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Matt Gaetz’s Questioning of Hunter Biden Backfires Spectacularly (newrepublic.com)

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[-] [email protected] 199 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

“Were you on drugs when you were on the Burisma board?” prompted Gaetz.

“Mr. Gaetz, look me in the eye. You really think that’s appropriate to ask me?” Biden replied.

“Absolutely,” Gaetz said.

“Of all the people sitting around this table, do you think that’s appropriate to ask me?” Biden spit back.

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[-] [email protected] 158 points 4 months ago

It seems like politics draws in a lot of flawed people generally, but Republicans have been electing an amazing number of absolutely horrible human beings. Gaetz, Green, Bobert, Cruz, Jordan, Santos... oh, and of course Trump. Lots more. Just really, really bad people.

[-] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago

Politicians often reflect the wishes of the people who vote them in. I don't think it's a coincidence that "only the threat of hell keeps people from doing bad things" Christians tend to vote republican.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Personality disorders vote for personality disorders

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

It doesn't prevent many of them from doing bad things. They think they will be forgiven as long as they are believers.

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Problem with democracy is that the best aren't necessarily elected in, the popular are.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago

Don't forget Tuber. I feel like that mother fucker gets a pass even though Tuber is just as bad as the rest of them shit heads.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Oh, he's horrible for sure. Like I said, many others including Johnson, Gosar, and Gohmert.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Theyre representative im afraid

[-] [email protected] 121 points 4 months ago

I dare say Hunter Biden was not the most crooked man in the room, not by a long shot.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Piece of shit? Maybe. Biggest piece of shit? Not by a long shot.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 4 months ago

Why is he a piece of shit? Seems he's a middlingly-successful lawyer who had an addiction problem, just like tens of millions of other people. Being an addict doesn't make you a bad person, just like having the flu doesn't.

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

I don't even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse. That doesn't paint him as a piece of shit to me, just sad. A man who made many poor decisions. (There very well may be shitty things I don't know, but they're loudest about the drugs)

[-] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I don’t even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse.

We don't even know the drug abuse isn't slander.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Uh, it isn't? I'm not defending the fucking repubs, but Hunter did admit to drug abuse. Its in the fucking article.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

If he’s a piece of shit, he’s a private individual piece of shit, so that’s his business. He is not representing the public.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

I don’t know him but I think “piece of shit” is rather overblown MAGA nonsense.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Gaetz is almost certainly a person who knowingly paid an underage girl for sex. The person who facilitated it basically already plead guilty and may be cooperating with investigators, though the proceedings of this seem to be going quite slowly.

This is even more insane given that Gaetz is one of the most Q-Anony of the lunatic Republicans in Congress. Kind of their whole thing is largely based around saving children from being sex trafficked.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Is it insane? I always assumed most of the Q-anon types were pedophiles who doth protest too much.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Its insane when you compare the things they hold dear and are most concerned about to themselves personally and the people they support.

They will tell you they are highly worried about secret sex trafficking and millions of missing children, but extremely often they and the people they support are sexually abusing children, or have a history of it.

Its the cognitive dissonance thats the insane part, the extreme hypocrisy.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

Why is he a piece of shit, and why do we care about that in the context of politics, if his matters are unconnected to his father?

I wouldn't care about Ivanka a single bit if it wasn't because she was his rapist daddy's political advisor.

[-] [email protected] 72 points 4 months ago

Every time I look at Matt Gaetz, all I can see is if Butthead (from Beavis and Butthead) were a real person and grew up rich.

[-] rustydrd 12 points 4 months ago

He grew up rich? I always took him for some white trash yokel who one day discovered that suits were a thing. Never read about him before and am genuinely surprised now.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago

His dad was a Florida senator and well respected one at that.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Insofar as a Floridian senator can be well-respected at all. Didn't they replace fluoride with, like, stupid in the water supply?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

This comment is best read in butthead’s voice.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

In closing, i would defer to ur overall assessment and sentiment, in that order of ascending predominance

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

U win the internet today

[-] [email protected] 71 points 4 months ago

Sounds like Hunter can get a lawyer good enough to prep him and is smart enough to listen to his lawyers.

[-] [email protected] 49 points 4 months ago

Also he's just being honest, which can be pretty effortless

[-] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago

Doesn't hurt that Hunter has some charisma

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[-] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago

"I'm sorry, do you just want to know who my hookup was for 'reasons'?"

[-] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Is Matt Gaetz part of the Republican A-Team?

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