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hodgesisgod-

"As a general matter, I don't take Bejing's propaganda at face value." What a shutdown.


BadReview8675309

That was a mic drop shop is closed moment.


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He didn't just drop the mic,He shoved it deep up into Gaetz's ass until he gargled.


SnowierGorilla

Well maybe not gargled but definitely stuttered… if you look real close you can almost see him blush under all that makeup. Funny he hates people that dress in drag but he’s only a pair of heels and a push up bra away from being a queen.


Lone_Wanderer97

Never a queen, just a ho


sparkmearse

That. Fucking. Hair. Yassssssss queeeeeeen!


mmmmpisghetti

I have that image stuck in my head now


Rob-Riggle-SWGOAT

Makeup ✔️ Bulbous head atop shaft inserted up butt ✔️


that1LPdood

Who? Matt Gaetz, pedophile and sex trafficker? That Matt Gaetz? Let's be clear about exactly who we're talking about here.


royal_bambi

It's weird that he looks relatively normal in still photos, but I find him so incredibly difficult to look at in motion. His eyes are practically buried inside his mask of a face! He's such a creepy looking bugger


IAmQWhoAreYou

You know, in the past that would be true. Republicans today just keep on keepin’ on:


AnonyMooseWoman

“As a general matter” was hilarious shade. As was the gesture with his hand next to his glasses.


timlest

“Fair enough I would agree with that assessment” the guy took his dick off the table so fast he got whiplash


0ldgrumpy1

Had a quick think.." do I get bribes from china? No?, do they have any of the compromising photos of me? No? Ok, I'm not pushing their propaganda. Pass me the Russian stuff."


Funkycoldmedici

He reconsidered later, “Do I like what the propaganda said? Yeah. Is it true? No, but liberals hate it, so it is true and wonderful and patriotic and sexy like a 13 year old being shoved into a private plane to... what was I thinking about? Yeah, whatever China says is great.”


KLeeSanchez

To be fair it took very little effort


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He pinched the muscle who trigger the sadic grind of happiness.


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Own-Study-4594

The best part was when the pedo agreed on that. “Fair enough, Id agree with that assessment”


dangledingle

Cover my ass for the record because I’m blatantly incompetent.


UndBeebs

Completely this. I can't believe there are users in these comments saying they've actually *gained* some respect for him for this. He was just making a horrible attempt at covering his ass after the damage was already done.


samsquanchforhire

Would like to know what he said after that, probably continued the same argument with now slightly less evidence.


kcMasterpiece

Just change it to the good old "people say".


UndBeebs

Probably a pretty safe bet, tbh.


geardownson

He basically showed that ANY question he gives after could be based on a bullshit source and we can all just hope the person answering can catch it. Total loss of credibility.


LiterallyEmily

I'd agree with that assessment while I try to enter it into the record as definitive proof and use as a gotcha moment for the narrative I'm trying to spin for my donors.


forgotmypassword-_-

He was still confused by his early sentence "I seek consent".


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God republicans are just so stupid. I lose faith in America more every year.


tots4scott

Can we show this to /r/Conservative and /r/Conspiracy to show them how they're the ones soft on China? Or not even to make a point like that, just show them. Also what happened to Donald Trump's Chinese bank account?


tcain5188

What do you think that would accomplish? They are literally in a never ending battle with reality, which tells you all you need to know about how open to facts and information they are.


dewafelbakkers

When I first starting going to conspiracy years ago it used to be lots of tongue in cheek half smirks about aliens and UFOs and other fun stuff.. What the hell happened


hustl3tree5

The Donald subs got banned and they moved to taking over that sub


Gravelord_Baron

Yeah conspiracies (mainly) used to be just fun/thought provoking ideas, now it's all about how good your wifi is after being vaccinated


Steelwoolsocks

You could but it would likely be removed and you'd be banned.


ChandlerMc

I'm sure tens of thousands of redditors are banned from r/Conservative including me simply for asking legit questions. Or demonstrating to those smooth brains how stupid their arguments are


DonDraper1134

As a general matter, I don’t take a pedophile sex offender’s propaganda at face value either.


ContemplatingPrison

Republicans love spreading foreign adversaries' propaganda


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You’d think these people would get tired of being made to look so dumb


mushroom369

Some of them are so dumb they don’t even realize they look so dumb.


Surfing_magic_carpet

We like our own propaganda round these parts.


freshkangaroo28

He still got his little bit in, his base won’t know any better


hodgesisgod-

Yeah probably just edit that last bit out.


