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Explain to me like I'm retarded how Gaetz will be confirmed. All Democrats will vote no obviously (47*) and Murkowski & Collins will vote no. That leaves a two(*) seat buffer, Gaetz has made a lot of enemies, and I easily could see McConnell and Cornyn voting no to stop him.

*Assuming some serious bullshit doesn't happen in Pennsylvania and Casey somehow wins
 
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Luigi Cadorna said:
Explain to me like I'm retarded how Gaetz will be confirmed. All Democrats will vote no obviously (47*) and Murkowski & Collins will vote no. That leaves a two(*) seat buffer, Gaetz has made a lot of enemies, and I easily could see McConnell and Cornyn voting no to stop him.

*Assuming some serious bullshit doesn't happen in Pennsylvania and Casey somehow wins
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They can be confirmed when the Senate is at recess. The president can call that and force them through.
 
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Coo Coo Bird said:
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This lead to cancel culture as we know it, with people getting fired from their jobs and corporations threatening to pull out of conservative states:
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Prop 8 was so weird. Most gay people (outside of CA) were nonplussed about it, because the marriage bans going on nationwide were a naked GOTV effort to get the most weirdo religious people out of their house and to a polling station for that critical 0.05% point boost (and it worked, in the 2004 election where it was deployed). Gay people (such as myself) were mostly not interested in it because the real issue was lack of Title 7 protection (CRA1964), aka "we can fire you because we found out you are gay, we can deny you credit and access to housing too". Which is a real kick in the face because citizen gays can be blocked from basic things needed to be a productive adult while non-gay illegal aliens get protections.

But the gay activists only ever wanted to talk about was gay marriage. And I found out later that was mainly because LAMBDA Legal wanted to do that strategy because they could then do it through lawfare and not any traditional grassroots 50 state strategy and staying politically neutral. As the gay marriage debate got louder I got more and more turned off by it because not a single faggot wanted to talk about getting fired from their job for being gay.

Because most of those faggots were in cities that already passed local protections. Fuck faggots in Kansas.


Right after Prop 8 happened, that's when the traditional politically-neutral gay activist turned into a blatant "Vote Blue No Matter Who" ideologue, and everything was unhealthy obsession to attacking anything that had an R after its name, regardless if they were neutral or ambivalent about gay rights. Everyone is Satan except the pre-screened people on our team. Even stranger: gay rights itself took a backseat to just getting Democrats installed in everything everywhere.

Is the Democrat under an FBI probe right now for kickbacks? Don't care. If we don't vote for the crook, the Republicans will execute us. I stopped being a Democrat a few years before this point, but that's how bad it was inside LGBT Democrat discourse back in 2010.

When Obergefell happened, THAT was the state all gay activism was in at the time. So when the trannies took over everything and all the gay orgs pivoted to troon shit, they just continued with that same mindset.

Gay rights activists suffered a huge defeat and slap in the face with the whole Chick-Fil-A boycott failure. What did they do? Pretend like they won.


The only changes that have happened since then is that they added the mental illness screaming if they don't get 100% of what they want. And dropping "fascist" and "nazi" into every sentence.
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
He doesn't need to nuke his ethics probe. It's fake and gay. He's been nominated in front of millions of people. It's happening brother. And using powers buried in the articles, he will become AG weather or not Trump has to ram rod his cabinet picks through and make the Senate kneel
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Trump can certainly force the US Senate into a recess and install any stalled nominees to their posts.

But, they become recess appointments. I'm not sure from this point what the politics would look like for Democrats wanting to close down business and start a new session (which then causes every RA to lose their post unless confirmed).
 
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WelperHelper99 said:
They can be confirmed when the Senate is at recess. The president can call that and force them through.
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More complicated than that. The Senate would have to allow themselves to be in recess, which again the usual suspects starting with Thune can block, just like Mitch did at the end of Trump's first term to try and fuck him. They did the same shit with Obama back in the day and he just said fuck it I'll declare you are in recess whether you do or not and appoint my people. SCOTUS cucked him 9-0 on that.

There some twitter bigbrained idea about some kind of novel scheme involving the house that could force the senate in recess. But I've never heard of it, have no idea if it is legal, and even if it is, it's new and theoretical which means the dems will have no problem getting Hawaii judge to enjoin it and as a result it'll be tied up in court for years until SCOTUS can make their final ruling.

Truth is unless Thune is willing to allow recess appointments, gaetz, gabbard, and hegseth will probably not be confirmed in an up or down vote. In fact now that I think about it wouldn't they actually need 60 votes escape a democrat filibuster? No fucking chance.

Only possible options:
1: GOP nukes the filibuster for cabinet nominees and rams them home with a 1 or 2 vote margin. Unlikely. Too many spineless Republicans that will take the shot to fuck Trump and earn an asspart article in the NYT.
2: Thune allows the Senate to recess so Trump can sneak them in that way until '26. Not likely Thune is a Mitch boy and as far as the uniparty GOP wing is concerned recess is no different than consent. Their whole purpose is block Trump and run out the clock on his presidency to things can go back to business as usual, not find workarounds that enable him.
3. Trump just shoves them in there as acting heads with limited powers (that he may well find workarounds to ignore via executive orders and what not) and just leaves the agencies with no official heads for 4 years as a fuck you to the RINOs and goes about his business.

Of those 1 is no shot in hell. 2 is possible but 60/40 against. 3 is almost certainly the play they end up going with.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Japanese news media is still noticing Trump.

トランプが《性格反対》の石破に心を開く「たった一つの可能性」…！ゴルフよりも重要視されている「2人の意外な共通点」（現代ビジネス） - Yahoo!ニュース

Google Translate: "The only possibility that Trump will open up to Ishiba, who has an opposing personality...! The surprising commonality between the two is more important than golf (Gendai Business) - Yahoo!News"
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I know that Trump was close with Abe but what is the general attitude towards Trump in Japan?
 
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