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BumRushDaShow

(131,007 posts)
Thu May 16, 2024, 04:42 PM May 16

'Stand Back And Stand By': Matt Gaetz Parrots Trump's Call To Violent Extremists At His Trial

Source: Huff Post

May 16, 2024, 01:41 PM EDT | Updated 44 minutes ago


Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Thursday ominously invoked Donald Trump’s call to far-right violent extremists while joining the former president at his criminal trial in New York. “Standing back and standing by, Mr. President,” Gaetz wrote on social media, along with a photo of himself positioned behind Trump at his trial.

The phrase is a reference to Trump infamously refusing to condemn heavily armed white supremacists, namely the neo-fascist Proud Boys, during a September 2020 presidential debate. The Proud Boys had been tied to violence that summer in cities including Kenosha, Wisconsin, and Portland, Oregon.

“Proud Boys, stand back and stand by,” was all Trump finally said in the debate, before trying to blame others for violence. "I’ll tell you what, somebody’s got to do something about Antifa and the left because this is not a right-wing problem, this is a left-wing problem,” he said.

Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) called out Gaetz for his Thursday message. “‘Standing back and standing by’ You know exactly what you are doing ― blowing the Proud Boys dog whistle,” Crow wrote on social media. “Trying to be subtle in your call for violence; well we won’t let you. This is unacceptable.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/matt-gaetz-stand-back-stand-by-proud-boys_n_66462d52e4b0dd63cd2ba653

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'Stand Back And Stand By': Matt Gaetz Parrots Trump's Call To Violent Extremists At His Trial (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 16 OP
Bring it on Timewas May 16 #1
Come on out Gaetz Traildogbob May 16 #2
It's in the real book, too NanaCat May 16 #20
Wow Traildogbob May 17 #27
swarmy little fuck.... bahboo May 16 #3
Is he REALLY that big of an asshole? FakeNoose May 16 #4
Sit down and shut up, matt. Think. Again. May 16 #5
He was the kind of kid in High School DENVERPOPS May 16 #14
enticing violance eh? ya he knows and half the rs know too also. should be expelled and i wonder AllaN01Bear May 16 #6
HAHAHAHA, good one Matt Warpy May 16 #7
When these punks... appmanga May 16 #8
Even MAGA cops from S.I., Nassau, Sufflok would need to stop them Traurigkeit May 16 #13
Thought FL Man-boy couldn't get worse, but he did. Shouldn't be shocked but I am. Timeflyer May 16 #9
He can always get worse. COL Mustard May 17 #21
Pathetic piece of crap. ewcordon May 16 #10
Trolling mahina May 16 #11
Hey Matty Boy, man up and lead a Jan 6 style raid on 100 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. Explode with Awesomeness! NBachers May 16 #12
And for a legislator to advocate for violence too, isn't that against the code of ethics for members of Congress? SWBTATTReg May 16 #15
obvously... myohmy2 May 16 #16
You talk big, Spanky. Talitha May 16 #17
What a punk, LOL. hay rick May 16 #18
"Standing back and standing by, Mr. President," LudwigPastorius May 16 #19
Punk Roy Rolling May 17 #22
Gaetz fantasizes of being a high official in a fascist regime Mysterian May 17 #23
is he going to jail like the proud boys? prodigitalson May 17 #24
Gaetz is a degenerate like all freedumb caucus maga. Duncanpup May 17 #25
Stand by, and get ready to go to prison. Idiots. kysrsoze May 17 #26
Flying Monkeys CousinIT May 17 #28
I would really like to smack "Great Value Robbie Rotten"... SKKY May 17 #29

Timewas

(2,212 posts)
1. Bring it on
Thu May 16, 2024, 04:51 PM
May 16

Might be good for them to raise hell and start a small war, help to get rid of some. Main problem though is won't get the red tie brigade, the would run and hide as soon as it started.