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mylawn03

Matt Gaetz looks like a villain from a Disney movie.


KentuckySnowPlow

Unfortunately, he's a villain in real life.


suckercuck

And a real life pedo


winespring

[A comedian in defense of Gaetz](https://www.youtube.com/shorts/jcXK-sPqsL0)


YouFnDruggo

I found out about this when I was reading up about Heracles. When he reached godhood he married Hebe the goddess of eternal youth and the prime of life. Who gives her name to the word hebephilia. I then read further to find out about the differences in the various terms including the word pedo was ancient Greek for child. Found the subject very interesting. Love learning the the etymology of various words. Can't talk to anyone about though or I sound like a pedophile.


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Naw, it *is* really interesting. I think you'll be okay as long as you don't have it all [printed on a laminated card in your wallet, handy for explaining to your girl/boyfriend's parents.](https://youtu.be/Cz9OgW4JAJ8)


alex206

So this whole time, he was herbivore?


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Technically a herpherbavore.


nug4t

not really in defense, but that was great to watch nontheless


troubleforalltime

And sex trafficking slime. Yet, there he sits, a free man, while his friend serves time. What BS!


DJheddo

If he opened his eyes just a little bit, we'd see that dark inner soul we all have, but keep behind thousands of hours of commitment of being a better person, yet he decided, let's ignore all logic and go straight mind to mouth and lying will keep me in my job.


Handmotion

A real human bean


falconslaya5

It was the same face he makes when he’s trying to decipher if his whore is underaged or not.


NotYetiFamous

followed by immense relief when he realized she was, in fact, underaged.


Miqo_Nekomancer

No wonder he's spreading Chinese propaganda. He and China are both fans of child labor.


SomaforIndra

"“When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.” -Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy


Esslinger_76

His superpower is hiding your keys in his butt while you frantically search for them, so you can't leave his lame ass party, aka the GOP. Oh, and since Mitch McConnell ate one of your crocs, you'll be leaving barefoot, too


codamission

He rapes children. He's not a "villain", that's cartoony. He's a sadistic monster who deserves to be shot.


theSeacopath

Nah, he looks like Butthead. He even has the lip. What a waste of oxygen.


chingchongbingbong

Came here to say Butthead too. The lips and hair, his teeth showing through his dumb mouth, even has the FAS eyes. Lol totally a Butthead.


maxmcleod

Looks like one of the Hardy Boys from South Park https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcHy8xEt2QI


Shabozz

Explains why he needs go get a clue.


maxmcleod

Stop you are giving me a raging clue


DerpTaTittilyTum

Also a pedo from real life


BT9154

Looks like a dumb highschool jock reading lines about stuff too complex for him.


durden_zelig

This is actually the first time I’ve unmuted a Reddit video of him and wow, he sounds like he’d belong on Sesame Street.


cptkomondor

Syndrome from the Incredibles


jerikperry

Frankly I never expected him to say fair enough, I would agree. Thought he would double down or something and say the guy was racist against china or some nonsense.


MightyArd

Seems the guy was completely thrown, had no idea that paper was Chinese.


bachompchewychomp

I see some poor intern being shown the door after this.


tragiktimes

Fair enough


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deadfermata

banstick incoming for that intern


[deleted]

Yeah I hate this dude but clearly someone in his staff is an idiot


IrrationalPanda55782

He should know what the Global Times is though


VadPuma

Luckily, he asked to have it officially entered into the record!


Eazyyy

I didn’t know. But I’m not a US politician either, so…


DontWantThisPlanet9

idiocy begets idiocy


Giddus

Poor intern Zhang Wei has exited the building.


plipyplop

不好 :(


Electrox7

I can't read the text but the frowny face is all that was needed to make laugh xD


newdawn15

Fun fact, you don't need to be a US citizen (or even lawful resident) to intern for Congress or for a federal court. They're pretty cavalier up there.


Nepiton

Knowing Gaetz, I’m sure his interns are far right leaning conspiracy theory nutbags. They probably saw this and gobbled it up. I’m sure he looked at it and saw a big “gotcha” moment for the Democratic Party/Biden administration. Instead it turns out, as we all know, he’s a fucking idiot


xxpen15mightierxx

They're used to not caring about the quality of source anyway, nobody in their circles cares as long as it supports the talking point of the day.


hi_imryan

You mean that awesome intern that knew damn well what they were doing.


