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The far-right representative has plunged the House into chaos—and turned his own party against him.

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[–] [email protected] 129 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

hate him after fucking an old man.

With consent, I seem to recall. One more reason they don't like him.

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[–] [email protected] 97 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (5 children)

What will it take for republicans to expel one of their own? Apparently child trafficking isn’t it.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Working with democrats or reaching across the isle in any form

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Donating GOP funds to the poor probably

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Maybe if their constituents actively annoyed them about it for long enough? Far-fetched, but it might just work.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's ok if you're a Republican.

[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I hated Matt Gaetz before it was cool.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Right? Some of us draw the line at trafficking children.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Party of Family Values everyone. And pedophiles, rapists, thiefs, liars, racists, homophobes, and bigots.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

While this is absolutely true, it feels unfair to compare Franken and Moore.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And he shouldn't have been kicked out. That was a mistake, not a career ending stunt imo.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

La Cosa Dumbstra

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

“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”

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One is a core value of the Republican party, the other is sowing dissent within the Republican party.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How did he not go to jail for trafficking children? Honest question.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lack of evidence and testimony is what I've heard.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

The moderate Republicans keep saying Gaetz is Biden's favorite Republican so at least someone likes him. /S

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So who is least popular amongst his peers Ted Cruz or May Gaetz?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

One of them hasn't eaten his own tonsil stone live yet

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was a better person having never seen this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

That's probably true.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That was too nasty to get all the way through.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

…. Pretty much everyone hated him before, but we hate him now, too

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The cult of Reagan values only one thing, loyalty to the cult.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

If Reagan were still around, he'd be forced out of the party as a RINO

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

“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?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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.

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