Traildogbob

(8,982 posts)
2. Come on out Gaetz
Thu May 16, 2024, 04:56 PM
May 16

Expose that skull, hell Place a red hat on it for all to see clearly. Why send others out to man up for you.
You child raping Florida cock roach. Why wait for the dark to scurry around? Be a man. A manly man, with tanned balls. Jesus loves child rape. It’s in trumps BuyBull.

NanaCat

(2,028 posts)
20. It's in the real book, too
Thu May 16, 2024, 11:58 PM
May 16

After all, it's crickets from the long-haired guy condemning this sanctioned child-rape after the Israelites destroyed a Midianite town, and came home with captives (ahem...slaves):

And Moses was wroth with the officers of the host, with the captains over thousands, and captains over hundreds, which came from the battle. And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive? Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.


--Numbers 31:14-18

Brings a whole other meaning to 'suffer the little children to come unto me,' doesn't it?

DENVERPOPS

(9,030 posts)
14. He was the kind of kid in High School
Thu May 16, 2024, 07:06 PM
May 16

that we would have taken behind the school and one of us would have beaten the crap out of, just because.......

Regretfully, it was the only thing that worked........Obviously no one ever did that to Trump or any of his fellow Republican Politician loud mouths....

AllaN01Bear

(19,356 posts)
6. enticing violance eh? ya he knows and half the rs know too also. should be expelled and i wonder
Thu May 16, 2024, 05:42 PM
May 16

if the rs got paid for doing their little stunt in ny?

NBachers

(17,244 posts)
12. Hey Matty Boy, man up and lead a Jan 6 style raid on 100 Centre Street in Lower Manhattan. Explode with Awesomeness!
Thu May 16, 2024, 07:01 PM
May 16

SWBTATTReg

(22,433 posts)
15. And for a legislator to advocate for violence too, isn't that against the code of ethics for members of Congress?
Thu May 16, 2024, 07:07 PM
May 16

They should impeach the hell out of him.

myohmy2

(3,291 posts)
16. obvously...
Thu May 16, 2024, 07:56 PM
May 16

...the former magat in chief's violence compass is off...he can't tell left from right...

...and his stooge matty magat loves to skirt the inciting of violence...

...better watch what you wish for...

Talitha

(6,719 posts)
17. You talk big, Spanky.
Thu May 16, 2024, 07:56 PM
May 16

Where were you and the other Little Rascals on day 1 of Dump's trial?
Or day 2?
Or day 3?
Etc, etc, etc...

Someone took you kids out to the woodshed.

LudwigPastorius

(9,388 posts)
19. "Standing back and standing by, Mr. President,"
Thu May 16, 2024, 11:02 PM
May 16

Nah. In regard to Trump, Gaetz is in more of a kneeling position.

Roy Rolling

(6,958 posts)
22. Punk
Fri May 17, 2024, 07:36 AM
May 17

When I was growing up we called toadies like Gaetz “punks”. They’re an embarrassment even to true violent criminals. They suck up to gangs just so they can bully others.

He’s a punk. He thinks he’s gonna call for violence like the former president. But what benefit do gangs have by calling Gaetz one of their own, and backing him up when he asks them to “standby“? Zero.

Mysterian

(4,633 posts)
23. Gaetz fantasizes of being a high official in a fascist regime
Fri May 17, 2024, 08:05 AM
May 17

In which he can engage in his pedophilic proclivities without consequences.

Duncanpup

(13,040 posts)
25. Gaetz is a degenerate like all freedumb caucus maga.
Fri May 17, 2024, 09:22 AM
May 17

I can’t believe reporters will not ask him you’re being investigated for screwing underage girls they just let him spew shit and give him illusion of normality same as trump.

SKKY

(11,872 posts)
29. I would really like to smack "Great Value Robbie Rotten"...
Fri May 17, 2024, 01:35 PM
May 17

...right in his stupid fivehead. Just one. Hard.

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