As you say, Gaetz could be a setup for someone else. What will be interesting to see is if he resigns to take the position. With a slim majority, how many seats can they lose to appointments and special elections? By my count, he’s the third representative tapped.
This nomination is looking like a way to help out a buddy, put the kibosh on the ethics investigation. T may not care whether he actually gets confirmed. Maybe he’ll set him up with something else.
He resigned today as of today. Florida's 8-week rule requires a Special Election to fill the vacancy. His replacement may make it under the wire before swearing-in for Insurrection Day!
Gaetz is clearly the sacrificial lamb. Orange put him up, knowing he'll never make it out of committee, so that some of the others will look downright reasonable in comparison. Kristi Noem to head up DHS? She's been banned from the tribal lands in her own state. How is she going to enforce border security?
And yet … This just in: Matt Gaetz quits House of Representatives! If his nomination fails, as suggested above, perhaps he can open a freelance sex education course.
Things are moving fast. Apparently the game is that Trump thinks he can adjourn Congress under Article II Section 3. And just maybe Mike Johnson can do that if the House agrees with Trump while the Senate disagrees. Film at 11.
I hope Biden at least pardons Jack Smith, and anyone who worked on a special counsel investigation of Trump related activities. He should also pardon his son Hunter, who is a sacrificial lamb if ever there was one.
No one is coming to help us. Not the WaPo, not the NYT, not the Democrats (for the most part). Either we do it ourselves or it doesn’t happen. My guess is it doesn’t happen.
You have to be exquisitely polite to world-destroying fascists—to the point of either demoralizing your side or hoping enough of them are spineless enough to follow your lead. That’s the best way to resist them.
These are such bitter pills - I really want to swallow them, but they also track correctly. That damn Vacancies Act is Trump's backstop for any Congressional pushback, and he will use it freely and hit back hard at any Republicans who stand up to him. He learned well from Roy Cohn. This act of idiocy by the electorate is a punishment that will reverberate for decades.
I have very little hope now that our country will survive the next four years. Trump does not care about running the country other than what pleases himself. Musk is running havoc everywhere, up until Trump kicks him out because two malignant narcissists can't work together. Good people will quit where we need them the most, and few will be interested in coming back even when we rid the White House of this dung heap.
Our civil rights will be badly damaged, aided and abetted by a SCOTUS, with Roberts looking hurt every time anyone points out the obvious failures in the court.
We'll have even worse judges appointed, because the vacancies won't be filled now, thanks to Manchin and Schumer absurd reliance support of the blue slip.
We said all this will happen, and it is. But "I told you so" tastes like ash in our mouths.
In the run up to the election so many people were telling me that Project 2025 wouldn’t happen. Why on earth did they think that? It was clear as day that if he got in it would be centre stage. And now they are suffering from collective amnesia.
Prospective AG interviewing for interns: 16 years old, female, no experience required.
I didn't think it was possible for this timeline to get any dumber or more vicious, but here we are.
As you say, Gaetz could be a setup for someone else. What will be interesting to see is if he resigns to take the position. With a slim majority, how many seats can they lose to appointments and special elections? By my count, he’s the third representative tapped.
That may be so, but they’re also pretty safe R seats, and with typically poor turnout in special elections, unlikely to flip.
This nomination is looking like a way to help out a buddy, put the kibosh on the ethics investigation. T may not care whether he actually gets confirmed. Maybe he’ll set him up with something else.
He resigned today as of today. Florida's 8-week rule requires a Special Election to fill the vacancy. His replacement may make it under the wire before swearing-in for Insurrection Day!
SCOTUS rides again! Apparently an unconcern for ethics rides supreme (puns gratefully accepted).
Gaetz is clearly the sacrificial lamb. Orange put him up, knowing he'll never make it out of committee, so that some of the others will look downright reasonable in comparison. Kristi Noem to head up DHS? She's been banned from the tribal lands in her own state. How is she going to enforce border security?
And yet … This just in: Matt Gaetz quits House of Representatives! If his nomination fails, as suggested above, perhaps he can open a freelance sex education course.
It all boils down to this: who
you vote for and when you
DON'T vote.
That's what happened in our
country with this election, for
some of the most outrageous
reasons and now, everyone
but the top 1% are going to
pay for it in the most
disastrous ways. So, we need
to resist and persist. And we
can.
Things are moving fast. Apparently the game is that Trump thinks he can adjourn Congress under Article II Section 3. And just maybe Mike Johnson can do that if the House agrees with Trump while the Senate disagrees. Film at 11.
How thoroughly despicable to make this pick public the day he was graciously allowed to visit the White House.
I hope Biden at least pardons Jack Smith, and anyone who worked on a special counsel investigation of Trump related activities. He should also pardon his son Hunter, who is a sacrificial lamb if ever there was one.
And Pelosi. And all the judges involved in the cases. And Harris and Walz. And then resign so Harris can pardon him.
Thank You, Chris, for your article this evening, and will reStack ASAP 💯👍
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Amidst the azure sky so vast,
Aloft, an albatross glides past.
Awakening dawn with amber light,
Auroras dance in Arctic night.
Ancient trees with arms outspread,
Adorn the earth where angels tread.
A symphony of autumn leaves,
As whispers weave through woodland eaves.
Anemones in oceans deep,
Adrift where silent secrets sleep.
Above, a star ascends anew,
A beacon bright in twilight's hue.
Alluring is this world we see,
An alphabet of mystery.
Did Biden offer to cuddle with Trump?
I wouldn't be surprised.
No one is coming to help us. Not the WaPo, not the NYT, not the Democrats (for the most part). Either we do it ourselves or it doesn’t happen. My guess is it doesn’t happen.
Yup. It's up to us, especially at the local level, and I'm pretty sure we're all exhausted.
Nah, not exhausted: weak, selfish, desperate to find any excuse to retreat.
Trumpers lost and stormed the Capitol. We lost and it’s whale song and cucumber slices.
It’s truly inspiring.
Indeed.
He might as well have.
You have to be exquisitely polite to world-destroying fascists—to the point of either demoralizing your side or hoping enough of them are spineless enough to follow your lead. That’s the best way to resist them.
He’s been an unbelievably weak president.
I am so disappointed, ending his term groveling.
These are such bitter pills - I really want to swallow them, but they also track correctly. That damn Vacancies Act is Trump's backstop for any Congressional pushback, and he will use it freely and hit back hard at any Republicans who stand up to him. He learned well from Roy Cohn. This act of idiocy by the electorate is a punishment that will reverberate for decades.
I have very little hope now that our country will survive the next four years. Trump does not care about running the country other than what pleases himself. Musk is running havoc everywhere, up until Trump kicks him out because two malignant narcissists can't work together. Good people will quit where we need them the most, and few will be interested in coming back even when we rid the White House of this dung heap.
Our civil rights will be badly damaged, aided and abetted by a SCOTUS, with Roberts looking hurt every time anyone points out the obvious failures in the court.
We'll have even worse judges appointed, because the vacancies won't be filled now, thanks to Manchin and Schumer absurd reliance support of the blue slip.
We said all this will happen, and it is. But "I told you so" tastes like ash in our mouths.
In the run up to the election so many people were telling me that Project 2025 wouldn’t happen. Why on earth did they think that? It was clear as day that if he got in it would be centre stage. And now they are suffering from collective amnesia.