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Matt Gaetz Gets Humiliated When He Tries To Boot McCarthy As Speaker

Shortly after the House of Representatives managed to pass a 45-day spending bill that will prevent a shutdown of the federal government, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) was ready to give Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) the boot by calling for a motion to vacate the speakership.

Gaetz has been threatening to remove McCarthy all week if he and his extreme right-wing GOP allies didn’t get everything they wanted in the spending bill, CNN reported.

With the clock ticking down toward a government shutdown, Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz approached a Democratic lawmaker on the House floor this week with a surprising pitch.

Gaetz, who has been threatening Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s speakership almost daily, explained that his rebellion is motivated by a desire to find new leadership that keeps their word, tells the truth, and adheres to regular order – a message that this Democrat described to CNN as “utterly reasonable.”

Gaetz then floated veteran Republican Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma and House GOP Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota as two alternative examples he had in mind, and then attempted to gauge whether this member would be open to supporting an effort to oust McCarthy. The Democrat told CNN there’s been internal discussions about a wide range of potential asks – from power-sharing agreements to policy ideas.

But while Gaetz had every intention of calling a dismissal vote minutes after the spending package passed late Saturday, he was quickly ignored and then completely shut down on the House floor, according to Jake Sherman of Punchbowl News.

“WOW…. BICE motioned to adjourn the House Shortly before the gavel dropped, GAETZ tried to get the attention of WOMACK who was in the chair. GAVEL DROPPED before Gaetz could be recognized.”

That set off a wave of internet mockery aimed squarely at the confrontational Gaetz.

Poor Matt. Maybe he find some underage girls to help ease his humiliation.

 

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John Fetterman Claps Back Hard After Matt Gaetz Tries To Troll Him: ‘Get Your Sh*t Together’

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) thought he’d spend part of his day trolling Pennsylvania Sen. John Fetterman (D), and was quickly slapped down by the senator, who told the Florida Republican he needed to get his shit together and do some actual work for a change.

According to Caroline Vakil of KTVX, Gaetz started the sniping between the two men during an appearance on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast.

Fetterman was responding to a post Gaetz wrote on X on Wednesday regarding House Republicans’ impeachment inquiry, in which he responded to a video of Fetterman mocking the GOP effort.

“The evidence against Joe Biden is overwhelming. A first-year law student could win this case for impeachment before a fair jury,” Gaetz wrote.  

“Unfortunately, the United States Senate isn’t a fair jury. It’s full of fashion icons like John Fetterman. While the Senate will be the platform, the American people will ultimately be the jury when we put that case before them,” he added.

Gaetz added to that by telling Bannon:

“That is the best-dressed we have ever seen John Fetterman. His shirt had both buttons, and the entire pant was not elastic. There were elastic features, but it was not exclusively elastic.”

That was all Fetterman needed to destroy Gaetz.

Exactly. Do your freaking job, Venmo Matt. And we don’t mean the “job” you like to do with underage girls, either.

 

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WATCH: CNN Host Swats Down Matt Gaetz For Lying About GOP’s Bogus Impeachment Inquiry

On Tuesday, without a formal vote of the full House of Representatives, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) instructed the relevant House committees to begin a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden.

In his announcement, McCarthy said, “These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption. They warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives.”

McCarthy’s move was a complete capitulation to extremists in the House GOP caucus. One of those members, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), later praised McCarthy’s move, but also suggested he might call for the Speaker’s removal, Newsweek notes:

“I rise today to serve notice: Mr. Speaker, you are out of compliance with the agreement that allowed you to assume this role. The path forward for the House of Representatives is to either bring you into immediate, total compliance or remove you pursuant to a motion to vacate the chair,” Gaetz said on the House floor.

“So we’re either going to get compliance, or we’re going to start having votes on motions to vacate, and we’re gonna have them regularly. I don’t anticipate them passing immediately. But I think that, you know, if we have to begin every single day in Congress with the prayer, the pledge and the motion to vacate, so be it.”

Gaetz appeared on CNN Tuesday evening to explain why he supported the impeachment inquiry called for by McCarthy, citing “bank records, devices, laptops, travel records” as “evidence” of high crimes and misdemeanors by President Biden.

But when host Abby Phillip explained that Republicans have yet to provide a shred of actual evidence against the president, a flabbergasted Gaetz exclaimed, “Are you trying to tell your viewers you don’t believe Joe Biden was involved in Hunter Biden’s–“

Phillip responded:

“Congressman, it’s not what I believe, it’s about whether there is evidence that president Biden is linked to the misdeeds that might be linked to Hunter Biden. That’s the issue.”

