In 2017, Matt Gaetz was the sole dissenting voter against an anti-human trafficking bill.

https://www.pnj.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/29/matt-gaetz-defends-lone-no-vote-anti-human-trafficking-bill/990407001/

34 comments

  1. I’m shocked, I tell you, shocked!

    Well, maybe not **that** shocked.

    Mostly that he was sole dissenter.

  2. Yeah this guy is a piece of shit. Everyone knows it. But, the Republican senators will say they “put their faith in Trump to pick his cabinet and the voters have spoken,” so they’ll go ahead and confirm him anyway knowing full well he’s a criminal.

  3. Gee, I wonder why Trump, of all people, would appoint a guy like that to the office of Attorney General?

    EDIT: corrected the auto-correct.

  4. He is also the only person to bring a picture of Butthead to their cosmetic surgeon and say, “This.”

  5. I know this article/story is old news, but…

    > “Unless there is an overwhelming, compelling reason that our existing agencies in the federal government can’t handle that problem, I vote no because voters in Northwest Florida did not send me to Washington to go and create more federal government,” Gaetz said. “If anything, we should be abolishing a lot of the agencies at the federal level like the Department of Education, like the EPA and sending that power back to our state governments.”

    First of all, you just resigned in disgrace in order to kill the ethics committee investigation against you after hearing that it’s going to vote to release a damning report that implicates you in multiple crimes and/or serious ethical violations.

    And make no mistake, the party of “limited government,” can be more accurately described as the party that wants to limit the government to *their* authority.

    Using the power of the federal government to address human trafficking is bad. But when a MAGA coalition threatens to use the power of the federal government to create a one party system that will eliminate independent agencies that are responsible for public health, clean water, air and environmental preservation is good?

    And that last part there is no exaggeration. Republicans are going to abuse their authority come January 21st to do exactly what Gaetz suggests.

    We’ve been warned by political analysts and junkies that a second trump administration will bring about a crisis of incompetence at every level of government

    Through executive actions like schedule F, combined with a unitary executive and broad immunities for the president, the Republican party will endeavor to create a one-party system of government.

    The goal is to eliminate the separation of powers and the independence of most government agencies, cleansing these agencies of anyone who is not on board with the MAGA/Trump coalition agenda, then filling whatever positions are left with loyalists, and these are positions that were previously reserved for educated, non-partisan, knowledgeable professionals and experts in their respected fields. Hence, a “crisis of incompetence.”

  6. This is unrelated but:

    Ask yourself why there’s no protests about Gaza right now. No shitposts online about Genocide Joe or Holocaust Harris.

    Ask yourself why, suddenly, people stopped talking about Gaza now that it can’t be used as a weapon against democrats.

    Sit with that for a bit, and then remember it the next time there’s some big reason people are voting third party or sitting own in the presidential election.

  7. Ugh, I had forgotten about this. It’s been so many ages ago, it feels.

  11. Stories are already starting to come out about sex trafficking at the Mara Largo overseen by him and Trump.

  13. You know there’s just something about a guy under investigation for raping a 17 year old voting against an anti-human trafficking bill…seems pretty sus to me

  15. I think Trump did it to buy some time for himself. Gaetz is hated in the House. So Trump wins those guys over. It gives the Senate an easy win to stand up to him and Gaetz retires without facing the music for the most part. He’s getting Kamala’ed.

  16. Even pedo Gaetz votes in his best interests, how tf is the median voter not capable of that

  17. I seriously doubt that America will come out of the next 4 years as the superpower of the western world it once was. The UK had a long turn before you guys so now it’s New Zealand’s turn to run the world.

  18. This is going to be a huge human trafficking government. Republicans are already very prone to being human traffickers. Trump himself has probably already been involved into this type of activity. Epstien meet a lot of the woman at Trump clubs. Florida is a hotbed of this type of activity.

  25. Wow, this bill would have been so impactful. He should not be AG

  26. The mission of Trump seems to be dismantling everything that makes America great. I genuinely feel for those who voted for him, believing he was the savior who would restore a golden age. He deceived the nation not once, but twice. Shame on you, America— for being fooled twice.

  27. you know this guy is really bad when even the conservatives and trump fans can’t stand him.

  29. Every person that ever talked about Pizzagate and Hillary & democrats being pedophiles should have the Gaetz nomination showed in their dumb hateful little faces.

  30. Let me get this straight. There will be workplace raids because of suspected human trafficking, but the new Attorney General has engaged in human trafficking. Yep, sounds about right.

  31. Gotta respect a man who stands up for what he believes in, especially if he is the lone descenting voic—- Hang on, did you say he was *pro*-human trafficking?

  32. Let’s say I was into human trafficking. But all of my colleagues, including a few that might also be ok with human trafficking, are going to speak out (or in this case, vote) against it.

    Why wouldn’t I just cross my fingers and also vote against it, at the very least to provide a veneer of deniability?

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