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

  • @[email protected]
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    442 years ago

    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]
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    52 years ago

    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]
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      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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    22 years ago

    “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.

    • Bramble Dog
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      32 years ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 years ago

      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

  • @[email protected]
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    62 years 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?

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    182 years ago

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

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    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]
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      622 years ago

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

        • @[email protected]
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          272 years ago

          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.

            • @[email protected]
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              52 years ago

              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.

                • @[email protected]
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                  12 years ago

                  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).

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

          • fiat_lux
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            22 years ago

            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.

            • @[email protected]
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              22 years ago

              They have cops to handle outright harassment. Politicians are the kind of people cops actually look out for.

              • fiat_lux
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                12 years ago

                Vuvuzelas and mimes are surely free speech, in the land of the free and the home of the brave. 🇺🇸 /s

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        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?

      • BraveSirZaphod
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        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]
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      172 years ago

      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.

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    32 years ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      82 years 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]
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    1292 years ago

    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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      452 years ago

      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.

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      202 years ago

      hate him after fucking an old man.

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

  • FuglyDuck
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    162 years ago

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