Matt Gaetz being investigated for sex with 17 year old girl (DOJ declines to charge 2023-02-15)

It goes without saying, that if the then 17 year old could prove she was with him, she’d be sitting on a gold mine, and blackmail negotiations wouldn’t include the old man wearing a wire for sure.

That sounds like you think the 17 year old is a scheming manipulator, not a kid in over her head.

I didn’t say that. I was laying out a plausible blackmailing scenario, as opposed to the one Gaetz was talking about.

I don’t know if this was reported upthread in all the whataboutism nonsense. Matt Gaetz’ ex-girlfriend is afraid that she may be charged with obstruction of justice after a possibly taped phone call with the seventeen year-old in question.

So the alleged victim called her? And she 1) didn’t find this odd, and 2) might have said something that, measured against other things she’s said, could be considered evidence of obstruction of justice?

This case is weird.

Everything around Matt Gaetz is weird.

His physiognomy looks like the reflection in a funhouse mirror.

On top of that, his face is weird looking.
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Yeah, but Edgar Allan Poe married his 13-year-old first cousin when he was 27, so Gaetz could be weirder. At least, if he lived 200 years ago.

I’m pretty sure his mouth was installed upside-down.

Thanks for that photo. Too bad I just ate lunch; a little of it just came back up in my mouth. Urgh.

My personal nickname for Gaetz has been “Evil Donny Osmond”.

Someone pointed out that he looks like a real-life version of Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head and now I can’t unsee it.

Yeah! People are always remarking on the Butthead resemblance, but I think he’s more a cross between Butthead and Donny Osmond.

With Jim Jordan:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ErgBR45WMAAoPTr?format=jpg&name=large

As the Lincoln project said, “This reboot sucks.”

In that photo, Jordan resembles Steve Martin as Ruprecht in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.

I shall dub thee “Buttmond”.

“Huh-huh, huh-huh… Yeah!

Check the forks for corks.

“May I take your trident, sir?”

LOVE that scene.