Matt Gaetz out. What's the plan? Is there a plan?


Posted On: Friday - November 22nd 2024 10:11AM MST
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I learned about this news from ZeroHedge and our Peak Stupidity commenters. I have a different post I want to write, now that I have time, but so this will be a quick update. That's especially the case since I've read an article that was most of what I wanted to say.



I should be the last to complain about problem searching a site! However, I tried every word (hence my paste into the comments below) to get the ZH link from my phone to this device. What they do, apparently, is make a new post with the update (new appointment pick) and have the URL go to the new post - Trump Nominates Pam Bondi For Attorney General After Gaetz Withdraws From Consideration with a new title.

Leaving Pam Bondi aside for the moment, my questions about Matt Gaetz and his consideration and then lack thereof, for Attorney General, were asked by PJ Media's Steven Kruisier in The Morning Briefing: Was Trump Doing His 4-D Chess Thing With His Attorney General Picks?. Kruiser figures Trump may be doing a complicated personnel shuffle. Matt Gaetz has not burned his bridges. He's still the Congressman for his Florida panhandle district starting on Jan 3rd with the 119th Politburo errr, Congress, Session 1. With Rubio out of the Senate in that plumb State Department job, there's an opening for what'd now be the Junior US Senator from Florida, the senior* one now being Rick Scott. The Senate IS important, if nothing else, for additional confirmations.

In other words, a Senator Matt Gaetz would be much more likely to confirm a guy like, say, Matt Gaetz (or MTG) for a position than the GOPer Marco Rubio. This sort of thing, if it's NOT just the result of Trump wishy-washyness, really does sound part of a good strategy!

I wish I'd have saved it, but a ZH commenter wrote very much what Peak Stupidity did at the end of last year in Free Advice for a future President Trump. To (nit)wit:
Here's what ya' do: You start appointing NeoCon, ctrl-left, you-name-it all-manner-of-opposition Governors, US Senators, and US Reps to all these high-level positions. Ambassadors, Ombudsmen and OmBudLightsWomen(?), D.I.E. Commissars, Gender Czars****, etc. Make 'em offers they no canna refuse. Make sure there are real Conservatives in position to replace them - this takes something called PLANNING, "pee" "el" "double-en" ... yeah, you SAY you got it, but do ya' (punk)?! You do some analysis ... no don't try spelling that, that's what the few decent people you hire are for.

OK, but wait, what if they start doing bad stuff, is that the question? That's the brilliant part. All these appointees will be in the Executive branch, of which the President is the Administrator. (Yeah, right there, Article II, Section 1, first line of that thingy you swore about back in '17.) You wait a few weeks, make sure each's successor to his previous office has been sworn in, and then YOU FIRE THEM.
Now, it wasn't that I thought of that from scratch - it was more like I wondered Trump's appointment of Nikki Hailey as UN Ambassador during his first term WAS part of such a strategy.** You make a new friend*** - Trump loves to be liked - and who doesn't want to be, WOW!, Ambassador to the UN!, or Secretary of State? The latter, with NeoCon Rubio in position, is more of a challenge, as he could do some real damage. (I think back to the State Dept. Commies of the 1930s to '50s.) However, you've got to follow through. Fire them, early and often. When will they catch on? I don't know - you have to be a little discreet about it. Marco there, we just had a disagreement. We're still buddies. He'll land on his feet. We'll get a new guy though. He'll fly through the Senate, what, with the Matt Gaetz's in there and all...

Is Trump smarter than I'd thought? Are his advisors better this time around? I'd answer yes, maybe to both questions, but at least the latter.

Then, there's the Art of the Deal business, in which supposedly Matt Gaetz was brought up so the ctrl-left could go entirely apeshit, and they'd just relent on the next pick out of apeshit-fatigue. I don't buy that part. You might, however, distract them with the "scary" guys, while you slip others into the mix.

