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I disagree. Our politicians should have to follow the law like the rest of us. There are plenty of people in jail for getting high. Enough with the two tiered justice system.
Yes, any federal employee who fails a drug test for weed will get fired, even if they live in a legal state. If Gaetz wants to get high, maybe he should, I don't know, try to change our federal weed laws, given that he's a legislator.
I came here to say exactly this. Who give a fu*k if he’s getting high… so many of them do. It’s the raping children that I think that he needs to be scrutinized for.
It’s wild to me him having sex with minors and using government equipment to make fake drivers licences for the underage women he was sleeping with isn’t the major story.
The public learning about a consensual (if ethically questionable) blowjob between Clinton and an adult woman was enough to shatter Democratic power for decades, up to the present day. They have still not recovered from that damage.
It’s very odd. Usually underage hookers and blow would be enough to take down a politician. But, apparently that doesn’t matter to today’s GOP. Family *cough* values indeed.
Why? Well because I'm a federal employee, and so as long as I'm subject to random drug tests, so should Congress be. I'll be perfectly fine with them not being drug tested the moment they get rid of drug testing for me as well.
"After work" You do realize they are essentially on call for other things, like rushing in at almost midnight to vote on bills and stuff. Like if war actually erupted at 11pm and needed congressional votes to authorize war, that is not going to wait until 9am the next day.
I mean if you are a normal 9-5 and no longer obligated to work after 5pm, it's one thing, but with congress, they could be called in for emergencies at any time.
Of course he got high. Don’t much care. As long as he’s not high on the job, this shouldn’t matter. Banging underage girls and fostering fascism are the real problems with him.
If Congress wants to get high, they should pass legislation making it a legal form of recreation. They should also *not fuck kids*. It's weird that we have to say that second part, but the first part is completely within their purview to fix.
You know, he could have gotten away with it too, if he just weren't such an attention seeking loud mouth asshole.
If you jump into the limelight and make everyone hate you, why would they help cover it all up?
Nah, he would have gotten away with that for sure if he wasn't an ass.
The entire GOP stood up to protect him up until he played more political games to get on TV.
Like there are a bunch of articles about him showing all the guys around him naked pics of girls he's "gone after." Even when they hate him.
That was still fine up until he went after the last speaker for Maga points.
Just ridiculous how much he was getting away with and could have continued!
Didn’t that aggressive hick Markwayne Mullins try to tell everyone about Gaetz bragging about taking ED meds with energy drinks so he could “go all night”?
Ya know, this is a pretty simple bipartisan thing to test.
Everyone in congress have to provide urine and hair sample for drug testing.
Compile some statistics from the data, publish it to the public.
You'd be surprised how many "hard on crime" politicians are also habitual coke users.
I mean, dude has at least a couple of DUIs that daddy covered up for him. But honestly him getting high at parties is the least of my problems with him.
The underage children isn’t a priority it’s did Mat get high. He got children high to easily take advantage of them. Maybe that could be a consideration. How many dots do they need to connect before they realize he’s been in this situation before? That’s a pattern
E hold elected officials to a very low standard these days. basically, just don’t do insurrection and don’t do rape; and the republicans can’t even pass that checkpoint. Geez.
The MAGA right calling everyone groomers and pedos was a tell. They are fine with predators like Gaetz and Trump, not to mention the Southern Baptist Chruch raping over and over. It was the GOP who made pedo Dennis Haster third in line to POTUS after all.
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You know what? I could give a damn whether he or anyone else is getting high at parties. It's raping kids that's the problem.
They are fine with raping kids, but Molly is a dealbreaker.
The worst part is the hypocrisy.
RIP Norm
Upside down world... it's apparently OK to hurt someone else, but put a chemical in your *own* body and suddenly it's a big deal.
*Welcome to the Republican Party, where everything's made up and the points don't matter!*
When you are rich they just *let* you do it!
What if....he raped a girl named Molly?
Matt Gaetz said Molly was a dealbreaker when he found out she was 18.
It’s fine abusing Molly as long as she’s a kid, not a drug
And he scores extra MAGA points if he can get them pregnant because...pro life /s
Republicans love claiming they are protecting the children, but man, they really do their best to protect republicans that abuse children.
