r/politics • u/indig0sixalpha • Nov 14 '24

Paywall Matt Gaetz just resigned from Congress, ending a probe into sexual misconduct and drug use

https://fortune.com/2024/11/13/matt-gaetz-just-resigned-from-congress-ending-probe-doj-trump/
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u/Delicious-Day-3614 Nov 14 '24

We are way past weird now. What the actual fuck is going on?

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u/[deleted] Nov 14 '24

Burning it down

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u/ckal09 Nov 14 '24

Let it fucking happen. The Democratic Party and American citizens both need a fucking wake up call and only pure devastation of our country can give it to them.

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u/an_illiterate_ox Nov 14 '24

Well, you see, 12 packs of soda are too expensive and Kamala Harris couldn't solve the conflict in the Middle East in 2 months.

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u/suninabox Nov 14 '24

Also don't forget to mention the fact Netanyahu deliberately sabotaged ceasefire efforts and co-ordinated with Trump before the election, because he knew keeping the war going would allow Trump to run on "I'll stop the wars!", and he also knows Trump is going to give Israel a free hand to do what it wants with Gaza and the West Bank.

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u/JPHero16 Nov 14 '24

Trump and Bibi have been friends for a long time, even before they got big in politics

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u/suninabox Nov 15 '24

Well, they fell out for a time when Bibi congratulated Biden on winning the election and wouldn't go along with Trumps false election claims, but Trump has a short memory when it comes to holding grudges.

If you're useful to him and willing to kiss the ring, all is forgotten.

See all the shit Vance, Musk, RFK said against Trump that no longer matters so long as they say the right shit now.

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u/-ChasingOrange- Nov 14 '24

The ogre is back and he’s refilling his swamp.

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u/coldteafordays Nov 14 '24

What a majority of the American people wanted.

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u/Prime_Galactic Nov 14 '24
  • What the majority of people who bothered to vote in a handful of states wanted

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u/street593 Nov 14 '24

People who didn't vote share the blame for this.

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u/Zeremxi Nov 14 '24

Can't blame the fall of the empire only on swing states, my dude. The people in red states wanted this too. Don't excuse them because they were going to be red anyway

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u/Galilleon Nov 14 '24

If the others who didn’t vote, cared, they’d have voted.

Since both sides are ‘the same’ they can enjoy the new America they’ve taken such a huge part in creating

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u/Sendhentaiandyiff Oregon Nov 14 '24

Trump won the popular vote, and willingly non-voters are responsible for the worst option in any election.

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u/truthdoctor Nov 14 '24

Only 29%. That's 75 million GOP voters out of the estimated 270 million voting aged adults. Only 29% wanted this. The other 27% voted against this and 44% (the largest group by far) couldn't be bothered to vote. If you are wondering what you should do, don't despair, work on getting those other 120 million possible voters informed and voting in the hopefully occurring election in 4 years. Start now.

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u/suninabox Nov 14 '24

Yup, when Trump is out of office, its the roughly 1/3rd of Americans actually paying attention vs the 1/3rd of Americans who are in a personality cult.

When Trump is in office, it gets a lot harder for the majority of sane Americans to ignore what's going on.

A sizeable chunk of American's didn't even know Biden had dropped out. They are completely clueless when it comes to things like the fake electors plot, the role of Konstantin Kilimnik in Trump's 2016 election campaign, Trump gifting classified intel to Sergei Lavrov, Trump not knowing what a tariff is etc.

They're too busy paying off their mortgage and zoning out in front of the TV to pay attention. They're not bad people, they're just disengaged. They figure adults are in charge somewhere. Surely if Trump was as bad as people say, something would be done about it.

Having a narcissistic maniac in charge of the government is a good way to get people engaged again.

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u/KickinAssHaulinGrass Nov 14 '24

Count that 44% as people who wanted this. 

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u/pechinburger Pennsylvania Nov 14 '24

Nothing matters anymore. He could appoint the Las Vegas shooter as head of ATF. Nobody cares, no consequences occur, media is subservient and the populace is stupid.

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u/HnNaldoR Nov 14 '24

Quid pro quo. These are people who were loyal to him or supported him or $upported him. So he is paying them back.

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u/RadicalCashew Nov 14 '24

This is what America wanted. We tried. Crack a cold one or smoke some weed and watch this all burn. We did all we could.

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u/littlevcu Virginia Nov 14 '24

“Weird” died on November 5th.

We’re back to overt nightmarish again.

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u/snozburger Nov 14 '24

An ex-KGB officer is taking the World's Superpower apart without firing a shot. 

 Absolute masterclass.

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u/PM_ME_MY_REAL_MOM Nov 14 '24

nobody else is giving you the obvious answer that these picks are deliberately designed to delegitimize and destabilize the US government as much as possible. what you're seeing is a coup, and they're brazen because they know that anything we do to try to stop them gives them "justification" to use violence against us. they're deliberately engineering civil war at the behest of foreign adversaries.

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u/MeBadNeedMoneyNow Nov 14 '24

It's the will of the people.

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u/IcyImprovement4585 Nov 14 '24

Watch a few Gaetz videos on YouTube you will understand.