Speaking of the next pick, I understand she's a no-nonsense A/G, working for my favorite Governor, Ron DeSantis in the Free State of Florida. (Well, it's all relative.) I don't believe she had the fire in the belly that a man like Matt Gaetz has. Rep Gaetz has been on the pointy end of the spear of the current Regime apparatus. Pam Bondi beats hell out of destructive Communist like Merrick Garland, of course, but I don't know if she's there to exact real retribution against these Totalitarians for their many unConstitutional acts of tyranny.

The next post will be on the offices that matter for the Existential Question - the existence of the American Nation.

In the middle of writing said next post, I took a break to just read Steve Sailer and saw his commentary on the matter. From Matt Gaetz falls on his sword. (Trump's nominee for Attorney General drops out.) and the comments below, I realize there's more to say.

Firstly, and I thank E.H. Hail for his comments there, as he looked into (maybe from memory) this Pam Bondi and found she had pressed for prosecution of George Zimmerman back in '12. We all will remember that Trayvon thing, precursor to the George Floyd OD madness. I'll excerpt Mr. Hail here:
Bondi's political rise had been steady and strong, all the way up to state attorney general of a major state. Her decision to "virtue signal" and back a life-in-prison punishment for George Zimmerman, is not a good sign that she would be a good U.S. attorney general. It's also surprising how symbolically important the "Trayvon" case remains after all this time.
Shameful. There's more too. I didn't write it before, but I agree with Mr. Hail, who mentioned Ann Coulter's attitude about hiring women for political positions. I don't see in them a thing called integrity. I don't see it in many men either, but you're gonna need a man to have it. (MTG may be an exception!)

Steve Sailer was pretty fair to Mr. Gaetz in his post, though some commenters weren't. (Maybe it's because he's met him on friendly terms, per the investigative work of Mr. Hail.) I don't see that many but a very few commenters there (Almost Missouri and Anti-Gnostic - from TUR - for two) get this. I didn't follow the sex story at all - the guy's not a pedophile, so I don't care! This is the problem with peacetime consigliere. (I'm really tempted to write "and Boomers!", but I won't... for reasons...) You can't play fair. Matt Gaetz would have fought back against the Totalitarian DOJ and whole regime. I won't say you can find something on ANYONE, but who's perfect out there that's going to fight?

I wouldn't be surprised if some early backers of Gaetz were backing him BECAUSE they could have something on him. The problem is that, though not quite so much in his personal life, per the story, that is, Matt Gaetz has integrity when it comes to trying to fix the country. He doesn't sound like he's in office for the cocktail party invitations. Have they all been hounding him because he doesn't go along with the programs of the UniParty? Are the GOPers who have vowed to vote against him, likely numbers that provoked this decision, really worried about the young chick, or are they worried about going against the UniParty of the Deep State?

It's that Gell-Mann Amnesia story again with, well, a whole lot of people. I know in my field, they write stories and are often completely full of it, or they just lie to match the Narrative. But, I read this news report about my former favorite non-UniParty Conservative and, dang it, they're right - he's morally not fit.

On that note, let me pick on one commenter, goes by Sei:
Whether he planned it or not, one thing Trump discovered from the nomination was who in Republican-land is willing to utterly debase themselves for him by going to the mats for Matt Gaetz.
No. You're a sucker. What we ACTUALLY discovered is which politicians are willing to fight the Potomac Regime, and which others have debased themselves by going along with the Lyin' Press branch narrative to get rid of a serious foe.... or, as I hope, Trump & Co. may have outsmarted them with some slick personnel shell game.

Anti-Gnostic - thank you for this:
Long on indignant, histrionic tone, short on specifics. Gaetz, along with Massie, Greene, and Paul, is one of the few elected officials afflicting the comfortable. I wouldn't hesitate to vote for him if I were in his district.
Indeed!



PS: I watched the 1-minute video of the 3 highly-perturbed talking heads in a tweet within Mr. Kruiser's post. That Bondi is some real eye candy, at least above the podium.



* That's not really a title that means anything besides that you are bringing more of the US taxpayers' money into your state than the other guy.

