My sense was that Gaetz may very well have hired a child predator to take pics of Jones and her family (including her kid), but that the court decided that this kind of one-off activity by the guy didn't constitute stalking (which requires a whole course of conduct). Is it shitty to hire this sort of character? Sure. Was it likely to put Jones' kid at serious risk? Probably not.
As I mentioned, the way the situation was presented is sketchy and tends to undermine her credibility. That said, Gaetz will never get any sympathy from me.
Uhh, tacking "The man, Larry Hetu, admitted in court he stalked, photographed a 12 year old boy for Matt Gaetz in September/October 2022." onto the "photos of Gaetz making out with young men" tweet is pretty sketchy. Then again, we're dealing with Matt Gaetz and the MAGA contingent so ...
Holy shit - I had not heard about the Saudis use of AZ water to - wait for it - grow fucking alfalfa in the middle of the desert for export back to SA. I don't know how much 22,400 acre-ft per year goes, but that is still some monumentally stupid gov't action.
Saudi firm has pumped Arizona groundwater for years without paying. Time to pony up (yahoo.com)
The more I hear of his random, almost stream-of-consciousness lying, the more he reminds me of this ...
It's going to be the perfect ending when we find out he's Keyser Söze.
Would be a fitting end to this debacle if there was some GOP-on-GOP chicanery so that the McCarthy crew could blame losing the speakership on Beavis and Boebert ...
This will be the downfall of America. The GOP is intent on increasing the base of stupid angry people that they can control (without ever doing anything to help them) by (1) increasing the number of stupid people and (2) making certain that there are no limits on their ability to foment anger (both by ensuring that the channels for rage (Twitter, Fox, etc.) stay open and ensuring there are no consequences for the constant stream of lies that they spread).
Best I could tell was he was trying to argue that allowing a black Santa to refuse to provide services to KKK hood-wearing patrons would somehow constitute discrimination tantamount to the LGBTQ discrimination at issue here, given only white people would be impacted (this being the point of his sarcastic comment about black children dressing up in KKK outfits) - somehow overlooking the fact that the discrimination would really be a function of those white people being members of the fucking Klan (i.e., violent bigots that hate said Santa), not their whiteness.
One of the great legal minds of our time, y'all ...
Fair, but the bumpkins are definitely going to notice the conspicuous lack of drawl among the people on that commercial. I think it would have gone over better if there had been a few Bubbas in overalls pointing out that Herschel sounded insane to them as well.
Are the Dems going to start getting better about messaging?
I mean, it will probably end up achieving jack shit, but I like the barrage. We just need MSNBC to put together a video montage with something burning / blowing up / otherwise scary to go with this so that maybe they can shame the GQP into explaining why they're not concerned about this (after the whole "LEaKS1!!1!" shitshow in the spring).
Solid segment about the whole CO shooting here, but the part with Mallory McMorrow (every time I hear her speak, I am more impressed) is especially powerful. There has to be some consequence for the hatemongers or this just isn't going to stop.