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Mr. Gaetz has claimed that the inquiry is in retaliation for him raping and trafficking underage girls

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For anyone else who’d like to speculate why Mr. Gaetz seems to be being treated with kid’s gloves over these allegations, I’d like to remind people who his brother-in-law is.

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TIL one of the Oculus founders is a right wing military industrial complex bro.

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VR headsets are how you steer suicide drones to their target. Turns out to be the real killer app for VR in a way that games and entertainment were not.

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I wonder if the drone pilots look like this while they’re doing their thing?

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kid’s gloves

It’s “kid gloves.” It refers to gloves made of kid leather, the skin of a young goat. Not a child’s glove.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/origin-of-phrase-with-kid-gloves

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Thanks. Apparently I’ve been saying that phrase wrong my whole life…

I’m going to leave the comment as-is tho for the unintentional pun it created.

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it’s a joke, Matt Gaetz rapes kids and sells kids to be raped

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It’s always the goddamn fortunate sons.

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So gloves made from kids?

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And his dad was a Florida State Senator.

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treated with kid’s gloves

I see what you did there.

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“ranked number 22 on Forbes’ 2016 List of America’s Richest Entrepreneurs Under 40.[4]” from Wikipedia. Started with Oculus VR, and moved into defense technology, autonomous drones and sensors for military applications. Sounds lovely. /s

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Ah, I did not know that. Fascinating. And quite telling.

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Reports that the victims were offered extra credit in their Civics classes to come forward have not yet been substantiated.

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Two tiered US justice system on full embarrassing display (yet again)

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Greenberg is a foul SOB which is one reason the DOJ couldn’t put him on the stand, but the ethics committee has no such qualms.

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