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Matt Gaetz’s Questioning of Hunter Biden Backfires Spectacularly (newrepublic.com)

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[-] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 199 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

“Were you on drugs when you were on the Burisma board?” prompted Gaetz.

“Mr. Gaetz, look me in the eye. You really think that’s appropriate to ask me?” Biden replied.

“Absolutely,” Gaetz said.

“Of all the people sitting around this table, do you think that’s appropriate to ask me?” Biden spit back.

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[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 158 points 10 months ago

It seems like politics draws in a lot of flawed people generally, but Republicans have been electing an amazing number of absolutely horrible human beings. Gaetz, Green, Bobert, Cruz, Jordan, Santos... oh, and of course Trump. Lots more. Just really, really bad people.

[-] Seasoned_Greetings@lemm.ee 40 points 10 months ago

Politicians often reflect the wishes of the people who vote them in. I don't think it's a coincidence that "only the threat of hell keeps people from doing bad things" Christians tend to vote republican.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Personality disorders vote for personality disorders

[-] Mostly_Harmless@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

It doesn't prevent many of them from doing bad things. They think they will be forgiven as long as they are believers.

[-] OpenStars@startrek.website 1 points 10 months ago

I think at this point that ship has sailed - they don't even believe themselves anymore, e.g. many don't go to church. Certainly the Karens do not bother to "love one another", or to feed the poor, give comfort to those in prison, take care of widows & orphans, care that the worker deserves their wages, etc. It is cultural at this point, less than religious.

But not entirely, bc in the last Presidential election "evangelical Christians" did have the single highest majority of people in it voting for Trump. So there's that, though I am saying that it just seems a more complex mixture than only that.

[-] bran_buckler@kbin.social 35 points 10 months ago

When Republicans send its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Sadly, if you're referring to Republican politicians, your version is more true than Trump's original.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Problem with democracy is that the best aren't necessarily elected in, the popular are.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 10 months ago

Don't forget Tuber. I feel like that mother fucker gets a pass even though Tuber is just as bad as the rest of them shit heads.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Oh, he's horrible for sure. Like I said, many others including Johnson, Gosar, and Gohmert.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 10 points 10 months ago

What other sort of people would want and believe and say the things they do?

[-] blazera@kbin.social 4 points 10 months ago

Theyre representative im afraid

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 121 points 10 months ago

I dare say Hunter Biden was not the most crooked man in the room, not by a long shot.

[-] NotBillMurray@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

Piece of shit? Maybe. Biggest piece of shit? Not by a long shot.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 73 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

The only people that say Hunter, Biden is a piece of shit are the Republicans, and I am not inclined to believe them. Just because the guy did cocaine and owned a gun is not reason enough for me to condemn him. cocaine is awesome, and while I don’t particularly care for guns, he didn’t shoot anyone with it. Yes, he should not have been in possession of it. At the time he was, and he should face reasonable consequences for breaking the law, but what he is being put through now is ridiculous and outrageous.

And if he has a drug abuse problem, he should get treatment for it. But none of this equates to him being some kind of piece of shit or scumbag in my eyes. Just a mildly interesting guy who also happens to be the son of the president of United States, and as a result of that, the target of an outrageous, GOP witchhunt , for no other reason, then to discredit his father.

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[-] stoly@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

Why is he a piece of shit? Seems he's a middlingly-successful lawyer who had an addiction problem, just like tens of millions of other people. Being an addict doesn't make you a bad person, just like having the flu doesn't.

[-] gregorum@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I don’t even know that he had an addiction problem. He had a doing cocaine and getting caught by a bunch of hypocritical cunts problem. He also had a having a big dick and getting it photographed and spread on the Internet by Marjorie Taylor Green problem. None of that amounts to an actual drug or sex addiction problem other than a bunch of shitty Republicans made his private life public. by any other standard, the guy just knows how to have a good time. And nothing pisses off Republicans more than another person enjoying themselves.

I firmly believe that those who can use drugs responsibly should be allowed to do so, regardless of any stupid antiquated laws. just because some Republicans have some ridiculously hypocritical and outrageously outmoded belief that imbibing any chemical, other than water is some horrific weakness doesn’t mean that any other person, particularly rational people, should agree with it. Nor should anyone hold the same standard just because some crazy fascists want to use it as fuel for a character, assassination and impeachment of his father.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Pretty sure it's full on addiction. I remember the "bombshell" voice-mail fox got to smear Joe Biden. It was so poignant and humanizing they dropped that shit quickly cause it made the Biden's look good.

[-] zammy95@lemmy.world 25 points 10 months ago

I don't even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse. That doesn't paint him as a piece of shit to me, just sad. A man who made many poor decisions. (There very well may be shitty things I don't know, but they're loudest about the drugs)

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 months ago

I don’t even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse.

We don't even know the drug abuse isn't slander.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Uh, it isn't? I'm not defending the fucking repubs, but Hunter did admit to drug abuse. Its in the fucking article.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 23 points 10 months ago

If he’s a piece of shit, he’s a private individual piece of shit, so that’s his business. He is not representing the public.

[-] corymbia@reddthat.com 22 points 10 months ago

I don’t know him but I think “piece of shit” is rather overblown MAGA nonsense.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 20 points 10 months ago

Gaetz is almost certainly a person who knowingly paid an underage girl for sex. The person who facilitated it basically already plead guilty and may be cooperating with investigators, though the proceedings of this seem to be going quite slowly.

This is even more insane given that Gaetz is one of the most Q-Anony of the lunatic Republicans in Congress. Kind of their whole thing is largely based around saving children from being sex trafficked.

[-] Cornelius_Wangenheim@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Is it insane? I always assumed most of the Q-anon types were pedophiles who doth protest too much.

[-] vexikron@lemmy.zip 3 points 10 months ago

Its insane when you compare the things they hold dear and are most concerned about to themselves personally and the people they support.

They will tell you they are highly worried about secret sex trafficking and millions of missing children, but extremely often they and the people they support are sexually abusing children, or have a history of it.

Its the cognitive dissonance thats the insane part, the extreme hypocrisy.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

Why is he a piece of shit, and why do we care about that in the context of politics, if his matters are unconnected to his father?

I wouldn't care about Ivanka a single bit if it wasn't because she was his rapist daddy's political advisor.

[-] KinglyWeevil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 72 points 10 months ago

Every time I look at Matt Gaetz, all I can see is if Butthead (from Beavis and Butthead) were a real person and grew up rich.

[-] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 12 points 10 months ago

He grew up rich? I always took him for some white trash yokel who one day discovered that suits were a thing. Never read about him before and am genuinely surprised now.

[-] IvanOverdrive@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

His dad was a Florida senator and well respected one at that.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Insofar as a Floridian senator can be well-respected at all. Didn't they replace fluoride with, like, stupid in the water supply?

[-] Belgdore@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

This comment is best read in butthead’s voice.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

In closing, i would defer to ur overall assessment and sentiment, in that order of ascending predominance

[-] twistypencil@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

U win the internet today

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 71 points 10 months ago

Sounds like Hunter can get a lawyer good enough to prep him and is smart enough to listen to his lawyers.

[-] protist@mander.xyz 49 points 10 months ago

Also he's just being honest, which can be pretty effortless

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 24 points 10 months ago

Doesn't hurt that Hunter has some charisma

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[-] jordanlund@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

"I'm sorry, do you just want to know who my hookup was for 'reasons'?"

[-] DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 10 months ago

Is Matt Gaetz part of the Republican A-Team?

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