** The SC Governorship was filled by a more Conservative man. Do Governors help the Trump plans, though? They would if he understood Federalism better. I don't think he does.

*** For a while, I guess. That part didn't take with Nikki, but, so what?

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[UPDATED, 2 hours later:]
Added a whole bunch from the recent SteveSailer.net post on this story.
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Comments:
Ganderson
Friday - November 29th 2024 6:29AM MST
PS Mr .Hail and Mr. Moderator: I agree with you both 100%! Pointless to argue with my wife though.

My immigration policy would be “hockey players and their WAGS”. That’s all. Well, maybe I’d let their kids come- can’t be breaking up families!

Even if that got shot down, would it be so bad for the NHL to have a Euro- division, with teams In Stockholm (maybe 2!) Göteborg, Malmö, Helsinkii, Moscow, Prague, Munich, Berlin, etc?
Hail
Monday - November 25th 2024 7:46PM MST
PS

To Mr. Moderator on your forthcoming post on the eternal theme of "We welcome immigration, as long as it's done LEGALLY":

I am sure you agree with me that there is no way out without confronting and slaying the dragon I identified in the previous comment, which has been with us at least 25 years in full force and longer in less-hegemonic force, the force I call Immigrant Supremacism doctrine (strangely grated onto U.S. civic-nationalist identity; such that the phrase "American Dream" has long been transmogrified into "White-Western high-trust institutions enriching ambitious foreigners who show up and skate along on the system," though of course never never never phrased in that kind of honest a way).

There is no policy tweaking ("one neat trick") that will thread a needle and end Third Worldization.

See also this, on the fate of a certain U.S. House seat in Orange County, California (long the strongest White-Republican stronghold in the state), now occupied by Mrs Young Kim, a Korean immigrant --- I point specifically to the comments on her attitude towards immigration per se, in her own words here quoted:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/democrat-politicians-assume-democrat/comment/77683238

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...With conditions untenable for White Republicans in 2018, key players behind the scenes talked Ed Royce into retiring. A familiar process, as had plodded through much of the state over the previous thirty years or so, finally came for Orange County. The seat was likely to flip "D" in that wave election, and did. A Nonwhite candidate was needed if there was to be any hope.

Into the seat, after a two-year gap after the 2018 loss, comes someone without any meaningful roots in the USA before the 1980s.

Young-oak Kim, b.1962; emig. from South Korea, 1975; one or two years in Guam; and at least three or four years in Hawaii; and takes a degree at University of Southern California in 1985. she marries fellow-Korean in 1986. Between about the mid-1990s and the late 2010s, Young Kim had worked as "community liaison director of Asian affairs" for Ed Royce.

The whole thing feels symbolic of ethnopolitical 'arc' in California, ca. 1970s to present -- with the entire USA not far behind.

People in Big-Blue areas have long gotten cynically "used to" this process, seeing it as (somehow) natural. (Needless to say, nothing like it is evident in South Korea even now in its rich-developed state.) Why should it be natural? Much of the Trump base says: "No"; but other parts of the Trump base say: "Yes!"

Young Kim: "We are all FOR legal immigration. Someone like me, who immigrated LEGALLY, is what we should be advocating... We [Republicans] should NOT block legal immigrants or be perceived as an anti-immigration party." -- Young Kim, January 2022, when asked about the Biden "border" illegal-immigration problem, in a longform KQED public-radio interview. She added that she was proud to have introduced legislation to help "Dreamers."

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See also this, on the demographic tilt of Young Kim's district:

https://www.stevesailer.net/p/democrat-politicians-assume-democrat/comment/77689418
Hail
Monday - November 25th 2024 7:41PM MST
PS

"our computer industry could not exist without Indians."

Professor Ricardo Duchesne of Canada has made a career for himself, over the past 20+ years, in defending "the uniqueness of Western civilization" (the title of his magnum opus from the early 2010s). I suppose he's been able to ddo so because of his personal origins in Puerto Rico.

