Matt Gaetz stopped at airport security for having a Taser, report says

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2024/02/09/matt-gaetz-stopped-airport-security-having-taser-report-says/

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Hegar@kbin.social · 92 pts · 2y (6 replies)

You can't have a taser, but you can sex traffic minors.

NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social · 17 pts · 2y (5 replies)

No no, the executive branch can do it.

FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y (4 replies)

Uh, he is in the legislative branch...

NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social · 9 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Oh right. Them too

FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y (2 replies)

I think it's more correlated with wealth.

meco03211@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Nah. It's legislative power. GOP can't afford to lose any more votes in the house.

FlexibleToast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

No, it's definitely wealth. We have a two tiered justice system.

Jode@midwest.social · 74 pts · 2y (3 replies)

This can only be a publicity stunt, and at that, he was too much of a puss to have an actual gun on him.

DogPeePoo@lemm.ee · 43 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It helps him get the girls into the van

vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y (1 reply)

The taser or the stunt?

OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Girls love stunt vans.

Furedadmins@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 2y

Well how else is he supposed to keep those kids quiet when he flies them to his rape palace.

gregorum@lemm.ee · 47 pts · 2y

How else is he supposed to get dates? They shut down his Venmo account.

bradorsomething@ttrpg.network · 16 pts · 2y

I guess he had an unwilling date later.

itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Terrorist

SuckMyWang@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y

He’s got the wrong colored skin /s

LocoOhNo@lemmus.org · 15 pts · 2y (2 replies)

It's absolutely hilarious to me how many of the "tough guys" who think they're the most macho men on the planet have to carry a fucking weapon on them at all times.

Are you a "tough guy" for real, or do you just cosplay as one with the other incels, Matty?

Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

The middle school girls think it makes him look cool.

SPRUNT@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

Carrying a weapon on you at all times screams *frightened coward" to me.

snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 2y (7 replies)

If a regular citizen had a taser at airport security, they would have been held as a terrorist.

elbarto777@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 2y (6 replies)
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Kbobabob@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (4 replies)

This is not true either. My boss accidentally had a bullet in his bag. No gun or anything to actually use it and they held him and threatened to arrest him. He's white btw.

nerdyshades@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

What's wild here is I had 20 bullets in my backpack that I accidentally left in there, and they let me through, and through a connecting flight, and only caught them on the flight home, and made me throw them away. I am white which could have contributed to the "toss to enter" treatment, but I did technically fly with explosives in my carry on.

elbarto777@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 2y (2 replies)
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Kbobabob@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'm replying to a comment that just specified weapons in general.

elbarto777@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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frezik@midwest.social · 1 pts · 2y

It was definitely true in the Bush years. Less so now. That was a dumb time. Unlike now, which is dumb in new and unique ways.

Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

The twist? it was in his ass....

spider@lemmy.nz · 10 pts · 2y

Airport security wouldn't be needed for that, though, because he talks out of it.

ech@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I didn't know he played chess.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2y

Crafty callback. Nice.

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y

ettyblatant@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

So I've spent an embarrassing amount of time thinking "why are all these people so clueless!?" when their weapons are found at TSA etc, but JUST NOW I realized it's because they are usually waived through.

DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Even an idiot like pedo Gaetz should have a right to defend himself. Just stupid to bring it to the airport.

evenglow@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Having a taser is not the problem. Republicans forgetting where their taser or gun is at, is the problem.

SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Gaetz is trying really really hard to be as shit like as possible.

elbarto777@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
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ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

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mrtuttle@lemmy.sdf.org · 1 pts · 2y

he just wanted to be like the grandma from die hard 2.

https://youtu.be/_M7xDyttC94?si=6pyXeVAofPYBYwZD

ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 2y

“Say hello to Dr. Watts!”