• stoly@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Why is he a piece of shit? Seems he’s a middlingly-successful lawyer who had an addiction problem, just like tens of millions of other people. Being an addict doesn’t make you a bad person, just like having the flu doesn’t.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse. That doesn’t paint him as a piece of shit to me, just sad. A man who made many poor decisions. (There very well may be shitty things I don’t know, but they’re loudest about the drugs)

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        8 months ago

        I don’t even know a damned thing about him, other than drug abuse.

        We don’t even know the drug abuse isn’t slander.

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          8 months ago

          Uh, it isn’t? I’m not defending the fucking repubs, but Hunter did admit to drug abuse. Its in the fucking article.

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      8 months ago

      If he’s a piece of shit, he’s a private individual piece of shit, so that’s his business. He is not representing the public.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t know him but I think “piece of shit” is rather overblown MAGA nonsense.

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      8 months ago

      Gaetz is almost certainly a person who knowingly paid an underage girl for sex. The person who facilitated it basically already plead guilty and may be cooperating with investigators, though the proceedings of this seem to be going quite slowly.

      This is even more insane given that Gaetz is one of the most Q-Anony of the lunatic Republicans in Congress. Kind of their whole thing is largely based around saving children from being sex trafficked.

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          Its insane when you compare the things they hold dear and are most concerned about to themselves personally and the people they support.

          They will tell you they are highly worried about secret sex trafficking and millions of missing children, but extremely often they and the people they support are sexually abusing children, or have a history of it.

          Its the cognitive dissonance thats the insane part, the extreme hypocrisy.

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      8 months ago

      Why is he a piece of shit, and why do we care about that in the context of politics, if his matters are unconnected to his father?

      I wouldn’t care about Ivanka a single bit if it wasn’t because she was his rapist daddy’s political advisor.