I've been looking into Dr Duchesne's early work. He goes in the explicitly pro-Western direction after encountering arguments exactly like "the computer industry could not exist without Indians" (though larger-scale, less trivial, less tied to the present-day) in the 1990s and early 2000s. The argument was: Western successes are either historical accidents, unlevel-playing-field cases, or derived from the genius and unsung contributions of non-Westerners or the result of outright pillage by Western villains over x centuries, victimizing non-Westerners (unexplained is why the continent-striding pillagers known as the Mongols didn't invent the computer industry, but it's probably another Western conspiracy against all that is right and good).

The kind of argument that "the computer industry could not exist without Indians" is a classic of this Western-denigration school of thought and discourse that begins on the fringes in the 1980s, maybe, and that is mainstream by the early 2000s at latest. Mainstream, at least, among the agenda-setting, cosmopolitan, political-'Blue' elements. You'll also find it carrying some cachet throughout the 1990s already, but as a self-consciously oppositional force.

Arguments like this, while still possible to hear in the 1970s and 1980s, would've more often than not been laughed out the door before the 1990s in a respectable mainstream. By some time in the 2000s, maybe, these doctrines became accepted widely enough as to be a consensus which is hardly seen questioned (until the first orange-haired presidential candidate blundered on stage and started blaspheming). An Immigrant Supremacism doctrine had entered into things.

Right-thinking people, Big-Blue area people, have long KNOWN that they're supposed to think, supposed to say, supposed to signal that they think: i.e., there is no positive uniqueness to Western civilization at all; Western achievements (such as inventing and developing computing) are weird aberrations caused by one coincidence or another -- and sometimes, cases of villainous Whites stealing the genius or labor of others. But generally, it's historical accident when we do it; and t's a case of inherent genius when they do it (Indians supposedly being effective in the computer industry).

How are we to get out of the immigration(ist) pyramid scheme with such a strange albatross of an ideology as this?
Moderator
Monday - November 25th 2024 7:30PM MST
PS: "My lovely wife told me the other night that our computer industry could not exist without Indians."

Well, fancy you, Mr. G, with a wife 40 years younger... errr, I mean, if she doesn't recall a time when Americans did all of this work without needing the Indians. Or, I suppose, she's not a geek of any sort and wasn't ever involved in the software industry.

I can remember even as late as 2000 that companies - the one in question is very well known right now - had Americans, and said Americans could get another job some other place in the country any time with no sweat.

Anyway, I talk to people all the time who just seem to not know that there was a previous era, even 20-30 years into the immivasion, when American industry and businesses of all sorts did pretty darn well with White Americans working there almost solely.

It's like the rant I just saw from AOC about the Congressional bathroom proposals, you know, men go into the men's rooms and women... pretty simple. She asked angrily who would be the ones to check people's private parts, or else how was this to be implemented? Uhhhh, remember 2010? Like that.
Moderator
Monday - November 25th 2024 7:23PM MST
PS: Mr. Smith, on Valentines Day years ago, this old truck's enslaved cylinder ALMOST left me dead in the water at a stop light. Somehow I did a George Thorogood and became a gear jammer, enough to drive home in, (musta been) 2nd. Then we walked to the restaurant for the Valentines dinner, seeing as I was pretty down on vehicles at that point - only the old truck.

However, I can't say that I couldn't have seen it coming. It got harder and harder to get into the 1st 2 gears, as I recall.

It is hard to get good parts, yes. This enslaved cylinder has been in there a pretty long while though, and I just need to top off by an oz or two. (Didn't get to it... manana, amigos.)

Now, if the master cylinder goes away, I guess I'll be singing something about Jimmy crack corn, and I don't care ...
Ganderson
Monday - November 25th 2024 4:59PM MST
PS

Mr..Moderator, Like most of us here I view legal immigration as a huge problem.
I ‘d guess , though , that many Americans do not see it that way. My lovely wife told me the other night that our computer industry could not exist without Indians.
Ganderson
Monday - November 25th 2024 4:37PM MST
PS

Addition, Mr. Smith, bacon grease is excellent for popping popcorn; although you have to make sure the grease.doesn’t get too hot or the popcorn gets tough. Always use white popcorn. I also use it to rub on chicken when I put it on the rotisserie . Makes the chicken Scan very, very crispy and good.

