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packman

(16,296 posts)
Sun May 17, 2020, 02:09 PM May 2020

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/

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Brilliant Anti- Gaetz Op Ed in Local Conservative paper - Tide turning?? (Original Post) packman May 2020 OP
Holy moley! Alliepoo May 2020 #1
For all I care, Gaetz can hang around long enough to highlight oasis May 2020 #2
I see what you did there. DEbluedude May 2020 #6
K & R...for visibility...nt Wounded Bear May 2020 #3
Must Read - K & R malaise May 2020 #4
LOL: "... the pursed pie hole of the American president" Drum May 2020 #5
For me it was "the fecal traces of dishonest statements.." panader0 May 2020 #16
👏 Drum May 2020 #20
Seems asking old people to die for the Phoenix61 May 2020 #7
Brilliant piece and absolutely damning to Gaetz. writes3000 May 2020 #8
Wonderful writing. I'll try to follow Andy Marlette at the Pensacola Journal. erronis May 2020 #9
K&R wow, epic takedown PoliWrangler May 2020 #10
Matt "Bat Boy" Gaetz Celerity May 2020 #11
Looks like something you'd see at the check-out line, i.e., a GOPer's other bible. Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #21
"pursed pie hole of the American president" mtngirl47 May 2020 #12
+100000 Celerity May 2020 #23
That was well worth the read for the prose alone. crickets May 2020 #13
Also worth it for the "Gallery o' Gaetz: The Cartoon Congressman" (20 toons) Hermit-The-Prog May 2020 #22
Whoa wryter2000 May 2020 #14
" .. president who is more apt to watch Tucker Carlson than to read Thomas Wolfe." DemoTex May 2020 #15
What a great piece, what beautiful writing. LisaM May 2020 #17
Certainly love the writing and message....... MyOwnPeace May 2020 #18
Very nicely done Warpy May 2020 #19

oasis

(49,370 posts)
2. For all I care, Gaetz can hang around long enough to highlight
Sun May 17, 2020, 02:26 PM
May 2020

the idiocy of his constituency. The House GOP is going to languish in the minority until the end of time.

Phoenix61

(17,000 posts)
7. Seems asking old people to die for the
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:05 PM
May 2020

economy may have not been a good strategy after all. Who could have known?Maybe it was shitting all over the military, the Navy most recently which is very big in P’Cola. Couldn’t have seen that coming either, right? All I can say is thank god they are as stupid as they are evil or we would be in much greater danger.

erronis

(15,222 posts)
9. Wonderful writing. I'll try to follow Andy Marlette at the Pensacola Journal.
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:28 PM
May 2020

So many good points and so well told.

Too bad the subject is a drunken idiot who represents the current (r)epuglicons.

crickets

(25,960 posts)
13. That was well worth the read for the prose alone.
Sun May 17, 2020, 03:55 PM
May 2020

The condemnation of Gaetz was superb! Gaetz' opponent is Phil Ehr, introduced to DU here:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212615986

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,319 posts)
22. Also worth it for the "Gallery o' Gaetz: The Cartoon Congressman" (20 toons)
Sun May 17, 2020, 08:13 PM
May 2020

Some of those are familiar from JHB's toon posts.

DemoTex

(25,392 posts)
15. " .. president who is more apt to watch Tucker Carlson than to read Thomas Wolfe."
Sun May 17, 2020, 04:10 PM
May 2020

Like Trump would have the slightest clue who Thomas Wolfe was, or know what he wrote.

LisaM

(27,800 posts)
17. What a great piece, what beautiful writing.
Sun May 17, 2020, 04:21 PM
May 2020

"Like most Panhandle politicians, his short, silly story will end soon enough".

I kind of wish the term "Panhandle Politician" would catch on.

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
18. Certainly love the writing and message.......
Sun May 17, 2020, 04:34 PM
May 2020

be curious to see how effective it is in its home market. (Yeah, we know he's right, but do the people that live in that district agree?).

Warpy

(111,237 posts)
19. Very nicely done
Sun May 17, 2020, 06:33 PM
May 2020

and I fully agree. Voters are going to have to wake up and look at more than what god these jokers claim is on their side.

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