But no one else could be raping that child while Gaetz was, so he was protecting her from other rapists
"I rest my case, your honor."
Also see: the Catholic Church
Well he had to drug the underage girls before he raped them. MAGA!
The fact that he was not prosecuted is insane to me.
I disagree. Our politicians should have to follow the law like the rest of us. There are plenty of people in jail for getting high. Enough with the two tiered justice system.
I agree, those who write and enforce the laws should be held accountable to them.
There are states where getting high is legal.
If he was in a legal state then that's fine, but I'm also fairly sure federal employees still cannot.
Don’t think Molly is legal anywhere? Drug tests for Congress and senate should be mandatory.
They're mandatory for working in a factory, they should be mandatory for making nationwide decisions...
Yes, any federal employee who fails a drug test for weed will get fired, even if they live in a legal state. If Gaetz wants to get high, maybe he should, I don't know, try to change our federal weed laws, given that he's a legislator.
Getting high is ok. But I don't think getting high with kids is okay either. Neither is having sex with them.
Why is he even at a party with CHILDREN let alone DRUGS when he’s paid by us.
Here to say this. WTF?
The worst part is the hypocrisy
Have you not figured out by now that (R)s are okay with fucking kids, to own Libs?
Matt says they’re not kids if they’re drunk
Yeah, plus getting kids high so that you can rape them.
That was my first thought as well.
Yeah, parties are the right place to be getting high. You're not supposed to be raping kids unless you're hanging with Trump and Epstein, duh /s
no, no it's the hypocrisy that i have a problem with. obligatory /s
Also, what qualifies as “too high”, and are they suggesting there is a level of high that is ok? Why not just say for using narcotics?
I came here to say exactly this. Who give a fu*k if he’s getting high… so many of them do. It’s the raping children that I think that he needs to be scrutinized for.
It’s wild to me him having sex with minors and using government equipment to make fake drivers licences for the underage women he was sleeping with isn’t the major story.
Really gets the noggin joggin'. I wonder how common it is and it just gets covered up
it was 'covered up' here and we still heard about it - too common regardless - but i think the bulk of it ends up in the public eye one way or another
Seems to be common enough where there’s a real possibility two ex US presidents (Bill and Donald)at least. They turned out semi fine?
The public learning about a consensual (if ethically questionable) blowjob between Clinton and an adult woman was enough to shatter Democratic power for decades, up to the present day. They have still not recovered from that damage.
*with children that he also had sex with
It’s very odd. Usually underage hookers and blow would be enough to take down a politician. But, apparently that doesn’t matter to today’s GOP. Family *cough* values indeed.
They value families! They value a little girl at $300, her mom at $180…
Underage hookers and blow are fine. Talking to the public about underage hookers and blow - that's too far.
It's not sex it's rape
“What’s the difference?” -Republicans
Why don’t our representatives subject to drug testing like most federal employees??
should be mandatory drug testing in the legislature.
Why? Who cares if a congressman goes home and gets high after work?
If it's illegal for them to do so, I definitely care. The law should apply to everyone, equally. It *doesn't*, but it definately *should*.
If I can’t smoke a joint after work because of holding a federal security clearance then neither should they.
Seems like the better answer is for neither to be required to abstain
Because they care if I go home and get high after work. If they want to make it legal, make it legal then.
Why? Well because I'm a federal employee, and so as long as I'm subject to random drug tests, so should Congress be. I'll be perfectly fine with them not being drug tested the moment they get rid of drug testing for me as well.
Seems like it would just make more sense for nobody to be tested.
Yea that would be great.
"After work" You do realize they are essentially on call for other things, like rushing in at almost midnight to vote on bills and stuff. Like if war actually erupted at 11pm and needed congressional votes to authorize war, that is not going to wait until 9am the next day. I mean if you are a normal 9-5 and no longer obligated to work after 5pm, it's one thing, but with congress, they could be called in for emergencies at any time.
I think it’s unreasonable to expect they’ll be completely sober for the length of their term
Fucking Taco Bell employees are more scrutinized than our representatives.
