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DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago

Republicans baffled after Trump picks ‘reckless’ Gaetz for attorney general

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Republicans baffled after Trump picks ‘reckless’ Gaetz for attorney general

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DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 months ago
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Congressman decried as ‘person of moral turpitude’ amid questions over whether Senate will confirm nomination
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  • venusaur@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    The same people who were concerned about the equity of affirmative action

  • uebquauntbez@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Just a reminder to some members of the GOP. It was ‘America First’ and not ‘Fist America’.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Did they think his cognitive decline and bad decision making was exclusively directed at democrats?

  • OutForARip@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    The child rapist?

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

      Sadly, you’ll need to be more specific.

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        The one who people with morals is baffled is even allowed to BE in politics.

        • Arsecroft@lemmy.sdf.org
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          9 months ago

          the one who looks like a real life version of a character from a cartoon

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          9 months ago

          Isn’t that a foundational plank of the Republican Party?

        • ikidd@lemmy.world
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          Not only people with morals, but even Republicans are baffled.

      • HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world
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        The one who knocked up a 12 year old when he was 19, and who claims their son (that he raised) is her brother.

        • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Is that who Nestor is?

        • TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
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          9 months ago

          Do you have a source for this?

    • aeronmelon@lemmy.world
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      9 months ago

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    9 months ago

    Whaaaat, the man who told us what he’d do for years is now going to do it!? Wiiiiiilllllld /s

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    9 months ago

    Baffled how?

    Like the cup game?

  • NoForwardslashS@sopuli.xyz
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    9 months ago

    Hey, remember pizzagate?

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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      Is that the one where Pizza Hut raped a bunch of minors???

      …wait, that can’t be right. Was it dominoes that raped the minors? Oh, I remember now. It was the noid. Avoid the noid…because he’ll rape your children. Yeah, that makes more sense.

      …or was it Little Ceasars pizza pizza guy?

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    9 months ago

    They’ll be as “concerned” as Susan Collins for 4(+) years, won’t they.

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      Bet they’ll vote to confirm. Assuming they get the chance anyway.

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    What are they fucking baffled about? What is it they think they voted for?!

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      Some are disingenuous, Susan Collin style.

      Others are genuine, utter dipshits.

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    9 months ago

    How are they baffled at Trump doing Trump stuff?

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    Man, the US is going to be such a fucking clown show for the next 4 years. Holy shit.

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      You think they’ll stop at four years? I wish I had your optimism, friend.

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      4 years? Good God, that is an incorrect timeline.

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      If we’re lucky, unfortunately this clown car was just purposely driven off a cliff willingly, because the rich have an insurance policy worth more than the idiot clowns they convinced to drive off the cliff… problem is we’re going to get totaled in the clown car, all of us reading this.

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        Don’t worry, the rich people aren’t in the car and will be safely flying overhead while we crash and burn.

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      Bold of you to assume there will be free and fair elections in four years.

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      It gives me flashbacks to his first term, many mooches ago.

      He’s going to play the Apprentice role again, in which he tries to increase tv ratings by randomly hiring and firing as many people as possible in every episode.

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        What’s a mooche for you??? Just curious, there’s a song called The Mooche.

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          It’s the meme timeframe for employees under Trump. It’s about 10 days, but really -3 days.

          Trump hired Anthony Scarramucci (The Mooch) as White House Communications Director to start on August 2017.

          As a good boi, he started the job right away on July 21, leaving his pregnant wife at the hospital.

          Trump then hired John Kelly and John Kelly fired the Mooch on July 28.

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      Bold to assume it’s just 4 years before voters get another shot at unfucking all of this? 😉

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        😬😬😬😬

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    Russian asset.

    Trump doesn’t want any more nudes of his wife getting shared so Putin is calling these shots no, no question.

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      In fairness, those nudes have been out for years.

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        and they might even be Donald’s only remaining chance to see her naked

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    Those Leopards are gonna be stuffed to bursting!

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    Whether or not he gets the slot, based on Trump’s first term, a lot of the cabinet members aren’t gonna last long anyway.

    https://www.statista.com/chart/15071/how-does-trumps-turnover-compare-to-other-presidents/

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    This is not as surprising to me as him picking a Fox News host to be the secretary of defense.

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      Neither is too surprising to me, but the TV star less so. A TV host picking another TV host to be in his cabinet was what I was expecting in 2016.

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        He definitely wanted to, but there were still people around to tell him “no” back then. Not any more.

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      It’s fine, I got a bottle of booze set aside for when WE3 or American Civil War: 2 Dumb 2 Prevent kick-starts our final doom.

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