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[–] [email protected] 16 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

Resigning from the 119th congress is essentially an admission of guilt at this point. Whatever is in that report will most likely remain sealed as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen once again, which is why he turned these two opportunities down - to keep the evidence of his wrongdoing under wraps so he can't be held accountable by either the public or the justice department.

So, Matt Gaetz is a pedophile and a child molester. And knowing the state of our shitty fucking country he's probably going to get away with it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 minutes ago

I'm hoping against everything else that Johnson will stop protecting him because he's now not worth anything to them now and isn't worth the political capital to protect 🤞

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 hour ago (4 children)

Weird. Either there's a 4D chess move here, or Trump doesn't have full control of the GOP like he wants.

That's going to cause problems.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 48 minutes ago

Or Gaetz is hoping that no further details from the ethics report leak, and he can salvage his career after this blows over. If it ever does that is.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago

I don't think the GOP was honestly expecting him to win.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

It's the second. Gaetz was way too inflammatory for the lesser evil tactic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Or it's going to prevent some of the problems...

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Alright Marjorie Trailer-Queen, time to nut up (🤮 sorry) and leak (it keeps getting worse) that incriminating info about your fellow GOPedo colleagues that you were so brazen about earlier

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 minutes ago

She never had any intention of releasing anything. She was trying to keep the Gaetz report from coming out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 35 minutes ago (1 children)

Hopefully DeSantis doesn’t pick him to replace Marco Rubio's senate seat

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 minutes ago

If that happens, then they should release the report. At a bare minimum, he should never hold public office again.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago

Huh. I would have thought they left him in, even if it was as a lightning rod to attract attention while the other nominees all got through.

Must have been he didn't want to be questioned too much.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I mean okay, I mean Trump will just pick something worse. I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine and just release the house report on Gatez.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

He's already announced his next pick. It's Carole Baskin

/S

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I'm more disappointed that Democrats didn't grow a spine

So you are perpetually disappointed, got it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago

Yeah, pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 158 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

not so quick, maybe you are running from something, we should look into that. We wouldnt wanna spend all that tax payer money on nothing.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Whack the mole now so it doesn't show up somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Aww this clickbait headline got me, I thought he was withdrawing from life :(

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

Oh well now that he's not in contest as a nominee I guess no media is stopping him from taking any office.

Roadblock cleared! Sephiroth him.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (3 children)

Please don't nominate him for anything else. He resigned from Congress. This could be incredibly hilarious.

Edit: and if any Democrat on the ethics committee doesn't leak the report they should all be primaried and removed from their posts.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Note that while he resigned from this current Congress, he did get reelected to the next Congress, so he'll still be a US rep in Florida once the session starts in late January. Just kind of an extended two month vacation really.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Maybe not, according to https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11/21/us/trump-gaetz-news/5e296b83-bf2f-50cc-96b8-5049b764b8a9?smid=url-share:

Absent extraordinary events, we do not expect to see Gaetz back in the House next Congress. When he submitted his resignation to the House last week after being tapped for attorney general, he wrote: “I do not intend to take the oath of office for the same office in the 119th Congress.”

It is always possible that Gaetz can invoke the ancient privilege of "SIKE!!!!" And take it all back. But then the ethics report will get released....

[–] [email protected] 29 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately for him I mumbled "no takesies backsies" when he resigned so that's off the table

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Ah, but did Mike Johnson have his fingers crossed when he accepted Beavis's resignation?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Wouldn't that mean the house investigation can be resumed? I don't think he wants that.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I forget who on the NPR politics podcast said that he would get pushed out in backroom conversations, and not on the floor of the house, she nailed it.

They don't want the public drama and infighting, because it makes them look even more incompetent. If they're going to push you out, they're going to do it behind closed doors.

So, which clown is next? RFK, the WWE lady, Doctor Oz?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I heard that on the radio yesterday. They said they expected two or possibly three to withdraw because Orange Dipshit will never admit that he was wrong in choosing them.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I would imagine someone has a file on Tulsi that she wouldn't want to get out. Things are not going great for Hegseth either. Unfortunately I think our physical education curriculum will be disproportionately based on wrestling and CMS will be run by a TV doctor

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm not a reasonable person, but I play one on TV. Oh, wait, nope, not there either.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (9 children)

Gotta be something big to quit congress after being reelected and then decline the cabinet nomination used to justify pulling out.

This sounds like something serious. Someone should search his couches!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 29 minutes ago* (last edited 28 minutes ago)

Matt Gaetz hiding more underaged sex crimes we don't know about

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Paying minors for sex is hard time in prison. If evidence of such a thing became public the DOJ would essentially be forced to prosecute him. Right now they can just ignore it. Which they prefer to do because they like being employed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 minutes ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

Is it hard time in prison though? He trafficked them across state lines, meaning it goes to a federal court which makes it eligible for pardon

I could be wrong, but I thought it went federal soon as it crosses the border

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (2 children)

He quit to end the Congressional investigation. Was on his way out one way or another. This was just his attempt to fall upwards.

Maybe they'll add him to the DOGE roster after this. You can fuck all the teenagers you want over there and nobody will complain

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

How many Scaramuccis was that?

[–] [email protected] 70 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Scaramucci actually got the job, so it's probably negative Scaramucci's

He held the nomination for .8 Scaramuccis, and was fired 6.2 Scaramuccis before his earliest possible hire date.

Edit: Did Scaramucci math

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Eighty centimooches. Great job, Gaetz!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

Metric Mooches, the most disgraceful measurement of time.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

He REALLY does not want that ethics probe released. Which means we absolutely should.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

My conspiracy theory is that he wasn't a serious contender for AG. He got the nom which allowed him to resign from Congress. This forced the ethics committee to stop investigating him because he was no longer a member.

While he was a contender for AG, the Senate pushed for the release of materials anyway. Gaetz withdrawals from consideration, making the report moot.

This has Bannon written all over it.

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