Did the clown car take a right turn?
J.D. Vance, the vice president-elect, was pictured squiring Matt Gaetz around the Senate office building to build support for Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general. This is what you call “thankless duty.” Like hawking Bud Light at a WWE wrestling match.
We cannot confirm that the veep-elect was blinking in Morse code like that N. Korean hostage of long ago, but got to think J.D. reported back to Mar-a-Lago that the numbers weren’t adding up as fast as the sex crimes alleged against the putative attorney general. Which shows that Republican senators do have a gag reflex after all.
This dues-paying RINO understands the value of disruption. Ronald Reagan was a disrupter. Tommy Thompson was a disrupter. Steve Jobs was a disrupter. Elon Musk is a disrupter. Trump, too, but in the present case, it was the 45th and 47th President who got powder burns. Gaetz has exactly one pelt to his collection — a fellow Republican! His kamikaze mission took out Kevin McCarthy but angered all but eight of 435 House members. Even MAGA-manic Derrick Van Orden despises the guy. Some of that ill will has got to seep over into the other chamber.
The bureaucracy needs a deep colonic purge but Gaetz was stupid policy and worse politics.
Exploding synapses
• We do admit, unlike the previous two elections, Donald Trump actually ran ahead of the remainder of the ticket.
• Now? NOW? Now, Ukraine is allowed to defend itself? They get to shoot back! What if Vladimir Putin was more afraid of the West than it is of him?
• Did Badger AD Chris McIntosh order Luke Fickell to fire in-offensive coordinator Phil Longo? (H/T to The Gotch.) UW football head coach Fickell sure didn’t seem to own the decision or much accept it. McIntosh strikes us as a no-nonsense ball cutter with a quick trigger, if you remember how he fired Paul Chryst after five games just two years ago.
• Who put Trump riding shotgun in a garbage truck right before his rally in Green Bay after Joe Biden’s latest gaffe? It was Madison lobbyist Bill McCoshen, boy wonder in the TGT administration. Genius, move. Kind of imagery even MSNBC couldn’t ignore.
• “Mr. Trump, Rachel Maddow is waiting in the lobby. Do you want to see her?” Well, after Morning Joe’s pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, it could happen!
Blaska’s Bottom Line: We don’t buy the theory that Gaetz was offered as token veto bait. The Senate, at least, has reaffirmed its claim as a co-equal branch of government. The appointment was beyond stupid. Yet another unforced error. We were told chief of staff Susie Wiles had banned the clown car.
34 responses to “Matt Gaetz got gagged with a spoon”
Damn shame about Gaetz.
I’d like to see the “one call, that’s all” guy get the nod.
Pitiably pathetic Bi-Polar bares coach Matt EberFLUB should be available soon…
The Gotch
If green bayer had an end of season schedule like the Bears you would be crying like a baby. Minn.-Detroit-49ers-Minn-Detroit-Seahawks- then the gb puckers. Talk is cheap when you’re playing the goldfish and the little sisters of the holy crap.
Pitiably pathetic fans of The_Worst_Franchise_In_Football falling so far that they’re now blaming a schedule which was finalized over six (6) months ago?
Priceless!
The comically inept Bi-Polar bares lost to a one (1) win team…AT_HOME, against whom the midgets of the midway couldn’t muster more than (heh!) a field goal!
Yessirree…must be the schedule…
The Gotch
Can’t get anymore dystopian than Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy heading up something called The Department of Government Efficiency. Are they effing kidding?
Dementia Don will put Gartz in charge of guitar sales. 10 grand for a signed piece of crap with 3 strings; you are kidding me. Loks like QVC moved to Pennsylvania Ave.
Sorry Gruber the hot blonde beat you to it.
Sheesh! Bondi might be WORSE than Gaetz.
The Gotch
The next one to be kicked to the curb is Hegseth.
“Kind of imagery even MSNBC couldn’t ignore.”
More imagery MSDNC (sic) can’t ignore? Looming mass Mass Pink Slips (not the Pete ButtGiggle, Sam Brinton, or Rachel Levine type) as Comcast prepares to kick its red-ink hemorrhaging @$$ to the curb.
It gets better.
After unctuously slithering down to Mar-A-Lago to kiss (say it with me) President-Elect Donald J. Trump‘s @$$, Morning JoKe’s ratings took another terminal velocity fall, leaving their (heh!) thin-as-a-thread fate with, of all people, The Donald.
Ah Lefty; so MUCH cascading failure, so little time!
The Gotch
“The bureaucracy needs a deep colonic purge”…Today’s Wall Street Journal has a great Musk/Ramaswamy piece on the DOGE Plan. More like Roto-Rooting the swamp rather than throwing it an Ex-Lax tab.:
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/musk-and-ramaswamy-the-doge-plan-to-reform-government-supreme-court-guidance-end-executive-power-grab-fa51c020
Cheers to Trump for nominating Pam Bondi to correct his idiotic mistake in wasting his newly won political capital on Gaetz. Bondi should have been his first choice, and thank God the adults in the room, I.e. the Republican Senators, prevailed. Trump needs to be surrounded by competent people who will save him from himself, and I hope Bondi has the smarts and the guts to stand up to him when she needs to. Sheesh! We just dodged a bullet (no pun intended)!
six months and gone like the rest of his picks.
