Family Values
Fetal alcohol syndrome.
Ecstasy in marijuana. lol. Sounds like a Friday night for me. Why the fuck lie abou—oh, republican.
I really don’t understand why, with so many of them clearly enjoying it, the republicans aren’t pushing for legalized drugs, regulated prostitution, a 16 consent, and legalized abortion.
Because if they legalized that shit we’d get to do it too without the cops busting out asses, and the entire point is to lord the fact that they can do whatever the fuck they want (and that we can’t) over us.
Even this misses the point, imo. It’s not about lording over people. It’s about creating and maintaining a system that lets them pick and choose who sits behind bars, who loses access to their finances, who is allowed to vote, and ultimately who has the power.
The rules exist to allow them to target anyone they want. The fact that they simply ignore them when they break them is not the end goal; it’s hust a small part of the system of oligarchic control.
I’ve never understood how rules for thee makes them so rock hard.
What’s the point of power if you cannot rule over others and make sure the underlings know their place?
The point of making stuff that lots of people do illegal is that it makes selective enforcement much easier. Protesting hippies in the 60’s? Make weed illegal and you can bust them for that. Plant the weed on them if you have to.
Black folks getting out of line and demanding equal rights? I hear jazz musicians like to do heroin, let’s make that illegal with harsher penalties. Later, do t the same thing for crack cocaine.
“The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/
I think a lot of them also get off on the whole taboo/forbidden thing. Also explains closeted gay Republicans.
Alternative economy building. How do you pay for your campaign without offering something to someone? What sorts of people do the people looking to influence candidates want? Prison labor is lucrative. Children are difficult to care for. The less stressed people are, the fewer children they have. The more adequate the education, the fewer children they’ll have. Religion is a particularly useful tool in all of this. It’s striking, just how perfectly A Handmaid’s Tale still holds up to modern scrutiny.
Absolutely no one is surprised
I am. I figured it would be 90% redacted.
In another text message exchange cited by the committee, Greenberg exchanged messages with a woman in September 2018, writing, “If you have a friend that is down, perhaps all four of us can meet up later.”
The woman responded she did have a friend who could meet up, adding, “I usually do $400 per meet.”
Greenberg responded by sending a photo of Gaetz holding out a phone and taking a selfie. “Oooh my friend thinks he’s really cute!” the woman responded.
“Well, he’s down here only for the day, we work hard and play hard,” Greenberg wrote. “Have you ever tried molly.”
. . . Committee investigators concluded that between 2017 to 2019, Gaetz “used or possessed illegal drugs, including cocaine and ecstasy, on multiple occasions.”
“There is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz used cocaine, ecstasy, and marijuana. At least two women saw Representative Gaetz using cocaine and ecstasy at different events,” the committee wrote. “Additionally, nearly every witness interviewed observed Representative Gaetz using marijuana.”
I wonder if this is the establishment throwing an obvious problem actor under the bus in order to say, “Look we’re doing something!” It can’t be that hard to find a replacement for Gaetz who is better aligned with the party’s values (on the surface, at least) with less problems. He was an easy target, because he was gloating to congress members about these acts.
Also, he’s a miserable person who should see justice for this shit. Whether it happens in America… different story, unfortunately.
Does anyone else see that his eyebrows appear to be moving away from the center of his face?
Maybe it’s true that being evil makes you ugly. Looks like a square is a rectangle situation. He looks like the lying salesman you try but always fail to avoid at the car dealer.
Thanks! Can’t wait to see all the shit that was overshadowed by the even more heinous shit.
But think of the children!
Matt Gaetz: I am!
Was Nestor his “adopted son” involved?
Ahh PBS, it’s been nice knowing you. You will be missed.
