Resistance HQ Bulletin 10, 11/21/24

… Pathetic loser Matt Gaetz drops out of his bid to become AG, one week after resigning his seat in the House. Gaetz claimed he was doing it because he was “becoming a distraction.” I still want to see that Ethics report.

… This comes right after a Trump advisor told ABC that any Republican Senator who votes against Gaetz because they think he’s unqualified and unfit is “buying yourself a primary. That is all. And there’s a guy named Elon Musk who is going to finance it.” Threats, intimidation, fear - the MAGA brand. Didn’t work this time as Gaetz flamed out after two weeks.

… Gaetz also dropped out minutes before CNN was about to break a new story about a second 17 year old he allegedly paid for sex.

… Gaetz also announced later tonight that he will not seek to get his seat back and his resignation from Congress is permanent. He may be looking at the FL Governor’s race in 2026. Or maybe he just wants to spend more time with his estranged adopted son Nestor.

… Republican House Ethics Chair Michael Guest hopes he’s off the hook: “I think that this should end the discussion of whether or not the ethics committee should continue to move forward in this matter.” They still need to release the report. I’m still not ready to move on.

… Trump wasted no time in naming Gaetz’s replacement - FL AG Pam Bondi. She will get confirmed. She’s a full-MAGA Trump cultist with some shady stuff in her history and will be exceptionally annoying at times. But she isn’t as bad as Gaetz. If we are grading on a curve, she’s probably the least awful of the most awful Trump nominees.

… While Trump was announcing Bondi, Texas’s repulsive AG Ken Paxton was on Steve Bannon’s show lobbying for the gig. Steve was pitching his guy Paxton for the job and Trump showed once again that he no longer listens to anything Bannon has to say.

… It was delicious listening to Paxton grovel and beg for the job all while knowing that Trump was announcing Bondi at the same time. It’s rare for me when listening to Bannon’s show is actually fun. This was one of those times.

… Dems really need to focus all their energy on Hegseth, Gabbard, and RFK Jr. You got to pick your battles here somewhat even though Trump is naming one crazy after another. You aren’t going to defeat all of them, but knocking out Gaetz and at least 2 of these 3 would be good considering it is a Republican majority now in the Senate.

… Although all 3 really should be voted down. Damn!

… Trump has still not appointed a single Black person to any position in his Administration. Something lower down the food chain is coming for Ben Carson any day now I know it.

… Trump’s primary Black MAGA surrogate during the campaign, Rep. Byron Donalds, was asked if he was surprised that he hadn’t been appointed to something yet: “All I will say is I am not surprised that I have not been named, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to do other things in the future.”

… Nobody worked harder on the campaign trail for Trump than Donalds. Donalds needed to be everyone to vouch for Trump that he wasn’t a racist. But he’s on the outside looking in right now. Thanks for the help.

… Some in MAGA world already floating Gaetz’s name as someone Desantis could appoint to Marco Rubio’s seat in the Senate. No way Desantis does that. He’s no great fan of Gaetz. Plus he would instantly create a co-equal rival for political supremacy in FL. That’s not how Desantis rolls.

… Florida also has agreed to settle a lawsuit for $725,000 brought by businesses who challenged his unconstitutional “Stop Woke Act.” He continues to cost FL taxpayers countless millions fighting his culture wars.

… Nancy Mace has decided to make testicle inspections her new crusade, despite the fact that Mike Johnson has already resolved the issue in the Capitol. She wants to ban trans people from bathrooms nationwide everywhere, so the 242 tweets she posted in the first 36 hours since this started was apparently just a sneak preview of coming unattractions.

… She is calling her new cause, “No Balls in Our Stalls.” For real.

… The 2017 sex assault police report was released on Pete Hegseth, and it doesn’t paint a pretty picture. The report cites multiple witnesses who said the married christian was groping multiple women at a conference while drunk, before taking a married woman to his room and allegedly assaulting her. “I remember saying ‘No’ a lot” she told police. A nurse at the hospital reported the incident to police after a rape kit was performed.

…. Hegseth paid for her silence with an NDA. It’s disclosed now though.

… Reports are that Trump is furious that Hegseth never told them about this incident prior to his nomination and lied to them about paying for an NDA with any accusers.

… ProPublica is reporting that the state of Georgia dismissed every member of a state committee that is supposed to investigate deaths of pregnant women while they were investigating the deaths of two women who may have died because of that state’s abortion ban. The state apparently disagreed with the conclusions of some on the committee that the abortion ban caused or contributed to the cause of their deaths.

… CNN has unearthed a previous video where RFK Jr compared Trump to Hitler, but then said the comparison probably wasn’t fair because Hitler actually cared about policy. In the clip, he went on to call Trump supporters “belligerent idiots,” “outright Nazis,” and “bootlickers.”

… This was RFK Jr’s exact quote about Trump: “You know, he’s not like Hitler. Hitler had a plan. Hitler was interested in policy.”

… So Trump’s VP said he was “America’s Hitler” and his HHS Secretary nominee said he is except Hitler was a little more competent. Lovely.

… RFK Jr now says that he no longer thinks those things and blamed the media for creating a distorted picture in his mind of Trump with biased coverage. Right. He was trashing Trump right up until the time Trump called him to persuade him to drop out in exchange for a Cabinet appointment.

… Lots of people posting clips, tweets and bills Nancy Mace posted and introduced supporting transgender rights in 2021. Mace’s won a 50-50 district running as a moderate in 2020. Then Trump endorsed a primary challenger against her, called her a “grandstanding fraud,” she begged forgiveness, started kissing the ring, her district got redrawn to get more MAGA, and now she has transformed herself into the repulsive person she is today.

… That’s basically the evolution of MAGA Mean Girl Nancy. Leaving out of few details. Like her entire staff quitting while complaining she talked about her sex life constantly, the messy lawsuit over her breakup with her finance, talking about her boyfriend wanting sex that morning while she was the keynote speaker at a prayer breakfast, I could go on and on.

… The former babysitter for RFK Jr’s children broke her silence by speaking to USA Today about the times he groped her legs under the dinner table and her breast in the kitchen of his home. Often while his wife and kids were home. It seems to be a