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[–] the_q@lemmy.world 155 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Is this Matt Gaetz the pedophile?

[–] norbert@kbin.social 98 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, rapist and sex trafficker Matt Gaetz.

[–] meco03211@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] TriPolarBearz@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

This got me thinking:

Would Epstein have been considered a kiddie sommelier?

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 16 points 2 years ago

One of them, certainly

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Yes that Matt.

[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 2 years ago (3 children)

How tf this rapist outta jail

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Do you remember the Senator's pedophile son in Sin City? Well look no further than the literal Senator's son Gaetz.

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Posted this last night:

He's my Congressman, been following this from day-1. Nothing is going to happen, or it already would have.

His dirtbag friend, who was supposed to roll on conviction, was convicted, and did not. The girl in question, 17 at the time, is now an adult with an OnlyFans site. Not a good look for the prosecution, and she refuses to testify.

If you were paying attention in NW Florida, Gaetz STFU real quick while under investigation. Suddenly, The Mouth from the South was at it again. He's safe. He knows it.

This "investigation" is another stab at him since he's been acting the ass. Maybe they got an angle on him this time, but don't hold your breath.

Sorry folks. He's skating this. The man is certainly guilty of far more than fucking a girl <365 days from adulthood, but we got nothing that sticks.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

FYI, they have new witnesses & these don't come with the baggage of an OnlyFans account.

https://newrepublic.com/post/178337/trouble-matt-gaetz-house-ethics-new-witnesses-sex-drug-charges

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that won't go anywhere

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

I read somewhere they had received testimony from another victim, one without an OnlyFans, but I have no idea if that was true or not.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Fortunately, Gaetz is rarely correct about anything.

Recap on what has occurred recently in consensual reality due to the #GOP rejecting women:

Nationwide, Democrats are beating polls by 9+ points at the ballot box since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

GOP has lost 13 of their last 15 special elections, even in "red" states.

State GOP groups are going bankrupt in an election year.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The unfortunate truth is, all that doesn't matter if the Electoral College utterly fails at its ONE job yet again and picks the loser. Republicans will userp power wether we want them to or not if that happens. They need to be treated as the enemies of the state they are, or else we're fucked.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

all that doesn't matter if the Electoral College ~~utterly fails~~ succeeds at its ONE job yet again and picks the loser.

FTFY

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

They're supposed to protect from terrible leaders, not simply to pick the loser. Electing Trump was the perfect demonstration of how the entire concept is utterly and completely flawed.

He should've been able to win the popular vote and still should have been ignored by the Electoral College. Instead, the exact opposite happened. They're worse than useless.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The electoral college exists to subvert the popular vote whenever the choice of the rural minority is behind. It would have no reason to exist otherwise. It has no duty to "ignore" any outcome and nothing to do with the quality of leadership besides their ability to campaign to low density populations.

[–] MotoAsh@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yea, it's effectively a tool of disenfranchisement, but the point is it was pitched as a safety mechanism from the "dumb plebs", yet it has done the exact opposite.

It wasn't the plebs that put Trump in office. The point I'm making is it literally has zero upsides.

[–] meowMix2525@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The point I'm making is it literally has zero upsides.

Then we're literally making the same point. There is no reason to argue here.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The Michigan GOP is out of cash. Michigan is very much a purple/battleground state.

I really hope this is the death knell of the GOP. At this point, it needs to die. If our idiotic fucking political system was less focused on maintaining the two-party dynamic, that’d be great too, but at this point I’m just gonna call it a win if we can stop the Nazis from getting into office.

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[–] macattack@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] crashoverride@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Diversity, equity, and inclusion. It's an overall banner for corporate initiatives to avoid being as racist and sexist etc as they have previously been.

This of course seen as a horrifying affront to a bunch of white men who formerly benefitted from the racism and sexism.

You can guess which party is on which side of the debate.

[–] mikezeman@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago

Diversity, equity, and inclusion

[–] xionzui@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago

Why does he look like a wax sculpture of himself?

[–] Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There's also a Julio and a Jamal ready for him in prison.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Because those are the names of "ethnic people." Am I right?

[–] HonoraryMancunian@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

That's how you know he's not racist

[–] Afx@lemm.ee 13 points 2 years ago

Just look at that cunts face.... How can anyone vote for that.

[–] Binthinkin@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

The amount of propaganda that right-trash spews into S Florida is nuts. And those folks are pretty helpless against it as they cannibalize their own fairly regularly.

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

For every pedo rapist politician there is... Another one or more that are just as bad?

[–] Birdie@thelemmy.club 7 points 2 years ago

This is the one circumstance in which I'd be proud to be called a Karen.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

"There's a sucker born every minute."

- David Hannum (not P.T. Barnum)

[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I like how he thinks he knows women

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

He knows teenage girls. That's almost knowing women.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

After 2020 and 2022, I'm just waiting for this sudden change of heart from traditionally strong Democratic demographics.. Seems like copium from Gaetz.

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