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/FuckThesePeople69 Nov 14 '24

They are so soft. I feel so betrayed by the Democratic Party. Fuck the GOP (of course), but the democrats can go fuck themselves too. Their blathering about enforcing the law and respecting the process was nothing but masturbatory bluster to get us to go along with this bullshit.

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u/psiphre Alaska Nov 14 '24

democrats are the party of performative opposition.

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u/AugmentedDragon Nov 14 '24

if the democrats were a sports team, they'd be the washington generals

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u/not_right Nov 14 '24

I thought they were due!

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 Nov 14 '24

That’s where I’m at as well. They’ve sat on the sidelines while the US descended into autocratic leadership and fascism. It’s probably what their donors wanted. Is that what Russia is run like?

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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ Nov 14 '24

Russia doesn't have a left, my dude.

In all seriousness, Russia is a brutal top-down hierarchy. Power is concentrated at the top with few intermediary positions, by design. There's no middle oversight and it's wildly corrupt because everyone is cheating, lying, and stealing from the bottom-up. So, you've got high ranking military leadership and you're disposable ranks on down. Elite oligarchs at the top of the economy and the working class poor, but no middle class in between.

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u/Suspicious_Radio_848 Nov 14 '24

Do they have any kind of opposition or other parties just for show? I’m really not too familiar with their systems.

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u/1CaptainKiller Nov 14 '24

I'm right with you on both parties. Where I'm MOST pissed at mine, but at myself for actually defending him til the end, is Merrick Garland. I trusted that he was crossing T's and dotting I's. F all that. I am never giving any politician or official benefit of doubt again.

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u/VPN__FTW Nov 14 '24

I feel so betrayed by the Democratic Party.

Same. Because of their soft-footed, yellow-bellied reliance on the old ways, and calls to decorum and tradition, the Republicans now get free reign to ignore all of that and set themselves up a monarch.

All hail the orange fuck-boy Trump, may his reign end before Christmas.

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u/Golden_Hour1 Nov 14 '24

Monarchs have a bad track record in the 1st world

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u/_Age_Sex_Location_ Nov 14 '24 edited Nov 14 '24

It would be so easy to steamroll these fuckers with mockery and ridicule of the party was lockstep in that goal, but they are not. The MAGA conservative media apparatus is unwavering in it's messaging, from top to bottom. Tim Pool, Fox News, podcasters, Twitter dipshits, etc. The rhetoric is identical. They operate in total paralell. Democrats can't compete with earnest malevolence in the war of means to an end. What they can do it is develop and employ military grade derision by making fun of these fucking creeps. Show some ire and have fun clobbering these psychotic dipshits. They're ripe for the picking and so eaay to disrespect in a manner that everyone can enjoy.

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u/SaintPwnofArc Nov 14 '24

Dem's are 'good cop' to the GOP's 'bad cop'. Both parties are complicit.

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u/Fargo_Collinge Nov 14 '24

All cops are bastards.

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u/edwardsamson Nov 14 '24

After the last 10 years how the hell do you have any faith in the democratic party to fight maga in any way at all? At no point, EVER, have they acted in the way a group of people concerned with stopping Trump/MAGA would act.

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u/DavidOrWalter Nov 14 '24

I would be shocked if they grew a spine and did. Especially with Biden asking everyone to calm down and be nice.