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applegrove

(124,244 posts)
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 08:37 PM Nov 19

Trump's Calls on Behalf of Matt Gaetz Are Not Going Well

Trump’s Calls on Behalf of Matt Gaetz Are Not Going Well

November 19, 2024 at 4:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 155 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2024/11/19/trumps-calls-on-behalf-of-gaetz-are-not-going-well/

"SNIP.............

“As Republicans circle the wagons around Matt Gaetz and his nomination to be attorney general, Donald Trump and his surrogates have started calling GOP senators to feel them out on the confirmation battle,” NOTUS reports.

“The calls are not going well.”

“According to three sources familiar with the conversations, Trump and his team are receiving an overwhelmingly negative reaction with regard to Gaetz. One of the sources told NOTUS that multiple senators have even told Trump and his team they won’t be voting to confirm.”

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Trump's Calls on Behalf of Matt Gaetz Are Not Going Well (Original Post) applegrove Nov 19 OP
Good newdeal2 Nov 19 #1
I don't think it has anything to do with him not being qualified. Phoenix61 Nov 19 #2
He's only 42. He finished law school in 2007 and... 3catwoman3 Nov 19 #3
There is a book called the Peter Principle magicarpet Nov 19 #4
Nepo baby Iris Nov 20 #15
I read that book back in the early 80s, and it explained so much about how things went on. mucholderthandirt Nov 20 #16
They'll cave...MTG just threatened them with the kompromat JT45242 Nov 19 #5
At this point it's obvious that these people have been making bad choices on our behalf Hope22 Nov 19 #9
If We Believe Her ProfessorGAC Nov 20 #19
Amazing.. I expected every maga to bow & Cha Nov 19 #6
Early times . . . hatrack Nov 20 #18
You're right. TY Cha Nov 20 #20
Big fucking deal. Recess appointment. Or four years with an interim tag. GoYouPackersGo Nov 19 #7
correct Skittles Nov 19 #12
"I'm a pervert. He's a pervert. We're all perverts. Wouldn't you like to be a pervert too?" struggle4progress Nov 19 #8
Perfect! Nt Hope22 Nov 19 #10
one pervert pimping for another pervert Skittles Nov 19 #11
Pfffft. Maru Kitteh Nov 19 #13
The Trump Inquisition will be unbelievable and the base will love it. NoMoreRepugs Nov 19 #14
"If you hate the people we hate and you can find a way to hurt the people we hate, we are down with it!" (MAGA motto) Jit423 Nov 20 #17
I don't think it matters. totodeinhere Nov 20 #21
Who would be next on Trump's list? Has to be a partisan I presume. Jim Jordan? andym Nov 20 #22

newdeal2

(1,533 posts)
1. Good
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 08:42 PM
Nov 19

Though I only expect GOP pushback on the most egregious shit. The rest they’re good with.

Phoenix61

(17,837 posts)
2. I don't think it has anything to do with him not being qualified.
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 08:47 PM
Nov 19

Or being a criminal, or a rapist or anything else. That doesn’t seem to matter to the Repukes. Disloyalty on the other hand… this is payback for Kevin and the ensuing shit show and public ridicule.

3catwoman3

(26,042 posts)
3. He's only 42. He finished law school in 2007 and...
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 08:57 PM
Nov 19

.passed the bar in 2008. By 2010, he was in the Florida House, so he has minimal experience as an attorney in a firm that dealt only with civil matters.

Here is their website: https://anchorsgordon.com/practice-areas/

Ya wouldn't want to let a little thing like no fucking expertise hold you back, now, would ya?

magicarpet

(17,504 posts)
4. There is a book called the Peter Principle
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 09:12 PM
Nov 19

.... Gaetz is called - The Frat-boy Pricky Little Dick Toxic Male Who Never Fucking Grew Up Principle.

mucholderthandirt

(1,267 posts)
16. I read that book back in the early 80s, and it explained so much about how things went on.
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 06:58 AM
Nov 20

I've never been able to find anyone else who'd read it, and anyone I tried to talk to about it said I was crazy, that it made no sense and that wasn't how any of the world worked. And yet...

Forty plus years of experience, and it's exactly how the world works. Sane people also elect crazy people, dangerous people, to the government, and that's been happening since elections started.

JT45242

(3,086 posts)
5. They'll cave...MTG just threatened them with the kompromat
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 10:17 PM
Nov 19

They will be receiving manilla envelopes or emails of what Putin and mango Mussolini have on them.

They all have skeletons in their closets and no spines in their backs.

They will cave before MTG needs to leak the first picture, venmo receipt, sexting email, or text chain.

Hope22

(3,415 posts)
9. At this point it's obvious that these people have been making bad choices on our behalf
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:09 PM
Nov 19

Out of fear of their Manila envelope showing up someday for quite awhile! The thing is everyone has to have a big dose of kink in order to keep the members in line. Everyone must have dirt. Personally I’m over their sickness. Back in the * days I felt that a new Congress person was immediately taken to a party, doped up and forced to have sex with a goat. Don’t ask me why I thought goat. Naïveté I guess! The tapes and photos were stored for just these times. But I was so wrong! It was a party with drugs but the goats were actually children. The photos will be heart stopping for the average person. It’s time to put it all on the table. This madness must stop! If we look back at poppy Bush, at one point during his presidency there was an incident with young boys visiting the WH in the early hours of the night. Newspapers had articles but nothing ever came of it. This has got to stop and only good people can make that happen. It’s pretty clear that the choices T is making are a deliberate assault on all of us!

ProfessorGAC

(71,375 posts)
19. If We Believe Her
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:12 AM
Nov 20

I have no reason to believe she actually has what she claims to have.
Committing extortion in public view has me very suspicious that she's just braying for attention.

GoYouPackersGo

(175 posts)
7. Big fucking deal. Recess appointment. Or four years with an interim tag.
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:07 PM
Nov 19

It doesn't matter if Republicans, or anyone, objects. The time for Republicans to stop this shit was the second (or first) impeachment trial vote.

Skittles

(161,397 posts)
12. correct
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:15 PM
Nov 19

when have these fucking cowards ever shown true courage? It will be Trump over America EVERY TIME

Maru Kitteh

(29,491 posts)
13. Pfffft.
Tue Nov 19, 2024, 11:22 PM
Nov 19


The Senate will roll over with little more than a whimper. I want you to imagine for one moment, the absolute FURY of the mouthbreather nation against “one of their own” if they dare to stand against the Orange Lord. You think any R has the spine to stand against that kind of hot, stupid wind from their own base? Some will put up a superficial fuss, and then every sea will part because “a president deserves to pick his cabinet.”

Jit423

(771 posts)
17. "If you hate the people we hate and you can find a way to hurt the people we hate, we are down with it!" (MAGA motto)
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 07:03 AM
Nov 20

And Dem MAGAs are the worst ones feeling this way. And there are more of them than you realize.

andym

(5,805 posts)
22. Who would be next on Trump's list? Has to be a partisan I presume. Jim Jordan?
Wed Nov 20, 2024, 03:06 PM
Nov 20

Jordan might not want the job though.

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