... Speaking to former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon on his "War Room Pandemic" podcast, Mr Gaetz said: "If the president called me and wanted me to go defend him on the floor of the Senate, that would be the top priority in my life. I would leave my House seat. I would leave my home. I would do anything I had to do to ensure that the greatest president in my lifetime, one of the greatest president this country has ever had, maybe the greatest president our country has ever had, got a full-throated defence." ...
... Mr Gaetz claimed that the "cancellation of the Trump presidency and the Trump movement" was "one of the biggest threats" to his district, even as Covid-19 has ravaged his home state. According to data from The New York Times, almost 27,000 people in Florida have died from Covid-19.
Twitter users were quick to make fun of Mr Gaetz and his seemingly absolute devotion to the former president.
It's hilarious Matt thinks Trump gives a fuck about this undying love and loyalty. Nobody in his whole history gets it back.
Oh no, anything but that. Please don't do it, @mattgaetz . I will feel so owned if you resign to defend Trump.
find a partner who loves you like matt gaetz loves humiliating himself.
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More tweets at the link. Other related tweets:
He was an ineffective attorney before he was ineffective Congressman wanting to be an ineffective attorney again
Don't forget an ineffective drunk driver saved by very effective daddy's money
No he was effective at driving drunk
But he got caught...
I didn’t say he was effective at evading the law
Someone worried about his chances in 2022?
In the Florida district that elected Matt Gaetz? Safe to assume they would elect anyone willing to wear the pointy white hood. Err, I mean, red hat.
Defending Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney after attacks from Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, a spokesperson for Ms Cheney said "Gaetz can leave his beauty bag at home. In Wyoming, the men don’t wear makeup.”
The spokesperson was most likely referring to a clip from the HBO documentary The Swamp in which Mr Gaetz puts on makeup before TV interviews at the capitol.
The spokesperson was most likely referring to a clip from the HBO documentary The Swamp in which Mr Gaetz puts on makeup before TV interviews at the capitol.
The spat comes after Rep Cheney, the House Republican Conference Chair and number 3 in the House Republican leadership, voted to impeach former President Donald Trump along with nine other Republicans and all 222 House Democrats.
Rep Cheney said in a statement: “There has never been a greater betrayal by a President of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution." ...
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Hypothetical - would Gaetz really have to be that crazy to keep his seat? Let's say he is brighter than he seems, and that he's just got a good act that worked for him during the Trump debacle. As an incumbent, if he backed off on the stupid a few degrees wouldn't he still get elected just by wearing the red hat? And if he doesn't have to keep this act going, but does so anyway, is that not indication that he really is dumber than a box of dirt?
Matt follows a long line of the worst. He could wear a dress and get 65% of the vote.
Nttawwt.
Opps, the pic I posted above disappeared. This is better, anyhow, Reps Matt "Butt-Head" Gaetz & Jim "Beavis" Jordan:
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Hypothetical - would Gaetz really have to be that crazy to keep his seat? Let's say he is brighter than he seems, and that he's just got a good act that worked for him during the Trump debacle. As an incumbent, if he backed off on the stupid a few degrees wouldn't he still get elected just by wearing the red hat? And if he doesn't have to keep this act going, but does so anyway, is that not indication that he really is dumber than a box of dirt?
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) claimed he had the votes. He didn’t.
The Florida congressman was roundly mocked on social media Wednesday after he insisted that he had enough votes to demote Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the No. 3 Republican in House leadership, because she voted to impeach former President Donald Trump.
... Except that’s not how it unfolded. The vote was held and Cheney easily kept her position in a 145-61 secret-ballot tally.
One of the most pointed replies to Gaetz came from within his own conference as Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) fired back:
Gaetz, a staunch Trump loyalist, has repeatedly attacked Cheney since her vote for impeachment ― even traveling to her state to hold a rally against her.
“We are in a battle for the soul of the Republican Party and I intend to win it,” Gaetz said at the rally last week.
His insistence that he had the votes, followed by Cheney’s easy victory, caused Gaetz’s name to trend on Twitter. But probably not in a way he’d appreciate:
Were the votes counted on Dominion equipment?
To be fair @mattgaetz
has trouble counting above 10 if he doesn’t have a whole bunch of those mini tequila bottles
More tweets at the link. I love see these kinds of headlines at the uber right-wing National Review:
Matt is the biggest DB i have ever seen in my life!!
Matt Gaetz looks like the villain in a Claymation film
unlike a broken clock, Rep. Gaetz is wrong every time of the day
Make the Senate Impeachment Trial a secret ballot.
It’s Quacus now
It is so hilarious. The GOP has gotten so bad that this is considered a success.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
Matt follows a long line of the worst. He could wear a dress and get 65% of the vote.
Nttawwt.
Opps, the pic I posted above disappeared. This is better, anyhow, Reps Matt "Butt-Head" Gaetz & Jim "Beavis" Jordan:
Damn, that's great. Looks like Matt and Jim were caught by surprise after a rousing all night festival of Republican stupidity and cheap liquor. Proud boys....drunk and stupid and proud of it.
Damn, that's great. Looks like Matt and Jim were caught by surprise after a rousing all night festival of Republican stupidity and cheap liquor. Proud boys....drunk and stupid and proud of it.
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) didn't exactly pull punches in an interview with Politico, going after congressional Republicans, Democrats, former President Donald Trump, and the Biden administration all in one go.
Sasse, who is facing imminent censure from the Nebraska GOP for voting to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, stands by that vote and says he's not bothered by the action his home state's Republican Party is taking against him, though he did say he thinks it's not "healthy." His comments to Politico seemed to back up that confidence. At one point, when asked about Trump loyalist Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), Sasse simply said "that guy is not an adult," and described Congress, generally, as "a bunch of yokels screaming."
Sasse's candor is gutsy, but it's worth noting he's generally well-respected by his Senate colleagues and won re-election handily last year, so he's ensconced in the upper chamber until 2026, and likely doesn't need to look over his shoulder as of now....
Ouch.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
No predictions here, but if it can be characterized as choosing greed and possibly an even wider audience over public service, I can buy it. Then, IF it looks like the Dems will hold onto the House, why not?
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
... Then, IF it looks like the Dems will hold onto the House, why not?
That's the key.
Nothing is more of a bummer for congresscritters than being out of power.
It's not like even Floridians will be crazy enough to ever elect him to the Senate.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
"Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter.
Investigators are examining whether Mr. Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws"
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
"Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida and a close ally of former President Donald J. Trump, is being investigated by the Justice Department over whether he had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old and paid for her to travel with him, according to three people briefed on the matter.
Investigators are examining whether Mr. Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws"
Wow.
I would not argue that your Gov and Sens are less evil than Goofy Gaetz, but imo they aren't as stupid. Am I wrong?
It's like here - Sens Burr and Tillis are probably more damaging than Mad, but there's no way that Mad ever wins statewide.
"Strike against manufacturing shrapnel and gas bombs and all other tools of murder!... Be not dumb, obedient slaves in an army of destruction.... Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!"
-- Helen Keller, Carnegie Hall, 1916
True. Gaetz would never make it with the new yorker crowd down south - even the trumpers would hate southern boy matt.
He's strictly panhandle material.
Trump: “We had the safest border in the history of our country - or at least recorded history. I guess maybe a thousand years ago it was even better.”
True. Gaetz would never make it with the new yorker crowd down south - even the trumpers would hate southern boy matt.
He's strictly panhandle material.
A love story may be just the thing to bring a crash and burn end to this dumbfuck's demise. He can look back on it and remember how good it was.
