Matt Gaetz Shouts Down Democratic Rep. Cedric Richmond: 'Who the Hell Do You Think You Are?!'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Wednesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on police reform blew up when Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) took offense at remarks made by Rep. Cedric Richmond (D-LA) about race, asking the Black congressman “who the hell” he thought he was.

Debating the Democratic-backed Justice in Policing Act on Wednesday afternoon, Richmond began his remarks by noting that lawmakers of different parties tend to call each other “good friends” before noting that this may not be the case when he’s done.

“By the time I'm finished, you will be clear that we are not good friends," he added sharply.

Taking issue with GOP members introducing extraneous issues and amendments, such as items addressing the leftist movement antifa—one of conservatives’ current favorite bugaboos—Richmond declared, “You all are white men who have never lived in my shoes and you do not know what it is like to be an African-American male!”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/matt-gaetz-shouts-down-democratic-202123380.html

Go home Gaetz. You're drunk again.

[JI7]

1. Is this why he brought up the non white "son" ?

[nolabear]

4. Yeahhhhhhh. Lucky son. Or assistant. Or page. Or whatever.

Mystery Date.

[dawg day]

7. How is this young man his "son"?

What is the relationship? Gaetz is kind of young to have a "son" who is 20 or so.

[StarfishSaver]

8. He brought it up to challenge Richmond's assertion he doesn't know what it's like to be a black

man in America.

Not sure how claiming to have raised a young man from Cuba in any way proves you know what it's like to be a black man, but ...

[grumpyduck]

2. And this guy is one of our federal lawmakers?

Acting like a spoiled brat?

Well, maybe he is.

[Grokenstein]

6. Oh, that's nothing for Matty Boy.

Twitter obscured a tweet sent by Rep. Matt Gaetz on Monday, finding that the Florida Republican had violated its policies prohibiting tweets that glorify violence. (...) Gaetz wrote: "Now that we clearly see Antifa as terrorists, can we hunt them down like we do those in the Middle East?"

https://www.cnet.com/news/twitter-hides-rep-matt-gaetz-tweet-glorifying-violence/

[Thekaspervote]

3. Kool aid boy!

[stillcool]

5. I wish he was drunk...

much easier to deal with.

[Mariana]

9. Was Rep. Richmond getting too uppity?

Was Gaetz trying to put him back in his place?

[Walleye]

10. Sure sounded like that

[Mariana]

11. It sure did. nt.

[Generic Brad]

12. I call my cat Son but he's not really my son

But I do have the adoption papers on him. I'll bet Gaetz does not have adoption papers on his "son". So I'm calling faux outrage and b.s. from Gaetz.

[Ms. Toad]

13. He doesn't.

Nestor Galban is his former girlfriend's brother.

No legal relationsip. Theoretically since they broke up Galban stayed with Gaetz, aside from a short period when he was home in Cuba with his father.

Galban looks pretty fair to me - I wonder how he defines his race, given that more than half of all Cubans self-identify as white.

https://people.com/politics/matt-gaetz-tells-story-boy-he-raised-as-a-son/