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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social

NBC News confirms: Matt Gaetz paid two women for sex while he was a member of the House, the women's attorney told NBC News. nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

nov 19, 2024, 2:21 am • 1,745 433

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Jennifer Bailey @vivatheresistance.bsky.social

Hence why Trump picked him.

nov 19, 2024, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
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JimBob McBoatFace @jimbobmcboatface.bsky.social

How??! How is it even possible that he is even being considered for such a huge position like this??

nov 19, 2024, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
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Colleen Valadez @ccvala.bsky.social

Creepy!!

nov 19, 2024, 4:07 am • 0 0 • view
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Amy Young @ayoung.bsky.social

So, Matt Gaetz internationally sex trafficked at least two women, and sexually abused a minor. Our AG nom, y’all. From the party of “Christian Family Values” smh

nov 19, 2024, 2:24 am • 6 0 • view
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Micki Garcia @mickigarcia.bsky.social

He’ll be a great fit in the trump administration then.

nov 19, 2024, 2:23 am • 6 0 • view
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Darthbecca (the crumbling USA version) @darthbecca.bsky.social

And yet….we will do nothing. Until we demand changes, this is going to continue to happen.

nov 19, 2024, 2:59 am • 0 0 • view
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Nick Bisanz @nickddl.bsky.social

Mutant Max Headroom has no personality. Of course he has to pay.

nov 19, 2024, 12:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jake @my2bits4u.bsky.social

Him and trump belong together . Trump pays as well

nov 19, 2024, 2:27 am • 2 0 • view
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Tamar Amidon @tamidon.bsky.social

He used Venmo, FFS

nov 19, 2024, 2:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Paul Berberich Sr @pauljberberichsr.bsky.social

Slime.

nov 19, 2024, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
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Jami Khan @iamjamikhan.bsky.social

Well that makes him fully qualified to become next AG, no?

nov 19, 2024, 5:08 pm • 0 0 • view
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ReallyDon'tTrump @reallydonttrump.bsky.social

Oh please you know it was more than 200 women

nov 19, 2024, 4:09 am • 0 0 • view
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Tony Nicholson @oldrednic.bsky.social

Look at his face, he’d definitely have to pay!

nov 19, 2024, 2:46 pm • 2 0 • view
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PerlaPisco @democracyjustdied.bsky.social

He also had sex with a 17 year old as testified by the 17 year old. There was a witness who saw Matt Gaetz having sex with her friend, a 17 year old and she testifies under oath.

nov 19, 2024, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
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Chris Andoe @chrisandoe.bsky.social

Matt Gaetz response: music.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3...

nov 19, 2024, 2:37 am • 0 0 • view
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Owais Durrani @owaisdurrani.bsky.social

Literally 0 surprise

nov 19, 2024, 5:19 am • 1 0 • view
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Bobby Lacombe @bobbylacombe.bsky.social

hhhmmmmm . . . . paying for sex must be a prerequisite for MAGA cabinet positions

nov 19, 2024, 2:32 am • 2 0 • view
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Cathy Tabor @justicelawyer.bsky.social

Because NO ONE would want to have sex with THAT

nov 19, 2024, 8:06 pm • 0 0 • view
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Doug Warren @dougwar40k.bsky.social

I'm no Adonis myself, but I have to believe that, if I had a full head of hair and a seat in Congress, I could probably convince some attractive woman above the age of consent to willingly engage in sexual, um, congress with me, without paying her for it.

nov 19, 2024, 4:42 am • 1 0 • view
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Tina in the PNW @tinajpnw.bsky.social

Just a thought: headline implies that it was ONLY with an adult woman and bypassing this little gem: "... Joel Leppard said the woman also said she saw Gaetz having sex with her friend, who was 17 at the time, at the same invitation-only party in Orlando. Intentional. Immoral. NBC failed, again.

nov 19, 2024, 4:34 am • 0 0 • view
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brc2.bsky.social @brc2.bsky.social

This will (has) become a badge of honor. Hopefully women will not go quiet for 4 years.

nov 19, 2024, 1:25 pm • 0 0 • view
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Some Random Dave @somerandomdave.bsky.social

I can see why actually paying would be disqualifying in Trump-world. (Promise everything, but never, never pay...)

nov 21, 2024, 1:31 am • 0 0 • view
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MB @mbs921.bsky.social

There isn't enough money in the world...

nov 19, 2024, 2:51 am • 1 0 • view
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pauljuno.bsky.social @pauljuno.bsky.social

So what? Women are nothing more than property to Trump. Hell his wife is a mail order bride.

nov 19, 2024, 6:01 am • 0 0 • view
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you kept making all the stops? @bluefrommagioh.bsky.social

Ven Mo better

nov 19, 2024, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
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DesertYETI @desertyeti.bsky.social

Ok, here's what I don't get... The dude is disgusting... But that aside, if he wanted to get laid, he didn't need to pay for it. I just don't understand it. Why light himself on fire when he absolutely doesn't have to.

