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Trump ally Matt Gaetz situation (noncing/trafficking?)

Started by Dog Botherer, June 18, 2020, 09:52:13 PM

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Ant Farm Keyboard

To bring this thread into friendlier noncing territories, Gaetz sought a blanket, preemptive pardon from Trump for himself and a few friends during the last week of his administration.

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/06/politics/matt-gaetz-pardon-donald-trump/index.html

Also, when he was a Florida representative, he opposed in 2015 a law criminalizing "revenge porn" with the argument that people, including him, should be free to decide whatever to do with their homemade collection of naked pictures. He also blocked the bill for a year after it had gone through Senate, as it was then assigned to a House committee he chaired and he never scheduled an hearing. It went instead to a different committee, he got the bill significantly weakened, and he was one of the two representatives to vote no (against 114), the other one being his roommate. The Florida Congress was able to pass a stronger bill against non consensual pornography in 2019, with Gaetz gone.

https://gizmodo.com/matt-gaetz-reportedly-fought-a-revenge-porn-law-to-prot-1846627665

Alberon


https://twitter.com/kylegriffin1/status/1380307035619696640?s=21

Allegations really starting to pile up now. Even in this day and age, surely impossible to see him wriggle out of this.

Keep thinking about how hilarious it is that Gaetz was the only person in the entire congress to vote against a bill that increased funding to fight sex trafficking. Whilst sex trafficking.

Not even a moments thought about how it might raise suspicions. Brilliant stuff.

Dex Sawash

Another forum I use has a 'Pizza Gaetz' thread, I assume that's probably a gag stolen from twitter though.

Johnny Yesno


Ant Farm Keyboard

I've checked one thing. There's actually no good cartoon version of Matt Gaetz (well so far, as Ben Garrison hasn't still drawn him). Basically, Gaetz already looks IRL like the generic version of a drawing by a street caricature artist, and any attempt at including him in a political cartoon is bound to make any take look like as some hack work.


BlodwynPig


Dog Botherer

to bring this thread a full circle, the timeline fits for ol Matty to have knocked up Nestor's sister when he was 18 and she was much younger. the families were close and it's not outside the realms of possibility that the family raised the kid as their own to avoid scandal.

*PARODY*, obvz

Ferris

Quote from: BlodwynPig on April 14, 2021, 07:54:03 PM
He looks diffr'n in every photo

I think he looks eerily similar in each photo, like a man wearing a caricature mask of his own face.

PlanktonSideburns

Lads gonna grass every cunt up isn't he?

Will he be assassinated do you think?

Tokyo van Ramming

Quote from: FerriswheelBueller on April 14, 2021, 09:20:24 PM
I think he looks eerily similar in each photo, like a man wearing a caricature mask of his own face.

Yeah call him Goldeneye Gaetz

Dog Botherer

Quote from: PlanktonSideburns on April 14, 2021, 11:10:02 PM
Lads gonna grass every cunt up isn't he?

Will he be assassinated do you think?

don't think they let people as stupid as him near enough to anyone important to do real damage. an associate of his is on trial for human trafficking and insane levels of corruption, that's more likely to sink him at this stage.

very telling the name "Denis Hastert" hasn't been floating around much. wonder why.

pcsjwgm

Probably the most unconvincing attempt at populist rabble-rousing I've ever seen. What are people meant to be fighting for? Gaetz's right to be a nonce?

Quote
I may be a canceled man in some corners. I may even be a wanted man by the Deep State.

But I hear the millions of Americans who feel forgotten, canceled, ignored, marginalized and targeted.

I draw confidence knowing that the silent majority is growing louder every day.
https://twitter.com/RepMattGaetz/status/1380942161068318722

Quote"They lie about me because I tell the truth about them, and I'm not gonna stop," Gaetz said, painting the investigations as an attack on his supporters. "So when you see the leaks and the lies and the falsehoods and the smears, when you see the anonymous sources and insiders forecasting my demise, know this: They aren't really coming for me. They're coming for you. I'm just in the way."
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/04/matt-gaetz-victim-defiant-speech-house-ethics-committee.html

Johnny Yesno


Ant Farm Keyboard

God bless "Kelly" from The Onion, who's come up with the hacky premise the whole story clearly requires.



Still needs more labels and arrows.

ajsmith2

I also like the (presumably intentional) detail of having Jerry Lee Lewis in heaven when he isn't dead.


Dex Sawash

Quote from: ajsmith2 on April 17, 2021, 03:23:26 AM
I also like the (presumably intentional) detail of having Jerry Lee Lewis in heaven when he isn't dead.

Im having full on Mandela right now.

Ambient Sheep

Me too!  Didn't he die last year?  Well, apparently not..

Ant Farm Keyboard


Dex Sawash


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Mr Farenheit

Gaetz's bro Joel Greenberg has a plea hearing on Monday, where he will plead guilty to a bunch of charges and promise to "cooperate fully with the United States in the investigation and prosecution of other persons, and to testify" in exchange for having some other stuff dropped. Still looking at 12 years jailtime though.

  https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2021/05/14/gaetz-wingman-set-to-plead-guilty-to-trafficking-a-minor-and-agrees-to-cooperate-with-feds-1382471

I had no idea how much poetic justice there was in how the whole thing blew up

QuoteAmong the charges Greenberg will plead guilty to is falsely accusing a political rival, Brian Beute, of being a pedophile. The alleged false accusations against Beute sparked the initial investigation into Greenberg.


JamesTC