People hate child rapist Matt Gaetz? Republitards loved him when he was fucking a little girl, but hate him after fucking an old man. It tracks.
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I hated Matt Gaetz before it was cool.
Right? Some of us draw the line at trafficking children.
I remember when this weasel helped to storm a SCIF for a little stunt.
Add that in with J6 and plotting a coup, and yet: these assholes have the BALLS to pretend to be upset about someone pulling a fire alarm.
The growing anger towards Gaetz is unlikely to help him as Republicans weigh whether to expel him from Congress.
Ha fucking ha. No they won't. There's still that weirdo liar Santos. If they still haven't done anything with him, I seriously doubt they'll do jack dandy to teen sex trafficker Gaetz.
What will it take for republicans to expel one of their own? Apparently child trafficking isn’t it.
The Realpolitik of the situation is that if they expel Santos, he gets replaced by a Democrat immediately, who will swim to re-election. Gaetz is in a safe Republican district under a Republican governor, so they can replace him without causing any real problems.
Not to even remotely equate the situations, but it's the same reason why Dems went after Franken and are going after Menendez right now; it doesn't cost them anything to do so. They'd be much less likely to go after someone like Senator Manchin of WV, Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio, and Senators Warnock and Ossoff of Georgia unless they were absolutely forced to, since doing so would mean the loss of the Senate.
And it is a genuinely messy question. How heinous an act is worth losing the ability to pass any legislation and make any judicial appointments? I really don't think there is a clear answer to that. A few Senators made the difference between Roe v. Wade standing and falling.
Maybe if their constituents actively annoyed them about it for long enough? Far-fetched, but it might just work.
They have staffers to make sure that doesn't happen.
Ain't no staffers got shit on a handful of people with vuvuzela following the representative around whenever they're in public. Rotate the shifts, 1 hour each, and you only need 24 people daily for permanent vuvuzela brrrrrrr heralding their elected official of choice.
I would also enjoy watching a legion of mimes mockingly reacting to representatives in interviews, if the vuvuzela is too 'public nuisance'.
Or both. Both would be great. Public shaming could be a very creative and cathartic outlet.
They have cops to handle outright harassment. Politicians are the kind of people cops actually look out for.
Vuvuzelas and mimes are surely free speech, in the land of the free and the home of the brave. 🇺🇸 /s
Breeding fetuses in space, unveiling gender reveal parties, then aborting them to harvest adrenochrome and liquefying the remains to use as a base for COVID shots?
It's ok if you're a Republican.
Donating GOP funds to the poor probably
Party of Family Values everyone. And pedophiles, rapists, thiefs, liars, racists, homophobes, and bigots.
How did he not go to jail for trafficking children? Honest question.
Lack of evidence and testimony is what I've heard.
I think it was specifically the lack of someone willing to testify.
Probably because his political handlers own him as a useful tool asset at least until the statute of limitations lapse on his alleged crimes kompromat
Because he didn't traffic children.
If you look at the charges of Greenberg and that essentially nobody once ever referred to Gaetz as a suspect but rather "subject of" or "involved in" it becomes pretty clear what happened.
Greenberg was running a blackmail ring, or at least managing it, Matt Gaetz was the target of it. He started getting suspicious and went to the FBI.
$$$
The moderate Republicans keep saying Gaetz is Biden's favorite Republican so at least someone likes him. /S
If fucking teenagers wasn’t enough to get him tossed out on his ass, I wouldn’t expect that moral-deprived party of snakes to lift a finger to do a thing about him
One is a core value of the Republican party, the other is sowing dissent within the Republican party.
See: Cawthorn, Madison.
So who is least popular amongst his peers Ted Cruz or May Gaetz?
The cult of Reagan values only one thing, loyalty to the cult.
If Reagan were still around, he'd be forced out of the party as a RINO
“I think Matt Gaetz is a disgraceful human being,” Matt Lawler told reporters Wednesday. “I think he has certainly alienated lots of people left and right.”
Lawler added he thought Gaetz should be kicked out of the Republican conference altogether.
Always entertaining when Republicans start judging one another as bad people. I wonder what kinds of ethics they imagine themselves to have?
I'm not fully convinced on this one. NPR just interviewed people this morning in his district who had a "I didn't really like him before but now I think he's great" response. Seems that some people get happy when someone turns over the apple cart.
Ah, yes, the "burn it all down" contingent that DGAF about foreseeable consequences to the degree that they should be excluded from jury duty for lacking the ability to be representative of a "reasonable person," i.e., being unable to determine what a normal person would do under the same set of circumstances.
…. Pretty much everyone hated him before, but we hate him now, too
“I think Matt Gaetz is a disgraceful human being,” Matt Lawler told reporters Wednesday.
Well, yes. He is a Republican politician, which includes the above definition without fail.
He’s just a puppet for the rest of them. They told him to do it, so he did. Now they are making a big fake fuss.
I'm still thinking he's now a pod person