There is absolutely no evidence of crimes by President Biden. There are only accusations without any substance and constant mentions of alleged misdeeds by the president’s son, Hunter, who has never worked a day in the administration, unlike Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, who were top advisers to failed former president Donald Trump and later received a $2 billion payoff of gratitude from a Saudi investment firm.

House Republicans are about to go down a road that will lead to them getting wiped out in the 2024 election, so at least something good will come from their idiocy.

 

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Gaetz And Greene Attack Each Other Over Biden Impeachment Inquiry Announcement

Earlier this morning, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) announced that he was calling in all relevant House committees to open a formal impeachment inquiry into President Joe Biden, though he failed to specific what high crimes or misdemeanors he thought Biden might have committed.

According to NBC News:

Speaking to reporters during a news conference Tuesday, McCarthy said an impeachment inquiry into Biden is a “logical next step” of the GOP-led investigations that have been going on for months.

“This logical next step will give our committees the full power to gather all the facts and answers for the American public is exactly what we want to know the answers,” he said. “I believe the president would want to answer these questions and allegations as well.”

House Republicans, McCarthy said, “uncovered serious and credible allegations into President Biden’s conduct.”

“These are allegations of abuse of power, obstruction and corruption,” he said. “They warrant further investigation by the House of Representatives.”

While most Republicans in the House said they supported McCarthy’s move, the two biggest GOP showboats of them all, Reps. Matt Gaetz (FL) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (GA) feuded on social media over who had been the most vocal about the impeachment inquiry.

Gaetz posted, “When Speaker McCarthy makes his announcement in moments, remember that as I pushed him for weeks, [Fox News host Brian] Kilmeade said I was: “Speaking into the wind” on impeachment,” wrote Gaetz. “Turns out, the wind may be listening!”

That led Greene to counter:

“Correction my friend. I introduced articles of impeachment against Joe Biden for his corrupt business dealings in Ukraine & China while he was Vice President on his very first day in office. You wouldn’t cosponsor those and I had to drag you kicking and screaming to get you to cosponsor my articles on the border. Who’s really been making the push?”

As is so often the case with self-absorbed assholes like Gaetz and Greene, both have a desperate need to be seen as leading their party. But their party is currently being led by little more than a lust for vengeance and a desire to curry favor with the twice-impeached Donald Trump.

 

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Matt Gaetz: Expect ‘Bloodshed’ From The MAGA Faithful If Trump Loses In 2024

For the second time in as many days, a supporter of failed, disgraced, and oft-indicted former president Donald Trump is suggesting that should Donald not be victorious in the 2024 election, blood will flow in the streets of the United States.

Yesterday, former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee said on a broadcast:

“Here’s the problem. If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024, it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets.”

And now we have a sitting member of Congress, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), predicting “bloodshed” from the MAGA faithful if Trump happens to lose the next presidential election.

During an appearance on the Driveway Liberty Podcast, here’s what Gaetz had to say:

“It turns out they’ll let anybody have these jobs who gets the most votes. Well, you know, and now they’re trying to change that. Like what we were talking about earlier with, you know, with secretaries of state trying to decide certain, you know, Trump can’t even be on the ballot.”

Keeping Trump off the ballot, the podcast host claimed, has “been the plan from the very beginning.”

“I really worry that that type of action could lead to violence,” Gaetz agreed. “And I am so wildly opposed to violence. I don’t think it’s how we should resolve our disputes.”

The Florida Republican then added, “But when you start telling people that they can’t express their participation in this American experience through a vote, then they start looking for other ways, and they’re not, the vote is the best way to do it. The other ways are not so good. And I worry if they start to take the vote away, you could see bloodshed in this country. Like none of us want.”

None of you want that? That’s exactly what you want. That’s exactly what Trump and his Republican allies planned and carried out on January 6, 2021 as they murdered members of the Capitol police and defecated in the hallways of Congress.

Since they know the demographics of this country mean they will likely never win another national election, conservatives are willing to do anything — including horrific acts of violence — in order to take power by force.

One thing you can count on, however: When the “bloodshed” starts, you can rest assured that Gaetz and Huckabee will be in their chosen hiding place, tapping away on their cell phones as they post hateful screeds on social media.