Family values.
Sex work is work, no shade on her but the hypocrisy is Gates and Co are abhorrent.
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A hand job is still a job, Officer!
Sir, this is a Wendy's, and I clearly already have a job. Now, do you want fries with that or not?
Meh. Lemme know when they have evidence of the minors. I have no problem with adults trading money for sex. Sure, he might have lied about it, but that can be explained by the stigmatization of the act by society.
Don't get me wrong. I hate the guy. But this is pretty not-so-damning in my mind.
Selling is legal. Fucking is legal. Why isn't selling fucking legal?
Because if you could buy sex, then the rest of our economy collapses.
Or only the rich get to indulge while the rest of us are punished.
Either way. Prolly more options.
It's a George Carlin quote.
Cool.
Only the rich get to indulge
Literally 1984
Her profile showed 17 years old at the time, but something tells me you aren't actually looking for the proof, because that already exists.
Maybe that would be true if he was personally paying for sex, but he was paying her to have sex with other men. That muddies the waters alot. There's an assumption of control since he's rich and well connected. To me this isn't much different than what Espsein was doing. Flying girls to islands for sexual favors with business partners.
It didn't matter initially when it was a child, why would it matter now that it's a woman instead?
Because one is acceptable to the GQP. The other is not.
You seem to have some pretty concrete ideas about what our Esteemed Colleagues on the Right Side of the Aisle would accept, that I don't think they would necessarily share.
He will never not look like the bad guy in a movie.
Maybe if it's a Lego movie
Well at least it was a woman and not an underage cuban boy.
He's got one of those too.
https://people.com/politics/matt-gaetz-tells-story-boy-he-raised-as-a-son/
Surely not child sex trafficker matt gaetz?
Pre-emptive pardon!!
That'll be...lessee...$2 million please 🫡