• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Besides the child-fucking, I thought prostitution was illegal? Or does that not matter for the elitists like Gaetz?

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        Yes, fair point. That is an important distinction. They whipped up nonsense about Hillary trafficking kids from the basement of a basement-less pizza parlor based on absolutely nothing, and created an entire movement over that nonsense. Normal Americans point and laugh at such absurdity, but many of the deplorables STILL fervently believe in qanon insanity.

        Meanwhile, Gaetz is credibly accused of ACTUALLY doing it, and…crickets.

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    The craziest thing is that this didn’t come out when vetting the candidate for AG, he is using AG position to escape this investigation.

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      This was all public knowledge, the DOJ just dropped the charges instead of prosecuting him because Merrick Garland is a useless piece of shit.

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    It’s too late at night for me right now, but did Gaetz ever get on Trump’s bad side?

    Is it possible he’s using Gaetz to test the waters of his nominees, or is he using the nomination to humiliate Gaetz? Has Trump responded to the scandal?

    It seems odd that Trump would purposely trigger infighting before he took office.

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      At first I was “yes it is fine, so he hired a prostitute” then:

      At least one of the girls was below the age of consent

      Ah. Gotcha.

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        Ya I was being sarcastic. There’s nothing fine about anything in this new administration but here we are and so I’m just gonna check the fuck out. America is full of TikTok and Facebook dumbasses

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          Oh I totally got the sarcasm!

          I have considerable sympathy for the American people and pity for the ones who think they want this. Unfortunately for my country we tend to import quite a lot of American culture and seeing what’s coming is worrisome.