Matt Gaetz is a MONSTER | Renegade Cut

[Music] congressman matt gates has been in the news lately every day more and more information is revealed about his alleged human trafficking his incompetence at covering his tracks and the turning of his co-conspirators but for anyone who has followed gates's career this scandal may not seem all that shocking fellow republican steve schmidt once said of matt gates perhaps comparing him to the fictional jonah ryan matt gates is living proof that veep was less parody and more prophecy much like the character to whom he is often compared matt gates is not only ignorant but dangerous and seemingly without shame racking up scandal after scandal inflammatory statement after inflammatory statement he used to have a lot of protection to cover for his incendiary rhetoric and politics gates used to ask fox news to appear on their 5 am time slot so that he could be on television when he knew donald trump was watching prompting the now disgraced former president to talk gates up to his supporters gates had trump's back so much that he once explicitly threatened michael cohen in an obvious case of witness tampering now with trump out of office and gates's rich daddy retired from politics matt gates is on his own and it may be the worst time in his life to be working without a net [Music] matt gates was born in a town in florida called niceville a far too on the nose origin story setting of a white right-wing politician when gates was growing up niceville was a 90 white middle-class conservative suburb with white middle-class conservative values his family was conservative and politics was the family business his father don worked in the florida senate and his grandfather jerry was a small town mayor in north dakota his family had enough wealth to own two homes one of which was grand enough to be used in the truman show in 2004 don gates and his partners sold their hospice company to the parent company of roto-rooter for 400 million dollars gates came from incredible wealth and this wealth allowed him to ascend into a successful career in politics outspending his primary and general election opponents partly through his family money matt gates though coming from a well-to-do family is not particularly well respected in florida where he is called baby gates but what does matt gates believe well his family is conservative but in the traditional sense religious and old-school republican baby gates however considers himself a libertarian populist both libertarian and populist have different meanings when applied to the left wing and the right wing outside the u.s libertarian is commonly associated with left-wing politics particularly anarchism and any ideology that is skeptical of state power and opposes state violence inside the u.s libertarian is closely associated with the right wing anarchist philosopher donald room lamented the loss of the word libertarian in the united states stating libertarian is used in america to mean one who opposes minimum wages on the grounds that they reduce the profits of employers libertarian and right-wing american libertarian are two different things but for the sake of convenience and because of the topic the term libertarian hereafter will simply refer to right-wing american libertarian in short to contrast how the term libertarian is used outside the u.s and inside the u.s an anarchist believes that the state should never hurt you a libertarian believes that the state should never help you libertarian politicians characterize the united states federal government as oppressive but this has nothing to do with actual oppression by the government like state violence the maintenance of poverty institutional racism or other forms of oppression libertarian politicians idea of government oppression is the role of the government in regulating capitalism the us federal government regulates corporations through safety laws minimum wage laws tax laws and environmental laws libertarian politicians want to deliver more power to corporations and to their corporate donors the part of the government that enforces capitalism meaning the police and the military are not included in this presentation of oppression to their voters an individual libertarian might protest this definition claiming that their libertarian beliefs oppose more than just regulation however libertarian politicians are a different story for example an individual libertarian might talk about autonomy but politicians who identify with libertarianism like matt gates rand paul and ted cruz are all pro-life gates has even sponsored bills to restrict reproductive rights even further libertarian politicians generally only take left-leaning political positions when there is a potential for profit for example some libertarians see the potential market in marijuana and have consequently advocated for legalization for the most part however libertarian politicians within the republican party generally have garden variety conservative values you're not going to see matt gates marching with black lives matter gates opposed the supreme court ruling that allowed marriage equality he voted against the equality act and he uses inflammatory rhetoric against immigrants one stating illegal immigrants are sucking us dry gates opinions on climate change are common among libertarians those being that climate change is real but that humans are not causing it it's just climate denial with extra steps this is an important position for libertarians because it protects energy corporations while appearing smart enough to at least acknowledge that it's happening they're not like those old-fashioned conservatives who think god would never allow climate change to happen no they're the new hip conservatives who know it's happening but still won't do anything about it because it conflicts with the profit motive gates even introduced legislation to abolish the environmental protection agency if you're an american libertarian then you and your ancap friend might hang out in your eindrand book club and fervently discuss naps but libertarian politicians in the republican party don't