I keep a coffee can full of bacon grease in the fridge; comes in very handy.
Adam Smith
Monday - November 25th 2024 1:50PM MST
PS: enslaved cylinder 🙂

I had to change out my enslaved cylinder a couple years back. It was the third time I had to change it. I tried to find a higher quality one that might last longer, but apparently there is no such thing. I should probably keep an extra around for the next time it happens as it will usually leave the car dead in the water.

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Greetings, Mr. Alarmist!

(Sorry about the slow reply. I had a busy weekend binge watching custom car repair shows on netflix with the lovely Mrs. Smith.)

Indeed. Bacon grease, like bacon, is truly a gift from God. (If he made anything tastier, he kept it for himself.) And apparently, bacon grease is not as unhealthy as some people would have us believe. Bacon grease has slightly less cholesterol than butter and only 2 more milligrams of saturated fat. It has the same number of calories as the canola oil (which people really shouldn't eat because it is more properly suited as fuel in an oil motor like the OM616 or OM617), but more saturated fat and sodium. Bacon fat is high in oleic acid, which is thought to reduce inflammation and cholesterol levels and choline, a nutrient that's important for brain health, memory, and muscle control and helps ward off dementia/Alzheimer's.

Most importantly, it tastes great. It is essential for collard greens. Butter and/or olive oil just don't work in this case, as important as they are.

But yeah. That's about all I have to say about bacon grease.

I haven't read this post yet, and I'm going to do that soon, but it is a beautiful day here and I've a few things to do outside before it gets dark.

So, I'll catch you gentlemen later. I hope you all are enjoying your afternoon, evening, morning or whatever time it might be.

Cheers! ☮️

Moderator
Monday - November 25th 2024 12:53PM MST
PS: I get Howie Carr's definition of not guilty, Mr. Ganderson, but only because you explained all this to me a few years back. (Of course, I'd get it if I listened to (watched?) him - sounds like he's a great guy.)

I've got more to write, but then I spent lots of time hanging out today - just the most BEAUTIFUL weather imaginable!

We're gonna shoot as many .22LR rounds as we feel like, until darkness stops us. At some point, I need to top up the clutch fluid in the truck with just a little DOT 3. I'm not positive, but it might be losing a little bit of fluid from the enslaved cylinder.

(Yes, I did peruse Steve Sailer's latest post. Why do you ask?)

OK, well, the Marlins ain't gonna shoot by themselves... I guess if you're Nancy Pelosi, you might think otherwise.
Hail
Monday - November 25th 2024 12:16AM MST
PS

-- Bondi v Zimmerman, echoing into the 2020s --

Mr. Ganderson, I will raise your "Pam Bondi is not guilty" with a "George Zimmerman is not guilty."

It was an interesting decision in July 2013, that a jury would find George Zimmerman "not guilty." (The trial lasted from June 24 to the dramatic July 13 "not guilty" verdict, temporarily giving hope that the system was not totally gone and justice still possible.)

Q. By what point over the following years would the same trial, involving the same types of jurors and everyone, have definitely turned out a "George Zimmerman is guilty" verdict?

A. IMO, maybe already by mid-2015, "trial plus two years." But certainly "likely" by mid-2017?

The George Zimmerman trial is another data-point on how the 2010s tilted so strongly against reasonableness and normality. The fact that the trial happened at all -- due to the maneuverings of Pam Bondi, some say -- was a sign not all was "right" in 2012-13.

From wiki article "The Trial of George Zimmerman" on the jury selection process in mid-June 2013:

"In Florida, juries consist of six people; 12 jurors are required only for criminal trials involving capital cases, where the death penalty is applicable... All six of the jurors were female, while two of the alternate jurors were male and two female. Five of the jurors were white; one was of mixed black and Mestizo ancestry. All of the alternates were white, and of those, one of the male alternates was said to have been white Hispanic."
Ganderson
Sunday - November 24th 2024 8:04AM MST
PS.

