Less than 24 hours after Matt Gaetz announced he was giving up his bid to become the next attorney general, the Northwest Florida Republican made clear that he will not return to Congress in the next session beginning in January.
Less than 24 hours after Matt Gaetz announced he was giving up his bid to become the next attorney general, the Northwest Florida Republican made clear that he will not return to Congress in the next session beginning in January.
Now that it’s accepted that what is in the ethics probe is so damaging that he’s pulling a Paul Ryan…
It’s important to remember that the actual criminal case likely gathered the same information, and that Biden’s DOJ helmed by his AG decided to drop charges.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/15/politics/matt-gaetz-justice-department/index.html
And I know people think it’s mean to keep kicking a geriatric president when he’s a lame duck.
But it’s important everyone remembers how much we fucked up by running an ineffectual moderate when the opposition are literal fascists.
If we get an election in 2028, we can’t afford to do this again.
We need someone that will actually fight back. Just winning the election and not holding anyone accountable obviously doesn’t fucking work.
Trump’s campaign was big on vengeance, and the various unjust kangaroo courts that are going to spin up are going to be a nightmare.
But I’m not sure Merrick Garland’s prosecution is going to get much sympathy from the left.
I mean… he’ll really only have himself to blame. Garland was better equipped than anyone else in the country to hold Trump and his criminal cohort accountable for their literal treason, but he decided to drag his feet and avoid making waves. And for what? To avoid the appearance of the DOJ being “political”?
Well he’s about to find out exactly how political it can be.
I’m okay with it when it’s for legitimate reasons, and I think you have some legitimate ones. He did some real good on infrastructure and renewables, but he still fucked up in a lot of other ways. What’s annoying is when people say he was either infallible or the very embodiment of evil.
We should accept the good while condemning the bad, because most people are more complex and nuanced than the caricatures presented by the internet.
But to your last point, I agree that we will continue to lose to the Donald Trumps of the world if we don’t have someone willing to publicly promise to fight and hold the entire rotten establishment accountable.
Uh, what was i supposed to do? I cant exactly eliminate the dnc on my own
Hey, if you talk shit on the DNC, I got your back, if you got mine.
And I’m not saying from some right winger insane asylum talking points. I’m saying the DNC is impotent and constantly confuses a left wing agenda with middle of the road upholding the status quo.