What Is Rep Matt Gaetz Trying To Achieve? - What's His Angle?....

[global1]

With all the antics this guy pulls I sit back and wonder what is his end game? What is he trying to achieve?

Is he doing what he does to get re-elected? Raise money? Get noticed by the MSM so he gets more air time for cable news interviews? Moving up in the ranks of Repugs by doing crazy things? Get in the good graces of Trump?

Does he realize that he just makes an ass of himself?

I don't get him. What's his story?

[TreasonousBastard]

1. No point-- he's just an asshole. It happens.

[book_worm]

2. maybe he's hoping that Trump will dump Pence

and put a real fighter for him as VP.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. Teapartier, right? He is just a dumbass, we have to remember almost every GOP elected

in the past 15 yrs is someone not smart enough to run the night shift of a convenience store and this includes rump himself.

They are not educated, they dont know anything about other countries or cultures, they are purposely dumb.

[TeamPooka]

40. this + 1000

[FrankBooth]

4. He wants to raise his profile

He has aspirations of being a senator, maybe even moving to Alabama to run against Doug Jones. This stunt will play all over the 24-7 wingnut propaganda machine, and he'll be a hero to the deplorables.

[fleur-de-lisa]

5. I think he was trying to lie to the violent Trump base

to imply that something nefarious is going on with the House hearings.

And also to let them know that force and lawlessness are okay if you don't get your way.

[Cousin Dupree]

6. Dumbasses like to dumbass

[Gothmog]

7. The 2000 Brooks Brother riot was effective

Link to tweet

[dweller]

8. to make himself irrelevant ?

he should lose any chance of
security clearance with the FBI from this point on,
and he's committed a crime ...

✌🏼

[LanternWaste]

9. Chronologically, he's an adult

so I really did suspect there was some underlying tactic to this.

But realizing he's just another of Idiot trump's flying monkeys, I'm going with "not enough hugs as a kid and is just compensating for attention and simply following 'Florida-Man' tradition"

[maxsolomon]

10. Control the news cycle. Feed the RWNM.

Keep up a drumbeat of Process complaints.

In Fox World, he's not an ass. He's a warrior for justice.

We live in 2 entirely separate information worlds. Their bubble has a thick, yellow crust that prevents seeing out.

[TidalWave46]

11. Florida Man. NT

[Tommy_Carcetti]

12. I think he's just drunk. nt

[ChubbyStar]

13. Read this Mother Jones article on little Matty

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/07/how-matt-gaetz-used-daddys-money-to-become-trumps-favorite-congressman/

[ReformedGOPer]

14. Is he from Florida?

Why would anyone vote for him? Is he in a gerrymandered district?

[Tommy_Carcetti]

16. Extreme Northwestern part. Most conservative part of the state.

I still hope he just decides to cross the border into Alabama and stay there.

(My apologies to any Alabaman DUers)

[Brother Buzz]

17. Politically incorrect, I guess, but his secure district is refereed to as the Redneck Riviera

Florida's panhandle

[CrispyQ]

15. The entire GOP are trying to sow seeds of doubt about the legitimacy of the inquiry.

The more extreme their antics, the more they get reported on, & the more people hear the phrase "illegitimate inquiry."

[dustyscamp]

24. This

[GoCubsGo]

38. Exactly right. Also obstruction of justice.

They were trying to prevent the testimony of another witness who will almost certainly offer even more information damaging to Trump and others.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. He was given the marching orders by his Dear Leader

Trump Says Republicans Need To 'Get Tougher And Fight' On Impeachment

October 21, 20195:18 PM ET

President Trump is chastising Republicans for not sufficiently having his back as he tries to weather an impeachment inquiry from Democrats.

"Republicans have to get tougher and fight," Trump said during a Cabinet meeting on Monday. "We have some that are great fighters, but they have to get tougher and fight because the Democrats are trying to hurt the Republican Party for the election."

And while the president rarely has words of praise for Democrats, he did laud them for being "vicious" and "stick[ing] together" when it comes to impeachment and other matters. And he lambasted one of his top GOP foes, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, saying they "don't have people like that" on their side.

/snip

https://www.npr.org/2019/10/21/772062717/trump-says-republicans-need-to-get-tougher-and-fight-on-impeachment

[trueblue2007]

19. his story ..... DUII frat boy who has been allowed to break the law. #LockUpMattGaetz

[tanyev]

20. Get adopted by Trump?

[choie]

21. Obstruction of justice

[Claritie Pixie]

22. He's proving his loyalty to Trump.

[salin]

23. He ha said that he would like to be the GOPs 'AOC' - aka hipster star (his perception)

But while the thinks he is more clever than the latest apple iphone, truth is he doesn't have much over the average box of rocks. So his stunts are just loud, flailing, and usually backfire.

But he has captured Trump's attention - I guess that gives him the energy to keep at it. Showing his backside for what he really is.

[safeinOhio]

36. More like a male version of

a former GOP female Alaskan Governor.

[salin]

44. Spot on!

[moondust]

25. Just another hoodlum/thug/brownshirt

craving attention like his Fuhrer.

[C_U_L8R]

26. He's desperately holding onto power

Obstruction. Deception. Disorder. Whatever it takes to profit.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. All in with Trump, no question.

His motivation? Trump held Kompromat? Ego? Party over Country? Money? Probably a combination platter.

[Andy823]

28. Follow the money

Russian money that is,.

[blm]

29. Proving privileged guys like him are above the law. His daddy fixes everything

for him, even murder. He and Trump have a lot in common.

[guillaumeb]

30. A need to be noticed.

An exhibitionist without the nudity.

[TlalocW]

31. He wanted to get footage of security dragging him and the other republican invaders out of the room

It would help his narrative that democrats are trying to hide something. Fortunately, democrats didn't rise to the bait, let it peter out, and continued with the hearings. Hopefully, there will be consequences later, which he'll try to capitalize on, but with Nancy running things, the narrative will be out of his hands.

TlalocW

[The Genealogist]

32. Guessing he wants to show his ,ashes Donald just what a fine sycophant he really is.

He has stiff competition for chances to kiss Trump's butt. Lapdog Leningrad Lindsey will hardly let anyome else have a chance.

[Wounded Bear]

33. Showmanship!

They are losing on the facts and they know it. All they have left are bogus PR stunts like that one.

[Faux pas]

34. Assholes

hard to understand. It's easier not to even try, save yourself and let it go.

[mcar]

35. He's an entitled Trump humper asswipe

Who is in a Ruby red district. That's it.

[awesomerwb1]

37. If the tweets from MAGAts

about this are any indication, apparently MAGAts seem to think that the hearings are being conducted secretly by Schiff with absolutely no Russiapublican presence or input. They don't know russiapublicans are present and can ask questions etc.

[Tiggeroshii]

39. Distract the headlines from the testimony to the stunt.

[struggle4progress]

41. I me mine

[LeftInTX]

42. Republicans like to vote for A-holes, hence he's doing "his job"

Louis Gohmert II, Steve Stockman II etc etc

[Garrett78]

43. Given how many millions of people believe utter nonsense, it's inevitable...

...that some public officials do, as well. Some simply take advantage of constituent insanity, but I'm sure some are true believers. Which one is Gaetz? I don't know. Maybe it doesn't matter.

[Demonaut]

45. he now knows which repugs are all in with trump, it was test.