And as regards Pam Bondi, she is, in the formulation of the great Howie Carr; NOT GUILTY.

I should explain. Howie is a local New England radio host; he’s not one of us but probably as close as a major media figure gets.

Whenever there’s a prominent court case involving a female defendant, he always asked the question “is she guilty? Or not guilty? “. I leave it y’all to figure out what that means.
Ganderson
Sunday - November 24th 2024 7:51AM MST
PS.
“…I don’t know who put it there…”

RIP Phil. You added to the sum of human happiness. Bobby is still going strong at 77; I always had the idea that he had fewer bad habits than the rest of the gang.

As for Gaetz, I like the fact that his enemies are my enemies, but, and this is probably not fair of me , there seems to be a lot of behavior that while not illegal, seems kind of skeevy. I kind of feel the same way about Pete Hegseth, even though he’s o fellow Gopher Stater from the town where we had our cabin when I was a kid.
Moderator
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 1:44PM MST
PS: "I'm no expert on who has what authority in the U.S. government, but if somehow Trump was able to declare an end to "birthright citizenship" for illegals and/or noncitizen parents of children, would it be Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of enforcing it? What would she do? The woman who wanted to crucify George Zimmerman? Enough said."

No I don't think Miss Bondi would do a good job of avoiding her emotional concerns about "those poor children" and "he was a valedictorian!" and so forth, not even thinking of her virtue signaling wrong-headed work against Mr. Zimmerman. Of course, we'd never be able to pull it retroactively - not really retroactive, as in unConsitutional, because, there never was a law to overturn retro. anyway, just various rulings. If you were to, putting citizenship of those whose parents came in illegally years ago, you'd REALLY put the scare in anyone thinking they are going to drop a bug-out baby. It'd put a complete end to it. However, if you can go from here, and future bug-out babies would get no SSN, passport, whatever, that'd be an important step. You'd need to somehow make sure the ctrl-left wouldn't be able to reverse it all 4 years from Jan.

As I will write in the post I quit in the middle of yesterday, the LEGAL immigration level is no minor part of our problem. All aspects must be addressed, and Steven Miller is very aware of all these aspects, or at least most. (Maybe he doesn't know about a few of the many visa scams, I dunno.)

Ann Coulter wrote a good post proving (to herself, but not me as much, just because I'm not so legal minded) that the court decisions supposedly allowing Birthright Citizenship are wrong.
Moderator
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 12:29PM MST
PS: "Separated at birth: Matt Gaetz and John Mayer…" Yeah, there's a good resemblance. HBD only goes so far I guess, when I think of the political differences. Then again, I'm just assuming, as 95% of entertainers seem to lean one way. Just because he played with the Dead... I don't know about know, but the full original GD were pretty much apolitical, as long as you didn't ban the good drugs.

From an interview on KFOG (San Fran.): "What influence does drugs have on the Grateful Dead's music?"

"What?"

"What influence does drugs have on the Grateful Dead's music?"

"What?? His lips are moving, but there's nothing coming out."

I heard this myself.

Also, Mr. Ganderson, R.I.P., Phil Lesh. It's just a box of rain, after all.
Moderator
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 12:24PM MST
PS: "By "giving women their own house," I take him to mean a body like a separate branch of Congress. This excerpt is from a hypothetical, Constitution-restructuring proposal.

It's clear that women functioning within the same systems as males, in systems created and once-normed to male attitudes and abilities, and evolved that way over centuries and longer, has created a lot of bad outcomes."

Yeah, I don't think I'd want that either. Better for "their house" to be their actual houses where they do the women stuff that keeps them a lot happier. You've got your exceptions, like MTG, but it's really not been worth it to let the country get feminized just for a few exceptions.
Moderator
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 12:11PM MST
PS: From Mr. Hail:

"Gaetz has apparently stated that he will not take up his seat in the incoming Congress." I saw a 2 minute video from him after I wrote this. That is indeed confusing, not unless he somehow well knows he will be appointed to Senate or have some other position guaranteed.

