Don't fall for this if it happens.

[RoeVWade]

I'm not giving Trump credit for being smart but someone advising him may be.

Gaetz may be nominated, with the expectation that if Gaetz gets tossed it might convince a lot of people that next candidate is almost a sigh of relief.

The next one will likely be the same or almost as bad! Don't let people go "whoa, that's a relief". It probably won't be.

[usonian]

1. That's called anchoring.

The anchoring effect, also known as anchor bias, is a psychological phenomenon in which people rely too heavily on the first piece of information they hear.

In other words, if you hear a certain fact or number (the “anchor”), it can strongly influence your subsequent judgments or decisions, explains Haley Hicks, a licensed clinical social worker in Dallas, TX.

https://psychcentral.com/health/the-anchoring-effect-how-it-impacts-your-everyday-life#definition

[Tickle]

2. I heard that too,!!!! NT

[Skittles]

3. sorry, no

Trump really, REALLY wants Gaetz because he knows just easy he is to manipulate - one pervert providing cover for another pervert.

[JoseBalow]

13. Someone who will do everything and anything the boss wants

Gaetz is a shameless suck-ass, perfect for the job.

[Skittles]

21. an Attorney General who does not work for America

heck, he won't even work for the greedy old pig party

HE'LL BE WORKING SOLELY FOR TRUMP.

[JoseBalow]

25. Yes, just as he's wanted all along

He's finally getting his wish. It will not end well for anyone.

[carpetbagger]

4. Trump just wants his own lawyers in charge.

His #2,#3, and #4 nominees at DOJ are all his personal lawyers. This way it doesn't look like the top 3 posts are going to them. They're just going to be acting in those roles.

[krkaufman]

5. Ethics investigation

Some have already speculated that the nomination may have just been a ploy to get the ethics investigation snuffed (aka Bill Barr’d).

[skypilot]

6. I'm not expecting...

...to think "that's a relief" about anyone he picks for anything. I'm expecting all of his picks to be horrible in one way or another.

[BOSSHOG]

9. You are right My Friend

He’s horrible, he does horrible things, he picks horrible people. You have to work hard not to see the obvious.

Phillies shall rise again!

[HUAJIAO]

20. LGM!

[rubbersole]

7. Just as long as America's #1 slimeball traitor, Bill Barr

doesn't rear his head. Calling out tsf doesn't seem like the deal breaker it once was.

[Comfortably_Numb]

8. Introducing AG Jeffrey Clark, the most ambitious environmental lawyer in the Departmentcof Justice.

And the requisite trumpy stooge.

[paulkienitz]

10. On the other hand, they also might just go ahead and push him through.

And even he wouldn't be as bad as putting a Putin agent in National Security.

[Meowmee]

11. He could be one- he has ties I read about a while back as I recall.

[Zorro]

12. Ken Paxton is waiting in the wings

if the Gaetz nomination doesn't fly.

[slightlv]

14. I expect that's the way the whole cabinet

and departments are going to be staffed... especially if T continues his tradition of "recess appointments" he can hire and fire on whim. No one ever stays very long, and every one following is worse than the one that came before. (sigh)

[BadgerKid]

15. Yes. Standard gop tactic.

[theplayer]

16. Kavanaugh

I always wondered why Democrats put up such a big fight such as with kavanaugh. WTF did they think they were going to get if they got rid of him???? His appointment was never in doubt then being the child that he is he's held a grudge against Democrats. Same goes for this appointment

[theplayer]

17. Like kavanaugh

I always wondered why Democrats put up such a big fight such as with kavanaugh. WTF did they think they were going to get if they got rid of him???? His appointment was never in doubt then being the child that he is he's held a grudge against Democrats. Same goes for this appointment

[theplayer]

18. Kavanaugh

I always wondered why Democrats put up such a big fight such as with kavanaugh. WTF did they think they were going to get if they got rid of him???? His appointment was never in doubt then being the child that he is he's held a grudge against Democrats. Same goes for this appointment

[arthritisR_US]

19. You nailed it!

[valleyrogue]

22. Trump turned off so many people who worked for him the last time,

he literally has to scrape bottom to find candidates now.

That is why his nominations are so laughably bad. That is how bankrupt his MAGA movement is.

[Kaleva]

23. As we don't have any say in the process, there's nothing for us to fall for

What impact would it have on your life if you fell for it or not?

[Prairie Gates]

24. This is like the 300th post of this theory

I'm glad you at least withheld the idea that Trump was up to some genius move, which was the gist of at least 187 of the 300 previous posts.

[poli-junkie]

26. Jeffrey Clark is a christofascist.

[live love laugh]

27. I have been thinking the same. Gaetz and RFK .... Kabuki theater.

[thebigidea]

28. Never understood the point of that phrase. Why kabuki and not just... theater? What's the difference exactly?

Both are posturing. Both are scripted. Why the need to make it specifically Japanese, I wonder?

Maybe someone else figured it out. Google. Google... ah, here we go:

https://slate.com/human-interest/2010/04/it-s-time-for-pundits-to-stop-using-the-word-kabuki.html

I don't think it's theater, anyway. He'd be perfectly happy to have Gaetz as a vicious lapdog AG. It'd show Congress who was boss and set the tone for the rest of the term. I'm sure there are 20 other dickheads that would also be a vicious lapdog and might sail through confirmation easier, but from his point of view Gaetz is an excellent, horrific choice.

Not sure what we'd be "falling for" anyway. Any choice will be fucking terrible for Democrats and humans in general. We don't get a say in it.

[live love laugh]

29. My point is that they can push through anything they want including Gaetz.

Propping him up just to knock him down is theatrical.

They can’t (appear to) win EVERYTHING.

Fascism needs an “enemy”.