Matt Gaetz Shouts That ‘Only Through Force Do We Make Any Change’ While Standing Beside Trump in Iowa
Matt Gaetz Shouts That ‘Only Through Force Do We Make Any Change’ While Standing Beside Trump in Iowa
Only through force can Washington, D.C. be changed, Florida Republican Matt Gaetz said Saturday while standing with Trump at the Iowa State Fair.
Yep. They’re starting already. This will not end well and Matt Gaetz should be impeached from office. A sitting member of government should not be calling for violence against said government. They’re getting more bold and dangerous with their statements. By the time Trump loses the next election they’ll be inciting them to war.
287Genuinely, don’t bank on them losing. We can’t afford to underestimate the mass appeal of strongman rhetoric. It’s completely fucked. But this exact approach has worked as a precursor to a lot of authoritarian regimes.
121I can't believe how many people I'm seeing who automatically assume that it's going to be an auto-lose for the right in the upcoming election. Do they not remember how everyone had this exact sentiment in 2015? We can't let ourselves fall any further by losing again to someone we thought couldn't win.
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This will not end well
Especially not with the FBI still not aligning itself fully with democracy.
70The DOJ's been trying to play both sides too
In the weeks before Jan. 6, Trump supporters boasted publicly that they had submitted fake electors on his behalf, but the Justice Department declined to investigate the matter in February 2021, The Post found. The department did not actively probe the effort for nearly a year, and the FBI did not open an investigation of the electors scheme until April 2022, about 15 months after the attack.
The Justice Department’s painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the department’s recent investigations of both Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server.
Inside Justice, however, some lawyers have complained that the attorney general’s determination to steer clear of any claims of political motive has chilled efforts to investigate the former president. “You couldn’t use the T word,” said one former Justice official briefed on prosecutors’ discussions.
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They're getting bold because nothing happens to them.
57Matt Gaetz should be impeached from office
He should also be in prison for sex trafficking of minors, but I guess that's a different discussion.
30He's wealthy and politically connected. Not gonna happen. My country is screwed.
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22This is what I don’t get. What’s the end game here? Why are people so hell bent on Trump winning? Do these politicians not see the ship sinking? What possible motivation could be keeping these people loyal to him? I’m not talking about the regular constituents but the other republican officials in office? What the hell do they stand to gain here?
14Because they are part of a cult that has infiltrated government for decades to turn it into a christofascist state and they're at their endgame.
18Because the only other option, losing, means that they're losers and they can't accept that. It's not any more complicated than that.
13Because they have made a deal with the devil and throwing in the towel means payment comes due. Thanks to the southern strategy Republicans hitched their proverbial wagon to the Christian extremists (who make up the bulk of the racists the southern strategy is predicated on). Decades of propaganda by the likes of Fox "News", Rush Limbaugh, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, and Glenn Beck has left their party deeply mired with conspiracy theorists and people with only a tenuous grasp of reality, and an equal number of grifters and con artists preying on those same vulnerable populations. These people are the backbone of Trumps support and they have for various reasons completely embraced him in some cases even as a literal messiah. The Republican party is already struggling to attract enough voters to continue to win elections without resorting to voter fraud, they literally can not afford to give up a single voter, and turning against Trump at this point would shatter their party.
Trump is an existential threat to the Republican party, but one that perversely they can't publicly attack without inciting the very thing that would destroy them. Like Frakenstein they've created a monster, and now it has turned on them. They're frantically trying to keep its ire focused anywhere but on themselves and just hoping it does more damage to their opponents than it does to them before they can think up some way to contain or kill it.
7He who rides the tiger can never dismount.
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Terrorists
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"And so, to all my friends here in Iowa, when you see them come for this man, know that they are coming for our movement and they are coming for all of us."
Not even pretending not to be fascist. Straight out of the playbook.
81matt gaetz sold children into sex slavery
76I thought he bought them?
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Fascist shit.
58We finally agree on something. History has shown that pacifism cannot defeat an infestation of conservatism. It must be cured by force.
Also, isn't Matt Gaetz a child molester? Why is he still allowed to walk free and give statements to the press?
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-27What makes you think vigilantilism is a problem with the extreme left?
Just as an example off the top of my head, the murder of Ahmaud Arbery was done by right-wing looneys and defended by the far-right as morally good vigilantilism, leading to the repeal of Georgia's citizens arrest laws (i.e., their laws for legal vigilantilism).
