Sanctimoniousness is when Matt Gaetz was a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, Gaetz participated in questioning Hunter Biden during a deposition on February 28, 2024. During this session, Gaetz asked pointed questions about Hunter Biden's past substance abuse
McCarthy knew and sat on the evidence. He allowed the witnesses, now women to be besmirched and dragged. He put his party over American citizens who were victims of a crimes by a sitting member of the House of Representatives. He should be charged with obstruction
When Al Franken was accused of sexual misconduct, he volunteered to be subject of an ethics investigation. Democrats joined the chorus of Republicans and effectively forced Franken to resign. This should now be the standard for all politicians and govt officials, not just the dems.
When a party supports a Presidential candidate that is a rapist & a pedophile, not legally but in reality (12 & 13 yr olds), then morally decent & civil people must codify these norms
All parties aren't acting in good faith nor have a baseline of morality
And as I look at this …all of a sudden I’m thinking of Tip O’Neal , Barbara Jordan,Pat Moynihan and John Lewis…I’m Verklempt!!!.. please …talk amongst yourselves…
And McCarthy set himself up by agreeing to the one vote limit for voting the speaker out because he wanted to be speaker so badly. As Kenny Rogers sang, "Know when to hold them, know to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run".
To be fair, McCarthy is a garden-variety vile Republican, like Liz Cheney (or her dad), who probably aren't insane and have ethical standards they must have learned somewhere, maybe their parents. Worthless assholes like Gaetz, "Capitol Bomber" Greene, and "BoBo" Boebert are gd maniacs.
If a whole bunch of them stood and listened to him brag about his dope and little girls you can bet the people who can't shut up about pedophiles have at least a fat handful.
This is why we say it’s all men. Bc even men who don’t rape, don’t report men who do. Look at the 100s of men who saw the ad for raping Gisele Pelicot. The men who showed up but then thought it was sus and refused to do it. NOT A SINGLE ONE reported it. Even anonymously
I still can't watch Requiem for a Dream for that hideous scene where Jennifer Connelly and some other girl in desperate straits are down in a pit, debasing themselves in a sexually grotesque show, so wasted because, how else could you? while massive numbers of Wall Street Bros cheer. These are men😪?
No doubt there are many others. Madison Cawthorn tried to tell us, and they killed his career in Congress very quickly. The fact that “family values” Mike Johnson tried to burry Gaetz’ report says a lot about these people.
I'm telling you, I'm still observing on X. The GOP/MAGA and it's cult followers DO NOT CARE. They think it's a smear campaign. Hard to argue with financial records.
No!! Hell No!! They are both such despicable human beings as is trump, Elon, and most elected repubs so BTC you need to stop trying to get click bait and stop giving cover to any of these assholes who hate our country!!
He thought it either wouldn't matter, or wouldn't matter to him. Gaetz is probably super loyal now and he gets to appoint someone else and get them in his pocket. Trump is going for The Godfather approach...
"Prosecutors informed Mr. Gaetz’s legal team in February 2023 that they would not bring charges. The prosecutors had concluded that they could not make a strong enough case in court." I can't believe he isn't even going to face any charges for Trump to pardon.
he chose him for a reason. hes making a statement everything he has been guilty of he is bringing people to tear up the usa that are guilty of the same crimes.
So McCarthy knew it was true and DID NOTHING!
Typical
Republican
You douche bags claim to do the Lord's work.
Bunch of pedophiles, and pedo enablers.
Now??
Self admitted sexual abuser is going to be POTUS...again 🥺 https://youtu.be/PwWux5BAczk
"I'll give you the truth...." is not Kevin's brand. But he knew then the story and stayed relatively quiet about it. It was more important to stay in trump's good graces than get rid of a guy like gaetz.
It would be nice if he did, but he probably will keep quiet unless he’s facing consequences. It shouldn’t be a question of “if.” We should all agree that rapists of children should not be allowed to do that with impunity.
Instead of unnaturally obsessing about homophobic conspiracy theories about imagined paedophiles, Republicans & MAGA supporters should be more concerned about the actual paedophiles amongst themselves.
What he is saying is - had this complaint started under his watch, he could have stopped it. Because it started before he became the speaker, he couldn't help Gaetz. He is the one who let Trump go scott free during impeachment. He's no saint.
He only sees it as a problem because it hurt him and his ego. tRump did the same thing, and he still loves tRUMP. He's a plaster saint, like Mango Mussolini.
He knew of all of this before Eddie Munster look alike had McCarthy ousted as speaker. He could have done something then and chose to ignore it. He only said anything after losing the speaker position. Knowing something and doing nothing makes him a co-conspirator in the GOP cover up.
Nothing about that load of narcissistic excuses is of any use or value.
The Republicans ought to stuff his corpse and put him on display in their cloakroom as an object lesson in abdication of senses while speaker. They can wait until he passes naturally- Johnson might prove himself worse!
Since essentially every word out of their mouth is a fucking lie, no of course it's not going to age well.
Let us stop pretending that these are just good people on the other side of the isle and accept that they're sinister villains who are enemies of America and it's people.
It's amazing how most of the GOP just ignored, or even worse tried to cover up what Gaetz did. Shameful. But that's the tRump- Republican party of today.
