Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:

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Tom Fox said:

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MemphisAg1 said:

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Tom Fox said:

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Both are meh.

Prostitution has always been around and should be legal. And we are stupid for infantilizing 17, 18, and 19 year olds. They are the backbone of our fighting forces and all throughout history have been married and bearing children.

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There's a difference between a 21 year old interacting with a 17 year old, and a 30+ year old doing it.

Something about young love hooking up is understandable, whereas an older guy preying on an underage female is creepy and downright wrong.

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Maybe but there has to a line drawn in the sand legally. I am perfectly fine with that being 17.

Edit: Just curious what age gap do you think is appropriate for a 17, 19, 21, or 25 year old?

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17 year olds are children. Not legally but they're still children. It's gross and their are character issues for a man over the age of thirty being with one.

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rathAG05 said:

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He ain't getting 50.

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Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:

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Tom Fox said:

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MemphisAg1 said:

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Tom Fox said:

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Both are meh.

Prostitution has always been around and should be legal. And we are stupid for infantilizing 17, 18, and 19 year olds. They are the backbone of our fighting forces and all throughout history have been married and bearing children.

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There's a difference between a 21 year old interacting with a 17 year old, and a 30+ year old doing it.

Something about young love hooking up is understandable, whereas an older guy preying on an underage female is creepy and downright wrong.

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Maybe but there has to a line drawn in the sand legally. I am perfectly fine with that being 17.

Edit: Just curious what age gap do you think is appropriate for a 17, 19, 21, or 25 year old?

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17 year olds are children. Not legally but they're still children. It's gross and there are character issues for a man over the age of thirty being with one.

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rathAG05 said:

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Watch. He's that unpopular. Trump has a ton of rope, but Gaetz will be a bridge too far.

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Teslag said:

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Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:

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Tom Fox said:

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MemphisAg1 said:

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Tom Fox said:

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Both are meh.

Prostitution has always been around and should be legal. And we are stupid for infantilizing 17, 18, and 19 year olds. They are the backbone of our fighting forces and all throughout history have been married and bearing children.

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There's a difference between a 21 year old interacting with a 17 year old, and a 30+ year old doing it.

Something about young love hooking up is understandable, whereas an older guy preying on an underage female is creepy and downright wrong.

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Maybe but there has to a line drawn in the sand legally. I am perfectly fine with that being 17.

Edit: Just curious what age gap do you think is appropriate for a 17, 19, 21, or 25 year old?

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17 year olds are children. Not legally but they're still children. It's gross and there are character issues for a man over the age of thirty being with one.

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They are literally not children

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DannyDuberstein said:

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You should have stayed home and had the neighbor's wife legally grease your pole. You were adult enough for that

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K2-HMFIC said:

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Matt Gaetz is severely underqualified to serve as Attorney General. For more on this Google “Matt Gaetz barely legal”

— Chase Mitchell (@ChaseMit) November 13, 2024

I'm here for the memes.

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Then on March 30, 2021, all that changed with the publication of an anonymously sourced report accusing him of possibly being a child sex trafficker.

A group of New York Times reporters who won awards for their roles pushing the Russia collusion lie penned an anonymously sourced article with a devastating headline: "Matt Gaetz Is Said to Face Justice Dept. Inquiry Over Sex With an Underage Girl." The story was sourced to "three people briefed on the matter," none of them identified in any way. The story contained no evidence against Gaetz of sex crimes, but much guilt-by-association. Late in the story, the pack of reporters admitted that no charges had been filed and that the "extent of his criminal exposure is unclear."

Gaetz strenuously and immediately asserted his innocence and denied the accusations.

On Friday, 18 months after he was accused of being a pedophile and child sex trafficker, the Washington Post published another anonymously sourced report. "Career prosecutors recommend no charges for Matt Gaetz," said the article, published quietly on a Friday. Not only was he never convicted of any of the crimes he was alleged to have committed, he wasn't even charged. And, if you believe the anonymously sourced claims, he isn't going to be.

The damage was already done by the initial report, written by reporters who regularly regurgitate political leaks from Department of Justice and FBI sources.