28Which is why they are not taken seriously by anyone else on the political spectrum.
Oh no, the pedophiles don't take us seriously, how sad.
15This isn't hard to understand at all. Unless you want to throw out the laws that define our society and perscribe to vigilante justice based on feelings, instead of evidence and juries.
A jury of his peers found Trump guilty of being a rapist, but I have yet to see a single "law and order!!! we have to rely on evidence and juries!!!" Trump follower acknowledge that.
6The eXtReMe LeFt!
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Fucking piece of shit.
40No, I think he prefers teenagers....
37Confirmed pedo, just like his buddy Trump.
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I'm sure he has said similar things while committing child rape.
38"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
Chairman Mao and republicans in 2023.
36If the majority of people used force to get what they wanted, it would not be any of the shit that the GOP wanted because they are a minority. The only thing protecting them is that society has accepted to change things through voting instead of violence. Fuck with that at your own peril, dumbass.
35It's a little scary that this environment (social media) leads so many to believe that, but it's just not reality. At best conservative ideology is at parity with liberal ideology in the US. At worst, it's actually a slight majority and has been on the rise since 2020. I'd rather we avoid Civil War 2.0 at the risk of actually losing this time.
-6This is wrong. Public opinion polls on abortion, LGBT rights, climate change, racism, etc. all show healthy majorities in opposition to the Republican party's policies. The word "liberal" doesn't do well because of an aggressive multi-decade marketing campaign trashing it, but liberal values are well supported.
22You're forgetting demographics. The elderly is primarily republican, whereas the 40 and under crowd leans heavily democratic.
Most people won't fight unless the battle is outside their door anyway, and the people who want war would probably need to cross state lines to accomplish anything, in which case they would be going up against the national guard and not just a bunch of hippies in hatchbacks.
Whoever starts the war, should it be started, will lose it, 100%. It won't even be a contest.
9What? That doesn't make any sense
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Traitors gonna trait
30Stochastic terrorism
26Sedition
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Can anyone remind me of Matt Gaetz’s stance on BLM protests? Judging by this affirmation he must’ve loved them right?
25Conservatives are fucking cowards. What the hell are they going to do, get arrested on us?
24Why isn't the FBI or the Secret Service paying this clown a visit?
How are they openly trying to incite violence without repercussions?
20So when antifa uses "violence" its bad, right
20This creepy mouth breather! He has the most punchable face!
19He looks like a relative of the demon TV pastor that died a couple of months back
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Pedophiles stick together.
18How can he shout anything with a mouth full of Trump's diaper?
16Ok, if force is justifiable, I recommend we use force to change Matt gaetz
15“Blood alone moves the wheels of history!”
13An underrated episode
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They could use his head as a battering ram in the first wave.
13Salacious Crumb says what?
12Isnt he Jabbas horny muppet from from return of the jedi?
8Yeppers.
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Just like he forced that girl into being trafficked across state lines.
12I couldn't help but hear this when he was speaking
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And if one man stepped up saying "I'm your huckleberry..." Gaetz would shit himself.
11Pardon me, but I'm dumb as a rock. Could you please explain? Is this a Tom Sawyer reference of some sort?
1It's an older meme, but it checks out...
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I had thought that the Iowa Caucus losing its first-in-the-nation status would keep these leeches out of the state but now I guess the Fair is their excuse to saddle up the clown car.
11He thinks he is a WH4OK Space Marine Chaplain when reality he is a Chaos Cultist.
10It's also how he gets all his girlfriends. Do you think they just let him through the door of the local high school?
9They do just let him walk in.
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To be fair, that's also the line he uses when discussing how to get into a reluctant high-schooler's pants if they're not impressed by his congressional career.
8fucking terrorist criminal coward
5Good luck going against the A-10 brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrttttttttsss
2Through 'the force.' Gaetz is a prequel memer, come on now.
1The people who could be roused by people like this are dumb, out-of-shape pussies, they do not scare me. January 6th was the least intimidating sight to behold, and I'm not trying to sound tough, I'm just highlighting the incompetence in these mouth-breathers.
With enough sheer will they could make short term gains but fascists authoritarianism always fails in the end because it is predicated on the lack of discussion and free thought.
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