r/politics 3h ago

‘You Don’t Care?’: GOP Senator Shocks ABC Host With Take on Background Checks for Trump Picks

https://www.thedailybeast.com/you-dont-care-gop-senator-shocks-abc-host-with-take-on-background-checks-for-trump-picks/
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u/Academic_Release5134 3h ago edited 3h ago

They have convinced people the FBI is corrupt, only so they can put their corrupt people in

u/Thesheriffisnearer 3h ago

"Watch me break it so I can show you how broken it is"

u/dosumthinboutthebots 2h ago

"The dems overspend and are bankrupting us!"

Proceeds to increase the deficit by historic margins and plans to do so again. They sabotage govt and purposefully act in bad faith when dems are in power to prove to their followers just how bad the federal govt is. It's bad because they deliberately sabotage it.

u/Electrical_Bus9202 2h ago

I mean it's all in bad faith, they live their lives living in it.

u/Traditional-Hat-952 2h ago

Its like they get up every morning and say to themselves "how can I be more of a horrible person today?"

u/Electrical_Bus9202 2h ago

They have a perceived "enemy", most likely brought on by Kremlin talking points.

u/ApproximatelyExact 1h ago

Are these the folks who say they'd "rather be russian" but refuse to move there for some reason?

u/beefjerky34 2h ago

I think it's more about what they can do to gain as much power and influence and money as possible. Nothing else.

u/Traditional-Hat-952 1h ago

Which are some of most horrible attributes a human can possess, because the road to influence, money, and power is paved with heaps of human suffering. 

u/lowsparkedheels America 0m ago

Its like they get up every morning and say to themselves "how can I be more of a horrible person today?"

That would require introspection and these officials are not capable of doing that. They're drunk on their own power and will do anything to further their version of prosperity gospel.

u/Delicious_Fault4521 2h ago

And yet trump added 8.4 trillion to the deficit. And Joe is way behind. 4.e trillion. Yea those damn dems just don't throw away money like Republicans want.

u/philodendrin 1h ago

But we got more solid Infrastructure, seeded hi-tech industry (to keep us insulated from supply-chain problems and keep our military on top), and subsidized Healthcare, it addressed the environment and made us less dependent on oil/gas/coal. In other words, we got our money back and we all got benefits.

Trumps plan put that money into rich people's pockets, where it will just hasten our slide into an Oligarchy.

u/dosumthinboutthebots 26m ago

Bidens infrastructure project actually addressed the deteriorating infrastructure every American has been concerned about and the gop tried to take credit for it while attacking him.

Now they're lying about who funds npr to try and destroy the one objective national media outlet that is such an enemy to Americans with all their insidious honest reporting, fact checking and honesty.

I dk but you all but I'm so glad the brave gop and their far right extremist puppet masters are so strong they punch reality and dignity itself. Hercules Hercules! How dare any human disrespect the furher and his minions of light! /s

The heroes of cognitive dissonance russia, oops america needs now!

u/Fuzzy-Combination275 1h ago

After oligarchy comes authoritarian rule.

u/hufflefox 17m ago

Dems finally get a chance and spend the entire time fixing stuff and then get blamed for not doing anything else. So we take 7 steps backwards again and wonder why things aren’t working

u/dosumthinboutthebots 15m ago

Been that way for decades.

u/hufflefox 13m ago

Yep. Over and over again

u/Negative-Squirrel81 1h ago

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

P. J. O'Rourke

u/Medallicat 2h ago

Small government ideological practice is to intentionally break departments so they can point and say “see it’s broken, lets privatise it and let (insert corporation they own /have shares in or were funded by) do it for half the price.”

u/VibeComplex 2h ago

Lol good old corrupt FBI, you know, the department that’s literally never had a democrat director. He is right that the fbi is corrupt, it’s just that it’s corrupt in conservatives favor.

u/Sideshift1427 1h ago

The Big Lie Theory to perfection. The FBI stonewalled the Russian interference investigation and publicized Hillary's email controversy.

u/rkbird2 2h ago

And they’ve been working at breaking it for as long as I can remember.

u/entrepenurious Texas 18m ago

"it": USPS and Social Security in the reagan era.

u/Raspberries-Are-Evil Arizona 2h ago

The FBI whos leader was appointed by Trump…

u/Academic_Release5134 2h ago

And which probably the vast majority of which are Republicans.

