Rachel Maddow Tells the Dark Joel Greenberg and Matt Gaetz Florida Man Story

[ancianita]

and that Gaetz was the only member of both parties to vote against increasing law enforcement funding to combat child sex trafficking. The Gaetz public denial claims that this is an extortion plot against him and his family.

Start 2:40 -- 26:17

[dlk]

1. Truth is stranger than fiction...

[ancianita]

2. Yep. That said, this is everyday 'normal' reality for trumpcult.

In the Easter season, one can even say that Jesus and Republicans got nothing in common.

[dlk]

3. They seem to be getting weirder and weirder

Just when you think they’ve hit bottom, they manage to find new lows.

[Harker]

4. Yes, the news does go "doo-woop" sometimes. n/t

[bucolic_frolic]

5. Fake licenses. Wow.

Stalin seized passports from Trotskyites and substituted new people and photos for spying operations worldwide. This sounds to me like a stalking operation, a surveillance thing in addition to the list Rachel provides.

[ancianita]

6. Yep.

She just holds back on unprovable speculation, but she knows.

[Harker]

7. I'm impressed that she asks reporters if her summations

are accurate before she proceeds with questions.

She's a responsible journalist, and that still counts with a lot of people.

[ancianita]

8. I hear you. Then again,

since she has repeatedly emphasized that journalists serve crucial democratic functions to keep government accountable, inform the citizenry, provide platforms for leaks and whistleblowing, it stands to reason that of course she would respect the expertise of the journalists who originate what she reports. It's her ethic, and it's all of a piece.