everything is going to be run from the White House. These people are figureheads to distract us with shenanigans. The core people running these agencies will be in the White House and will not be the ones getting Senate confirmation.

  40. Hey Matt, where did that kid you “adopted” come from? You seem to be very unclear on that one

  41. and suddenly everyone working in DOJ must be under 18 years old girls that looks smoking hot

  42. So they’re implying that Garland didn’t already do that?

  47. No shit. This administration is going to destroy this *country* forever. Ok, maybe not forever in the literal sense. There’s always a possibility that after humanity is wiped off the planet due to climate change or a new plague thanks to RFKjr, life finds a way to come back and perhaps they also have a country they call the United States of America… in that sense yes it wouldn’t technically be forever. This America though? Oh we’re cooked. This administration will absolutely destroy it.

  48. So irritating that stories like this get pushed. Gaetz’s appointment is a clusterfuck, and so clearly one. Why do we need a doom story about it that will lead to folks on the right moaning again about hyperbolic complaints.

    Discussing destroying the agency isn’t helpful to anyone other than getting clicks for slate on social media.

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