Gaetz Pulls Out

 

Having viewed at least some portion of the iceberg of dirt set to crash his Titanic nomination for AG, Matt Gaetz has graciously stepped aside for someone else who might slip past senatorial review. 

I'm kind of joking. When I say "graciously stepped aside", I guess I'm still wondering at the hubris that let Matt Gaetz keep his name in knowing of his ethics investigation and probably being well aware of whether he paid for sex with a minor once or a few times or whatever--or whether he was always ass deep in hookers and blow. 

Before we get on to the quandary of Pam Bondi, the recipient of Trump money to forget about any prosecution against Trump University, which defrauded down on their luck folks of all sorts who thought lessons from real estate stable genius Trump would change their fortunes, not leave them even more immersed in debt, as the new Gaetz--let's think about the old one:

The Muckrakers and the "Penitent"

 

There is a rumor about one of our GOP congresspeople that I want to obliquely address because it is not well-founded and the timeline doesn't necessarily make a lot of sense. The person in question is not someone I am a fan of, in fact, I think she is a clown who cheapens the political discourse and has no real interest in government policy as much as signifying and showing herself. 

I will not ever call out someone for fucking for money, because if you know what it is to need the money, you get it. And I also don't think anyone's abortion is immoral. If you ever did sex work or terminated a pregnancy for reasons--those are your reasons, and I don't come at someone for that. But if you ever have been there, a sex worker, or having had emergency reproductive care, you don't get to judge other people about what they have done for their lives. Good for me and not for thee isn't morality, it's just selfish and judgmental. She has done other things.  

What the Entire Fuck.

 

enjoying the musings of future Oregon governor Nicholas D. Kristof pic.twitter.com/Vke9uQYxkD

— tyler (@walletcheck) November 20, 2021

Oh wow, no. Actually not in the very least. Um, fascism is like toenail fungus in some ways in that, like, you can cure it most times, but it's really better not to ever get it in the first place. And Putin's feint in Belarus because he wants to do major drama in Ukraine right now is the exact fuckery he's been Hitler in Polanding about for I dunno, like since just before Obama? I never myself don't think he wasn't made a myth because of Reichstagging the Chechen bombings, and that the hell was enough for me to never trust Putin. 

His whole deal is why fascism is bad. Opting for fascism is never a very good sign. 

Kristoff is not an entire liberal ally, he is a guy who hates sex workers like wow.  I mean he gets some things right,  But being intermittently right while being staggeringly wrong at other times isn't a stirring endorsement, is it? And I think Oregon is a place where having a bad blind spot regarding the fash is exceptionally bad. 

I think he might actually not be an ally to workers at all. I hope there is a primary that pits him against someone with less name recognition but more liberal plausibility. Because he is not it.