• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    ITT people are pretending this wasn’t all common knowledge well before now and we could not have possibly been through an entire investigation and prosecution already.

    How does that boot taste? Is there a special twang to child predator boots or is it the same taste as Biden’s?

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      Not for these guys.

      Remember, there’s lots of images with Trump and Epstein over time. There’s reports of Trump walking into the dressing room during Miss Teen USA. And Trump is convicted of sexual assault.

      The press did bring up the Miss Teen USA thing but back in 2016. They’ve largely ignored both that piece and the Epstein & Trump connection. Though that kid from his base tried to shoot him because of the Epstein thing. Again, largely ignored by the press.

      Here’s my conspiracy theory. Gaetz didn’t play ball with someone over in DC so he’s been thrown to wolves by simply revealing the truth about him.

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          Fiddly is where he needs to be. Trump is still in DC. Presumably because the snake pit hasn’t turned on him yet, unlike Gaetz.

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        Not convicted. He was found to have committed sexual assault as a finding of fact in a civil defamation case.

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        The last time he was threatened with release, he resigned. The threat was to leave the government or the report is released. When he planned to become AG, the report release was on the table. Then he dropped his Attorney General position so they weren’t going to be released. Then he said he was going to take the vacated Senate seat so it was released.

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          Still raises the question of why him? Being a smarmy asshole isn’t the reason, there’s lots of that going around in DC.

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    Color me surprised, illegal things break laws? What is this county coming to?!? What is next, greed causes suffering?

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        Most charitable interpretation is that both of them committed crimes, and that in both cases their crimes were ignored for political reasons.

        Less charitably, they’re suggesting the particular crimes were comparable.

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      Yes, because tax evasion and a gun crime are the same as raping a child.

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    So turns out the child-fucker is indeed a child-fucker. I could give a shit about the drug use, other than the typical qon hypocrisy there.

    People with those “Pedophiles for Trump” signs need to update it to “Pedophiles for Republicans” to be more accurate and more inclusive.

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    🤯🤯🤯 raping a minor is against the law now? And what will be punished after? Murder? That’s very inconsiderate.

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    “Victim A said that she did not inform Representative Gaetz that she was under 18 at the time, nor did he ask her age.”

    Ignorance ( *cough* willful) of the law isn’t a valid defence especially a legal adult vs a minor. Even if she had been legal, the vast difference in ages is gross.

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    “The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” the 37-page report concludes.

    Also US and state laws…

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    And nothing will happen, and he will spend the next ten years being the “special guest speaker” at colleges all over the country making hundreds of thousands per speech. And the pieces of shit win again.

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      If you live in america, you can/should arrange a protest.

      People seem to equate commenting with protesting these days. More cozy I guess.

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          It seems like you have a connection to the outside world somehow. Maybe you can still arrange something…

          But it might be easier to be upset about a foreigner, whom is trying to get americans to stop being so docile.

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        Great idea, I’ll go protest after I’m done working my 12 hours so I can afford to feed and shelter my family.

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      Won’t matter unless he’s got hella damning evidence, maybe not even then. Anything he says going forward will look like petty revenge.

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      Unfortunately you’re probably right. Anything even remotely connected to politics has gotten so cult-like that “nuh uh” has become a valid defense for most.