"People are now speculating heavily on what Gaetz will do next, himself. The whole thing is very strange: He ran for a seat he has no intention of taking, or has no interest in holding? It doesn't make sense, in a way."

I don't know if that was his intention. Something may have changed for him since Nov. 5th, including, of course, that Trump picked him for A/G. I doubt he was in on this, and I really doubt it was all some kind of feint. I figure, they both, Trump and Gaetz, realized from what various Senator's positions are that they didn't have the votes. Possibly running for the seat was nearly automatic for him, the 8th time. He said on the video "Eight is enough", but THIS next one would have been his 8th.

"If that was his aim, in the event of a Trump victory, why would he resign his House seat before he had the deal in hand?". Well, unless it was to help get someone else good into that seat, with the hopes he'd be established to be then elected in a special election for the '25 session were Gaetz in place at the DOJ, I don't know either.

Are they pretty clever, or is this playing it by ear?

"Another conspiracy theory on X, popping up before the Pam Bondi nomination, was that some placeholder, call him Bozo The Clown, would be appointed and confirmed U.S. attorney general, and that Matt Gaetz would be appointed assistant. Attorney General Bozo the Clown would then resign, giving the job to Gaetz."

See, now that one, to me, is a very generic tactic that could work in any of the Departments of the Gov't. Why hasn't this been done more already? I would think the ctrl-left probably has. I suppose the new "acting director" must still be confirmed by the Senate by some deadline, but I think this is more a great idea than a conspiracy theory. The guy doesn't need to be Bozo. In fact his name could be Rubio. You've gotten him out of that Senate seat, replacing a usual UniParty pro-invasion (in reality, no matter what he spouts) guy with someone much better. The question is how to get him to pick some undersecretary (Assistant to the Regional Secretary) that ARE on our side. Can Trump appoint, or at least strongly suggest some good underlings at State? If he could, then, yes, you just have a disagreement with Rubio, who wants to spend more time with his family... or something.

Then, the good guy becomes Acting Director for as long as he can hold out. The Senate might get impatient at Trump's new prospective appointments, one after another, but so what? In the meantime ...

The decoy thing, yeah, it sounds too far-fetched, IMO.
Ganderson
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 7:24AM MST
PS. Separated at birth: Matt Gaetz and John Mayer…
Hail
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 6:57AM MST
PS

From the entry: "Ann Coulter's attitude about hiring women for political positions. I don't see in them a thing called integrity. I don't see it in many men either, but you're gonna need a man to have it."

I quote Curt Doolittle, a political philosopher who has led a think-tank called the Natural Law Institute for much of the past decade:

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"...(A)s Machiavelli, the Romans, and the Spartans warned us, inclusion of women in politics, like universal enfranchisement, simply poisons the well of responsibility upon which all civilizations depend for their persistence.

As such the only solution to the inclusion of women -- given the pervasively demonstrated female instinct for irresponsibility for her own thoughts, emotions, expressions, her equation of dislike with falsehood, and her approval with truth, her prioritization of emotions over outcomes, her obsessive fantasizing, magical thinking, hyper attention seeking, hyper-consumption seeking, hyper-gamy seeking, by extraction from others (namely men) rather than her own making or voluntary exchanges, and to obtain her impulsivity by undermining, manipulation, seductions, false promises, and social construction -- requires the equal suppression of all those behaviors such as to cause her behavior in social, economic, and political matters to be as reciprocal, meritocratic, and free of fraud as that we demand of men in exchange for their political participation.

To do so requires restoration of the common law to regulate women's behavior as equally as we have regulated men's. And to include women into the franchise by giving them their own house, given their uncontrollable predilection for advocating and facilitating the responsibility in women as well as men, that the men of the west have spent five millennia gradually expanding, such that the privileges women have are those that men have produced by such disciplined means over those millennia." (end quote from Curt Doolittle.)