Cornpop. Joy, cornpop joy, fine people, keep up the bullcrap.
“Fickell sure didn’t seem to own the decision or much accept it.”
He was also not forthcoming, evasive, if not outright surly during the Monday morning press conference when asked who’d be calling the plays against NE:
MONEY QUOTE: “Why does it matter? The offense will be run and those guys will do a lot of things collaboratively.”
PRO TIP: You don’t antagonize those who buy ink, or these days pixels, by the barrel.
The guy The Gotch looks to for all things Bucky (Jim Polzin) appears to be losing his faith; he ain’t alone.
The Gotch
I’d like to see Fickell lose the gum. At least for press conferences and sideline interviews. Maybe he could have a designated gum wrangler on staff.
Another prolific, if short-lived, gum chewer? The 1999 Packers’ one-n-done HC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_Green_Bay_Packers_season“>Ray Rhodes.
FTR, Fickell has a buyout that makes Chryst’s ~$11 million severance look like pocket change.
The Gotch
Ah Ray Rhodes, the walking scowl.
NATO is a dead letter. Obsolete and without a mission or any reason for being. There is nothing the US can do in Europe that Europe can’t do. They have been coasting on relative prosperity for many years but cannot have enough babies to replace their native populations. They cannot man their armed services or fund an adequate defense.
Same is true for Russia.
Once our current regime of incompetents is flushed we should offer to broker a peace agreement beyween the Ukraine and Russia but thats it.
MAGA and let Europe be Europe.
expat: Mother Russia’s best and brightest have left town and taken their rubles with them. The European continent is running out of babies for cannon fodder, you say? No worries. Haven’t you heard? Everything can be done “virtually” these days. 👶
Goetz was chosen on purpose to get him out of the way. Brilliant maneuver, actually. I think we’ll see a more calculating Trump this time around. For the first time in 4 years I’m actually feeling very positive about our country.
Kooter, just asking: are you one of apparently many acolytes who believes #45 & #47 is a 3-D chess master? Is that how you explain his serial FK-ups? He’s just so light-years ahead of the rest of us that we don’t get the Big Brain bit? Trump bit hard on Gaetz as a favor to Kevin McCarthy? Is that the party line? Get Gaetz out of the way … by nominating this fraud as Attorney General of the United States? That “out of the way”? The House Ethics Committee report would have gotten him out of the way. What do you do if you find a dead skunk on the side of the road? You keep on driving. What you don’t do is nominate it to be A.G.
Shame on you Kooter! It’s all so obvious… when 51 former intelligence officers or Dr. Fauci tells you something, you better goddamn well believe it!
I for one am happy our lame duck President is sharp as a tack!
Are YOU up to date on your COVID boosters?
Our future Secretary of Health and Human Services would take that dead skunk home with him. We’ll see if RFK Jr. makes it through confirmation or withdraws.
The clown car rolls along. Can’t wait to see Sean Duffy lead Transportation. 🤡 🤡
“Can’t wait to see Sean Duffy lead Transportation.”
Is as qualified as Pete ButtGiggle, whose experience was limited to playing with Tonka Trucks while taking it in the caboose?
If not, he can just strap on a pair of milk-filled rubber knockers and make like a wet nurse while a horrendous supply chain debacle grinds world-wide commerce to a halt.
Not enough? He could then single-handedly eliminate RAYcist roadways while allowing East Palestine to burn to the ground…a tragedy well deserved for being so White…
The Gotch
are you gay-bashing again crotch?
Calm down Dave or you’ll have a TDS-inspired-hypertensive event and blow a seal. Trump did manage to get elected a second (3rd?) time despite the stacked odds. He’s a bit more calculated than the drooling idiot you seem to think he is. Perfect?- of course not with lots of flaws. Stupid? Hardly.
Agree Dave. I find it funny that all these guys are defending Gaetz. Apparently, there’s nothing wrong with a member of Congress banging a minor on a foosball table while high on coke but they are all in a moral tizzy over where a transgender Congresswoman takes a leak. Beat on the bible boys, just don’t break a nail.
You mean like Clinton?
I said Gaetz! Stop the deflection and stay on topic. GOD ALMIGHTY!!! (caps are mine) BINGO
When you’ve got LieSack agreeing with you. “Full reverse Scotty! Warp factor five.”
“When you’ve got ******* agreeing with you. ‘Full reverse Scotty! Warp factor five.’ ”
Bravo Indigo November Golf Oscar (bold/caps/italics mine), am I right…
The Gotch
So you are saying this is all some grand plan put together by a “very stable genius” and future QVC star tRump? Could it be that Gaetz got a way to kill the investigation before all the other names got out? My advice to Gaetz; stay away from windows and tall buildings.
And maybe 47 and his AG will declassify the files on JFK, Jeffery Epstein and a lot more to make our government more transparent.