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Old 9th April 2021, 09:09 PM   #401
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Originally Posted by dirtywick View Post
I'd say you'd have to be, at least, a Senator to get away with something like this. Even then, the underage **** is a bit much.



Gaetz, I think, is doomed. This is pretty bad.


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Old 9th April 2021, 09:23 PM   #402
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Originally Posted by carlitos View Post
“The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.”
— former Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards
Didn't he go to prison?
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Old 9th April 2021, 11:21 PM   #403
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Originally Posted by eerok View Post
It's possible Gaetz didn't specify his own wrongdoing when he advocated pardons for GOP crimes, just as he didn't specify his own wrongdoing when he voted against the anti-trafficking bill.
Don’t USA politicians have to “declare an interest”?
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Old 10th April 2021, 06:04 AM   #404
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Originally Posted by Beelzebuddy View Post
I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop. The GOP shunning him for a little technically-underage jailbait is entirely out of character. This is the party that knowingly rallies around pedophiles and rapists, he should be in good company. I'd expect them to clap this creep on the back and say whaddaguy! But they aren't. So what else is going to get uncovered here?
He knows where all the slutty pictures THEY took are kept, what their nasty little secrets are. They are scared he will be a stool pigeon.
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Old 10th April 2021, 07:38 AM   #405
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Originally Posted by acbytesla View Post
Didn't he go to prison?
Indeed.

Don't remember which comedian said it:

Quote:
Gaetz wants this investigation to wrap up quickly. He doesn't want to miss prom.
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Old 10th April 2021, 04:59 PM   #406
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Rep. Matt Gaetz tweets

@RepMattGaetz
I won't be intimidated by the lying media.
I won't be extorted by a former DOJ official and the crooks he is working with.
The truth will prevail.
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Old 10th April 2021, 06:08 PM   #407
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Originally Posted by Captain_Swoop View Post
Rep. Matt Gaetz tweets

@RepMattGaetz
I won't be intimidated by the lying media.
I won't be extorted by a former DOJ official and the crooks he is working with.
The truth will prevail.
I'm sure it will. We're counting on it.
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Old 10th April 2021, 06:12 PM   #408
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Originally Posted by slyjoe View Post
Indeed.

Don't remember which comedian said it:

Gaetz wants this investigation to wrap up quickly. He doesn't want to miss prom.

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Old 10th April 2021, 07:59 PM   #409
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Originally Posted by Craig4 View Post
They'd have done better putting the billboard on I98, going east to west along the Gulf Coast. If you go north on 85 where it is, you're getting into swamp people territory. The population north of Ft Walton Beach would see that as an opportunity for social mobility.

OK I heard an interesting take on this from progressive political commentator, Farron Cousins, who actually lives in the region (Pensacola IIRC).

Crestview is apparently an area dominated by "values voters", i.e. American social conservatives. Of all the different groups of Republican voters, those are the ones most likely to be disgusted by Gaetz's behaviour... so it might have been tactically a good choice to put the billboard there.
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Originally Posted by smartcooky View Post
OK I heard an interesting take on this from progressive political commentator, Farron Cousins, who actually lives in the region (Pensacola IIRC).

Crestview is apparently an area dominated by "values voters", i.e. American social conservatives. Of all the different groups of Republican voters, those are the ones most likely to be disgusted by Gaetz's behaviour... so it might have been tactically a good choice to put the billboard there.
Meh! Did they vote for Trump? I don’t trust Republican “values voters”, you know those Republicans with their firm principles.... I think it’s a myth.
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Old 10th April 2021, 09:17 PM   #411
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Meh! Did they vote for Trump? I don’t trust Republican “values voters”, you know those Republicans with their firm principles.... I think it’s a myth.
I don't know, but I can't think of a better place they could have put it... can you
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Old 10th April 2021, 10:32 PM   #412
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Originally Posted by Segnosaur View Post
. Still, it certainly wouldn't be out of character for Gaetz to try something like that.
Hell, it wouldn’t be out of character to pay the shill through an App and include a little note detailing the crime.
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Old 11th April 2021, 07:40 PM   #413
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More trouble. Gaetz can't get a meeting with Trump. Trump isn't shy about being seen with a creep like Epstein. It speaks volumes that being seen with Gaetz might be worse.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/11/polit...ing/index.html

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Old 11th April 2021, 08:11 PM   #414
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Originally Posted by Ranb View Post
More trouble. Gaetz can't get a meeting with Trump. Trump isn't shy about being seen with a creep like Epstein. It speaks volumes that being seen with Gaetz might be worse.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/11/polit...ing/index.html

