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> The main issue with Matt Gaetz is that he used his office to prosecute his political opponents and authorized federal agents to harass parents who were peacefully protesting at school board meetings.

Oh wait, that’s actually Merrick Garland, the current attorney general.

- Vance

Joe W

Wow Gaetz has already resigned from congress, it will be even better if he gets denied the position.

User1865345

It's still not known if the reactions are preliminary and maybe later they would cave in and vote for Matt.

Although MAGA is furious Thune was elected as Senate Republican leader.

‘MAGA Is P***ed’: Trump Faithfuls Out for Blood After Rick Scott Loses Senate Majority Vote

indivisible, a left wing group said this:

> Putting Matt Gaetz in charge of the Department of Justice is like handing a matchbook to an arsonist and asking him to protect the forest. This is a man who’s been investigated for sex trafficking a minor, attended drug-fueled parties with underage girls and is still under House Ethics investigation for sexual misconduct.

This isn’t just a reckless choice; it’s a calculated move to dismantle the DOJ and turn it into Trump’s personal revenge squad.

Kristi Noem couldn't control her dog. How would she get the border under control?

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User1865345

02:32

> By choosing to put a TV personality with little experience running much of anything in charge of the Defense Department’s almost 3 million troops and civilian employees, Donald Trump is once again proving he cares more about his MAGA base than keeping our nation safe—and our troops, our military families and our national security will pay the price.

Our troops and our country deserve better. In this moment, my Republican colleagues must recognize the danger that confirming a wholly unqualified Secretary of Defense nominee would put our country in, stop rolling over for Donald Trump and o…

- Senator Tammy Duckworth

Will Trump end the Dept of Education?

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User1865345

03:07

World Laughs At Trump And U.S. Over Defense Nominee

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User1865345

03:43

Trump Acts Cordial With Biden While Gaetz, Gabbard, and Hegseth Score Nominations | The Daily Show

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Memor-X

The BlueAnon Problem is Getting Worse... & Today's News

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> 12:37 - Harassment Towards Women Surges on Social Media After Trump Win

User1865345

We are headed for the most corrupt presidency of our lifetime, former Republican advisor warns

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Memor-X

playing catch and normally i'd be against doxxing people....but hearing Nick Fuentes comments come from his mouth and yeh, i'm not going to condemn doxxing the incel who's only ever going to touch a woman when he commits a crime

User1865345

@Memor-X yeh. I also noticed yesterday about this. Allegedly they claim the July assassination plot was staged.

11 hours ago, by User1865345

Not that we needed our version of QAnon 😭

Memor-X

@User1865345 yeh was seeing that kind of claim too at the time

though the assassination wasn't really the reason why alot of people voted for him

User1865345

03:53

> #TrumpCheated First Trump says he doesn’t need votes, then he says he doesn’t need to campaign anymore. Next he tells us we won’t need to worry about voting again in 4 years. But today it seems he knew he was going to win prior to Election Day ... I smell garbage with icky MAGAts.

> When did the Secret Service start allowing the President under duress to tell them ‘to wait,’ then stand up to be seen by the crowd fist-pumping? Can you blame me for thinking this is fake?

There is also the The Starlink Stealing Theory:

> Raise your hand if you think Elon Musk’s Starlink was the “Little Secret” to win or steal this election. Share this everywhere. #TrumpCheated #Recount2024

@Memor-X That Nick Fuentes has still so much relevance and popularity speaks volumes of the angry incels and misogynists.

Another mini Andrew Tate.

‘Most unqualified candidate in the history of America’: Pete Hegseth nominated for Defense Secretary

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Post election, MAGA trolls have flocked in MSNBC comment section. It's really bad there.

User1865345

06:00

Onion: Oklahoma Law Requires Ten Commandments To Be Displayed In Every Womb

Justice Department Concurs With Matt Gaetz Defense That 17-Year-Olds Pretty Much Ready To Roll

User1865345

06:13

DISGUSTING: MAGA Religious Leader Charged With Sexually Abusing Children

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All ready for a gig in Trump 2.0

Daily Beast: Dick Van Dyke, 98, Says He ‘Won’t Be Around’ for More Trump

Poor guy.

User1865345

11:35

CNN: House Ethics committee was set to meet this week to vote on releasing Gaetz report

Daily Beast: Two GOP Senators Signal Their Opposition to Gaetz’s AG Bid

> Donald Trump’s prospective nomination of former Florida congressman Matt Gaetz as attorney general has seemingly already run up against two obstacles: Republican Sens. Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski.

Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia follows The Guardian in quitting Elon Musk’s X due to disinformation and ‘disturbing content’

> La Vanguardia said X had become “an echo chamber” full of “conspiracy theories and disinformation” that would not have had such an impact with “effective and reasonable moderation”.

> “Hatred of ethnic minorities, misogyny and racism” were among the viral posts “that violate human rights” but captured users’ attention and more money through advertising, the newspaper added.

La Vanguardia also denounced the growth of bots spreading disinformation, including India-based accounts commenting on Spain’s devastating October floods that have killed 223 people.

User1865345

12:03

Trump’s Reelection: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

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User1865345

12:52

Fox ran an article based on right wingers on X claiming Biden was the happiest hosting Trump indicating he voted for Trump.

Wipqozn

The Canada Revenue Agency is on a "witch hunt" to find whistleblowers who may have spoken to the media and exposed how it has been repeatedly duped into paying out millions in bogus refunds to scammers, according to sources. cbc.ca/news/canada/cra-whistleblowers-bogus-refunds-1.7381266

> Last month, an investigation by CBC's The Fifth Estate and Radio-Canada revealed the tax collector has been keeping Canadians largely in the dark about how many hundreds of millions of dollars in public funds it has wrongly paid out, as well as the extent to which taxpayers have had their CRA accounts hacked by fraudsters.

> CBC/Radio-Canada also reported that the agency wrongly authorized the release of $40 million in bogus refunds to a single bank account without verifying what turned out to be sham documents.

How the Fuck is the CRA this incompetent

User1865345

Wow.

Solution? Find the whistleblowers.

@Wipqozn they didn't even bother to vet the documents? Wow.

I remember frauds involving covid relief fund...

But this is some epic level incompetence.

David Smith's Political Sketch (Guardian) : Biden welcomes Trump for fireside chat as he prepares to watch his legacy burn

Undocumented mechanic says he won’t regret his support for Trump even if he’s deported

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Nothing to say.

Dulcé Sloan Makes a Time Capsule of American Art & Culture Before Trump Bans It All | The Daily Show

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Some 💩 posting:

Vox: Trump tapped Musk to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency.” What the heck is that?

> Despite the misleading name — executive departments can only be established by Congress — Trump simply appears to be forming a new presidential advisory commission or task force to offer guidance.

> Musk, who served as a Trump surrogate, promised to find $2 trillion that could be eliminated from the federal government’s $6.75 trillion budget. And Ramaswamy, who ran against Trump in the Republican primaries but later campaigned for him, has proposed laying off 75 percent of the federal workforce and abolishing agencies like the FBI, IRS, and the Department of Education.

> The scale of those cuts would be catastrophic. In October, Musk himself said his plan to slash the federal budget would cause economic turmoil, cause markets to crash, and “necessarily involve some temporary hardship.”

Conflict of Interest:

> Musk’s company SpaceX, for example, has more than $10 billion in government contracts, and agencies like NASA are already overly dependent on it. The federal government has also been investigating and filing lawsuits against Musk’s companies, and Musk himself has often complained about his companies facing too much government oversight. Now, Musk will be advising the next president on which agencies he should try to eliminate.

Fredy31

13:26

Feel like Nasa will get thrown into the shredder and sold wholesale to SpaceX

Also for sure they just created the department for the meme name

User1865345

This is absolute pandemonium.

Raw Story: "'It's a trainwreck': Ex-senior FBI official says Matt Gaetz is more than just unqualified

HuffPost: So Much For The ‘Candidate Of Peace’: Trump Fills Cabinet With Neoconservative Hawks

Fredy31

13:46

Well, everybody called it

Trump is surrounding himself with yes men

Hes had enough playing house with the conservatives and actually still governing

Or should I say his handlers are done faffing about and now are going for the throat

Memor-X

@User1865345 as Phillip DeFranco said, that's rich coming from someone who's rich

not to mention one could argue that people were already taking "some temporary hardship" in regards to the economy improving but it not flowing down to them this year

@Fredy31 was Space Karen's idea from the start

he was floating the name before Trump won when he was suggesting that Trump should give him a job

User1865345

14:09

Hill: Giuliani’s lawyers quit over ‘fundamental disagreement’

@Fredy31 yes men are one thing. These people are outright unfit and incompetent.