I'd argue we lose because Dems are bought & paid for by their donors & that happens on both sides. Dems promise things like John Lewis Voting rights act & Paid Family Leave for example. But only past legislation that benefited corporations. ie infrastructure & chips act... Yea we got a few crumbs 😲
It is hard to pass an agenda when you don't have a nice size majority. If people realized we need that we need a trifecta they will find you get a lot more of what we are promised: example Minnesota when they had all three branches and wasted no time in passing life changing policies.
What does “out of touch” mean. Media has been saying this for some time. Does this mean republicans “are in touch” compared to democrats? Give me an example of “out of touch”
Out of touch is the average Joe doesn't measure the economy by the stock market. We measure it by the price of food, rent, childcare, healthcare, gas etc. More importantly Dems kept telling voters how good the economy is while we're struggling. The other side is worse isn't winning elections
But this doesn’t mean they are not working to reduce the inflation. They passed inflation reduction act despite opposition from republicans. So again where are democrats out of touch. I think the problem is media and messaging
@crazypolitics.bsky.social The inflation reduction act was just PR as for doing anything about inflation. It just sounded good. Nothing in it to deal with inflation
People vote other side because they perceive the other side is fixing the problem. Acknowledging that price of food is high is a sure way for the other side to win. Democrats do know the problem with inflation. Unfortunately there is no easy solution. Both democrats and republicans know this
Agreed! Well if they want our vote they better a find solution. They had a solution for the bankers in 2008 with the bank bailouts. And no it wasn't prison! Recent events have shown populist on right & left are coming together on economic issues. Dividing us on social issues isn't working anymore.
IMAGINE IT! McCarthy, by himself, sitting there with his whiskey and cigar, absolutely LOVING every second of Gaetz’s meltdown. He’s watching it all unfold with a satisfied smirk on his face. Nobody’s enjoying this trainwreck more than him, trust me. That guy’s got the best seat in the house!
Could Sarah teach other journalists how to do their jobs? She doesn't fuck around like most do.Loved the refuklican assholes sitting there like they have an over ripe lemon up their asses.Worthless fuckers."Aw they weren't serious". Yeah fuck you all.
I am really surprised that McCarthy is not out there on gatz but republicans never really say anything bad about one another unless that other person is attacking him/her unlike democrats who just may have a inkling about supporting a republican and dems jump all other them
Gaetz still won, he is a free man and multi millionaire, don’t know why everyone is celebrating the report, we all knew he was a POS yet he is free and free to run for office again in the future.
And all the MAGA politicians just let it happen. I can’t wait for MAGA to be a sad chapter in history books, or small paragraph, under “traitors to America”.
As @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social noted, he is almost singularly responsible for rehabilitating Trump post J6. So he is not the person I want to look to for moral clarity.
In a strange way, Brian, this in-fighting in the Republican Boys Club actually worked out for the American people because we got two spineless men out of Congress. Now if we could only replace them with two Decent Politicians (I can dream, right?)!
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Matt Gaetz is a child molesting punk. Obviously no respect for the office or the people he served.
Kevin, the Dumpster Chicken says, "Hey man, Nice shot!"
When a party supports a Presidential candidate that is a rapist & a pedophile, not legally but in reality (12 & 13 yr olds), then morally decent & civil people must codify these norms
All parties aren't acting in good faith nor have a baseline of morality
It's like a race to the bottom for a dregs of the Earth crown.
🤣
As far as the 17 year old, he's "not going to get in the middle"
They all knew. They saw the pictures and heard the stories. Gaetz wasn't hiding it. He was bragging about it.
It's sad that these are the people we elected.
and sometimes spoke with a staff member
who had a fantastic deep speaking voice
told him: QUIT KEVIN! you don't belong there
& GET INTO VOICEOVERS so much more money!!
None of them have ethics!
Typical
Republican
You douche bags claim to do the Lord's work.
Bunch of pedophiles, and pedo enablers.
Now??
Self admitted sexual abuser is going to be POTUS...again 🥺
https://youtu.be/PwWux5BAczk
https://www.newsweek.com/bill-maher-gop-has-become-obsessed-pedophilia-very-short-time-1696645?amp=1 https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/why-are-right-wing-conspiracies-so-obsessed-with-pedophilia/ https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/republicans-baseless-pedophilia-accusations-explained.html
The Republicans ought to stuff his corpse and put him on display in their cloakroom as an object lesson in abdication of senses while speaker. They can wait until he passes naturally- Johnson might prove himself worse!
Let us stop pretending that these are just good people on the other side of the isle and accept that they're sinister villains who are enemies of America and it's people.
I’m so incredibly disgusted either way.
Dude, you went around the House floor showing your work colleagues pictures of porn...with you as the star.
He could have been talking about Jim Jordan or any number of about 50 different current GOP congressmen.
Similar, and also worse, things have come out. Maddy Caw-caw getting his ass in a sling over spilling the beans about coke-fueled orgies and such.
But unless consequences are forthcoming, this is all bullshit in a teacup.
https://youtu.be/JNOviu_XFXg
That's probably the only time he's opened his mouth and I haven't heard smarmy, doubletalking bullshit come out.
Because they’re all morally bankrupt.