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Score One for The Swamp:



UNLESS this was Trump's 4D chess move all along. We'll see who he picks next.

For now, the UniParty gets what it wanted. Gaetz is out of DC.

...and a clear message has been sent to any other MAGA rebels thinking of being Gaetz-wannabes.

"They" probably got to his family.

This is a fight that only those willing to potentially die in the attempt will commit to. Trump is entering his final years - he's OK with that. Musk is from South Africa, so maybe he knows about proper security. RFK Jr might be the most untouchable, considering "they" killed his uncle, his father, MLK, etc. I don't know about Vivek, but Tulsi might be willing to lay down her life for her country (she has no kids and is ex-military).

Ultimately, Team Trump will either succeed (by legally trying and executing the traitors to our country) or die by the traitors' hands.

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Sonny Hostin forced to give legal notice about Matt Gaetz on The View:

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/walking-backwards-thursday-november

The Times of India ran another back-walking story yesterday, headlined “Matt Gaetz: Sunny Hostin reads Matt Gaetz's legal note on 'The View' amid allegations.” This might set the record for the fastest walkback ever. Monday’s far-left The View included a short segment where Sonny Hostin ranted about Trump’s nomination of Florida Representative Matt Gaetz for Attorney General. Hostin exclaimed in outrage, “how could you nominate someone who had sex with a 17-year-old … (and) once he found out she was 17, he stopped having sex with her??”

A three-minute commercial break followed. Then, the very next heartwarming segment began with Whoopi Goldberg, who started the fun off by cheerily saying, “Sonny! You have a legal note.” Sonny Hostin, with the blood drained so far out of her face she almost changed races, and with the voice of a grown woman forced to utter something so appalling that she wished she had the courage to quit instead, answered, “I do have a legal note, thank you Whoopi,” in a tone that was clearly anything but thankful.

Just look at that face. That face is the reverse-opposite of “Sunny.”

A lot must have happened over that short three-minute commercial break. Someone explained to the View’s harridans they crossed the actionable-defamation line; they discussed handling the ‘legal note’ in the next segment; somebody rapidly drafted a statement for Hostin to read; and Hostin herself, fuming, must have practiced at least once.

To say ABC’s lawyers are on a hair-trigger is a bit of an understatement. Another way to view what happened is the View ladies are now on a very short leash, a leash against which Sonny Hostin is obviously straining, but a leash that quickly brought her to heel.

Between Butler County’s law-defying Commission Chair, and not-so-Sonny on the View, that makes two high-profile leftie walkbacks in one week. What may we thank for this irresistable pressure against loony leftwing chatter? I humbly suggest to you the answer is: us, the people, exercising our free speech on Twitter.

Thanks to the First Amendment and Twitter’s disintermediation of mainstream news, the cycle time from babble to walkback is now measured in minutes. Or, maybe I’ve missed something. What do you think explains this wonderful development?

https://patrick.net/post/1382668/2024-11-21-because-they-caved-on-geatz

In the dunking booth to flush out the enemy RINOs and Congress critters into the open? Then: Gaetz to Rubio's Senate seat? Was it always repositioning the pieces on the board?

Ceffer says

In the dunking booth to flush out the enemy RINOs and Congress critters into the open? Then: Gaetz to Rubio's Senate seat? Was it always repositioning the pieces on the board?

Could be!

Patrick says

Ahhhh. Good point.

Instant Senator promotion?



https://rumble.com/v5ked1h-trump-and-matt-gaetz-little-secret-to-take-senate-and-house-.html

DOGEWontAmountToShit says

Patrick says

Ahhhh. Good point.

They did the classic which way is the wind blowing toss of grass in the air when golfing. He forgoes 2 months of pay and a new strategy is formed. Either way I like Trump picking younger people even if it doesn't work out. There's definitely some strategy going on.

The asshole RINO senators need to go, a pox on them.
Susan Collins looks like a monkey; Mitch McConnell like an old turkey; Murkowski I don't have an animal for and Curtis I don't know.
Please, please, let McConnell have another stroke, but this time a massive one.

clambo says

The asshole RINO senators need to go, a pox on them.
Susan Collins looks like a monkey; Mitch McConnell like an old turkey; Murkowski I don't have an animal for and Curtis I don't know.
Please, please, let McConnell have another stroke, but this time a massive one.

Nothing you can do if you're not in that state unfortunately. They need to vote them out. I don't understand why republicans always shoot themselves in the foot.