@Memor-X true. Even he knows these are all hyperbole like he always does.

Fredy31

do you think trump cares

he only wants people that when he says jump will ask how high

User1865345

Trump only cares for his rich donors.

And his legal woes. That's why he wants an ultraloyal minion in DoJ.

@Fredy31 exactly.

What?

The Onion buys conspiracy theory site Infowars in bankruptcy auction

Onion: Here’s Why I Decided To Buy ‘InfoWars’

> Founded in 1999 on the heels of the Satanic “panic” and growing steadily ever since, InfoWars has distinguished itself as an invaluable tool for brainwashing and controlling the masses. With a shrewd mix of delusional paranoia and dubious anti-aging nutrition hacks, they strive to make life both scarier and longer for everyone, a commendable goal.

> They are a true unicorn, capable of simultaneously inspiring public support for billionaires and stoking outrage at an inept federal state that can assassinate JFK but can’t even put a man on the Moon.

Through it all, InfoWars has shown an unswerving commitment to manufacturing anger and radicalizing the most vulnerable members of society—values that resonate deeply with all of us at Global Tetrahedron.

> No price would be too high for such a cornucopia of malleable assets and minds. And yet, in a stroke of good fortune, a formidable special interest group has outwitted the hapless owner of InfoWars (a forgettable man with an already-forgotten name) and forced him to sell it at a steep bargain: less than one trillion dollars.

Make no mistake: This is a coup for our company and a well-deserved victory for multinational elites the world over.

> What’s next for InfoWars remains a live issue. The excess funds initially allocated for the purchase will be reinvested into our philanthropic efforts that include business school scholarships for promising cult leaders, a charity that donates elections to at-risk third world dictators, and a new pro bono program pairing orphans with stable factory jobs at no cost to the factories.

Among the cacophony around Matt Gaetz, one should not forget about Tulsi Gabbard:

MSNBC: Trump's pick for top intel job has been accused of 'traitorous' parroting of Russian propaganda

> Trump's pick for top intel job has been accused of 'traitorous' parroting of Russian propaganda

> She gained something of a reputation in Washington DC, after defending Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, even as his military stood accused of war crimes, and criticizing US allies like Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

> Not only is she ill-prepared and unqualified, but she traffics in conspiracy theories and cozies up to dictators like Bashar-al Assad and Vladimir Putin.

- Abigail Spanberger

'A dangerous choice': Congresswoman raises alarm on Tulsi Gabbard as DNI pick

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‘Where do you think I lost my legs?’: Senator fires back at Trump's DOD pick

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Fredy31

14:34

The insane are running the asylum

Wipqozn

@Fredy31 Speaking of which, Musk is now head of some government efficiency program

Joe W

Satire slinger The Onion buys Alex Jones' Infowars at auction with help from Sandy Hook families

> Jones has been saying on his show that if his detractors bought Infowars, he would move his daily broadcasts and product sales to a new studio, websites and social media accounts that he has already set up. He also said that if his supporters won the bidding, he could stay on the Infowars platforms.

Wonder if that will open him up to being forced to pay more in damages from the courts

User1865345

As for the actual plan:

> The Onion plans to relaunch Infowars in January as a parody of itself, he said, mocking “weird internet personalities” like Mr. Jones who traffic in misinformation and health supplements.

“We thought this would be a hilarious joke,” Mr. Collins said. “This is going to be our answer to this no-guardrails world where there are no gatekeepers and everything’s kind of insane.”

@JoeW what? He won't stop his nonsense?!

@JoeW what was the judgement specifically?

That he cannot do his gig? Or just sell the Infowars?

Joe W

> (AP) - The satirical news publication The Onion won the bidding for Alex Jones' Infowars at a bankruptcy auction, backed by families of Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims whom Jones owes more than $1 billion in defamation judgments for calling the massacre a hoax, the families announced Thursday.

He just had to pay a lot of money and it is only being sold because he can't

So if he moves elsewhere they can come after his money again

User1865345

@JoeW along with Vivek

Two heads for an "efficiency" department

@JoeW i see.

His website is still going strong with bogus articles and supplement sale.

