• @HorreC@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • he is scared of a moral report that would go public if he is part of the kabinet. so no he wont get any other positon, if he wants to try to lie the pedophelia away.

    • @Kcap@lemmy.world
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      I’d imagine he won’t get nominated for anything else per se, but he’ll just be a senior advisor or some bullshit. He’ll absolutely still be in the white house, in Trump’s ear.

  • @Furbag@lemmy.world
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    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.

    • @DerArzt@lemmy.world
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      as long as he has the cover of being a private citizen

      Man, if you get elected into ANY government office you shouldn’t be able to be considered a private citizen.

    • @Draces@lemmy.world
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      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 🤞

    • @Suburbanl3g3nd
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      I mean, #metoo took forever to come around. I like to think in some future he’ll get boned

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    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!

    • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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      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

      • @takeda@lemmy.world
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        He quit to have this dismissed, but he could return in January since he won election. The DOJ nomination was there to distract us, why he did it.

    • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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

          • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            21 month ago

            Hard to compare the actions of a pedophile and the Russian asset he pardoned before. But yeah, one might look worse to the public. Not like he needs to care about what the public thinks anymore.

            • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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              Even dictators have to care. There isn’t a military in the world that can stop a million angry peasants.

              • @LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                Nah, just has to have the media to sell it so there are a million angry peasants to counter those million peasants, and most of them not able to see how they would be able to feed themselves in a week if anything actually happened.

                Edit: Sorry, just being contrary today it seems.

                • @Maggoty@lemmy.world
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                  Yeah and if I’m mad it’s not at you. The reason though that countering one crowd with another doesn’t work is that all you’ve done is create a civil war at that point. The idea for any leader is to avoid a crisis of legitimacy so bad that you have to deal with an angry mob in the first place.

      • @4am@lemm.ee
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        He said he was not going to join the 119th Congress either in his resignation.

      • snooggums
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        61 month ago

        That would mean the report could be easily resumed or released, since he would be a current member again.

        I’m sure the Republicans will shut it down because they are corrupt, but being a returning member could undermine the opposition based on him not being a current member right now.

  • sarcasticsunrise
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    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

  • 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.

  • peopleproblems
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    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.

    • @CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      71 month ago

      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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    191 month ago

    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?

    • @Today@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @spongebue@lemmy.world
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        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

        • @pelican7663@lemmy.world
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          She’s the one I’m most concerned about, because she could do massive damage in that position. Hegseth is a clown, and I don’t think he’ll figure out how to do much of anything in DoD, and will be quietly replaced in 6-12 months.

  • @FPSkra@lemmy.world
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    141 month ago

    But now who will be the more dangerous but more palatable nominee that Gaetz was running a screen for?

  • @tacosplease@lemmy.world
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    He can pull out now. But he may have already come a little

    too close to getting the job. Might have blown it.

    The house could birth an investigation that spawns many problems.

    Shouldn’t have been so childish.