• AstridWipenaugh@lemmy.world
    66·
    1 day ago

    That is every bit as dumb as someone saying “no, I wasn’t buying drugs! I only traded money for a hug, then got an eight ball for free!”

    • Humana@lemmy.world
      24·
      1 day ago

      This is how you buy weed in DC…

      Edit: No seriously, look it up. You can’t legally sell weed in DC the but you can possess. So the shops sell you $70 socks and then gift you devil’s lettuce.

      • neoman4426@fedia.io
        6·
        1 day ago

        There was that King of the Hill episode with the failing bookstore converted to a gun store, didn’t have a license to actually sell guns so they started saying something like “Free gun with $600 book purchase” or something along those lines which I assume would be illegal real world, but worked in show

        • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          14 hours ago

          I remember banks giving away hunting rifles when you open an account with a certain minimum balance as interest on a CD.

    • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world
      41·
      1 day ago

      I bought my girlfriend’s train tickets to see me because she was broke. Am I a pimp?

      Edit: I dunno. I had the wrong words.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    28·
    1 day ago

    Why is he Upset? He Represents his Constituents PERFECTLY! Raping Children and Sex Trafficking is EXACTLY why they Voted for Him!

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    lol, he doesn’t refute the statutory rape or trafficking, just the prostitution part?

  • orcrist@lemm.ee
    12·
    1 day ago

    He can say as much as he wants on Twitter or a blog or TV or wherever. Nobody is stopping him from “setting the record straight”.

    Of course he could catch a defamation charge if he pulls a Trump. Gotta watch out for that one. Better yet, watch out for the teenagers, and stop having sex with them.

  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    193·
    1 day ago

    In its report, the Ethics Committee explained that “Representative Gaetz did not appear to have negotiated specific payment amounts prior to engaging in sexual activity with the women he paid. Instead, the women had a general expectation that they would typically receive some amount of money after each sexual encounter.”

    Where’s the boundary between prostitution and a sugar daddy/sugar baby relationship which is not in itself illegal? This seems like the latter rather than the former to me. It’s still crazy that the attorney general nominee is claiming to be a sugar daddy in order to defend his character.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    16·
    1 day ago

    In other posts including screenshots from from depositions, Gaetz boasted that a woman he is alleged to have trafficked and had sex with while she was 17 replied “No. I wouldn’t say that,” after being asked if “anybody trafficked” her, and submitted that what he did was “clearly not prostitution under any conceivable definition.”

    Guess what, whether the witness (victim?) was trafficked for sex is not the witness’ (victim’s?) decision to make, because she is not a judge.

  • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
    11·
    1 day ago

    I mean, if the thumbhead wants a trial, please let’s hear what he has to say.

    But since he ran away from congress and the Whitehouse because of this, i don’t think that’s what he really wants to happen.