Hi friends, sorry this is so late!
I just got the Washington Post alert that fucking douchecanoe Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is under Justice Department investigation for sex trafficking a 17 yr old girl.
He of course is claiming the Justice Department is trying to extort 25 million dollars from him and that it’s entirely false.
From the Orlando Sentinel –
Federal authorities are investigating potential sex trafficking violations by U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a probe that emerged from the prosecution of former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, according to a report by the New York Times.
Citing three people briefed on the matter, the Times reported Tuesday that Justice Department investigators are looking into whether Gaetz, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl and paid for her to travel with him.
The probe of Gaetz reportedly stemmed from the investigation of Greenberg, who faces a slew of charges including sex trafficking of a child.
The fucking best part???? The investigation began when Cheeto Mussolini was still in office, and Gaetz could be described as “wanting Trump to penetrate you isn’t a personality, yet here we are nonetheless.”
Everything Trump touches, is ruined even Matt Gaetz.
They almost all know this, but they do it anyway.
Hilarious how QAnon ends up supporting pedophiles…..
Especially as Qanon started on a pro-pedo 8Chan or 8Kun which hosted creepy old fat guys posting pics of teen girls scraped from FB and other social media.
Ironic doesn’t begin to describe this mess.
Conveniently Gaetz got engaged to a 26 yr old woman in December. He totally couldn’t have been involved in anything, he’s clearly an upstanding thirtysomething Florida man.
@memeweaver There are so many layers – each with almost infinte intriciate complexities – to this comment but instead of a lengthy incoherent rant, I’m just going to give it a
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G. Gordon Liddy died too. An absolutely miserable person, he still got tons of adulation from the mainstream press trying to portray him as a plucky believer, instead of a dried up soulless shell of a human being.
Hopefully he has to room with Limbaugh in Hell.
The entire GOP is rotten to the core.
Republicans saying, republicans doing.
Is it me, or do most of these repub douche bags look like cheesy comic book villains?
I want to say yes, but I also think the cheesy villains were smarter and better at their jobs, so this feels faintly insulting to them.
For the past few years, I’ve been saying that these right-wing politicians and pundits are making 80s cartoon villains look downright reasonable in comparison…
This is kind of stunning political news. I just commented over on Jezebel that I assumed the headline would be about his “son,” Nestor, a minor who was possibly trafficked in from a foreign country and with whom Gaetz shacked up. I googled this and apparently in Florida the age of consent is 18 (with a “Romeo and Juliet” exception, where people 16 or 17 can be in relationships with people no older than 23.) I love Florida, like so many New Yorkers do, we used to own a place down there which we bought because we were going so often, but I would have thought that the age of consent would be something like 14.
Wow Cousin Matt that was a wild ride on the googles.
What the fuck, that info is all sorts of gross and concerning.
I wonder if he claims Nestor as a dependent on his taxes, too.
I thought Nestor was pretty well-known. He came up because Gaetz, in a typical Republican self-own, was asked in a debate or something about how could he know anything about the lives of non-white people and he said, “I have a Cuban son!”
Forks dropped on political plates in Florida and nationwide. Photos emerged of teenage Nestor “interning” for him, details emerged about the living arrangements, Gaetz supposedly dated Nestor’s older sister, who is conveniently dead, Nestor has an unnamed father in Miami yet he lived with Gaetz. Nestor popped up again recently because Gaetz, who can’t shut up, claimed he allowed Nestor, who is now a college freshman or sophomore, to spring break somewhere in the Florida Panhandle. This is even more implausible, unless Gaetz gave him a credit card or otherwise footed the bill, because what parent, even a very controlling biological parent, can forbid a college student from going on spring break? Where there’s a will there’s a way. Wherever I read this, it could have been wonkette, unleashed a whole onslaught of people recounting how they snuck off to spring break with no money and with no parental advice and consent.
Everything about Gaetz is very bizarre. He’s never married and will be turning 39 in a few weeks. If you can get past the “fivehead” he’s not a bad-looking guy. There’s something “We Need To Talk About Matt” about him. Speaking of Matts, you can talk about me all you want. In fact, I think I will now in a new post.