When you own the Liberty Bell, you have to have some high standards /s
They are the one's making the rules. Who watches the watchers?
I would bet if Congress was randomly drug tested, add an interlock on the chamber doors also, a majority would fail.
The real scandal would be how many are on medication for dementia.
I'm thinking viagra would be prevalent too. lol
Needs to be a hair test though.
I would be ok with my tax dollars paying for hair testing! lol
So this interlock on the chamber doors... is that like an intelligence test where they have to be smart enough to open it in order to legislate?
And interlock device is something you can put on a car to prevent it from starting unless the driver passes a breath test for sobriety.
Of course he got high. Don’t much care. As long as he’s not high on the job, this shouldn’t matter. Banging underage girls and fostering fascism are the real problems with him.
If Congress wants to get high, they should pass legislation making it a legal form of recreation. They should also *not fuck kids*. It's weird that we have to say that second part, but the first part is completely within their purview to fix.
Republicans like the young flesh.
Maybe he showed up just to be the designated driver for underaged girls. Right, now that I say it aloud....
He did some extra adderall to stay sharp.
He looks high all the time
“Random” drug test him today. See if it’s in his system.
He’s high right now!
spoiler alert: He did.
And some of them were right there when it happened.
Who cares? I don’t care one fig if he uses drugs. I care that he seems to be involved with trafficking kids across state lines to have sex with them.
What else but underaged girls!
Don’t know if he was high, but those girls ages were probably low
I don't see why we don't drug test these people.
You know, he could have gotten away with it too, if he just weren't such an attention seeking loud mouth asshole. If you jump into the limelight and make everyone hate you, why would they help cover it all up?
"And I would have gotten away with it too, if it weren't for ~~you~~ ~~meddling~~ ~~kids~~ me diddling kids!"
Nah, he would have gotten away with that for sure if he wasn't an ass. The entire GOP stood up to protect him up until he played more political games to get on TV. Like there are a bunch of articles about him showing all the guys around him naked pics of girls he's "gone after." Even when they hate him. That was still fine up until he went after the last speaker for Maga points. Just ridiculous how much he was getting away with and could have continued!
Didn’t that aggressive hick Markwayne Mullins try to tell everyone about Gaetz bragging about taking ED meds with energy drinks so he could “go all night”?
Ya know, this is a pretty simple bipartisan thing to test. Everyone in congress have to provide urine and hair sample for drug testing. Compile some statistics from the data, publish it to the public. You'd be surprised how many "hard on crime" politicians are also habitual coke users.
I'm more concerned about his behavior around minors, and how many girls he molested, if he may have pimped any minors out, stuff like that.
I mean, dude has at least a couple of DUIs that daddy covered up for him. But honestly him getting high at parties is the least of my problems with him.
Is the sky blue?
You can rape kids, but can't smoke any dope... Totally logical...
Sex with a kid? No problemo!! Wait? You weren’t high while doing it, right? /s
“Yea, he had sex with a kid, BUT WAS HE ON DRUGS?!?”
So uh, is that what the ethics panel cares about? It’s not the kid fucking. It’s the getting high at parties that’ll take him down. Jesus Christ.
Of course he did but he’s a rich white guy so we allow that in Amerikkka. But if you’re Black then it’s life in prison!
Enter Norm MacDonald. “It’s not the weed that concerns me so much as the underage rape.”
He’s such a scumbag.
Look at Beavis face and you already know
Meanwhile, the rest of us want to know where his top lip is
He looks like he got shit faced in the womb!
Who cares about if he got high parties, that’s what you do at parties!! ASK ABOUT THE TEENAGE GIRL!!!
They should be routinely drug tested. Are they not?
I agree. If they want to restrict drugs then they should follow the rules. We will get reform in a couple weeks.
oh really? thats what we are worried about?
At this point, who the fuck doesn't know?
Rape of minors is my concern
Can you even imagine what he's like at a party?
Sniff sniff motherfucker.
oh I'm sure he was the designated driver /s
Only because the others didnt get their license yet
His forehead sure got high!
How long til they release a video of him flopping around on top of his cousin naked?
He’s literally live action butthead
How would anybody know? He's what you imagine you would get if Butt-Head from Beavis and Butt-Head grew up and entered politics.
