We need to talk about Matt Gaetz. The American former Senator who left the House of Representatives to become Trump’s next Attorney General but was vetoed by his own party on the grounds of “you ‘avin a larf, or WHAT??” Because, other than Donald Trump himself, Matt Gaetz is possibly the most inappropriate man to hold any form of high or governmental office, on the entire planet. Though I must stress: he has NOT been accused of any crime. Unless the statutory rape thing sticks. He’s only been investigated by an ‘ethics committee’ of his own party. And the 37 page report on his ethics found incontrovertibly that ‘he has none. Not a single ethic in the man, whatsoever’.

Which, obviously, made him first choice for Trump, they probably partied together, grabbing women by various ‘bits’, as you do when you’ve parted with good dollar for the privilege. But attorney general? A man with a history, and a present, of serious recreational druggage? Often purchased using PayPal, in the interests of ‘transparency’. Ok, stupidity.

I’d also like to stress that paying prostitutes for sex is NOT a crime. So possibly, paying lots and lots of money for sex is even less of a crime? Otherwise I can’t imagine how his hooker-bill came to $90k. But that came as part of an ‘all inclusive’ package with drugs too. Which doesn’t sit so well with the ‘not-crime’ thing.

The Republican Party is Conservative. In the traditional, social and political sense. It is based on proper Christian values. Though in light of recent revelations in our own Church of England, sex with minors is possibly a very Christian value. But ‘family’ is a value. Honesty. Marital vows. Loyalty. And, obviously, the right to shoot lots of people with powerful weaponry. Whilst viewing abortion as ‘MURDER!!!’ Ok, this is Donald Trump’s party so there’s no place for common sense or logic, just a lot of shouting and repetition. But even the Republicans must surely see that just a fleeting brush with some kind of ‘morality’ should really be a prerequisite for attorney fucking general???

The girl in question was 17. The age of consent in Florida is 18. If he’d have gone next door to Georgia the age of consent is dependent on your level of shared genes. Eeeuuuwwwww. And don’t get me started on Utah.

Gaetz ‘didn’t know she was 17’. She didn’t tell him. He didn’t ask. It was consensual and contractual ($400) and therefore a much better quality of under-age sex than you get from the abusers in the church. But still statutory rape.

We know Trump likes to be controversial so may well have nominated Gaetz for AG just to provoke. And yet there’s kind of a parallel between the two. They both inhabit a world of such abject hypocrisy combined with complete immunity from immorality, that neither is aware of it.

The difference is; one is heading for some minor kind of slap-on-wrist, albeit career-ending, politics-wise; and the other is going to be the single, most powerful man on the planet.

God help us all.

Happy Xmas Eve

A xxxx