Matt Gaetz Catch-All | Ethics report released

[superrific]

Actually, I am a lifelong Republican, but never voted for the fraud con man and self serving criminal Donald J Trump. I also recently said on this board that it

is your avatar dickie v because of a bet you lost?

 

[Kraftyheel89]

It is a picture of Dookie V in a dookie cheerleader uniform. Someone here, or on the old ZZLP, claimed to be the one to photoshop it.

 

[bridgetender]

What's funny is that people like you saying "no one cares" is exactly what has enabled stuff like this - ignoring all kinds of despicable conduct from elected officials on the supposed basis that "everyone in DC does it"

I would tweak the quote you replied to to say that it feels like half the country doesn't care, which continues to be extremely disheartening.

 

[Mulberry Heel]

True dat. MAGA-land still wants to lock Hillary Clinton up, even though the e-mail server stuff was 8 years ago, and she's no longer politically relevant. MAGA is all about hate and fear.

And petty vindictiveness. It doesn't matter how long a perceived enemy has been retired and/or out of the public eye, they still gin up hate against them and want them to suffer or be jailed. They're still going after Dr. Fauci years after the pandemic has ended. They're still trying to destroy Obamacare years after he's left office - hell, they're still railing against FDR and the New Deal. It literally never ends with them.

 

[Zoo_View]

No one cares. We all have enabled the cesspool that is Washington DC.

Go FYSelf.

 

[Zoo_View]

all right but this biden crime family shit really pisses me off. it is so old, so stale and so irrelevant but we're going to be hearing about it for a decade.

A decade?

 

[DiehardHeelFan]

December 23, 2024

Today the House Ethics Committee released its report on its investigation of widely reported allegations that while in office, former representative Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had engaged in sexual misconduct and illicit drug use, shared inappropriate videos on the House floor, misused state records...

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

Over the past thirty years, Republicans appear to have come to believe that nothing is more important than making sure Republicans control the government. Less competition has given rise to states like Florida that are essentially controlled by the Republicans. This, in turn, means there is very little oversight of the party’s lawmakers, making obviously problematic candidates able to survive far longer than they would if there were opposition to highlight poor behavior.

It also means that party members appear willing to overlook deeply problematic behavior in their own lawmakers, who come to feel immune, while attacking Democrats for what Republicans claim is the same behavior. Notably, in February of this year, in a closed hearing before the House Oversight Committee, Gaetz badgered President Biden’s son Hunter over his drug use. Hunter Biden responded that he had been “absolutely transparent” about his drug use and asked: “What does that have to do with whether or not you're going to go forward with an impeachment of my father other than to simply try to embarrass me?”

The answer is that while the drug use of private citizen Hunter Biden did not affect the U.S. government, the drug use of congressmember Matt Gaetz did. In a healthy political system, political opposition would have called out his behavior long before he was tapped to become one of the most important figures in the government.