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 3 0 • view
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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social

Entitlement.

nov 19, 2024, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
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ArtHistorian Sheryl @sajeffe.bsky.social

Really? Ewww.

nov 19, 2024, 2:44 am • 1 0 • view
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Billionaires are Parasites @leftlibertarian.bsky.social

Gonna guess he didn't want to take the time to get to know a woman. Paying for it was probably just convenient.

nov 19, 2024, 2:29 am • 4 0 • view
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Dorothy Townsend @dollyscrappy.bsky.social

Prostitutes are paid to perform and then they go away.

nov 19, 2024, 3:36 am • 2 0 • view
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Dorothy Townsend @dollyscrappy.bsky.social

But sometimes they don't ... go away.

nov 19, 2024, 3:43 am • 0 0 • view
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Mick @mgillick1.bsky.social

GOP platform, the former & future POTUS paid a number of women for sex.

nov 19, 2024, 2:52 am • 1 0 • view
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Romy Lawrence @willwitwonttwit.bsky.social

There's more for #ManWhoreMatt

nov 19, 2024, 6:44 am • 0 0 • view
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Joshua Henson @the1henson.bsky.social

My favorite (least favorite?) thing about this headline is the legitimate need to specify “adult” woman.

nov 19, 2024, 2:35 pm • 2 1 • view
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Hazy Cake @hazycake.bsky.social

One would expect this to be disqualifying, but we are currently living in the upside down

nov 19, 2024, 10:16 am • 0 0 • view
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Tosha 🤷🏽‍♀️ @therealtosha.bsky.social

Dang…This guy is coming off more and more as a sociopath.

nov 19, 2024, 2:25 am • 1 0 • view
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K Foss @kfoss.bsky.social

Dirt bag.

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 2 0 • view
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Citizen E 🇨🇦🤝🇺🇸 @citizene.bsky.social

Can we deport this child sex criminal!

nov 19, 2024, 2:24 am • 1 0 • view
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4653ingCA @leslie4653.bsky.social

Matt expensed her as lunch.

nov 19, 2024, 2:38 am • 1 0 • view
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30atv.bsky.social @30atv.bsky.social

Are they still anonymous?

nov 20, 2024, 6:10 am • 0 0 • view
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judy1010.bsky.social @judy1010.bsky.social

Seems bad

nov 19, 2024, 12:06 pm • 1 0 • view
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mamarobin.bsky.social @mamarobin.bsky.social

No surprise there

nov 19, 2024, 4:23 am • 0 0 • view
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phatosas @phatosas.bsky.social

Women? More like young girls.

nov 19, 2024, 5:04 am • 0 0 • view
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Nicosso @nicosso.bsky.social

Ok so we got rape, sex trafficking, pedophilia, treason, & white supremacy. I have murderer, terrorist, arms dealer, & embezzler left on my bingo card… What else am I missing? We need to really see if he can round out this cabinet.

nov 19, 2024, 3:10 am • 0 0 • view
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cjsteeler.bsky.social @cjsteeler.bsky.social

he didnt pay for the sex he paid them to leave after. money well spent

nov 19, 2024, 3:05 am • 1 0 • view
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spirit 💫 @spiritt.bsky.social

fucking ugly

nov 19, 2024, 2:55 am • 1 0 • view
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Mike Nolan @miken1.bsky.social

WOW! Trump must be furious! I bet he pulls the nomination because character is SO important to him! JUST KIDDING!

nov 19, 2024, 2:45 am • 3 0 • view
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secretman11.bsky.social @secretman11.bsky.social

I'm shocked, SHOCKED... ...that she was an adult. (Not that 19 is exactly an "adult" when thats still a teenager too...)

nov 19, 2024, 4:11 am • 0 0 • view
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Mfg_guy @mfgguy.bsky.social