Democrats look in way worse shape the next 4 years. But i don't understand why the R's cannot unite. I don't think I'd be friends with Gaetz, he seems like a prick. But that's what you need as an AG. Also I get SCOTUS nominations, but cabinet members? Feel like this is a flaw in the constitution. Does POTUS get to approve congress staff? No. Trump is the Executive, he should get who he wants to work for him in his branch.

https://ground.news/article/gaetz-says-hes-not-rejoining-congress-next-year_305cdc

Matt Gaetz says he’s not rejoining Congress next year

OK, something is going on that we're not being told about, as usual.

Patrick says

https://ground.news/article/gaetz-says-hes-not-rejoining-congress-next-year_305cdc

Matt Gaetz says he’s not rejoining Congress next year

OK, something is going on that we're not being told about, as usual.

It's the pedo shit. I guess Trump looked into whatever surfaced during the House investigation and decided he doesn't want to be anywhere near that.

Gaetz has balls, but that comes with a cost to his politic allies. His dark side is bad and it shows around his eyes. He has the same rash / redness like other people with dark sides.

Gaetz is awesome, he'll be back.

RWSGFY says

It's the pedo shit.

I don't think so, because Biden's comically corrupt DOJ would certainly prosecute Gaetz if they had even a remote chance of winning a case against him.

https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/somethings-happening-friday-november

Second of all, an odd discussion arose yesterday: maybe Gaetz never actually quit. Gaetz’s resignation letter did effect his immediate resignation from the current 118th Congress. But Gaetz was also just elected to the 119th Congress. Folks are focusing on his letter, in which Gaetz stated, “I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress.” Yesterday, commenters wondered whether Gaetz’s lack of intention to take the oath is binding. Could he yet change his intention? Could Matt just show up, and take the oath anyway?

In other words, saying one doesn’t intend to do something is not quite as definitive as saying one will not do something. In fact, behind the words “I don’t intend” lies a parenthetical “(but I just might).” I would never accept, for example, a contract saying the other party intended to pay my client for their business. You never know what might happen.

Finally, you can’t talk about his withdrawal without mentioning all the salacious sex allegations about Matt Gaetz and his alleged just-underage girlfriend. So I looked into it. The full story is literally unbelievable. I’ve seen enough to convince me it happened, and I already knew the intelligence and law enforcement agencies were out of control, but I’m still not sure I can believe it has gotten this bad.

Matt’s story involves at least four U.S. intelligence and law enforcement agencies, a covert American spy who the Iranians allegedly ‘disappeared’, an illegal, off-book, decade-long intelligence community plan to rescue the disappeared spy, and a blackmail scheme by the intelligence agencies fabricated against Matt Gaetz and his wealthy family to raise off-budget to fund the rescue or pay the ransom.

Try to comprehend this unreal Daily Mail headline from 2021:

Former Air Force intelligence officer accused of trying to extort Matt Gaetz
breaks silence to admit he DID ask congressman's father for $25M - but
says it was to rescue American hostage Robert Levinson in Iran.
Bob Kent sought to clear his name in a bizarre interview with CNN's Chris Cuomo
on Monday night
He explained that he approached Matt Gaetz's father Don last month seeking
$25 million to finance a plot to rescue American hostage Robert Levinson in Iran
Kent said that he thought involving Gaetz in the rescue mission would create
'good will' for the congressman as he faced 'legal issues'
In messages released by Gaetz last week, Kent said he had information about a
Justice Department probe into sex trafficking allegations
Kent insisted that it was not his intention to extort the Gaetz family
He said he told Don 'if he decides not to help us, he'll never hear from me again'
PUBLISHED: 23:43 EST, 5 April 2021

That’s only the tip of the sordid, weaponized, corrupt iceberg. For a more complete picture (leaving off a lot that nobody knows for sure), read this thread by @Villgecrazylady on Twitter/X. No wonder Gaetz never bothers explaining what happened; where would he start? And nobody would believe it anyway.

And it’s no wonder Gaetz, who refuses to take lobbyist money, hates the Justice Department and the intelligence agencies. Maybe the most convincing fact of Gaetz’s innocence is that, even though they tried hard to screw him to the wall, they failed.

Patrick says

RWSGFY says

It's the pedo shit.

I don't think so, because Biden's comically corrupt DOJ would certainly prosecute Gaetz if they had even a remote chance of winning a case against him.

Unless the Dems are terrified of setting a precedence of going after a congressman for pedo crime. For a while, it seemed the Dems were trying to normalize pedo before they themselves were exposed.

Thats SENATOR Gaetz to you, the scourge of the Ghost of McConnell.