politics

This is the beauty of being a conspiracy theorist, it gives you free reign to believe anything you want.

Evidence comes out that someone you support has done something bad? "It's a set up and/or manufactured! Where's the proof!?" Same evidence comes out that someone you oppose has done something bad? "See! I told you so. When will people start listening to me!?! Of course it's real because I think they are running defense for this person." No evidence evidence exists for your theory? "((They)) are very good at hiding it!" Evidence that kind-of-sort-of-almost-supports-your-claim-if-you-look-at-it-at-just-the-right-angle-in-just-the-right-light (but not really, it just is vaguely similar) supports something you said earlier. "HA! i told you."

You can always view/ignore the facts in such a way to confirm your position, if the facts are secondary to the narrative.

~~Alleged sex with minor~~ A witchhunt is when Republicans do it.

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Honestly I firmly believe he has been acting in bad faith all this time. It will temporarily settle my nauseous stomach during the Trump administration when they throw him into the pyre regardless of all his boot licking. Fucking centrist jellyfish AG.

Even if they do ban porn, it will be an excuse to monitor and shape internet traffic first and foremost. They don't care about filth, but they do want the ability to look for it, and mechanisms to restrict it. Then all of a sudden new reasons to restrict new content becomes more feasible and eventually the same idiot voters who screech about censorship will be the ones who help usher is the great firewall of ~~China~~ the United States.

If all she saw was them two going into a bedroom, she would not have been able to testify that she saw them have sex. They could have stepped into the bedroom for any number of reasons. Yes, we can infer what happened in that bedroom, but that inference carries no legal weight without other evidence to support it. If she saw a sexual act take place before they went into the bedroom, then she still saw a 35 year old man sexually assault a minor.

She was 17, not 7, if you were in that situation would you call, especially that you don’t know the age?

If I had reason to believe she was 18 and of sound mind, I'd have forgotten that I saw them walk into the bedroom together by the time I was done with my next drink.

Even if she found out the girl was 17 later, she still didn't call the police and say "Hey, I saw a member of the United States House of Representatives sexually assault a 17 year old!". At some point, she knew who Gaetz was, knew the girl was 17 at the time, knew what happened and did nothing.

I'm not going to go into the age of consent issue, or the "Hey she's 17, she knew what she was doing" argument, or the fact that she got into porn afterwards. A Representative in Congress trafficked a girl under the age of 18 across state lines for the purposes of sexual activity. If that were you or me, we'd be in jail right now with our names permanently etched into the sex offender registry. If a jury of his peers wants to look at the whole picture and say "meh", then so be it. But he needed to be put in front of that jury.