This guy is nothing but a trailer park creep. Let's see his daddy get him out of this.

nov 19, 2024, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
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Christine @spottedtb.bsky.social

You have to wonder WTF his wife sees in him 🤷🏼‍♀️

nov 19, 2024, 2:26 am • 3 0 • view
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Barbara Gordon @thebookwizard.bsky.social

Fits right in with this administration

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 6 0 • view
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💙 Patricia 💙 @patriciawebb.bsky.social

Unfortunately you’re right, you have to be a sexual predator or asset of Russia to get in.

nov 19, 2024, 11:47 am • 0 0 • view
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Comrade Dale Earnhardt @comradedale.bsky.social

Shocking, conservatives can’t get laid without paying for it

nov 19, 2024, 12:36 pm • 1 0 • view
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Old Joe Stalin @oldjoestalin.bsky.social

We prohibited prostitution in the Soviet Union, but that didn’t stop Beria, did it? This Gaetz fellow is not in the same league as Beria, comrade. Do you think he could poison his party’s leader? But, Beria got his due.

nov 19, 2024, 3:10 am • 1 0 • view
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Jon Sternfeld @jonsternfeld.bsky.social

nov 19, 2024, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Lynn @lemnosalt.bsky.social

so slimy gross and also unqualified 🥸

nov 19, 2024, 3:24 am • 0 0 • view
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GenniferWithAJ @genniferwithaj.bsky.social

So fun for us all that they had to specify she was an “adult” woman. 🇺🇸

nov 19, 2024, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
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GenniferWithAJ @genniferwithaj.bsky.social

An adult but not old enough to drink. Nineteen. Nineteen! Matt Gaetz is a pig.

nov 19, 2024, 2:39 am • 1 0 • view
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Matteg 🔵 @matteg.bsky.social

No, Butthead says what

nov 19, 2024, 2:36 am • 0 0 • view
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Hot Lips Hooligan 🇵🇷 @simplybkuz.bsky.social

An adult this time? 🫢

nov 19, 2024, 6:45 am • 0 0 • view
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Tonie S @orphanantoina.bsky.social

It's pretty clear how Republican men feel about women in Project 2025.The Congressional GOP doesn't care.

nov 19, 2024, 2:24 am • 2 0 • view
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Joanna @welovesports.bsky.social

He’s so nasty

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 3 0 • view
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🧿 J | Wet Flesh Beast 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @jsystem.bsky.social

Wait are we supporting sex workers but not people that pay them for their services?? Is he in a monogamous marriage? I dont understand.

nov 19, 2024, 3:57 am • 1 0 • view
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🧿 J | Wet Flesh Beast 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @jsystem.bsky.social

can we focus on him sleeping w the 17yo

nov 19, 2024, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Cosmic Raise @cosmicraise.bsky.social

I agree, of all the things that are vile and reprehensible about him, paying an ADULT woman for sex is not one of them. If it was consensual, who the hell cares? This is nowhere near as big a deal as the impending kakistocracy of which he will be a part.

nov 19, 2024, 4:58 am • 1 0 • view
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🧿 J | Wet Flesh Beast 🏳️‍⚧️🇨🇦 @jsystem.bsky.social

100%

nov 19, 2024, 6:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Jeff Folmsbee @jefffolmsbee.bsky.social

this i don't care

nov 19, 2024, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
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twinned2.bsky.social @twinned2.bsky.social

Will it make any difference. Trump got away with all his crimes, and the felon that he is is now president elect. 🙄

nov 20, 2024, 3:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Chasing Ennui @chasingennui.bsky.social

Never a good sign when the news has to specify that this one was an adult.

nov 19, 2024, 2:43 am • 3 0 • view
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pippinryan.bsky.social @pippinryan.bsky.social

Seriously- who would have unpaid sex with him?

nov 19, 2024, 2:32 am • 1 0 • view
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Brad @fiz.bsky.social

Also used his adopted Cuban son to handle the payments

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 20 1 • view
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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social

#WheresNestor ?

nov 19, 2024, 3:09 am • 3 0 • view
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Michelle-in-NS @michelleinns.bsky.social

nov 19, 2024, 2:32 am • 0 0 • view
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Elki Issa 🧿 🇺🇦 @elkiissa.bsky.social

It doesn’t matter. Half the country believes this behavior is not disqualifying for POTUS, never mind cabinet positions.

nov 19, 2024, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
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A Gilson @adamgilson.bsky.social

