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EXTREMELY LARGE AND INCREDIBLY EMPTY
That head! That misshapen head!
Thank you, Universe, for the gift of Gaetz. Biden is better than we expected or even dared hope for, the vaccines are here, people are getting government money, the GQP [not a typo — Gullible Quisling Party] is reduced to whinging on about Mr. Potato Head and Dr. Seuss, and we’re seeing headlines like DONALD TRUMP’S ODDS OF STAYING OUT OF PRISON ARE RAPIDLY DWINDLING. (Of course we still have mass shooters, killer cops, vaccine resisters, and voter suppressors, but just imagine how much worse it would be if the former guy was still the current guy.) Overall, things are much better, plus now we have the self-destruction of Matt Gaetz!
Washington Post columnist Alexandra Petri had such a perfect take on this absurd spectacle — it’s my favorite thing I’ve read so far this year — that I have to quote it at length:
“There are several details of the Matt Gaetz story that keep sticking in my head, but the one that sticks in it most is the report that the Florida Republican used to wander around and show his colleagues nude photos of people he had slept with. …
“I keep coming back to the detail … that this wasn’t something Matt Gaetz did a single time, but repeatedly. Because if it happened more than once — if it happened twice, even — that is because the first time went better…