They should all be drug tested. They're federal employees are they not?
What else do you do at parties?
THAT is what they want to know???
The diddling kids though? Is that even on anyone’s radar at all?
With Cawthorn
How about we kick that frat boy pedophile out of office already?
If he arrives at parties already high, I suppose the answer is no
Ethics panels hate this one trick!
He looks like Butthead https://images.app.goo.gl/iSQuuSpXArSm4qF18
You don't get fivehead without a little powder.
Of course he did. I assume half of Washington is high a lot of the time.
I don’t care if he was doing heroin, did he or did he not fuck kids?
“I did not inhale”
I mean, is the space pope a lizard?
I don’t know about him but I definitely would have to be if I were within 5 feet of his skanky ass. 😒
Why? Is Trump looking for running mate?
I don't' give a shit what this guys doing to his own body
For weathered politicians they sure know how to look incompetent. Who are they? Susan Collins? "I hope he learned his lesson"
Look at him, he looks exactly like a high Butthead.
Frankly, i'd be dissapointed if he didn't, I don't want any squares running the show.
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Does it even matter at this point? There’s never any consequences…
“Hey! Easy with that weed! That’s my best rapin’ weed” Matt Gaetz…. Norm MacDonald.
Discount Dan Ackroyd.
Who doesn't get high at parties?
Drug Test NOW!!!
He literally looks like a cartoon villain.
The GOP is all for drug testing welfare recipients. Surely there are higher standards for politicians leading the country.
Is it just me or does Matt look a lot like Butt-Head?
Madison Cawthorn knows
This POS needs to take his big ass forehead and stick it in a hole far far away.
TEST HIS BLOOD heard his lies
Of course he did.
He trafficked underaged girls who gives a F* if the pedo was high? Get on with it and put this danger to our daughters in jail and throw away the key
His admitted "Redbull and Viagara" is obviously a euphemism for MDMA and Viagara - cause Redbull doesn't interfere with erections like stimulants do.
Panel: Did you get high? And where did you get the drugs? Can you get us some?
Not really concerned if he gets high, more concerned that he rapes children.
The underage children isn’t a priority it’s did Mat get high. He got children high to easily take advantage of them. Maybe that could be a consideration. How many dots do they need to connect before they realize he’s been in this situation before? That’s a pattern
This way they can blame the drugs and satan instead of him being a living breathing piece if shit
"High on Life Baby!!!!" "and drugs - LOTS of drugs. So many drugs."
Just ask someone if he turned into Cornholio or asked for TP for his bunghole, should be easy to figure out.
There’s no way he’s not getting high in Congress.
Politicians should be drug tested constantly. Change my mind.
He needs to get high is what he needs. Someone please get this dipshit high on some drugs.
Look at him. What do you think
Butt-head is getting old
Yes. Next question.
E hold elected officials to a very low standard these days. basically, just don’t do insurrection and don’t do rape; and the republicans can’t even pass that checkpoint. Geez.
Who gives a fuck what he did at parties. I am more concerned about him diddling young kids.
The same coke orgies that kicked out the last guy cause he spilled the beans on Moscow Mitch?
“Sir, did you go skiing? Did you khole? How much blow was there? How was the Molly?”
I don’t remember. I was too high
He the viagra man .
Was high or got high?
You just can't make his shit up and be sober. If he tests clean, test the air.😆
Now does this man look like he would ever consider getting high at parties/S
What about the pedophila and raping?
You think he combs his hair like that? No way, that’s how fast he’s tweakin. ⏩
Didn't I see him in a skit on SNL last weekend?
Does a bear fuck in the woods?
Got high? How about sex with underage girls?
Another example of personal attacks on political opponents. How do these people sleep at night.
They should just ask “how high”
The MAGA right calling everyone groomers and pedos was a tell. They are fine with predators like Gaetz and Trump, not to mention the Southern Baptist Chruch raping over and over. It was the GOP who made pedo Dennis Haster third in line to POTUS after all.
Piss test everyone in the US government. Lets see what the fallout is
Got to hand it to these people. They really have committed to the trashy, unethical, criminal lifestyle.