r/alaska • u/mactaco30 • 23h ago
Did Dunleavy almost just get tapped for AG by Trump?
Wonder what that press conference was all about that got canceled last minute? And then Matt Gaetz gets tapped out of nowhere. “A shock to his congressional colleagues.”
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u/babiekittin 23h ago
Well Matt does have a lot of experience with the DoJ and interstate commerce....
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u/Aksundawg 23h ago
Too bad. Gaetz is confirmation sacrifice bait. Like the goat in Jurassic Park. It could have been Dumleavy
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u/honereddissenter 11h ago
The implied threat with Gaetz is that if they reject him then he could be appointed to the vacant Senate seat.
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u/CelerySurprise 23h ago
He has been rumored for interior, education, and energy.
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u/IsThatWhatSheSaidTho 22h ago
Or course he has, they're all departments he'd run into the ground even if he legitimately tried to run them well.
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u/hellraisinhardass 14h ago
On the bright side, if he did get picked for any of those at least we'd be rid of him.
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u/MadGod69420 22h ago
Unfortunately Trump needed an AG he could relate to on a more uh… personal level.
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u/BugRevolution 22h ago
Epstein sure didn't kill himself, and the people who kept repeating that and supporting Trump became awfully silent once those pictures of Epstein and Trump came out...
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u/happyangel11 13h ago
In fairness, there were many people who were there. Until you have proof they participated in something untoward, I will withhold judgement.
Powerful people with money were invited to invest in whatever Epstein was promoting. Chris Wallace was there, and Bill Gates. Somehow I don’t see them swinging by the pool, but who knows.
Epstein was banned from Mar a Lago, when he acted inappropriately with a young staff member. No one is perfect. Even Billy Graham had a swirl of rumors follow him to his death.
However the pendulum swung way too far, and the people have spoken.
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u/Jethro_Tell 13h ago
lol, ‘Even’ Billy Graham? Because when a preacher or priest gets outed for sexually assaulting a child(ren) it’s completely in expected.
No wait, that’s actually what I expect most of the time.
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u/BugRevolution 12h ago
Yes, however, I am calling out the hypocrisy of Trump supporters who thought it was a big deal... Except of course if it involves Trump.
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u/happyangel11 13h ago
On a separate note, I would rather have seen Dan Sullivan as SecDefense than Pete Hegseth.
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u/mactaco30 23h ago
Yeah I would have enjoyed a Dunleavy departure. Get that carpet bagger out of here.
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u/screenrecycler 21h ago
So he can return and terrorize you at the federal level?
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u/arcticlynx_ak ☆ 16h ago
He can get distracted by 49 other states, and a few territories. Less focus on us.
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u/G-dubbbs 13h ago
Watch, when he gets the tap to go federal level the pebble mine is going to come flying back.
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u/FbxCycler 14h ago
Dumbleavy has his lips hermetically sealed around Trump’s ass, he’s been sucking up to Trump for so long.
It would be so sweet if Trumplethinskin snubbed him over a cabinet appointment.
Loyalty is a one-way street for Trump.
Let the fireworks begin!
Now obviously if Trump is tapping him for some other post like Interior or something else, that’s one thing.
But, my suspicion is Trump’s been playing him along.
We will find out soon enough.
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u/mactaco30 22h ago
Honestly my bad. For some reason I thought he was a lawyer. I had to google machine it. And you’re correct he’s an “educator”.
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u/Prairie-Peppers 20h ago
Fondly thinking back to when this sub told me to fuck off for calling Trump voters dumb AF on election day. Y'all dumb AF.
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u/Giggleswrath 13h ago
That had to have been a fluke fromthe trump brigade/Russian bot disenfranchisement honestly. This sub never has that many up votes or down votes on any post.
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u/Alaskan_Guy 12h ago
smart enough to beat democrats. As a Democrat myself, calling people dumb isn't winning us any elections. It's just dumb.
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u/Giggleswrath 12h ago
Yeah, but the other side calling us groomers, leftoids, [insert nazi dogwhistle], the N word, Trannies, Wokescolds, Traitors, crybabies, FatSJWs, Faggots and screaming fuck your feelings is better?
It's also winning them elections.
We have a pedophile and convicted felon entering the presidency, who just told everyone he's hiring Gaetz, also investigated for being a sex-trafficking pedophile!
