Always knew this sanctimonious douchebag was a creep. Now it looks like he’s a criminal one.
Is anyone surprised?
I mean we already knew that, too. But victimizing a homeless girl is a whole new level of creep.
There have been reports of this asshole being a pedo for years. But ever since covid, I honestly couldn’t tell you if it was during the early Biden administration or a decade ago
I just assumed that he’d always been rapng children.
He used to rape children. He still does, but he used to too
I lived in Okaloosa county for five years. It’s an area ripe for exploitation and Gaetz has been doing so most of his life thanks to his daddy.
Don’t worry, I’m sure someone will SLAM him for it and then we will see some real consequences.
We don’t even talk about him adopting a 14 year old boy when he was 25. Normal , right?
As normal as a 15 year old dating a 39 year old then becoming President of France. Normal.
the magic 24 year marker, same age difference as Donald and Melania. But that’s true love.
Both were well into adulthood when they met. And also not her teacher. Try again.
“It’s not like it was an 8-year old”
- Megyn Kelly
FYI megyn has a 14 year old daughter.
There is no bottom to these people.
I have nothing against sex work, but this was not sex work; this was a goddan tragedy created by a bunch of monsters who created the current situation in which this can happen in the first place.
Just one more reason why they want to keep you poor. So they can do shit like that. And worse.
This is a category of sex work. There is sex work in which adults choose that it’s labor they’d prefer to participate in, I support that sex work. Then there’s a long spectrum that ends in places like this. You can’t criminalize this stuff away. When minors are so desperate they’re selling sex you need to look at the material root causes
There are recordings of an interview with a historian in which Sylvia Rivera talks about how she got into sex work as a child. It’s heartbreaking and infuriating and more than anything it’s a condemnation of the circumstances in which she lived.
Yet another beautiful story about how a young person has to sell their youth in order to afford medical care in America.
Deeply /s
Wait till you hear what the biggest attraction of the US Military is…
It’s to get the hell out of middle of nowhere dead end towns. At least that was the draw when I was in, as well as my cousins, and father.
if you yourself need the medical care, you don’t get in.
I really do miss Tricare. Not worth being married though. I decided I’ll just die lol.
Yes US healthcare sucks. And this particular story sucks. And Matt Gaetz sucks. But I just want to mention that many other countries with superior healthcare systems also suck when it comes to dental care. Despite the fact that a bad dental situation can have devastating health consequences for the whole body.
That’s nice, good job muddying the waters.
In how many of those other countries are minors tempted to perform sexual acts on government officials to receive said shitty dental care?
Like I said I’m not excusing either Gaetz or the US. I also wonder whether she would have been more comfortable leaving her teeth crooked if she weren’t in the US, unless it caused health or eating issues.
But it’s here on Lemmy, and in years past on the other place, where I have heard people’s frustration about teeth being separated as “luxury bones” under even the best healthcare systems. It goes back through history, separate schools, but the more we learn the more obvious it seems that dental care is healthcare.
From what I’ve read and heard, many poor people just don’t get any dental care, whatever country they’re in.
I wish for her sake she’d been able to find an orthodontia school where she could have gotten her braces from a student under the supervision of a professor.
Sorry, but talking about how dental care sucks in other places too, in a post about dental services being rendered in exchange for statutory rape, sure does sound like making excuses.
Well of course it’s not, there’s no excuse. Gaetz is a predator who exploited and raped her, full stop.
The fact that these cases always seem to end with “DOJ declined to bring charges” or some similar fate is disgusting
He would have been your Attorney General!!! Yes!!! Trump’s “Finest, best people”.
Single Payer Healthcare now and it better include dental and gender affirming care
Pfff… Devastating… Par for the course, you mean.
But, they supposedly couldn’t find a reason to actually prosecute this fucker? Give me a break.
We need to move past these things and finally concentrate on the really important issues, like transgender girls playing volleyball!
Oh yeah, there’s another one for sure. These people are just fucked
A prominent member of the Guardians Of Pedos, you say? Big maga?
That’s criminally low compensation for having to touch Matt Gaetz.
Just add it to the pile of sexual predators in the GOP.
Me, browsing Lemmy, sees this headline:
“Ah yes, another c/theonion banger… Hold up, c/politics!?!”