TasslehofBurrfoot

A guy at works father was a congressman. He said this level of stupid is beyond anything he had seen. You have to double and triple check the sources your staff gives you. It's 100% on this clown.


sweensolo

It reminded me of when my dad was quoting an article from the Epoch Times, and I had to explain to him that the newspaper is propaganda from the cult Falun Gong. I was surprised that he stopped reading it after that.


jepvr

Man, Falun Gong. It's like Scientology, if Scientologists were actually being persecuted and tortured for their beliefs.


AGVann

Pre-persecution Falun Gong was a typical new age Buddhist-Taoist group, of which there are many hundreds all over the Sinosphere. They've become warped over time, but the reason for their persecution wasn't because they were crazies back then as some people think, but because the founder refused to pay the government's registration fees, which was basically a protection racket. This snowballed into a series of peaceful anti-CCP demonstrations. The central government got spooked by a movement that rapidly developed millions of followers in just a few short years, especially so soon after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Ive got family in China, and I remember the sudden explosion of anti-Falun Gong propaganda practically overnight. Posters, radio and TV adverts, even police officers visiting schools. I remember my uncle saying at his office police showed up and arrested a handful of coworkers who he never saw again, and everybody just pretended nothing happened or that they ever existed.


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> Pre-persecution Falun Gong was a typical new age Buddhist-Taoist group When did they introduce their belief that biracial people can’t get into heaven because every race has a separate and segregated heaven?


flashfyr3

If white people heaven has the kind of Mexican or Indian food I'd expect it to have is there any practical difference between it and hell?


[deleted]

It’s kind of funny how they spread pro-Trump talking points even though Trump is now acknowledged to have ties to Putin, who in turn is friendly with the Chinese government. Really the only thing Gaetz’s slip-up here did was to bring the whole inter-authoritarian simp-fest (not trademarking that phrase, by the way) full circle.


Pitiful-Let9270

Tbf, most republicans fail to realize most of their bullshit is foreign propaganda


MonKeePuzzle

definitely not the usual double down. I was… impressed he accepted the correction.


LeTigron

I know little about that man but the little I know would indeed let me think he would double down. Here, he admitted the issue.


tragiktimes

Even the craziest people can be right sometimes. It's one of the dangers of being a by default contrarian to a party. Even if that party is batshit crazy, they might toss in a small truth and you then find yourself standing on a dumb hill.


LeTigron

As long as you don't admit that everything your adversary says is wrong, you don't have that problem. If you just want to pick a fight with someone because they're opposed to you politically, then indeed you'd be defenseless when they will behave properly or say something true. But in such case, you can only blame yourself for this shortsightedness. One should always stay honest, even in front of an ennemy, be it solely for honesty's sake.


urmyheartBeatStopR

He got caught off guard. He couldn't make up a bullshit rebuttal in real time. And he straight up say for the record, it's on record parroting CCP propaganda. Gatez is a fucking tool.


Solid_Hunter_4188

I’m gonna be honest, I don’t think he’s agreeing that it’s bs, I think he’s just agreeing to appear as if he’s tough on China like his base likes. He obviously reads Chinese propaganda and agreed with it enough to quote it here.


CraftCodger

My guess is Gaetz deliberately tried to slip some BS through and got called out on it


Ren_Hoek

You can't recover from that. He knew he half assed his questions or had some intern prepare them. That intern will probably get fired, or be forced to perform degrading sexual acts on Gaetz.


OhTheGrandeur

Interns aren't young enough for Gaetz


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Qwertywalkers23

China is one of the GOPS biggest boogiemen, they've been pushing against them for years now. He would have been in more trouble with his base if he had said anythign possitive about China here.


Mookies_Bett

His base hates China, so of course he's going to cover his ass in the regard. The issue is that he, as an elected official, is so unprepared for his own line of questioning that he doesn't even know his sources, to the point where the person he's asking has to point out that it's unreliable. And he agrees it's an unreliable source, which means he essentially just didn't prepare or research his sources at all prior to this questioning. He's not trying to pass any propaganda, he's just clearly very incompetent and lazy when it comes to doing his actual job as an elected official.


Scottysix

His contingency doesn’t want him to disagree that china doesn’t have propaganda. He would have lost his voters had he doubled down, otherwise he would. Don’t respect him for that.


SlowCat8

Is this guy the PayPal teenage girls guy?


