Brilliant Anti- Gaetz Op Ed in Local Conservative paper - Tide turning??

we are, at a place in American history where an idiot from Niceville (local Florida Panhandle town) wearing a gas mask in the chambers of Congress can unwittingly lay waste to potentially life-saving scientific research in batcaves on the other side of the Earth. Is this a “Small World” or just a stupid one?

Yes, time will inevitably hold Gaetz accountable. Like all Panhandle politicians, his silly, short story will end soon enough. And eventually, he will go the way of all hucksters and be forgotten by the swelling numbers of younger souls who don’t know and don’t care what sort of snake oil he’s selling.
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Tracking the fecal traces of dishonest statements from government propagandists like Gaetz requires a science not unlike the virus-hunting ventures into Asian batcaves. What begins as cuckoo internet conspiracy theory morphs into a tweet from a congressman and soon flutters out onto cable television before erupting from the pursed pie hole of the American president.

But who can spend all day tracking the viral origins of political dishonesty? Whether its novel coronaviruses or noxious lies from bloodsuckers like Matt “Bat Boy” Gaetz, who has the time or desire to go hunting in either literal or symbolic bat caves all day?

That’s what we pay scientists to do. Until Gaetz lied about it. And the science stopped.

…. when Gaetz’s diseased dishonesty is allowed to infect public policy, we best beware what’s ripening on the vine.

https://www.pnj.com/story/opinion/2020/05/15/marlette-matt-bat-boy-gaetz-spreads-disease-dishonesty/5188990002/