The House Ethics Committee has records showing Matt Gaetz allegedly paid more than $10,000 to two women who later testified in front of the panel, ABC News has learned.
The Republican party, and a shocking number of people in general, are perfectly fine with whatever. They don’t actually have any kind of genuine moral or ethical system. I feel like such a fucking old man now talking like this but goddamn is it gross that a guy who paid children for sex is going to be the Attorney General, that is not how it worked when I grew up. I mean, it was how it worked but if you got caught that was it. Everyone shunned you and your career in public service was over, you had to go work as a lobbyist or sit on some corporate boards and keep your head down.
God damn!
Im sure that means his career is over, right?
… right?
Correct!
He’s been promoted to a different career.
Trumpisms Peter Principle.
I think the Peter Principle is supposed to freeze you in the first job you’re unsuited for, not just keep pushing you upward.
“When you’re a star, they let you do it”
The Republican party, and a shocking number of people in general, are perfectly fine with whatever. They don’t actually have any kind of genuine moral or ethical system. I feel like such a fucking old man now talking like this but goddamn is it gross that a guy who paid children for sex is going to be the Attorney General, that is not how it worked when I grew up. I mean, it was how it worked but if you got caught that was it. Everyone shunned you and your career in public service was over, you had to go work as a lobbyist or sit on some corporate boards and keep your head down.
I mean, it might make it ever so slightly harder for him to be confirmed by the Senate…maybe?
Yup. He’s finished in politics. Time for life as an attorney. Zero experience necessary.