Child steals the show on House floor making faces as Rep rails against Trump case
Child steals the show on House floor making faces as Rep rails against Trump case
Goofy grins came as dad called Trump conviction a ‘terrible precedent’ for the country
This kid ought to be hired to sit behind MTG at all congressional sessions.
He should be hired to replace her
Can't disagree, he contributed more to the dignity of the session than she ever has
Kids know when their parents are full of shit.
True. Imagine if this kid grows up and runs on the other side of the aisle. I think he'll have promotional material available to benefit his cause.
A young politician with years of experience in Congress, quite a unicorn.
What a load of absolute horseshit that speech was.
"We'd be well served to remember the long and cherished tradition we have in this country of settling our political differences at the ballot box. For nearly two and a half centuries our nations elected officials have properly resisted the temptation to oppose their political rivals through the weaponization of our justice system".
First of all plenty of Congresspeople, Senators, Governors and lower politicians have been tried, and sometimes convicted, for crimes before. So he's full of shit on that point. Second Republicans did endless investigations of Hillary Clinton and found no law breaking, but they definitely tried their hardest. Third although every President since at least since Eisenhower has been guilty of war crimes Trump is the first to do garden variety white collar crimes. Of course he's the first to be charged with them! Fuck this guy.
The kid was a bit funny though.
It can all be summed up as "Republicans are hypocrits"
They only care about the law when attempting g to apply it to others, but get upset when it’s applied to themselves.
I think politicians have always said whatever suits them at the moment, but the absurd and immediate public hypocrisy these days is just incredible. It’s not even couched in subtlety, it’s immediate and in your face.
We'd be well served to remember the long and cherished tradition we have in this country of settling our political differences at the ballot box.
We'd be even more well served to remember just who tried to violently do away with just that tradition.
This guy married his wife when he was 45 and she was 21 🤮
It’s rare, but it happens. They’re consenting adults.
E: look, I’m not a fan of this age gap, but everyone’s making up rules about what’s acceptable. Either they’re adults or not, 18 is the cutoff, and if no grooming was involved you can dislike it all you want but they’re still adults.
E2: looks like they met when she was under age. So, no…this doesn’t work right at all.
It’s rare, but it happens. They’re consenting adults.
I understand your desire to make this point, but a 45 year old man marrying a woman a mere 3 years after she reaches adulthood does, in fact, say a ton about the 45 year old man.
Is it legal? Sure.
Is there anything anyone can do about it? No.
Is it an indicator that this man only sees value in women's youth, and lacks the maturity to maintain a relationship with a woman his own age? Absolutely.
Is it worth pointing out that this man is a member of a party that constantly fearmongers about sexual deviancy and "protecting children", but also fucks women less than half his age? You fucking bet it is.
At the end of the day, this deranged fucker took the floor to defend a convicted criminal, and his 6-year-old child absolutely bodied him with goofy faces. We can pick him apart for all of his flaws and hypocrisy, because he fucking deserves it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rose_(Tennessee_politician)
Rose and his wife Chelsea (née Doss) married in January 2011.[30] At the time, he was 45 and she was 21. He met her when she was 17.[31] They live in Cookeville, Tennessee, with their two sons. [6]
Doesn't say when they started dating.
I will agree that it's case by case, but if he started grooming her at 17 it's grooming.
Grooming doesn't always relate to age or age gap either. If a man is a teacher or leader at church camp or something, some position of authority it can go beyond the age of consent and still be considered grooming.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean the rest of us can't judge people for doing it. It's not illegal to be a creep.
I'll join in and say you're right. Policing morally "wrong" but legal acts is a very conservative way of doing things. You can point to dozens of activities that conservatives decry as "immoral" or "sinful" yet are legal and nobody cares what they think, but when it's two adults who get married with a large age gap suddenly everyone wants to be moral guardians. Two consenting adults can make a legal choice, and anything more than that is nobody's business.
That said, in this particular case, this dude met his wife when she was still in high school. He absolutely groomed her.
but everyone’s making up rules about what’s acceptable.
The hypocrisy for me is that folks want to dictate what is "morally acceptable" while objecting to other people's wanting to dictate what is "morally acceptable". In this case, and it all too common with Republicans generally, he did apparently groom her from a young age. But we can make a judgement based on that fact, not the fact of the age differential.
Just because it's legal, doesn't make it morally correct.
Reminds me of my aunt. Strongly against weed, then it gets legalized and suddenly she smokes more than I do. Pure hypocrisy.
Kid’s got a thousand times more sense than his old man.
What a coincidence. Just the other day on TV, I saw another video of a kid behind a group of losers acting goofy:
Someone buy that kid an ice cream cone.
Weird, the video doesn't seem to work.
If counter with: "We'd be well served to remember the long and cherished tradition of settling criminal matters in the courts."
Basically they want the right to commit crimes without consequences beyond the possibility of simply not being re-elected.... But only for Republican politicians. Democrats should be treated differently.