The far-right representative has plunged the House into chaos—and turned his own party against him.

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      I remember when this weasel helped to storm a SCIF for a little stunt.

      Add that in with J6 and plotting a coup, and yet: these assholes have the BALLS to pretend to be upset about someone pulling a fire alarm.

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    The growing anger towards Gaetz is unlikely to help him as Republicans weigh whether to expel him from Congress.

    Ha fucking ha. No they won’t. There’s still that weirdo liar Santos. If they still haven’t done anything with him, I seriously doubt they’ll do jack dandy to teen sex trafficker Gaetz.

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      Because he didn’t traffic children.

      If you look at the charges of Greenberg and that essentially nobody once ever referred to Gaetz as a suspect but rather “subject of” or “involved in” it becomes pretty clear what happened.

      Greenberg was running a blackmail ring, or at least managing it, Matt Gaetz was the target of it. He started getting suspicious and went to the FBI.

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      Probably because his political handlers own him as a useful tool asset at least until the statute of limitations lapse on his alleged crimes kompromat

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    The moderate Republicans keep saying Gaetz is Biden’s favorite Republican so at least someone likes him. /S

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    “I think Matt Gaetz is a disgraceful human being,” Matt Lawler told reporters Wednesday. “I think he has certainly alienated lots of people left and right.”

    Lawler added he thought Gaetz should be kicked out of the Republican conference altogether.

    Always entertaining when Republicans start judging one another as bad people. I wonder what kinds of ethics they imagine themselves to have?

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    I’m not fully convinced on this one. NPR just interviewed people this morning in his district who had a “I didn’t really like him before but now I think he’s great” response. Seems that some people get happy when someone turns over the apple cart.

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      Ah, yes, the “burn it all down” contingent that DGAF about foreseeable consequences to the degree that they should be excluded from jury duty for lacking the ability to be representative of a “reasonable person,” i.e., being unable to determine what a normal person would do under the same set of circumstances.

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    “I think Matt Gaetz is a disgraceful human being,” Matt Lawler told reporters Wednesday.

    Well, yes. He is a Republican politician, which includes the above definition without fail.