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Aren't Gaetz and MTG having a rally in Phoenix tonii?

Matt Gaetz got trolled in Ohio, as pranksters started singing, "She was Just 17" (l Saw Her Standing There) at his speaking event.

Watch:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/politics ... index.html

Washington (CNN)Federal authorities investigating alleged sex trafficking by GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz have secured the cooperation of the congressman's ex-girlfriend, according to people familiar with the matter.

The woman, a former Capitol Hill staffer, is seen as a critical witness, as she has been linked to Gaetz as far back as the summer of 2017, a period of time that has emerged as a key window of scrutiny for investigators. She can also help investigators understand the relevance of hundreds of transactions they have obtained records of, including those involving alleged payments for sex, the sources said.

News of the woman's willingness to talk, which has not been previously reported, comes just days after the Justice Department formally entered into a plea agreement with Joel Greenberg, a one-time close friend of Gaetz whose entanglement with young women first drew the congressman onto investigators' radar.

Sorry, couldn't help myself

Matt Gaetz hopes the truth will prevail?
Afghanistan does not have an extradition treaty with the US.
Neither does Djibouti.
I hear Mogadishu is nice this time of the year.

Matt, good buddy, you should be examining your exit options right about now.

My hope is that Karma will prevail in every corner of Trumpism and sucker punch all it's enablers

Tiredretiredlawyer wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 9:26 am Is an encrypted messaging app a must have technology? Asking for a friend....

It is but you have to make sure you screen shot all your crimes before they go poof if you're gonna use them.

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:18 pm My hope is that Karma will prevail in every corner of Trumpism and sucker punch all it's enablers

If nothing else they do seem to be creating a lot of jobs for defense attorneys, don't they?

Gregg wrote: ↑Sat May 22, 2021 1:18 am

MsDaisy wrote: ↑Fri May 21, 2021 11:18 pm My hope is that Karma will prevail in every corner of Trumpism and sucker punch all it's enablers

If nothing else they do seem to be creating a lot of jobs for defense attorneys, don't they?

Since election night in 2016 it’s been full employment for lawyers on the east coast and beyond.

The Winner of the Internet today is

Xposting - because I had to look up that word. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineum

Perineum
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The perineum in humans is the space between the anus and scrotum in the male, or frenulum labiorum pudendi in the female.[2] The perineum is the region of the body between the pubic symphysis (pubic arch) and the coccyx (tail bone), including the perineal body and surrounding structures. There is some variability in how the boundaries are defined.[3] The perineal raphe is visible and pronounced to varying degrees. The perineum is an erogenous zone.[4]

The word perineum entered English from late Latin via Greek περίναιος ~ περίνεος perinaios, perineos, itself from περίνεος, περίνεοι ‘male genitals’ and earlier περίς perís 'penis' through influence from πηρίς pērís ‘scrotum’. The term was originally understood as a purely male body-part with the perineal raphe seen as a continuation of the scrotal septum since masculinization causes the development of a large anogenital distance in men, in comparison to the corresponding lack of distance in women.[5] As a result of folk etymologies (such as ἰνάω ináō, “to carry off by evacuations”), it is contemporaneously extended both sexes.

AKA: the "taint" as in taint here nor there...

Yikes!

Matt Gaetz says the 2nd amendment is about “maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government”

He's such a chucklefuck.

Kendra wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 7:47 pm Yikes!

Matt Gaetz says the 2nd amendment is about “maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government”

That might have been true back in the days of muzzle loaders. Today, I don't think so.

It wasn't even true back then. There was no hesitancy about going after the Whiskey Rebellion.

It was for killin’ red Indians, who didn’t contribute ONE THING to our civilization. Harrumph!

Suranis wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 9:17 pm It wasn't even true back then. There was no hesitancy about going after the Whiskey Rebellion.

It was the first use of an organized National Army. and the TPers thought that Washington's Flag was the Whiskey Rebels banner.

somerset wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 8:33 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Thu May 27, 2021 7:47 pm Yikes!

Matt Gaetz says the 2nd amendment is about “maintaining within the citizenry the ability to maintain an armed rebellion against the government”

That might have been true back in the days of muzzle loaders. Today, I don't think so.

No, it was NEVER true.

The 2nd Amendment says EXACTLY why it is there and it is the ONLY provision in the entire Constitution that contains its own justification (not counting the Preamble which provides the justification for the entire document.

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed.

It specifically says that "the security of a free State" depends on "A well regulated Militia" and so the people should not be disarmed (as the British attempted to do to the colonies).

Many people ignore that justification, of course, but what is even more egregious is that most "uberPatriots" who do recognize the justification part twist it to mean what ever the heck they want to - and think they can get away with calling themselves a militia when what they are are armed gangs of thugs, and especially over the last couple of decades specifically anti-State gangs at that.

Futhermore, the Constitution defines EXACTLY what is meant by "a well regulated militia". And those guys ain't it.

Section 8:
The Congress shall have the power...

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

Of course, IANAL, and there are those of you who are and will certainly edumacate me all about US v Miller and DC v Heller and etc. but I can read as well as any of you, and I don't see any reference to the plain English in the Constitution that defines a "well regulated militia" in those decisions (admittedly I haven't read them in close detail). On the contrary they seem to go out of their way to ignore that plain definition and rely instead on some imaginary understanding that a well regulated militia refers to the entire pool of able bodied men regardless.

https://www.wfla.com/8-on-your-side/inv ... t-missing/

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) – U.S. Congressman Matt Gaetz of Florida has sailed into a new controversy, claiming money wired to close the sale on a St. Petersburg yacht his fiancée had agreed to buy “went missing.”

According to a spokesperson for the Republican, he and his fiancée Ginger Luckey were “targeted by malicious actors” during the purchase process of a St. Petersburg yacht. Follow-up questions about the transaction and clarification of the statement have not been answered.

About a week after news broke about the investigation into Gaetz’s potential connection to the sex-trafficking case involving former Seminole County Tax Collector Joel Greenberg, the Republican was spotted with Luckey on a 41-foot yacht docked at Pier 4 at the St. Petersburg Municipal Marina.

What's the bold face warning at the top of every Craigs List page?

DON'T WIRE MONEY TO PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW!

Also, what is the yacht "sale" covering up?

The NRA truncated the 2nd Amendment in the 1960s.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ ... -amendment