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By "giving women their own house," I take him to mean a body like a separate branch of Congress. This excerpt is from a hypothetical, Constitution-restructuring proposal.

It's clear that women functioning within the same systems as males, in systems created and once-normed to male attitudes and abilities, and evolved that way over centuries and longer, has created a lot of bad outcomes.

It's a rare woman who is willing to say so (Ann Coulter and Heather MacDonald are two who do say so) --- and in our feminist-normed society now it's even rarer for a man to say it. The trajectory of Pam Bondi's career as attorney general, I'm afraid to say, is sadly predictable.

I'm no expert on who has what authority in the U.S. government, but if somehow Trump was able to declare an end to "birthright citizenship" for illegals and/or noncitizen parents of children, would it be Attorney General Pam Bondi in charge of enforcing it? What would she do? The woman who wanted to crucify George Zimmerman? Enough said.
Hail
Saturday - November 23rd 2024 5:38AM MST
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Gaetz has apparently stated that he will not take up his seat in the incoming Congress.

People are now speculating heavily on what Gaetz will do next, himself. The whole thing is very strange: He ran for a seat he has no intention of taking, or has no interest in holding? It doesn't make sense, in a way.

Some are saying he most likely wants a key role on Fox News, or the like. Others say he wants the open U.S. Senate seat for Florida to be vacated starting January 20th by Marco Rubio, as you suggest. If that was his aim, in the event of a Trump victory, why would he resign his House seat before he had the deal in hand?

Another conspiracy theory on X, popping up before the Pam Bondi nomination, was that some placeholder, call him Bozo The Clown, would be appointed and confirmed U.S. attorney general, and that Matt Gaetz would be appointed assistant. Attorney General Bozo the Clown would then resign, giving the job to Gaetz.

This kind of theory verges into the absurd, such as theories about how Trump can serve a third term starting January 20, 2029, by having to decoys elected president and vice president, the Republican-majority House appointing Trump Speaker of the House (the position does not require one to be a House member, or, apparently, even a U.S. citizen or even a human being, by letter of the law.)

If the Trump-2029 frontmen are elected, sworn in January 20, 2029, at 12:00 noon, the one could resign at 12:01pm and the other at 12:02pm, making Trump president again at 12:03pm, he having been elected "Speaker of the House" and third in line to succession, a few weeks earlier. There are other variants of this theory too, but it all fades into increasingly implausible fantasy.
Moderator
Friday - November 22nd 2024 2:06PM MST
PS: I think Gaetz is the kind of guy that WOULD chase these enemies to the ends of the earth, or, the country, at least. That's what the Regime is worried about. The Deep State may have thought it had him with the scandal, so he'd do their bidding. He won't. That story that I only caught a little bit about from his interview with Tucker Carlson, if true, had a lot of intrigue.

I asked on your site, how facetious you were being about Dave Ramsey. Is he a solid guy or a huckster? (Heard the name but haven't seen any videos or writing from him.)
The Alarmist
Friday - November 22nd 2024 1:37PM MST
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Gaetz is a fine example of the aphorism, “When you’re taking a lot of flack, you’re probably over the target.” It’s a shame he didn’t give it a go, because when “rightists” win, they try to let bygones be bygones, but when “leftists” win, they chase their enemies to the ends of the Earth, even if they too are leftist, to wit Stalin & Trotskt and Castro sending Comrade Che to Peru to meet his demise. They will haunt Gaetz until the bitter end.

Sorry, Mr. Mod, that your comment didn’t make it. Are you for or against ?

Mr. Smith, definitely with bacon grease. I taught Mrs. Alarmist (European and trained at the Le Cordon Bleu) the virtues of bacon fat, but it wasn’t much of a stretch, as it was already in her repertoire. I tell her that bacon renderings are fat from God, therefore good. I had a doctor shriek in horror when she heard that expression. Speaking of pumpkin pie, we just turned a couple Hokkaido pumpkins into pies for our Thanksgiving guests.

Thanks, Mr. Hail, for the publicité.

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