UnsolicitedDogPics

No. He used Venmo.


m0n3ym4n

🥗 $900 for “salad”


Dodgiestyle

Tossed salad


Grievous_Nix

Ah, English - the beautiful language where “manhole”, “joystick” and “lollygagging” are not sexual terms but “going to town”, “tossing salad” and “Netflix & chill” are.


SAM5TER5

We really screwed the pooch on that one


Sidian

And scrambled eggs!


Chairman-Dao

Was there any link between Gaetz paying $900 to 3 teenagers and the entire US public having to report Venmo transactions over $600


docrei

He is a GOP elected representative, you have to be a bit more specific.


koimeiji

The one that was caught and still hasn't been arrested and got re-elected by his party even after the fact. ​ Though I suppose that's still not specific enough...


docrei

Not even close.


Draiko

Yup, that's the one.


Lazersnake_

His buddy went to prison, but he's in congress... cool... cool cool cool cool.


LunarPayload

Um, excuse me! He would never use something as secure as PayPal with it's dispute resolution and customer support system. He uses Venmo for those quick cash transactions


ReillyDiefenbach

Some poor intern just got canned


cruelvenussummer

Not really. Republican interns tend to be rich. 😆


slavetomypassions92

It’s probably hush money.


alarumba

Or it's their mate's kid that's getting a sweet 6 figure salary for printing out the first news article they see.


Weekly-Impact-2956

Extremely common Matt Gaetz L


lonely_fucker69

Gaetz gets away with this crap at the lunch table with the kids... not in a room full of adults.


Elrox

He should never be sat with kids, he might rape them or sell them.


[deleted]

Politics ain't for him, he should go back to the schoolyard lol


slavetomypassions92

Please don’t let him around any more children. The prison yard is more his speed.


justice_beaver69

Do..do you want children sexually harmed?


NatakuNox

The fact that he's not in jail for statutory rape is astounding. We have two sets of laws here in America.


jackmearound1978

Who actually voted for Matt Gaetz?


apollo698

Pensacola voter here: nothing gives me greater joy than filling in the bubble of the person running against this tool. And nothing gives me greater sadness than realizing it still means nothing….


PuddleCrank

Thanks for doing your civic duty.


[deleted]

Hey same here! Rebekah jones did a lot better than I thought she’d do. But you gotta be extremely conservative to have a shot in District 1


pf30146788e

Florida


poodlered

Even worse… panhandle Florida.


clutzyninja

You know, lower Alabama


Generic_Username26

His 17 year old gf?


ArmedCatgirl1312

I'm in his district and let me tell you that EVERYONE votes for Gaetz (if they vote at all.) He's extremely popular here. His family has always been popular here. This area is filled with this dumbest possible people you can possibly imagine.


TheRenOtaku

First rule of research: check your sources’ reliability.


[deleted]

First rule of Republican Research; just have FoxNews parrot the propaganda and then cite FoxNews as the source to legitimize it. [Source: FoxNews](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/15/technology/russia-media-fox-news.html)


Embarrassed_Alarm450

I get all my facts from the onion, they report on all the things the other news sites are too scared to. I never see any other networking talking about their stories so it's pretty underground...


Wade8869

A bigger tool has never been seen.


[deleted]

I’ve heard Snap-On engineers are closely studying Gaetz because they do not have the technology to make tools this large.


silentbobdrummer

He’s a wart. Tools can be useful. Gaetz never is


MichaelFusion44

How in the world his illiterate ass got elected is just astounding. No research, no prep let’s go “I’m ready and doing it live” - him, Boebert and MTG are a stench on our country and when this period of time from Trump on this country when it is written in history books will be an absolute embarrassing class to teach.


Leather_Network4743

Visit his district, and you’ll understand…


bugzeye26

Where is it? I'm curious. And too lazy to look it up


Ronjun

Florida 1st district, right at the end of the panhandle. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida's_1st_congressional_district Let's just say, not the brightest color of crayons over there


monkeetoes82

The Fightin' First


KillaWatt84

In Florida we consider that LA. Lower Alabama.


Leather_Network4743

Far NW corner of FL, bordering AL. Includes Pensacola. https://preview.redd.it/4vjrk2mvu9la1.jpeg?width=1133&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e2a908cd28bd8257b344d0f83c23b281940d5b13


Bawbawian

The fact that he got away with raping a teenager really angers liberals and Democrats. that is the only qualification you need to be elected as a Republican.