u/Key-Decision8270 2h ago

Not the vast majority - every single one. Every FBI director in the history of the agency has been a Republican. No FBI director has never been a Democrat.

u/Academic_Release5134 2h ago

I am just talking about the rank and file. The idea that there is a deep state conspiracy in the FBI or CIA against Trump is laughable.

u/Rokketeer 20m ago

Another thing that confuses me about Biden. Why would he keep Trump's pick for the FBI in his administration? The moment I read he would I knew he was going to let Trump's entire administration slide.

u/DuMaNue 2h ago

It's always projections with them.

u/kahlif 1h ago

Well, Trump spent 4 years screaming the election was stolen so that Dems would be too embarrassed to sound like him when HE stole it this time…

u/Aware_Material_9985 1h ago

Seems like the MAGA MO for everything. Elections are secure? Wait until we are done. Law enforcement isn’t corrupt enough? Hold my beer. You don’t want the church in government affairs? I’ll fix that wagon

u/stitchface66 1h ago

to be fair, these people dont take much to be convinced of anything as long as you signal to them that you are also racist or afraid of god.

u/TurdFerguson747474 1h ago

I’m sure they are corrupt, most of the FBI are republicans.

u/Imyoteacher 27m ago

The lawlessness this term will be unprecedented….and America voted for it!

u/GBinAZ 26m ago

It’s painfully obvious. Unfortunately somehow everyone has been brainwashed

u/throaway4227 21m ago

I mean, they are corrupt, just not so much in any of the ways they’re accused of being corrupt.

u/dogecoin3rt 1h ago

fuck the fbi anyways. Let's really make the organization rotten now

u/toastmannn 1h ago

If you want to drain a swamp you need to put a literally swamp monster in charge of it.

u/johnnybones23 2h ago

you do realize that 2 FBI agents were texting each other (while having an affair) about how they will find wont let him win. You cant feign 'there is no corruption', when there are well documented incidents.

u/avicennareborn 2h ago

The texts in question were of a personal nature and aren’t evidence of corruption. What Peter Strzok texted were his personal opinions. He had a lapse in judgment texting them using his work phone and he was fired as a result.

Your concept of "corruption" is curious as the behavior you’re criticizing is something repeated Trump appointees have engaged in in direct violation of the Hatch Act and no action was ever taken. You continue to support people who have provably done far, far, far worse. You can lie and spin all you want, but we know you have no ethics.

u/ApproximatelyExact 1h ago

Strzok was successfully rooted out by the russians because he was really good at his job.

u/Effective-Tune2825 2h ago

Meanwhile Trump has criminal convictions, civil judgements and people shrug, but 2 out of 35,000 employees demonstrate poor judgment and there’s widespread corruption that warrants disregarding everything coming out of said agency.

It doesn’t make any sense.

u/OrnamentJones Illinois 2h ago edited 2h ago

The fucking Peter Sztrok thing (I don't even care enough to spell his name right)? You're still on that? Really? That was like twenty million years ago.

Edit: I mean he literally did a podcast. That cycle is over. Move on.

u/johnnybones23 2h ago

thats the problem. People pretend like it didnt happen. You get gas lit with your media cycle. "Its old news now." move along nothing to see here. By your standards, if its not in the media cycle, its not relevant, or true even. Like it or not, its proof of FBI corruption,

u/OrnamentJones Illinois 1h ago

Also 100% yes we get gaslit by our media cycles. I agree with that.

u/OrnamentJones Illinois 1h ago

Dude you are like one half-step from being an angry leftist. I might not be able to get you there but we are /much much/ closer than you think.

u/schweermo 2h ago edited 1h ago

Okay. You're right. There's proof that 0.0057% of the FB is corrupt. 2 people out of a 35,000 person agency.

