Read the full Matt Gaetz House Ethics report alleging he paid for sex with minor, used illicit drugs as Congress member
Read the full Matt Gaetz House Ethics report alleging he paid for sex with minor, used illicit drugs as Congress member
The House Ethics Committee on Monday accused Matt Gaetz of āregularlyā paying women, including a 17-year-old girl, for sex and purchasing and using illicit drugs all while the Florida Republican was a member of Congress.
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Ecstasy in marijuana. lol. Sounds like a Friday night for me. Why the fuck lie abouāoh, republican.
I really donāt understand why, with so many of them clearly enjoying it, the republicans arenāt 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.
Iāve 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.
āThe Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what Iām saying? We knew we couldnāt 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.ā
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.
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.
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 theyāll have. Religion is a particularly useful tool in all of this. Itās striking, just how perfectly A Handmaidās Tale still holds up to modern scrutiny.