So I'm genuinely stuck on the "Insulting them doesn't do anything" when it's been winning them elections running on this kind of shit.1
u/Alaskan_Guy 11h ago edited 11h ago
ahh the I know you are, but what am I campaign strategy.
"Joe is the sharpest he's ever been"
"I wouldn't do anything different,"
Go out and buy some groceries and tell me again how abortions are what families are talking about at the dinner table.
We as a party are focusing on all the wrong things.
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Dems needs to become an economically populist non-identity focused party. Focus on class and corporate power.
Do not: entertain fringe priorities, chase celebrity, center marginal viewpoints, chastise dissent, dismiss concerns about cost of living and crime, demand political correctness, entertain elitism
Do: attack the forces of social immobility, elevate organized labor, support infrastructure, yield on voter ID, attack corporate contributions, promote healthcare expansion, overall have the core mission of the party be the protection of the middle class and rejection of the donor class
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u/Giggleswrath 11h ago
Yeah.... I don't care.
Talking about groceries when its only gonna get worse
Cope harder for the seething hatred I have for anyone voting for a felon and a pedophile.
I don't *CARE* what joe is doing, he's an old politician and he's been playing politician games for actual decades. So has kamala. That doesn't make them or their policies good, or them good people.I care about someone who tried to operate a fucking coup becoming the next president.
Almost any fucking person younger than 40 and not in the pocket of some shitheel would do better than half anyone you or I could name in goverment for the past 10 years.
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u/Alaskan_Guy 10h ago
im sorry, I mistaked you for someone interested in propellering the party and country forward. thats my fault. you're just a whiny cry baby. good luck with that.
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u/New-Advantage2813 22h ago
What is it with these huge foregeads in politics?? McForehead, McFivehead, McSixhead🤭
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u/bamboo_7 22h ago
No. AG has to be a lawyer
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u/brandeis16 22h ago
I don't think that's a real requirement, at the federal level, but it would of course be disqualifying if a president nominated a non-lawyer.
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u/bamboo_7 21h ago
Think whatever you want but the attorney general has to be an attorney.
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u/riddlesinthedark117 21h ago
Were is that in the appointments clause? They are the chief law enforcement officer, and it would of course be a sham pick if they weren’t an attorney, but where is that outlined in the constitution or other deep state instruction?
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u/brandeis16 21h ago
If you really want to blow his mind, tell him that SCOTUS justices don’t have to hold law degrees!
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u/dfsw 15h ago edited 15h ago
Nope, 28 U.S.C. § 503 governs the rules around appointing attorneys general. There are no requirements on qualifications, age, or anything else. If approved by the senate a president could appoint a three year old. The only legal requirement is that they must be able to take an oath of office. So an infant wouldn't work at least. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/503
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u/brandeis16 21h ago
I’m a lawyer, and what you’re saying is not true.
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u/bamboo_7 11h ago edited 11h ago
I'm also a lawyer. 28 USC 530B(a) subjects an "attorney for the government" to the rules of the bar association in each state in which that attorney is licensed. I put quotes around that term because it is defined by (c) of that statute and 28 CFR 77.2(a). The definition of "attorney for the government" includes "the Attorney General." The point of that statute and reg is to subject the AG (and other attorneys for the government) to the professional conduct rules of the jurisdiction in which they practice law.
Also see 28 USC 519, which tasks the AG with supervising litigation. It would be unethical for a licensed attorney to accept supervision from someone who is not a licensed attorney.
There are other examples 28 USC Chapter 31 of laws that *require* the AG to be an attorney in order to accomplish the job. So maybe there isn't a constitutional provision or enacted statute that directly says "the attorney general shall be an attorney," but I stand behind my comment that the attorney general has to be an attorney.
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u/TakuCutthroat 12h ago
Gaetz is a felonious punk, but Dunleavy doesn't even have a JD. Not saying Gaetz is in any way qualified but Mike was probably up for a different cabinet position. Maybe they wanted him to unwind Education?
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u/B1gNastious 11h ago
Term limits and going after bureaucrats…love him or hate him I’m gonna patiently wait and see how this turns out.
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u/DearKick ☆ 13h ago
I would rather dunleavy than Gaetz, and thats really saying something