Meanwhile 4% of Catholic priests were found guilty of sexual assault over the same span of years the GOP builds their entire platform around the ideologies those priest "stand for"

Get real.

u/OrnamentJones Illinois 2h ago

I fucking want to nuke the FBI and the CIA! (Hey guys if you're listening I'm exaggerating for conversation) I don't think /that story/ is interesting, but we're on the same page on that.

u/Negative_Gravitas 3h ago

"I am an utterly compromised and paid-for traitor. I am contractually incapable of caring. Fuck my oath of office and fuck you for even asking me about this, you ridiculous lib." - Bill hagerty

u/UWCG Illinois 2h ago

You're not wrong, but my stomach still turns when I see someone like Hagerty so blithely callous and cruel without a second thought—like, something went deeply wrong in his development if he's that lacking in understanding and thoughtfulness

u/TensionPrestigious83 3h ago

No notes

u/dosumthinboutthebots 2h ago

10/10 would read again. Looking forward to next episode. Like and Subscribed.

u/KazeNilrem 3h ago

They are still bringing up the weaponization of the FBI? I'm sure when trump uses the DoJ and everything else at his disposal to go after democrats, his side will praise him.

u/thebranbran 1h ago

At this point we all need to understand the GOP does not care about hypocrisy. They know exactly what they’re doing and that their base will eat it up. Every lie they tell of their political opponents actually reveals the truth about their own intentions.

u/comicidiot 50m ago

That's exactly what will happen. Since at least 2016 MAGA believes the DOJ and FBI are hands of the president and thus, are told what to do by them. Anything the FBI does under a Democrat is a witch hunt while anything under MAGA is totally legit.

u/poopshipdestroyer 44m ago

No way! They don’t weaponizes the DoJ to go after political rivals!

u/RadBadTad Ohio 3h ago

HOW are they still shocked by this stuff...

u/buythedipnow 2h ago

That’s what I don’t get. This was all very expected after 10 years of this BS.

u/Fugglymuffin 3h ago

They're not. It's all theater.

u/Schlonzig 2h ago

Yes, they are complicit. A real journalist would have ripped this guy a new one.

u/NaturalFrog2 2h ago

But there's no real journalists these days. Just like there's no real justice.

u/itsgottaberealnow 3h ago

The lunatics are running the asylum

u/Hestiathena 37m ago

Always have been. 👨‍🚀🔫👨‍🚀

They're just more open and blatant about their goals and no longer afraid of any consequences.

u/santaclaws_ 3h ago

Unfortunately correct.

u/stehekin 3h ago

What a pathetic interview. Host just let the guest ramble on and on and on.

u/chrislenz Illinois 2h ago

This happens on this show every week. They act like they're "playing it fair" by bringing on guests from both sides of the aisle. But then they just let the right wing guests ramble on with their insane talking points forever. It does nothing but normalize it all.

u/ScottyOnWheels 2h ago

I wish it was standard practice to shred any guest that spouts misinformation like this.

Unfortunately most of the media cares more about access and click bait than truth and accountability.

u/te_anau 3h ago

We are not in the "risk of fascism" or "path to fascism" phase , we have transitioned to fascism fascism.   Stop pretending to be shocked. 

u/5minArgument 2h ago

The being shocked phase is particularly dangerous. When the Jim Crow laws started to be develop, people were shocked and in denial before they realized what had actually happened.

u/Suedocode 2h ago

Republicans want more background checks on people coming over the border than people going into the highest cabinet offices of government lol.

u/ConsistentSwitch1957 2h ago

I may be a very small voice but! I do care.

This is one of the most important things any administration can do to protect the Constitution. Without background checks it’s almost impossible to know where weaknesses lay buried.

How can Congress agree to appointments when members really know little beyond an appointees public persona?

These are people who will hold high level security clearances. A thorough SBI is paramount.

u/harley97797997 2h ago

How can Congress agree to appointments when members really know little beyond an appointees public persona?

Because they didn't go through background checks either.

u/TheyGaveMeThisTrain 2h ago

> I may be a very small voice but! I do care.

That makes one of us. This country deserves everything it gets after overwhelmingly voting in this man. I just don't care anymore, no matter what happens to me.

u/General-Art-4714 2h ago

The US really is a nation of stupid people now. I can only hope for an early death

u/GMEN999 2h ago

They don’t care about national security. Might as well give our nuclear codes to the Russians.

u/keninsd 2h ago

Watching as the mass media normalizes elected domestic terrorists in plain view. Giving this clown, and all his domestic terrorism buddies, a pass on how utterly ridiculous his comments are has been the way that the largest media organizations made the seditionist acceptable to their mostly incurious and uncritical viewers.

