While I was taping, it became known that Matt Gaetz withdrew.
Now it’s interesting if Tulsi Gabbard will be fine with the scrutiny that comes with her nomination.
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TBH, I’m relieved. He’s my congresscritter, I instinctively dislike him– I don’t know what he’s up to, but he gives off oily used-car-salesman vibes (not just the hair), and… I don’t think he’s the right guy for the job. I was ticked that the ballot did not offer a write-in or third-party option for his post, this year. It was one of those “I hate both of these candidates, can’t you offer me something better?” sort of deals.
(grump grump grump)
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Did… you ever vote for him?
And why did people in your district like him so very much? He’s very media savvy. What did he do for the district?
This goes well beyond oily car salesman.
Superficial tidbits:
He looks like Jack Nicholson in Batman(1989) but before the Joker puts on his clown face makeup while actually being a decade younger than Jack Nicolson was at the time.
Trivia: He’s married to the sister of the guy who came up with VR Oculus. He says Casey DeSantis taught him how to contour his face.
…Gaetz documents his undeniably Trumpian mindset: as long as he’s catching rides on Air Force One and ubiquitous in the media, he is untouchable. “Politics, they say, is show business for ugly people. The real question is who writes the scripts and produces the acts. You are governed by the theater geeks from high school, who went on to make it big booking guests on the talk shows,” Gaetz writes. “Ignore them and they’ll ignore you, and you’ll go nowhere fast. The hairdressers and makeup ladies and cameramen pick our presidents. As well they should. They are closer to the viewers and therefore the voters.”
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Yeah, because the other option was always completely batsh*t.
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…anyways I’m sure you’re happy Pam Bondi was nominated instead?
Trump seems to really like all of these Florida politicians.
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Florida is an island… well a peninsula anyway… of sanity, these days.
I don’t honestly know anything about Bondi. I hope whoever ends up in the office works out.
I’m not sure why you are so sure about my feelings here. That seems really weird, particularly when I haven’t said anything about her.
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Probably for the same reason I thought you’d have insight into what Gaetz did for your district. Light google tells me she’s very loyal to Trump without Gaetz’ gross problems.
She’s a much more experienced attorney and had had an AG position before.
She’d be much more effective in that position than Gaetz would’ve been, imho.
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Sounds good, then. My life priorities mean I’m less interested in the AG picks, than in the Dept. of Ag. picks. Shall I express my disappointment in your lack of knowledge about the people be considered for positions in the USDA?
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Stuff started coming out about his sexual shenanigans. This kind of scrutiny is not something he can survive.
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Either they didn’t do their due diligence (bad), or they thought they could ram this nomination through (they were wrong).
Looks incredibly weak either way.
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While I don’t know whether the shenanigans happened or not, it does seem like going back as far as Clarence Thomas, the dem playbook has been to accuse their target of sexual impropriety. Thomas, Cavanaugh, Gaetz, Trump, another guy today, I think Giuliani was also accused of something.
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“dem playbook has been to accuse their target of sexual impropriety.”
theory of opposites…. people are less scandalized by democrats’ sexual… improprieties than by those of republicans (who are always bleating about ‘family values’ between divorces and affairs.
And… it’s the rational default move. Politics attracts people who are attracted to power and men attracted to power tend to act that out sexually more than do regular normie men.
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@Methylethyl
Do tell. I only meant that Bondi is from Florida and who else would know about state figures than someone who lives or lived here?
I’d be very interested in not having all these recalls and outbreaks of listeria and e coli occur. Ground beef, McDonald’s onions on burgers, carrots, salmon, frozen waffles…
Although I might be thinking of the wrong part of the government.
I don’t know anything about Abel Maldonado or Ray Starling… but if they answer to RFK Jr? I dunno. I know you were excited about Massie when you mentioned Joel Salatin talking about working with him.
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I know a lot more about Massie than I do about Bondi 😉
Living in FL doesn’t make me an expert on every FL official. We haven’t had any major scandals with Bondi, so I assume she’s OK, but neither has she been a key player in any issues that I follow, the way that Massie is. He’s not a Florida guy, but he’s keen on restoring market access to small farmers, which I care a lot about.
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More would care a lot about if they’d ever set foot outside the US for long enough to realize that literally everything you can possibly eat anywhere else, including in convenience stores and from some old lady with a basket sitting on the sidewalk, is better than 99% of anything available in the US.
The only way Americans tolerate that, is because they’ve never eaten a real baguette, and they don’t realize that every street beggar in Saigon can afford one.
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Yeah, another one is chocolate. We always brought brownies for the local communal picnics. Some suspected that I had added dope. mostly because I had the beard and longer hair that provides some protection from the biting flies in the North. No, the “secret” ingredient was actually European chocolate ;-D
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…and then when you mention this in any kind of public forum, you get this freaky propaganda-conditioned response that goes: “but if we banned xyz chemicals/ended ag subsidies, food would be too expensive, there’d be shortages and everybody would starve, d’you WANT PEOPLE TO STARVE???”
…after I just finished explaining that even poor people eat better than we do, in most of the world. I want a magic deconditioning wand I can wave for this, to detach the “info” people have “learned” from their favorite propaganda sources, from the conditioned automatic responses attached to them, so I can talk to them like people instead of little computer programs.
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I’m not sure why Kelly Loeffler is being floated for Secretary of Agriculture.
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