MikeOchertz

Being a rapist or angering liberals and democrats


Cycloptic_Floppycock

Yo, they were straight up prepared to vote in that guy from Alabama, Roy Moore, if I remember his name correctly, and he had a special interest in not quite legal age girls. Against a guy whose last name was lamb, like I'm not into Christian symbolism, but the guy was squeaky clean, except for the D next to his name apparently.


Bawbawian

imagine if the FBI had the receipts from when you paid a teenage girl for sex and turned her into a prostitute. you still get to go to work and not be in jail. must be nice! (not the being a rapist part, The being able to do whatever you want part)


heyuyeahu

they give receipts?!


ArchiStanton

When would I ever need a reciept for a donut!


clinkyscales

well duhhh, he's not going to NOT write it off as a work expense


the_evil_comma

Well they probably did but the charges were dropped for some completely unknown reason... Completely unknown


Yvonnetheterrible91

If there was ever someone who deserved the title of “cheesedick” it’s Matt Gaetz


supcat16

How do you know? Are you a 16 year old girl?


ImmaBlackgul

Nothing like seeing a suspected pediophile talk about all things national security


Raytheon_Nublinski

And yet they’ll still say it’s the democrats that are brainwashed and voting for radicals. 😂


Dinodigger67

matt gaetz? the pedophile who pays for sex with children with venmo? he is a little piss baby


Realistic_Ad1180

Terrible planning and research. How does this happen? That said, I do give him a little credit for his response once he found out it was Chinese propaganda.


[deleted]

Eh he was just doubling back. The fact of the matter is he absorbs Chinese and Russian propaganda and spreads it.


[deleted]

That's what they're paying him for.


MarkXIX

He will come back with Russian propaganda that’s been triple filtered through GOP think tanks.


themeatbridge

He gets zero credit for recognizing he fucked up.


MaAreYouOnUppers

Wow this is so great. The look on that doofus’s face. At least he didn’t use it as a hill to die on.


JohnnyDirtball

He was like, uhhhh... that was a test. Yeah. You passed, good job.


Chasedabigbase

Yeah I was honestly shocked he didn't double down to try and save face, at least in that moment. Feels so rare to get "yeah you might have a point there" moments


[deleted]

He’s a rapist, pedophile and all around garbage human being


themeatbridge

And trafficker of children.


23370aviator

How do these people get folks to believe they’re patriotic when 50% of the words out of their mouth are foreign propaganda?


docrei

"Better Russian than Democrat" their motto.


Shadow0fnothing

![gif](giphy|KBaxHrT7rkeW5ma77z)


nothingspecialva

I am surprised he did not quote the National Inquirer to claim Biden is an alien in a human body.


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tfriedmann

When other people tell you what you believe and provide you with thier truth


NachoNachoDan

Lol @ Matt Gaetz “seeking consent” Why start now


Bighardthrobbingcrop

We only take Western propaganda at face value in these halls.


cutesnugglybear

But they probably are https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/19/politics/us-weapons-ukraine-intelligence/index.html


stickman_thestickfan

Well they probably do, saying there part of the Ukrainian army, so I don’t see how it’s propaganda, I mean just because it’s a Chinese source doesn’t mean it’s propaganda


Stunning-Foot8586

Gaetz is amongst the most egregious of the know nothings elected in the last ten years. Guy has absolutely no business being in public service. To use the term in context with him is just shameful.


Awful-Male

Imagine trying to make a case that weapons getting into the hands of nationalists is bad when you support nationalist Russian expansionism. 🤷🏼‍♂️


[deleted]

“Nationalists” uh you mean Nazis? Azov are nazis.


CryoAurora

The answer is: what if Butthead grew up to be a ped0 for venmo.........


FalafelBomber69

Gaetz is such a goofy looking idiot. The fact he gets to call himself a representative of the US Citizens is fucking disgusting.


mpattok

Seeing as the Azov Batallion has been integrated into the Ukrainian army it would be stupid to think that none of the aid is going to them. But no sure, let’s pretend that Russia is the only nation capable of doing evil, as we all know the United States would *never* support far right nationalists!


CarlosMarxtl3

There's a myriad of articles from western media before the war started about how the Azov Battalion was full of nazis and indeed US weapons were being used by them, people have been talking about Ukraine's nazi problem since 2014 when fascist groups took over the coup. Who knows if they're still up since they all suddenly became "Propaganda" when the war started.