Xan Pearson

I read the entire ethics report on Matt Gaetz. The stuff that I witnesses discussed in that report makes you wanna take 12 showers. He was living a lifestyle full of drug-soaked parties, paid sex routed through friends, and a creepy fixation on women who were barely old enough to legally drink. Money flying around, drugs on the table, sex treated like a transaction. Not once. Not accidentally. Repeatedly. Now, two things can be true at the same time. First: yes, this was absolutely weaponized. Washington is ruthless, selective, and hypocritical. If he were a Democrat, half of this would’ve been ignored, buried, or reframed as “personal choices.” Some witnesses may have exaggerated. Some of the women were adults, knew exactly what they were doing, and went into it willingly. So I am a fair person, and I will give him all of that because it is true. Second: none of that magically erases the fact that he is a degenerate who should’ve used the time away from Congress to get the help that he needs and stop the lifestyle that he was living because it’s freaking disgusting and because he is has now decided to make this an Israel thing is everything has become these days that’s why I’m commenting on it. It’s not a foreign influence operation or some grand conspiracy that you paid women for sex, slept with multiple women at the same time all while high as a kite. That is a character, flaw, and a choice by a person who clearly makes really bad decisions. Drug haze. Paid sex. Barely-legal girls. A grown man in Congress acting like a frat boy who never grew up and never learned restraint. I don’t care how common that is in D.C. It’s still embarrassing. It’s still repulsive. It’s still the kind of thing that makes you want to take twelve showers after reading about it. And here’s where it goes from gross to pathetic. Instead of taking the hit like an adult, instead of saying “Yeah, I lived like a scumbag and I needed to stop,” he decided a year later the real villain here was… Israel. Well, let me tell you something even if Israel put Mossad right next to him unless there was a gun to his head when he was banging all of these women and paying them for sex while high as a kite…. The only person who has to blame here is Matt Gaetz. This is not a foreign intelligence operation. No one from another country forced you into those parties, made you Venmo women, or convinced you that living in a fog of excess was a great idea. First of all, he doesn’t have a single iota of proof that this has anything to do with Israel, and second of all, you can only be blackmailed if you get caught with your pants down. And the timing alone gives the game away. Where was this sudden concern about Israel when all of this first came out over a year ago? Nowhere. It only shows up now, when it conveniently fits a new political narrative and plays well with the crowd he’s decided to run with. Funny how that works.