Nancy Mace be like, and this is why we must protect women by hiding this report and keeping Sarah McBride from peeing in the House ladies' room

nov 19, 2024, 2:24 am • 5 0 • view
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Hotdog @hotcorndogs.bsky.social

I guess his slogan for the job should be “it takes one to know one”

nov 19, 2024, 2:36 am • 1 0 • view
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Magnus Hedemark (he/they) @magnus919.com

Wait until they confirm what Lindsey Graham has been up to 😂

nov 19, 2024, 2:23 am • 1 0 • view
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Vincenzo Zingaro @vincenzozingaro.bsky.social

Makes Butt Head look like a saint. scumbag Geatz will most likely be rewared. Afterall he's a maga hero. So gross. Maybe there some Republican Senator that will find their balls and spine and put country over party for once in their miserable tenure.

nov 19, 2024, 3:30 am • 0 0 • view
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Nora Lynch @funnynora.bsky.social

If Gaetz is having sex, he’s likely paying for it. 🤷‍♀️

nov 19, 2024, 11:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Shawn Zipay @zips.bsky.social

Telling that the headline had to specify that it was an "adult" woman.

nov 19, 2024, 2:36 am • 3 0 • view
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caittus.bsky.social @caittus.bsky.social

And buries the lede about the NON-adult woman he paid to have sex with in the same article.

nov 19, 2024, 10:26 am • 0 0 • view
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Wraithtek @wraithtek.bsky.social

“In an interview, Joel Leppard said the woman also said she saw Gaetz having sex with her friend, who was 17 at the time, at the same invitation-only party in Orlando.”

nov 19, 2024, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Wraithtek @wraithtek.bsky.social

“Later that evening, as she was walking outside to go to the pool area, she said, she saw Gaetz and her minor friend having sex against a game table, Leppard said. ‘This is a very vivid memory that she has,’ he said.”

nov 19, 2024, 2:28 am • 1 0 • view
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Grace(OGkhive) @dadabygrace.bsky.social

How else was he gonna a get it?🤷🏽‍♀️🤮

nov 19, 2024, 2:23 am • 2 0 • view
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poglan @poglan.bsky.social

Any senator who votes for him to be AG should be ashamed… but we know how they bend the knee after Kavanaugh in 2018

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 23 0 • view
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Jason @jnilz15t.bsky.social

They already voted for a convicted rapist. This isn't a red line for them. He'll get confirmed no problem.

nov 19, 2024, 2:37 am • 20 0 • view
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trueheart7.bsky.social @trueheart7.bsky.social

Well, let's do what we can to make it a problem!

nov 19, 2024, 3:30 am • 2 0 • view
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Jason @jnilz15t.bsky.social

Like what? It'll happen whether we like it or not.

nov 19, 2024, 4:20 am • 4 0 • view
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Ronald Kornblow @ronald-kornblow.bsky.social

We're talking about the Trump administration here. I'm surprised Gaetz isn't listing the charge as a bullet point on his résumé.

nov 19, 2024, 2:28 am • 2 0 • view
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michaeljwill.bsky.social @michaeljwill.bsky.social

How maga of him

nov 19, 2024, 2:15 pm • 2 0 • view
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William Reece @williamreece.bsky.social

His only defense is every house member does it

nov 19, 2024, 2:45 am • 1 0 • view
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ellenguenther.bsky.social @ellenguenther.bsky.social

C’mon folks he’s just following in the foot steps of those pigs before him.

nov 19, 2024, 7:10 pm • 0 0 • view
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Andy Brining @andybrining.bsky.social

At this point I almost feel like nothing means anything and he'll still be the new AG on day one.

nov 19, 2024, 3:04 am • 1 0 • view
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kayg-ah.bsky.social @kayg-ah.bsky.social

Ah yes, the morals I've been hearing so much about this election season.

nov 19, 2024, 8:34 pm • 0 0 • view
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WhatIfBarackOrHillaryDidIt @ifbarack.bsky.social

Gaetz's GOP approval ratings just went up.

