The broken clock is right twice a day and sometimes even the likes of Matt Gaetz will say something honest. Gaetz was talking with Charlie Kirk on the latter’s podcast and he described what the GOPers in the House do all day: which is formulate fantastic schemes to save Donald Trump. They’re Trump fluffers, plain and simple.
Listen to Gaetz confirm your suspicions.
This is all they are there for.
House Republicans aren’t there to legislate.
Not there to do shit about all the stuff they ran on — like INFLATION and the economy.
Nope.
They’re there to protect trump (and themselves) from accountability, launch baseless investigations and hold…— Jo (@JoJoFromJerz) August 8, 2023
Translation of Gaetz: “We’re not there to pass laws, like we were ostensibly elected to do, hell no. Who wants to do that? That would be working for a living. We’re there to 1) foment the culture war and 2) protect Trump. That’s all folks, just like in a Looney Tunes cartoon, where they say at the end ‘That’s All Folks!”‘
Now there is one slight issue that Gaetz didn’t address: In order to get immunity, one has to plead guilty, right? Do you think Trump will ever do that?
Two schools of thought on that. Gaetz probably figures that as things get more desperate for Trump, he’ll become more tractable and malleable. Or, Trump may decide to hang onto his fictional version of the truth, even though he was quoted as saying on Election Night 2020, “Gee I can’t believe I lost to this guy.”
Who knows? The sad fact is, even Trump may not know.
Some jokers just write for themselves, only to leave a history of shite stains and skid marks when they cough into their repetitional rompers, eh Beavis.
Gaetz should have been locked up for multiple DUIs, statutory rape, conspiracy to overthrow our democracy, and GOD KNOWS WHAT. Another child of privilege that thinks his sh*t doesn’t stink. Oh, and let’s not forget HE ASKED TRUMP FOR A PARDON! If you break no laws, you need no pardon. As Hunter S Thompson said long ago about Nixon, but could include ALL these traitors: If there were any true justice in the world, Richard Nixon would be in the belly of a hammerhead shark, headed south of Easter Island. Exactly. A God of justice? Maybe somewhere but NOT HERE.
His family owns Pensacola. Daddy ran the FL.State Senate for a but. P’cola is a thoroughly corrupt Navy town. Lived in the area from.1984-1990. Oh, here’s a fascinating bit: his law license was suspended because he failed to pay the fees to the state bar.
How bad is the town? The mayor from.1977-1991, one Vince Whibbs, was a notorious drunk who also owned a car dealership. Everyone knew he drank and drove. No one dared pull him over because they knew their law enforcement career would end on the spot. One night he made the error of drinking and driving over the county line. I think someone must have tipped them off, because the County Mounties were,waiting for him. He had to.make the True Confession Tour as part of his probation.
Typical small Southern town, straight out of In the Heat of the Night.
Maybe I’ve always been a cranky a-hole who just doesn’t “get” it but when it comes to what’s called Performance Art it always has seemed pretty stupid to me. And bad. Congressional performance “art” is the worst of the worst.
Ursula, you wrote: “Now there is one slight issue that Gaetz didn’t address: In order to get immunity, one has to plead guilty, right?”
I don’t think that that is right. In general, one is offered immunity from prosecution for a crime the prosecutor thinks one has committed in exchange for testimony against someone else who the prosecutor thinks has committed a worse crime. The prosecutor never actually charges one with the crime; he just threatens to. One cannot plead guilty or not guilty to a crime unless one is charged with the crime.
If one accepts the offer of immunity and gives truthful testimony in the trial of the other person, one may well acknowledge on the witness stand that one committed certain acts that the prosecutor would define as criminal acts, but the prosecutor cannot charge one with those crimes because of the grant of immunity. In the absence of a charge, there is no plea.
But if you meant that one is at least implicitly acknowledging to the world that one committed a crime if one accepts immunity from prosecution for it, you are probably right. However, I think that even an innocent person might accept immunity if he is afraid that he would get convicted despite his innocence.