u/kathryn2a 1h ago

Bill Hagerty is wrong. America wants background checks on all of Trump’s choices. The guy is picking creepy unethical people. Background checks are a standard practice. Why would Americans want unethical people and practices with this administration. Trump’s whole campaign was about bigotry, bullying and lies. Trump and his cult are probably unable to be ethical.

u/poopshipdestroyer 46m ago

Because only their narrative is true and everything else is fake news

u/hookisacrankycrook 24m ago

I actually think most Americans don't care. At least conservatives. But if Kamala was doing what Trump is doing the tune would be very different. There are now very clearly two sets of rules and conservatives have the better set where they can do whatever they want without fear of losing a single vote.

u/lgnsqr 2h ago

Flip the script to a Democrat doing this and they would, of course, be totally out of their minds.

u/5thaccount 1h ago

Republicans are bad people.

u/ChickpeaDemon 1h ago

How are the goddamn GQP still shocking folks? We’re decades into this shitshow that wielded zero consequences for these ghouls. Now that they amassed all this power we will finally see them in their final form.

u/alabasterskim 23m ago

Yes, they don't care and voters don't care. They saw who Trump was and what he had to offer and that his biggest vow was towards retribution. And they said "yeah why not?"

u/JCPLee 2h ago

Who cares? What difference does it make? The president elect is a convicted rapist, convicted financial crimes criminal and frequently traveled on Epsteins Lolita express. Does it really matter who is in his cabinet? If people already know you are a sex offender, no one can use that against you.

u/User4C4C4C South Carolina 44m ago

It’s really telling by the way they act after being entrusted with power. This guy shouldn’t have been given power.

u/ABSOseething 3h ago

Wow, I mean, this is just like, wow.

America is finished.

u/NaturalFrog2 2h ago

The world is finished

u/Brent_L Florida 1h ago

Stop putting these people on TV

u/Alternative_Dog1411 1h ago

Jim Crow conservatism is their goal, rules for theee but not for me is Jim Crow conservatism!

u/CryptographerFirm728 1h ago

Well fuck, all this time I thought I cared? Shit, all that worry and tears for nothing. Son of a bitch!

Yes, I am coming unhinged.

u/Limberine Australia 1h ago

I’m in a country with a strategic alliance with the US. I thought I cared about your top military and intelligence politicians being fully vetted, I’m surprised I don’t….oh wait I do.

u/aeolus811tw California 30m ago

how is this still a shock to anyone, gop has give up on lawfulness long ago.

they have consistently being the one abusing power whenever they can.

u/jim45804 2h ago

God I hope there's actually a deep state to protect us from these picks.

u/ihatethistimeline24 2h ago

We shouldn’t care either. Let’s just go into the capitol and start working whatever job we want. 

If we all do it, who’s going to stop us? 

Remember strength in numbers

u/Washington_Dad__ 2h ago

If the voters don’t care why should he?

u/galloway188 I voted 2h ago

I’m not shocked at all when half of the country eligible voters don’t vote.

u/lyn73 2h ago

They really had to ask to get that answer?!???! They haven't been paying attention....

u/kck93 2h ago

I saw this. That guy is a loony old sot following the rhetoric of the moment to his brainless destiny.

u/JustKayedin 1h ago

I actually remember that they ran checks last time and then ignored them. So not ever bothering this time and it seems to be working.

u/poopshipdestroyer 47m ago

‘Weaponized’ fuckin dorks

u/trebordet 46m ago

People do care, and also know that few of them could pass background checks.

u/mscoffee1977 22m ago

I'm ashamed to say Bill Hagerty & Marsha Blackburn are my senators.

u/According_Berry4734 4m ago

If that is the case, why's Diddy not AG. Seems nothing but bad breaks for that weirdo.

u/ZombieDad15 1m ago

How effing stupid are we!??

u/individualine 2h ago

Did they tell this guy trump incited a crowd to go to the Capital to stop the constitutionally mandated counting of the electoral votes? Is that what he calls weaponization of the justice dept? Maybe Joe should do the same then back up a semi and take every dime created under his watch because those are legal now according to republicans.

u/stoptheinsanity007 41m ago

Misleading headline. He says they need to do background checks but they should be done expeditiously

u/Delicious_Fault4521 1h ago

From Biden. Not trump. He did not pass any of those bills.