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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (8 children)

How long until he gets replaced and Trump releases the info to burn the bridge entirely and install an even worse person?

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (6 children)

I think it's slightly different than what you're suggesting. I'm thinking he's picking the worst people he can pick for these jobs so they get denied and his next pick, which is almost as bad, gets approved instead.

Either way, he mostly gets what he wants... and if whatever attorney general finally does get approved ends up fucking up, which they will, Trump can say, "not my fault, I nominated Gaetz."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

I think that's probably giving him too much credit. He's not really a democratic politician, he's a fascist.

My bet is that he is constructing a loyalty test to weed out opposition within the ranks. Anyone who doesn't fully give into the cult of personality gets put on a list of people he can't trust.

He doesn't really care about gaetz, but gaetz has pissed off enough people within the party to act as a good tool to test the waters of his own party.

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