Far-right Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) has insinuated that fellow House Republican Jason Smith (R-MO) is a closeted gay man.

Gaetz made the insinuation on a recent installment of his Firebrand podcast. In it, Gaetz replayed Smith’s comments calling Gaetz a “foolish liar” and adding, “If Matt Gaetz’s lips are moving, it’s only lies that’s coming out of it.”

Smith accused Gaetz of lying about former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) sabotaging the candidacies of several Republican nominees for Speaker. House Republicans nominated three unsuccessful candidates and considered many others for the leadership role after Gaetz and seven other House Republicans voted to eject McCarthy from the speakership in early October. Republicans eventually voted rabidly anti-LGBTQ+ Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) into the position.

  • @TheJims
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    9411 months ago

    I can understand Matt Gaetz feels right at home and very comfortable in the Republican Party as a vile and disgusting child sex trafficer and misogynist. But what I will never understand is a gay republican.

    • @IchNichtenLichten
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      6211 months ago

      Gay people can also be selfish assholes, who lack empathy and want in on the grift.

          • @Everythingispenguins
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            411 months ago

            Genuinely curious does he think gay people don’t deserve rights or that the Republicans aren’t really trying to destroy gay rights?

            • @[email protected]
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              Some of both actually. He’s got money and always lived comfortably. Thinks all those vocal LGBTQ people are just doing it for the attention.

              Think Peter Thiel but far less rich and not quite that crazy.

      • @TheJims
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        1611 months ago

        True. I wonder how they feel about lynching though? Because make no mistake about it that’s where Republicans are headed.

        • @IchNichtenLichten
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          2111 months ago

          I wonder if the gay republicans or the black republicans will be the first to get their faces eaten?

          • @TheJims
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            1511 months ago

            Or the Hispanic or the female or the Jewish or the…

            • @IchNichtenLichten
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              The Hispanic members of the Proud Boys always amused me.

                • @CharlesDarwin
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                  Yep, exactly. It is almost like idiots spent no time learning anything at all about history.

                  What did they think the Night of the Long Knives was about, anyway? What about Jews for Hitler (really a thing)? How did that go?

                  All of these morons, even if “racially pure” and male and straight/xtian - did they not learn what happens in the power struggles after? Sure, they may have the blessing of the fascists at the top for a minute to run amok and kill, etc. But how many of the “vanguard” survive for very long? Even those that end up at the top end up with a bullet in their head, literally or metaphorically, eventually - Hitler, Mussolini…and it was all for naught.

              • @TheJims
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                1511 months ago

                lol, proud boys are a homoerotic fight club

        • @captainlezbian
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          1011 months ago

          Everyone thinks they can get out of that part

        • @CharlesDarwin
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          311 months ago

          Because of that last part: I guess that’s what also annoys me so much about certain segments of the left these days. They are so concerned about what is essentially minutiae of culture wars and while they SAY they realize the existential threat that cons pose, they sure don’t seem to act like it. I almost wonder if some of them are plants put there by the likes of Putin to make sure fascism has a better chance here.

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        BINGO. See Milo Y and Andrew Sullivan as cases in point.

    • AlwaysNowNeverNotMe
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      I get the feeling they have an authority fetish, can’t properly get off unless they’re breaking the rules.

  • @[email protected]
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    Gaetz would probably know, to be honest. It seems congressional Republicans are fond of their Coke-fuelled orgies, at least according to the only member they actually ousted (remember Cawthorn?).

    The only real sin Republicans care about enough to do something about is revealing their secrets.

  • @cabron_offsets
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    Oh yeah? Did he live with an unrelated, underaged male housemate or some shit?

  • ALQ
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    Ah, we lost McCarthy, but that’s triggered more (new-age) McCarthyism. Seems about right for them.

      • @Dkarma
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        Uk kids fake when he’s named after the character from Nintendo power magazine

    • @OmenAtom
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      1211 months ago

      Its always projection with these guys

  • @[email protected]
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    1211 months ago

    According to the Republican Party, being homosexual is worse than being a supporter of rape.

    • @Raxiel
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      “Worst thing you can do is get caught with a dead girl or a live boy”

    • Bakkoda
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      Here comes the next wave of McCarthyism. What a fine look for the government of the United States of America.

  • @Treczoks
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    611 months ago

    He probably learned that from a very personal encounter with him. Or a common friend.

  • @mrcleanup
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    So he’s saying he has gaydar?..

  • @n0m4n
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    Gaetz pedoing pedaling lies.