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northland10 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 2:00 pm They still had the national anthem. Having a few other songs before it does not desecrate the national anthem, unless you're a racist f*** who refuses to accept that America has a history of denying other Americans the freedoms we claim to cherish.

We have used the song in church (one of our hymnals is titled Lift Every Voice and Sing). The only reason I don't stand is I am at the piano.

The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow wrote: Sen. Markwayne Mullin on Matt Gaetz:

“We had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor … of the girls that he had slept with. He’d brag about how he would crush ED medicine and chase it with an energy drink so he could go all night.”
@mkraju

Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko wrote: Breaking from ABC News: House investigators have obtained texts that allegedly show Rep. Matt Gaetz, in 2017, setting up a trip with a woman who a close associate had paid for sex, sources say.

Acyn @Acyn wrote: Reporter: Gaetz and Trump aren’t actually that close? Gaetz makes it out to be like they’re—

McCarthy: Gaetz makes a lot out. He probably lies about who he sleeps with too

After Republican Mazi Melesa Pilip lost the New York special election to replace George Santos’s empty House seat, Representative Matt Gaetz made sure to take time to tear down his fellow party member.

“It turns out DEI isn’t a real good strategy for Republican candidate recruitment,” Gaetz said in an interview with Newsmax

Gaetz went on to trash Pilip, who was born in Ethiopia and holds both American and Israeli citizenship, calling her a “very foolish woman.” Donald Trump used the exact same words in a Truth Social post Tuesday night, and added that Pilip lost because she did not endorse him.

Similarly, Gaetz’s main line of attack, besides dog whistles, was criticizing Pilip for not fully embracing Trump. “Look, if you don’t want to run as a Donald Trump Republican, what are you even doing running in 2024 on our side? Get on board.”

“George Santos stood with President Trump, backed the America First agenda, and he ultimately prevailed, so now the very New Yorkers who threw George Santos out see their own ranks diminished and they welcome back Democrat Tom Suozzi,” Gaetz continued, adding antisemitism to his already racist rant.

There are plenty of reasons Republicans lost this seat: Santos’s antics, the GOP’s do-nothing disaster of a term, or even the fact the district often leans Democratic— but DEI isn’t the boogeyman Gaetz makes it out to be.

When ABC News reported on Wednesday that the House Ethics Committee had acquired text messages between a young woman involved in the sex trafficking investigation and Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), a Gaetz spokesperson told ABC that the congressman “does not know anything about the woman you’re referencing.”

That seems extraordinarily unlikely.

The Daily Beast can now report that this woman told prosecutors in 2021 that she had sex with Gaetz at a drug-fueled party that she was paid to attend, according to the woman’s attorney.

This attorney told The Daily Beast on Thursday that the woman, in fact, received payments in connection with multiple sex parties with people in Gaetz’s circle. Her lawyer said that, in response to a subpoena, she testified about her experiences to the U.S. Attorneys investigating Gaetz. And she turned over text messages, photos, and other evidence to the Justice Department as part of its child sex trafficking inquiry into the Florida congressman, the lawyer said.

The Daily Beast has obtained some of those messages and photos, which match the documents described by ABC News.

ABC News
@ABC

EXCLUSIVE: Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz was subpoenaed to sit for a deposition in a civil lawsuit that involves allegations he had sex with a 17-year old-girl, sources tell ABC News.

Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump wrote: Matt Gaetz: “You never know, David — there may be an Attorney General Matt Gaetz down the road, or someone of my liking”

Vote.

Matt Gaetz Fumes About Getting a Last-Minute GOP Primary Opponent, Accuses Him of Being a Kevin McCarthy ‘Puppet’

Jamie Frevele
Apr 29th, 2024, 1:58 pm

Right before the filing deadline, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was handed a primary challenge in his Florida congressional district — and he’s not happy about it.

A former naval aviator named Aaron Dimmock filed to challenge Gaetz in the August 20 Republican primary. On Twitter/X, Gaetz made the claim that Dimmock was a “puppet” candidate and former Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) was the one responsible for making Gaetz’s next run for Congress a little less smooth

Meet @aaronwdimmock – the BLM supporting DEI instructor running against me in the Republican Primary.
I knew former Representative McCarthy would be getting a puppet of his to run.
I didn’t know it would be a Woke Toby Flenderson!https://t.co/cznlgPIs5g
— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) April 29, 2024

Gaetz was responsible for McCarthy being ousted as Speaker of the House back in October. McCarthy, in turn, blamed his ouster on his refusal to stop an ethics complaint filed against Gaetz alleging that he slept with a teenager.

The Daily Caller, a right-wing news outlet, reported that Dimmock’s LinkedIn page showed that the new congressional candidate “previously supported BLM and advocated for DEI.” Gaetz stated that this made Dimmock comparable to a “Woke Toby Flenderson,” a character from The Office. The site also said that both Dimmock and McCarthy have a connection with “a treasurer with American Patriots PAC, a group founded by allies of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.”




https://www.mediaite.com/politics/matt- ... hy-puppet/

raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed May 01, 2024 7:10 pm Gaetz believe's O'Keefe's findings should be investigated by the Committee on the Weaponization of Government.

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The O'Keefe video is here: https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1785782393414029738