Some titles:

> Your Kids Are Already Communist, and College Will Make It Worse

> Wi-Fi Can be Used to Influence Brainwaves, Has Potential for Hypnotic Effects and Social Engineering

> DC Swamp in TOTAL PANIC After Trump Announces Matt Gaetz as AG

> Red Alert! Watch The Final Moments Of Infowars As Media Empire Officially Shut Down Via Deep State Lawfare

Daily Beast opinion: Matt Gaetz’s AG Bid Is a Slap in the Face for American Women

> The move sends a strong signal that Trump is all about revenge against his perceived enemies—and that he is willing to appoint the dumbest, meanest, most harshly partisan people in America to get his way.

> It’s not a single set of troubling legal accusations that make Gaetz such an insulting pick for women in particular. The Florida firebrand has made a series of viciously misogynist comments, insulting women who advocate for women’s rights as fat and ugly, and even directing his ire at a teenage girl (who subsequently raised $700,000 for abortion care).

> He has pushed the MAGA strategy of marginalizing female voters, arguing that it helps secure the more important votes of men (“for every Karen we lose, there’s a Julio and a Jamal ready to sign up for the MAGA movement,” he told Newsmax, using a derogatory term for middle-aged white women and two stereotyped names for Latino and Black men).

> After a leaked Supreme Court decision suggested that the court was set to overturn Roe v. Wade and women protested for abortion rights, Gaetz tweeted, “How many of the women rallying against overturning Roe are over-educated, under-loved millennials who sadly return from protests to a lonely microwave dinner with their cats, and no bumble matches?”

> In addition, Gaetz is a staunch opponent of abortion rights, cosponsoring a bill that would have banned abortion after six weeks. He has supported federal rule-changes that would allow government dollars to be redirected from clinics that provide contraception and other actual healthcare to faith-based organizations that offer Bible study.

> His appointment is certainly about Trump’s desire to install a loyalist above all else. But it’s also predictive of what’s to come: an administration that directly attacks women and our rights, and that at best simply deems women so entirely unimportant that the men who demean and detest us are handed vast power over our lives.

Top Republican Michael McCaul Busted for Being Too Drunk at Airport

User1865345

15:04

Guardian opinion Robert Reich: The Democrats must become an anti-establishment party

Guardian opinion Area Mahdawi: Line up to kiss the ring! How to join the brownnosers sucking up to Trump

Memor-X

@JoeW not that it will open him up. he still has to pay regardless

from what i remember hearing this morning from the Phillip DeFranco Show. the ruling allows the families to keep going after him for the money he owes

so he can rebuild his media presence as many times as he wants, until he has paid everything he owes to the families he's got to pay up

Unionhawk

15:36

CHAOS OVER NEW YORK | All Frequencies FAILED in Newark's Airspace!

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holy

User1865345

16:27

Guardian: Lawyer for Trump threatened New York Times over critical coverage

> The paper responded by saying it stood by its reporting, but the legal threat is a worrying sign of how Trump may deal with news outlets that run afoul of him once he takes office. While Trump frequently gives interviews to media outlets, he also routinely condemns those who write negative stories about him, as well as people who speak up against him.

Fredy31

19:06

@Wipqozn Hes the head of nothing right now. Nothing official

Hes still the captain of the 'suck trumps dick' club but officially his role in government stays there for now

Wipqozn

19:26

@Fredy31 Trump taps Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy to head ‘Dept. of Government Efficiency globalnews.ca/news/10867400/…

> The acronym “DOGE” is a nod to Musk’s favourite cryptocurrency, dogecoin. Trump said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy will work from outside the government to offer the White House “advice and guidance” and will partner with the Office of Management and Budget to “drive large scale structural reform, and create an entrepreneurial approach to Government never seen before.” He added that the move would shock government systems.

> Musk at one point suggested he could find more than $2 trillion in savings — nearly a third of total annual government spending.

I'm sure he will, because he'll just try to fire most government staff.

My god the USA is in for a rough 4 years at least.

BradC

22:30

Woman testified to House Ethics Committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was 17: Sources

> Over the summer, the House Ethics Committee subpoenaed the woman at the center of the probe -- who is now in her 20s -- and she sat for multiple days of testimony where she testified to the committee that Gaetz had sex with her when she was a minor in high school, sources close to the investigation said.

Joe W

Articles like that would do well to have her age or at least something closer to it as I think that puts his age from 30-40 when it happened. Granted in this case it doesn't really matter but it is also possible that in a different case the ages could have been much closer.

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