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 15 0 • view
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TyGrey @itstygrey.bsky.social

When was the testimony and who all was present at the time?

nov 19, 2024, 3:37 am • 0 0 • view
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spmalick.bsky.social @spmalick.bsky.social

Rump paid multiple women and it had no impact on the cult

nov 19, 2024, 1:51 pm • 2 0 • view
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inkbleeder.bsky.social @inkbleeder.bsky.social

Ick, ick, ick.

nov 19, 2024, 5:49 am • 0 0 • view
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buffaloguy56.bsky.social @buffaloguy56.bsky.social

I guess he'd pretty much have to 😆.

nov 19, 2024, 3:58 am • 1 0 • view
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Sam @cattyreid.bsky.social

Does anyone believe that will stop the GOP from confirming him? They have figured out that MAGA will blow off everything as a hoax. Even if they saw in person with their own eyes, they would accuse the left of hiring a doppelganger.

nov 19, 2024, 2:26 am • 1 0 • view
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Sandra #nokings @orangeparkhg.bsky.social

Drip drip drip.

nov 19, 2024, 3:06 am • 0 0 • view
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Michael @pedroromero1754.bsky.social

Is that in the constitution?

nov 19, 2024, 2:29 am • 0 0 • view
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Rob Synnott @rsynnott.bsky.social

You really don’t want to be the sort of person where the headline writer has to make that particular clarification…

nov 19, 2024, 2:32 am • 2 0 • view
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ausgreen.bsky.social @ausgreen.bsky.social

It's interesting that the word adult was needed in the headline.

nov 19, 2024, 12:14 pm • 0 0 • view
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🦋Serviceman @serviceman.bsky.social

But but but the president is my mentor he will fix it all the boys are in the Epstein house aka White House

nov 19, 2024, 2:27 am • 1 0 • view
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Revenge of the Oxford Comma @pensivetoker.bsky.social

The sex isn’t the story. The drug use is. We can’t have meaningful conversations about drug use and recovery while we’re electing active addicts to seats of power.

nov 19, 2024, 3:39 pm • 0 0 • view
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MommaT @tweetmommybop.bsky.social

And nothing will happen. We are broken as a society. We are deflated as women. We give up.

nov 19, 2024, 2:33 am • 1 0 • view
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deeinfla.bsky.social @deeinfla.bsky.social

I am SO surprised! Not...

nov 19, 2024, 3:18 am • 0 0 • view
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B.Berger @bergerbeebs.bsky.social

Musta bin crushing those pills and chugging Red Bull that night.

nov 19, 2024, 2:29 am • 2 0 • view
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AH 💙🇺🇸🌻🇺🇦🌊 @peepsrstrange.bsky.social

Even if he didn’t know that she was 17, he knew she was a teenager and he engaged in prostitution. That is enough to exclude him from any public office.

nov 19, 2024, 3:51 am • 0 0 • view
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CGardner @gardc73.bsky.social

The Trump Administration wants to be a cabal of sexual predators from the top down.

nov 19, 2024, 2:28 pm • 0 0 • view
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bbelanger.bsky.social @bbelanger.bsky.social

If he’s accused he must be guilty!

nov 19, 2024, 5:18 am • 1 0 • view
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leafer1.bsky.social @leafer1.bsky.social

nov 19, 2024, 2:23 am • 2 0 • view
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Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social

The two women talked to the DOJ on a call monitored by the FBI in *2020*. The DOJ declined to prosecute. Sounds fishy to me. And so does the blanket pardon he wanted to get from Trump just before Trump left office. Also fishy.

nov 19, 2024, 2:30 am • 5 2 • view
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Chris⚖️Justice @chrisjustice01.bsky.social

There was no urgency for Justice on anything.

nov 19, 2024, 1:26 pm • 1 0 • view
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Deb ❌👑 @debkat.bsky.social

Exactly.

nov 19, 2024, 4:20 pm • 1 0 • view
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Memento Mori @mementomori4950.bsky.social

That's what they call a romantic date among Maga incels 😏

nov 19, 2024, 11:54 am • 0 0 • view
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deeceeisme.bsky.social @deeceeisme.bsky.social

So if I’m reading this correctly he’s the 2028 Republican nominee?

nov 19, 2024, 2:22 am • 51 0 • view
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The BK Kiddo @jkiddo24.bsky.social

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nov 19, 2024, 2:42 am • 0 0 • view
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Ella G 💙 @ellagance.bsky.social

I'm getting Clarence Thomas vibes about a possible Gaetz hearing.

nov 19, 2024, 2:29 am • 1 0 • view
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JK @forrreeeal.bsky.social

Lord know no woman would have sex with him voluntarily

nov 19, 2024, 2:24 am • 3 0 • view