Is it bizarre that a raging misogynist asshole never got married? I guess a lot of them manage to. I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s the type to not want an actual relationship with a woman.
Jerry Falwell Jr. had that weird thing going on between him and his wife and that guy from Florida too.
People are free to have open marriages, but not if you run a university dedicated to the proposition that people who do should be driven into ruin.
Also all parties involved need to not be minors when the arrangement starts.
That was the pool boy/cabana boy, who Falwell ended up buying the hostel for…
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-jerry-falwell-jr-miami-beach-pool-boy-evangelical-explained-850380/
We’ve semi-joked about Trumpco & the R’s being master projectionists… but REALLY, they do project an awfully lot!
Yep.
The one thing that DID surprise me when I ran across the story a few hours ago was the fact that it was a *girl*…
Because–like you, I’ve heard the suspicions around Nestor being a possible trafficking victim for a few years now…🙃
GOP Grifting 101:
If you’re going to pay a girl to have sex and parade her around from state to state in order to pretend you’re not gay, make sure she is AT LEAST 18.
This is the second bit of Matt Gaetz news today as Axios reported that he has been floating around the idea of trading in his congressional seat for a spot on Newsmax.
It is worthy of mentioning although less important than the 17 year old girl investigation because of the perfect way it exemplifies the fact that the current GOP is 100% about the show and 0% about representing the people.
The GOP has no interest in legislation. What bills has Gaetz written or co-authored? Not just Gaetz, but all of the relatively young GOP congress members? NONE.
It’s all about the show. The show is the grift by duping the rubes as @manchucandidate alluded to above. What is worse than the grifting is that it exacorbates the number 1 threat to democracy in the US which cannot be, or at least shouldn’t be, understated.
So I have had a shitty few days recently, which is not my usual experience, but rather than the l-o-n-g self-pitying rant I was going to unleash I’ll leave you with a palate cleanser.
Better Half was out and about on Sunday. He came home around lunchtime because he has to walk the dog, something I haven’t been able to do FOR FOUR MONTHS.
“What’s wrong with you Mattie?”
“I am getting very tired of this, this home confinement, I never see anyone except for the doctor and the visiting nurses.”
“Think of something positive. When we were in Barcelona I’ve never seen you so happy, and we’ve been all over Europe. Think about that. This will all be over soon and we’ll go back. Didn’t you tell me that you could read Catalan but because of the spelling and how they speak it you couldn’t write or pronounce it? Why don’t you learn Catalan? It’ll come in handy.”
“Mmmmm. You know what I could do…” Off to the kitchen and the bar I went. “Do me a favor and pick up some spicy sausages. They’ll probably be called Italian sausages, and the packaging might say they’re spicy. If you can find something called chorizo that’s even better. Here, I’ll write it down.”
Mission accomplished. That night I made sausages in a red wine/garlic/onion sauce, more like I braised them, and served them with fried potatoes. If you chop the sausages and add smushed tomato you can serve over rice or flat noodles. I can already feel an FYCE post coming on.
Catalan is strange. I speak Spanish, but Catalan loses me completely. I worked with a fair amount of people from the Barcelona area.
I think to read it is pretty simple, plus Catalunya is like Québec, the signage is often bilingual, with Catalan prominent and Spanish underneath (whereas in Québec it’s French/English.) So you can see how the consonants and vowels vary in a routine pattern. There also seems to be French and Portuguese influences, or maybe Catalan influenced French and Portuguese. But to hear it spoken is incomprehensible. To me it sounds like Russian.
Yes, it totally has an almost Russian sound! Or at times a little Portuguese. I don’t think I’ve ever seen it written, just heard it spoken by coworkers.
I’m sorry that you’ve been having rough days recently. It’s ok to rant here if it makes you feel better. I’m pretty sure the DeadSplinterati would welcome and support the dark side of Cousin Matthew.
And thank you, that dish is transporting me back to Barcelona too, happy honeymoon memories.
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I hope they nail Matt’s scrote to the wall.