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?
“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.
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.