Good riddance, as @popcornreel, and good news:

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

Good riddance, as @popcornreel says, and good news:

Gaetz was a trial balloon from Trump to see if he could get a republican Congress to do absolutely anything he wants, no matter how hideous. Apparently he can’t. Yet.

I have no doubt that the next nominee will be awful as well, but I’m willing to take the win here. The would-be authoritarian doesn’t have a completely blank check yet.
https://mas.to/@popcornreel/113522318189513854

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@inthehands @popcornreel I have a different theory.

Martin Vermeer FCD (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] This is weird. I wonder who has the goods on him. Surely not the House Ethics Committee report - trumpsters take those things in their stride, Access Hollywood style. Edit: Lolita honeypot in a state with a Dem AG?

FediScience.org (fediscience.org)

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@martinvermeer @popcornreel

Yes, the speed of the exit definitely suggest somebody has yet more damning goods on him. The point of my post is that that wasn’t supposed to even matter.

[martinvermeer@fediscience.org]

@inthehands @popcornreel Actual blackmail may work where mere shame fails.

[inthehands@hachyderm.io]

@martinvermeer
Right, but blackmail requires shame and/or a functioning legal system, both of which the Power of Trump was •supposed• to make him immune to.