"Yes.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Yes. It’s horrible. Everything is horrible. But this Gaetz nomination (along with the other two) may finally convince people that Trump really is the menace to America that Democrats and never-Trumpers have been warning he was. There may be no better person than Gaetz to convince the Republicans who hate him how poor Trump’s judgment is."

~ Marcy Wheeler

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
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Republicans Get to Chew on Matt Gaetz for Two Months and a Week - emptywheel

Sure, Matt Gaetz is the worst possible pick to be Attorney General. But there are some upsides to Trump having picked the worst possible pick, especially early enough to give Republicans two months to pick him apart.

emptywheel (www.emptywheel.net)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Let's hope. Let's hope that the chaos Trump is inducing, his attempt to break the government and expose it to ridicule — serving Putin's wildest dreams — shows many of us including some Republicans who a clown show he runs.

I have my doubts, though, that his supporters will see any of this anytime soon. I doubt, frankly, that the chaos they've willingly helped set in motion, which will immiserate them along with their "enemies," will open their eyes.

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/2

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Helping to usher in a fascist regime, as many Germans did in the Nazi period, inevitably leads to chaos, rubble, destruction — including for the very people who made the decision to help the process.

But getting people to see the folly of their very stupid, blind choices even when everything is in rubble around them: that's not easy.

I have German friends who were children during WWII.

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/3

[jjdavis@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy We can hope, but I'm skeptical anything will budge the Republicans, in significant numbers, away from their orange overlord.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

Several of them tell me that getting their parents, other elders, friends of that generation, to acknowledge that they made a colossal mistake in colluding with the Nazis was never possible. Their parents and elders could not and would not admit that they had made horrible choices even when the error of their ways was glaringly obvious in the destroyed nation all around them.

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
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[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@jjdavis Same here. See the rest of the thread in which I share my own views about this.

[acronymesis@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy We have a better chance of opening people’s eyes that likely won’t see this by stopping the flow of disinformation that has blinded them and that got us here in the first place.

[stevensanderson@mstdn.social]

@wdlindsy we also cannot forget that people just don't feel connected to democratic leadership and that this is a failure, they feel left out probably because in some shape or fashion major to the individual, they have. I'm with Bernie on this one.

[rmaloley@infosec.exchange]

@wdlindsy LOL it will not. This will be normalized. America voted for this sadly.

[greengordon@spore.social]

@wdlindsy

I'm sure it will be the same in the US. Many families and friendships will be destroyed, as they should be if one person is a horrible human.

"getting their parents, other elders, friends of that generation, to acknowledge that they made a colossal mistake in colluding with the Nazis was never possible. Their parents and elders could not and would not admit that they had made horrible choices even when the error of their ways was glaringly obvious in the destroyed nation..."

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"Trump's choice of Matt Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard for top roles signals darkness and chaos ahead. … This shows right off the bat that MAGA chaos is going to reign."

~ Greg Sargent

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
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THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent

Listen to Greg Sargent's THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent podcast with Greg Sargent on Apple Podcasts.

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[moiraeve@mastodon.world]

@wdlindsy I love Greg Sargent and he is in my RSS feed for a *daily blast*.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"All the cabinet picks and staffing announcements this week prove that the Jeremiahs among us were right in advance — and what might be left will be lament in the coming rubble."

~ Diana Butler Bass

#Trump #Gaetz #MattGaetz #chaos
/6

I'm Not Disappointed

On "both sides" and President Lincoln and Dr. King

(dianabutlerbass.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"There will be a reversal of human rights, an erosion of safety for millions of people (and, sadly, including the nations we influence around the world), the rejection of basic principles of the law, and an increasing enslavement of democracy to oligarchs and billionaires.

That’s what Christian nationalists want. That’s Project 2025."

#Trump #fascism #cruelty #chaos #WhiteChristianNationalists
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[doreen32128@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy Good analysis! Truly horrifying!

[jeffreysmith@mastdn.social]

@wdlindsy

Gaetz is certainly a chaos agent; Gabbard seems more of a russian agent. Those of us who followed the failed but noble syrian rose revolution, know that Gabbard's moral compass always points towards a dictator, either Assad or Putin.

[doreen32128@universeodon.com]

@wdlindsy @jjdavis Good thread!

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

"There is no conceivable argument from US national interests to propose Tulsi Gabbard for that most critical position. She has zero relevant experience. The only thing for which she is known is her support of Putin (and Assad). Her candidacy is, quite literally, a proposal that can only have emerged in Moscow, where she is known as a "Russian agent" or as 'our girlfriend.'"

~ Timothy Snyder

#Trump #TulsiGabbard #Putin #chaos
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The Submission Chain

The Transitive Property and Trump

(snyder.substack.com)

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@Doreen32128 @jjdavis Thanks so much. I'm glad it's worthwhile.

[wdlindsy@toad.social]

@JeffreySmith I think in choosing a Russian agent for that position, Trump is deliberately inducing chaos.