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Gaetz: “Imma dip”

US checks and balances: “well, we tried”

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43 points

Rename checks and balances to thoughts and prayers.

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20 points

Nah, it’s still checks and balances. Billionaires write checks and Republicans add the money to their balances.

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92 points

Was it because of the kid-fucking, Matt? I bet it was about the kid-fucking.

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11 points

Or perhaps the sex trafficking? You know to fly that child to the Bahamas so he could rape them?

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He’s my congressman, and I’ll be the very last to defend him, but a 17-yo is hardly a “kid”. So stop the bullshit. There’s plenty to nail him to the wall without lying.

“engaged in sexual misconduct and/or illicit drug use, shared inappropriate images or videos on the House floor, misused state identification records, converted campaign funds to personal use, and/or accepted a bribe, improper gratuity, or impermissible gift,”

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118 points

That looks to me like defending a kid-fucker.

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Look, if you didn’t lose your virginity until your 30s, maybe a 17-yo is a child to you. By the time I was 18, my gf (17) and I had fucked every way we could figure out. She was no child.

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51 points

That’s really going out of a limb for the worst reason. I can’t believe I have to say that if someone in their late thirties has sex with a 17 year old, that’s gross on multiple levels and summing it up as fucking a kid is highly appropriate

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40 points

It would appear that you’re the first to defend him.

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15 points

Ah but hopefully he IS the last, at least on this thread, so he’s actually right!

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25 points

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You claimed that you would be the last to defend him, then defended him? Like what?

Being in your thirties and having sex with someone nearly half your age is wildly inappropriate. There’s so little that you would have in common as far as life experiences go. The years from 18-25 are some of the most influential in life and leaves people vulnerable to grooming. Experts claim that the brain hasn’t even fully developed in most adults until 25 years old. Finding people in that age attractive as a 35 year old is fine. Watch porn to your hearts content, but pursuing a relationship or sexual encounter with someone in early adulthood is just weird. It doesn’t need to be illegal to be fucking weird or predatory. In Gaetz’s case it just so happens to be all three.

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2 points

You claimed that you would be the last to defend him, then defended him? Like what?

4D chess move, now no one else can defend him because he already called ‘last’.

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You seem to know a lot about him to forget it wasn’t just about having sex with a minor, he was being investigated for sex trafficking a minor across state lines - https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/matt-gaetz-s-ex-girlfriend-testifies-grand-jury-sex-trafficking-n1287352

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4 points

Didn’t his buddy get arrested for creating fake IDs for underage girls also? Or some shit like that. Lol

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8 points

We found the republican pedo.

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7 points

Well ackshually 🤓

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69 points

It would be a shame if the Ethic Committee report got leaked somehow. A real shame…

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60 points

Just amend the report to say ‘and then he retired’ and send it.

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21 points

Yeah, people act like politics is governed by some strictly enforced rules that can never be violated. They can kind of just do whatever they want and the worst they’ll get is a tsk tsk.

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10 points

“leaks” are a planned, group effort

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19 points

You mean “and then he became the US Attorney General.”

That has to be a hell of a damning report.

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10 points

I’m not sure this one will pass congressional approval. I could see it easily going in either direction.

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10 points

That’s why the recess appointments are so important to them. And Thune has already signalled he is happy to bend the knee.

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Only to become appointed AG

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