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I guess Gaetz is finding out who his true friends are. If he has any friends.
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Old 11th April 2021, 09:14 PM   #415
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Originally Posted by Gord_in_Toronto View Post
I guess Gaetz is finding out who his true friends are. If he has any friends.
I think the only ones who will have him are the other traffickers. Trump doesn't have any friends either I think. He has chumps he can cheat out of stuff and co-conspirators.
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I guess Gaetz is finding out who his true friends are. If he has any friends.
Yeah, his supporters are down to a guy with his own sex scandal and someone who thinks you can lift weights to combat COVID-19.
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Originally Posted by Ranb View Post
More trouble. Gaetz can't get a meeting with Trump. Trump isn't shy about being seen with a creep like Epstein. It speaks volumes that being seen with Gaetz might be worse.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/11/polit...ing/index.html

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Gaetz is finding out that loyalty only goes one way with Trump. Of course, anyone with more than a quarter lb. of ground beef for a brain already knows that.
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Every one of the MAGA crowd think Trump will never abandon them until he does.
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Matt Gaetz always at the high school campaigning
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Matt Gaetz always at the high school campaigning
Well I’ve never heard it called campaigning…..
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Originally Posted by The Great Zaganza View Post
Every one of the MAGA crowd think Trump will never abandon them until he does.
It really does show their very bad judgement.
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More trouble. Gaetz can't get a meeting with Trump.
Worst still: Trump is no longer president and can't help him.
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Worst still: Trump is no longer president and can't help him.
No worries, he'll be President again any day now!
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No worries, he'll be President again any day now!
In two weeks, I heard.
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Originally Posted by Belz... View Post
In two weeks, I heard.
August. I have it on good authority from the pillow guy.
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Originally Posted by slyjoe View Post
August. I have it on good authority from the pillow guy.
Yeah but some pastor says April. Whom am I to trust?
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Donald Trump will be President again the exact same day the Democrats finally make him pay for anything he did and vice versa.

He will never be President again, and he will never face any consequences for his action. Those both become more and more inevitable with each passing day.
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Matt Gaetz must have misunderstood when he was told people use Venmo to make minor purchases.
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Matt Gaetz must have misunderstood when he was told people use Venmo to make minor purchases.
*Slow clap*
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Indeed.

Don't remember which comedian said it:
I don't know if it was original to him, but Michael Cohen said it in an interview on MSNBC:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/michae...utal-prom-joke
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Matt Gaetz must have misunderstood when he was told people use Venmo to make minor purchases.
Ouch.

Well done.
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Yeah but some pastor says April. Whom am I to trust?

Look, if you can't manage to believe that Trump will become president again both in April and in August, you don't have enough faith to deserve president Trump.
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I guess Gaetz is finding out who his true friends are. If he has any friends.
He has damn few. Apparently most of his fellow GOP congressmen hated his guts.
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Donald Trump will be President again the exact same day the Democrats finally make him pay for anything he did and vice versa.

He will never be President again, and he will never face any consequences for his action. Those both become more and more inevitable with each passing day.
I agree Trump will probably not face criminal charges, but private lawsuits are another matter...and he owes a lot of money to a lot of people.
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I think the Dems are probably hoping Gaetz stays in the House. He would be a gift the keeps on giving for them..just like Taylor Green.
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Matt Gaetz is asking for privacy during this trying time while he attempts to hide all the evidence.
Please have some respect.
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I think the Dems are probably hoping Gaetz stays in the House. He would be a gift the keeps on giving for them..just like Taylor Green.
I would like to receive fewer of these gifts, please.
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I think the Dems are probably hoping Gaetz stays in the House. He would be a gift the keeps on giving for them..just like Taylor Green.
When has this inane "Oh this will finally be the crazy person that takes down the GOP!" thing ever came true?
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I think the Dems are probably hoping Gaetz stays in the House. He would be a gift the keeps on giving for them..just like Taylor Green.
Originally Posted by Beelzebuddy View Post
I would like to receive fewer of these gifts, please.
Oh my word, I agree!

People thought Trump was a gift! And look what bloody happened.

The same will be true with whatever nutcase the Republicans throw up next!

The idea that "LOL! They got themselves a crazy person. Can't wait to see how that will screw them at the elections!" should have died long ago and had a stake driven into it.

Remember that Matt Gaetz and Taylor Greene and Boebert actually got elected. People like Ted Cruz and Lindsay Graham still sit in the Senate. And Trump still almost won a second term and could well come back and win again if the Dems aren't careful.

The very fact that these are elected representatives proves that they are not bloody "gifts".
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Me: "Oh wait, remember what happened like the last 10 times you tried that..."

Democrats: "Oh nonsense! It will work this time."

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*One end of the rope is wrapped around the country's neck, the other half around the Democrat's balls, all while the Republicans merrily play jump rope between them*
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