The far-right representative has plunged the House into chaos—and turned his own party against him.
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.
I haven’t really followed him closely but I remembered his caricature looking face, so when he was back in the news, I kept thinking, “Wasn’t this the guy who was literally sex trafficking underage girls? How is he still even not in prison?! Let alone keeping his job, let alone having anyone actually listen to him?”
We never got out of the dark 1985 timeline.
In which Biff is corrupt, powerful, and married to your mother!
hate him after fucking an old man.
With consent, I seem to recall. One more reason they don’t like him.
Oooh solid point.
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He sort of did — he agreed to allow a single member to bring forth a motion to vacate. Prior to that it required a majority of one party.
Of course you’re right, that’s not how consent works in the colloquial way.
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.
Working with democrats or reaching across the isle in any form
This.
McCarthy did the right thing for once, and came up with a solution to the looming shutdown that managed to pass by getting both Republican and Democratic votes. And he got shitcanned for it.
The message here is that as far as MAGA Republicans are concerned, bipartisanship is a firing offense.
And now Republicans blame Democrats for not supporting him lmao
It may have been a no win choice for Dems, but I’m a little worried that we’re gonna end up with a much worse speaker.
Keeping McCarthy would have at least been fucking over Gaetz.
I’m hoping they’re unable to coalesce around another person.
Yeah, that seems like it’s best case.
Dream case would be the less right reps putting up someone sensible enough for Dems to support.
This predicates a sensible candidate existing, so will remain a dream (and still a shitty one, like dreaming a full day of school just before waking up on a school day).
I dunno, Boebert got caught on video “reaching across the aisle” with her Democratic boyfriend during Beetlejuice and the GOP hasn’t done anything to her.
Well, he did vote with all House Democrats…
Donating GOP funds to the poor probably
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
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.
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.
The key difference here is that Santos is a complete fraud but he still serves the interests of the party.
Now Gaetz is subhuman filth, and that was totally fine…but then he caused issues for the party.
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.
Party of Family Values everyone. And pedophiles, rapists, thiefs, liars, racists, homophobes, and bigots.
Remember that when push came to shove, Democrats kicked Al Franken out of the Senate, while Republicans doubled down in their support for Roy Moore.
While this is absolutely true, it feels unfair to compare Franken and Moore.
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Wasn’t even a mistake it was a comedy bit she consented to.
Moore got banned from a mall for creeping on 14yo girls and his CURRENT WIFE MET HIM WHEN SHE WAS 16.
They are not even close to the same thing you’re right.
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That pic WAS PART OF THE BIT. She was not asleep.
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I know everyone focuses on the photo and Learn Tweeden, but there were eight other women who made accusations. This is an old article, but it lists the eight accusations before he left, and there was a ninth after he left, detailed in the second link.
It’s not just the one photo. It’s that half the women had the same story of Franken touching them inappropriately during photos at public events.
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/07/al-franken-news-list-of-sexual-misconduct-allegations.html
Ninth woman: https://www.businessinsider.com/ninth-woman-accuses-former-sen-al-franken-of-sexual-harassment-2019-9
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Oof, men being creeps in photos is super common in my experience. I do historical costuming, and men think it’s hilarious to pretend to squeeze your boobs or butt (or bustle) when they ask for photo. Obviously the historical clothing adds another layer to the situation, but I don’t dress that way to be a punchline to a joke. Most of my costuming friends have similar stories of men oozing into the picture after their wives ask for a picture. My friends who do cosplay have had men do weird shit in photos, too. And they never introduce themselves first, so they can just disappear into the crowd after.
Admittedly that’s different than the situation with Franken where other people asking for his picture, but men are comfortable invading women’s personal space when it comes to photography. Lots of my female friends who don’t do costuming have stories about the creepy guy who gets too close for photos at family or work events. Just because Franken is famous doesn’t mean he can’t be a creepy dude who takes advantage of the situation.
You see, your mistake was thinking “family” meant “mom, dad, two kids, a dog, and a white picket fence” when really it means “La Cosa Nostra.”
Well, a less competent version anyway.
La Cosa Dumbstra
Hey! They have families too! /s
“Fly as many underage girls across state lines as you want, but you effed with our power play, so now you have got to go”
What happened with that. Last I heard the FBI started an investigation and then nothing.
That was basically it. They didn’t pursue it or bring charges
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?
One of them hasn’t eaten his own tonsil stone live yet
H-what now? Link?
I made the mistake of googling “ted cruz tonsil stone” and the still images alone were enough to send me packing. I’m not easily grossed out but, like, fair warning - click links at your own risk.
It’s a magnificent kind of disgusting.
I was a better person having never seen this.
That’s probably true.
That was too nasty to get all the way through.
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I’m trying to substitute other things for “tonsil stone”, it just gets worse and still doesn’t make sense.
lol wtf
kill me with fire
You’ll just have to live with it.
in hindsight I should have used a different phrase, but yeah
I want to blame you for posting but I know it’s my fault for clicking. At least I didn’t hit play.
Blame Ted Cruz.
wait what
thank you for the blururrughghghhghgreply
No problem at all, hope you like it!
The moderate Republicans keep saying Gaetz is Biden’s favorite Republican so at least someone likes him. /S
…. Pretty much everyone hated him before, but we hate him now, too
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
How did he not go to jail for trafficking children? Honest question.
Lack of evidence and testimony is what I’ve heard.
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.
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 can understand.