"Matt Gaetz's days in politics are likely numbered," one CNN reporter claimed days after the initial report, noting how few people had come to his defense.

Of course, as even The Washington Post admitted, "Gaetz's position is shaky. The allegations are of a sort that makes it very difficult for his colleagues to come to his defense. … [T]here's an obvious political risk to vocally defending someone who might face sex-trafficking charges, so expect his political allies (including the former president) to remain fairly muted."

That was the goal of the politicized leaks. Gaetz couldn't very well critique the Department of Justice for their political prosecutions if he was a pariah who everyone thought was a pedophile.

On the year anniversary of the original Gaetz story, journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote that leaks "have the effect, and often the intent, of destroying someone's reputation, convicting them of repellent crimes in the court of public opinion that will never be brought in a court of law, thus relieving the state of the requirement to prove the crime and depriving the accused the opportunity to exonerate themselves."

That's precisely what happened.

He was the target of multiple "Saturday Night Live" skits. "Gaetz is under investigation by the Justice Department for a number of crimes, including child sex trafficking and allegedly paying for sex," The Washington Post said in a video report about the skits.

Politico reporters suggested the walls were closing in, writing, "Gaetz's allies now fear that Greenberg is preparing to strike a deal with prosecutors to deliver Gaetz." That was the tenor of coverage for months, even as Gaetz's claims regarding being the target of criminal extortion were validated.

The Associated Press tried to tie Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to the scandal.

"If Matt Gaetz is innocent of sex trafficking, why does he need an expensive criminal defense attorney from New York?" said one left-wing attorney who is popular with corporate media.

The Democrat-run Ethics Committee in the House typically waits to run investigations of members until after the Department of Justice finishes an investigation. In Gaetz's case, the committee went out of its way to begin and announce an investigation into the embattled Florida member.

Cheney and other obsessed Never Trump activists (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here) delighted in the anonymously sourced allegations against Gaetz. They haven't yet apologized or publicly commented on Friday's also anonymously sourced news.

Former Vice President Mike Pence's Chief of Staff Marc Short even accused Gaetz of being a child trafficker just this past July after the congressman said Pence was a "nice guy" but that he would never be president.

"I don't know if Mike Pence will run for president in 2024, but I don't think Matt Gaetz will have an impact on that," Short said. "In fact, I'd be surprised if he's still voting. It's more likely he'll be in prison for child trafficking by 2024."

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MemphisAg1 said:

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K2-HMFIC said:

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C@LAg said:

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i hope that works.

otherwise, trump is going to waste a LOT of political capital on this one pick.,

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If you guys haven't learned in 8 years, there isn't a strategy, it's purely vibes.

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It's fine. I'll take the occasional bad with the much more abundant good.
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dmart90 said:

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This may be one of the dumbest nominations of all time. Actually, I can't think of one that was worse.

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Larry Hagman said:

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dmart90 said:

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This may be one of the dumbest nominations of all time. Actually, I can't think of one that was worse.

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Lol i can the last 4 years any appointment

But we hear you cm!

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dmart90 said:

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. Pete is just unqualified, for example.

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C@LAg said:

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dmart90 said:

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. Pete is just unqualified, for example.

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ridiculous

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Ghost of Andrew Eaton said:

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Tom Fox said:

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MemphisAg1 said:

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Tom Fox said:

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Both are meh.

Prostitution has always been around and should be legal. And we are stupid for infantilizing 17, 18, and 19 year olds. They are the backbone of our fighting forces and all throughout history have been married and bearing children.

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There's a difference between a 21 year old interacting with a 17 year old, and a 30+ year old doing it.

Something about young love hooking up is understandable, whereas an older guy preying on an underage female is creepy and downright wrong.

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Maybe but there has to a line drawn in the sand legally. I am perfectly fine with that being 17.

Edit: Just curious what age gap do you think is appropriate for a 17, 19, 21, or 25 year old?

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17 year olds are children. Not legally but they're still children. It's gross and their are character issues for a man over the age of thirty being with one.

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jagvocate said:

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If Gaetz isn't appointed AG, he will be nominated by Desantis as FL Senator.

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