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[-] buh@hexbear.net 147 points 1 week ago

Ousted from the Trump cabinet in -61 days, that’s a record nobody will ever beat

[-] elpaso@hexbear.net 74 points 1 week ago

This was likely done for 2 reasons.

  1. The ag position was used as leverage to walk off scott free from sex trafficking.
  2. To make his other picks look better. We will get Ken Paxton.
[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 49 points 1 week ago

Oh absolutely, all these meme picks are setting up run of the mill reactionary fanatics to look “reasonable” as the replacements after the meme picks get borked.

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 18 points 1 week ago

You think he'll go to Paxton? I figured he'd just name another Senator - Hawley or Cruz - who can breeze through confirmation without issue.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 16 points 1 week ago

I can't see even Trump picking Ted Cruz.

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[-] goferking0 16 points 1 week ago
  1. Seeing what they can get away with
[-] elpaso@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

I mean, when the McConnell faction in the Senate is the only guard rail, you are pretty much fucked.

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[-] Leon_Grotsky@hexbear.net 41 points 1 week ago

The Mooch fans in SHAMBLES over this upset

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

-5.45 Scaramuccis

[-] D61@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago

I'm glad I don't gamble... I was sure RFK was going to be the first.

[-] Weedian@hexbear.net 80 points 1 week ago

Paying teenage girls for "being awesome" and "just because"

[-] Rojo27@hexbear.net 64 points 1 week ago

Paying for a flight and extra for you is totally not suspiciouslibertarian-alert

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Why did she have to pay I thought only the customers had to pay on the island

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Totally normal to give out $400 and $500 amounts to people on a regular basis. That definitely doesn't look suspicious.

[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 76 points 1 week ago

LMAO, in this day and age, for this ghoul to withdrawal had to have meant they have him dead to rights. Like, in 4k, holding up a USA Today, and his birth certificate while being a .pdf file and a lawyer/stenographer present with a notarized real time play by play. What in the actual fuck is in that report?!! God, it'd be amazing if it gets leaked.

[-] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 51 points 1 week ago

The FBI never destroyed the Epstein files, they found a new spot to store them

[-] BashfulBob@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

My man was parading around sex picks on the House floor. His fucking Google Photos album was probably enough to do him in.

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 35 points 1 week ago
[-] keepcarrot@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago

Even with the consent of the women (who are of appropriateage), the sort of guy that does this is really gross

[-] Sulvor@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

Yeah this is major creep behavior regardless

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[-] ReadFanon@hexbear.net 74 points 1 week ago
[-] elpaso@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

Y'all are so fucking creative with these lmao.

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[-] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 week ago

That fool resigned from Congress so he could be AG. For him to drop out of consideration after throwing away his career in Congress they must have some real shit on him.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 66 points 1 week ago

My understanding is that he resigned in part to dodge the release of the ethics report. He thought he had the AG position locked in and knew that if he left Congress, they'd stop investigating him (since it was an internal rather than criminal proceeding). That just makes me think even more strongly that there must be some totally wild shit in that report.

[-] peppers_ghost@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

Hopefully a dem will sack up and release what they've got. Not holding my breath on that tho

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 25 points 1 week ago
[-] Civility@hexbear.net 12 points 1 week ago
[-] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If any of it gets leaked, it will be from some staffer that will IMMEDIATELY be fired and blackballed, maybe even charged with some nonsense

Nobody in Congress really gains from it and many of them stand to lose everything if ethics inquiries start going public

[-] SoJB@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 week ago

The last time a congressperson tried to leak dirty laundry like that, they immediately busted out the gay underage incest kompromat like the next day lmao.

We are never finding out what was in that report.

[-] Belly_Beanis@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago

"The Muller Report will get Trump this time bro just trust me bro we'll see results when Epstein gets investigated bro like bro the January 6th. Commission will find all of Trump's lackeys guilty you just gotta trust the process bro like the democrats are a serious institution bro and if we vote hard enough they'll stop fascism trust me bro and..."

--some libs talking to each other at brunch

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[-] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 15 points 1 week ago

Sooo... snap election? What's the GOP's margin again?

[-] NephewAlphaBravo@hexbear.net 20 points 1 week ago

I don't know how it works in the house but if a senator leaves the governor picks their replacement.

[-] GoodGuyWithACat@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

It's completely up to the states. A lot of states have snap elections for Congress. Many states have the same for Senate, but the governor appoints an interim senator.

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[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 48 points 1 week ago

lol, this makes Alex Jones' plan to obstruct the forced sale of InfoWars until Gaetz became AG null and void

alex-oopsie

[-] Redcuban1959@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

What if Gaetz only did that to troll Alex Jones?

[-] FlakesBongler@hexbear.net 13 points 1 week ago

It was Alex's plan to begin with, so I figured it wasn't exactly a good one either way

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

ron-soy will probably appoint him to Rubio's seat in the Senate. That would be chefs-kiss

[-] ChaosMaterialist@hexbear.net 37 points 1 week ago

I wanna read that report.

[-] Feline@hexbear.net 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The Trueanon episode on him was really good

[-] culpritus@hexbear.net 30 points 1 week ago

Critical Support for Trump's campaign to drain the swamp by complete accident.

[-] Moss@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

What kind of excuse is "I didn't want anything to waste Daddy Trump's time"? Why didn't he just say "I believe there are other people more qualified than me". Instead of doing this embarrassing shit.

If you're gonna lie about why you're not taking the job at least don't lick your bosses boots while doing it

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Because the amount that you've ingratiated yourself to Trump and deepthroated his ego are about to be the only currencies that matter in the US Government. I think a lot of these weirdos 100% believe that Trump is about to have dictatorial-level power for the indefinite future, so any extra effort to stroke him off now is going to pay unlimited dividends in the future. It's also a way of signaling total sycophantic loyalty to the rest of the collection of freaks in Trump's base.

[-] Pastaguini@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

The ethics report revealed that he wasn’t a big enough pedo for the job. They had to give the role to Jared Fogle.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 23 points 1 week ago

It’s gotta be even worse than repeatedly having sex with a high schooler somehow

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