care about that they care about using the aesthetic of rebellion to paradoxically maintain a capitalist status quo libertarian politicians are just the sons of wealthy influential fathers men who fell in love with the idea that selfishness was a virtue because it fit their pre-existing personalities it's not that deep libertarian rhetoric engages with the wealthy the middle class and the poor in different ways while the consequences of libertarian politics benefit the wealthy the most libertarian populist rhetoric is meant to appeal to the middle class particularly the white middle class the white middle class is economically secure enough to not fear poverty and consequently may not sympathize with the poor because of this the white middle class has the potential to resent social programs that will benefit those in the lower class the white middle class works hard enough to feel a sense of entitlement to their moderate wealth a libertarian politician takes advantage of this declaring cut taxes don't raise the minimum wage abolish social programs you're paying for other people people who didn't work as hard as you in reality nobody works harder than the poor they often have to work longer hours and multiple jobs the consequences of libertarian politics most negatively affects the poor as free-market capitalism increases corporate power over the workers particularly low-wage workers libertarians love proposing capitalism as the solution to capitalism but what about populism populism as described as a left-wing movement galvanizes the poor and to a lesser extent the middle class against the wealthy populism as a right-wing movement galvanizes the wealthy and the middle class against the poor populist rhetoric also tends to activate the racial majority of the nation in the case of the united states white people now some might claim it is presumptuous to see matt gates's ideology as catering to a majority or saying that he characterizes the majority as a marginalized group instead of actual marginalized groups or that he characterizes the majority as being silenced or that he incites the majority to action against the minority but all of that is quite literally what he says all the time but i hear the millions of americans who feel forgotten cancelled ignored marginalized and targeted i draw confidence knowing that the silent majority is growing louder by the day in this great country more on this dog whistle rhetoric in the next section libertarian policies sometimes conflict with the populist talking points for example matt gates spread the racist and absurd conspiracy theory about china developing covet 19 in a laboratory to use as a bio weapon against the united states at the same time gates claimed that restrictions related to the pandemic were unnecessary gates libertarian belief in the free market requires him to want to reopen everything long before it's safe to do so but his populism requires him to just be a wee bit racist well which is it matt is covet 19 no big deal and businesses should fight restrictions or are the chinese trying to annihilate us and we need to be terrified about that american libertarians are also sometimes preoccupied with reducing age of consent laws but we will get to that later [Music] before matt gates gained national infamy as a congressman he was a member of the florida house of representatives following the killing of trayvon martin by george zimmerman the florida house was tasked with re-examining the stand your ground law stand your ground laws exist in a variety of forms in a variety of states but each state law has the same commonality if there is a perceived threat using lethal force is almost always justified however the perception of the threat is largely determined by whoever is using the lethal force not on whoever is killed despite the neutral wording of stand your ground laws a great deal of research suggests that these laws disproportionately endanger people of color as a history of racist propaganda has led a significant portion of white americans to perceive black and brown people as inherently threatening this data and this danger to people of color did not persuade matt gates as the chair of the criminal justice subcommittee gates was assigned with running the hearing on the law but before it even began he declared i don't support changing one damn comma of the stand your ground law gates's tenure in the florida house also included proposing legislation that would speed up state executions by requiring the governor to sign a death warrant for anyone who had lost their appeal gates no doubt is aware of the biases of the criminal justice system and specifically capital punishment as the chair of the criminal justice subcommittee according to the american civil liberties union the color of a defendant and victim's skin plays a crucial and unacceptable role in deciding who receives the death penalty in america people of color have accounted for approximately 43 of total execution since 1976 and 55 of those currently awaiting execution furthermore as of october 2002 12 people have been executed where the defendant was white and the murder victim was black compared with 178 black defendants executed for murders with white victims nevertheless gates's libertarian populism sees no contradiction in granting the state more power to perform executions because the consequences largely protect the majority but there's so much more in 2015 gates questioned the literacy skills of two black women mocked food stamp recipients and called black lives matter a marxist movement in the midst of protests following the killing of george floyd gates stated that the unrest was antifa terrorism and asked can we hunt them down like we do those in the middle east he also once remarked so this isn't about slavery or fascism or even race there is an attempted cultural genocide going on in america right now and it calls for patriots to stand up and say this is a great country it is worthy of our pride in our defense the organizers of black lives matter who pledge allegiance to the destruction of america have a lot more in common with the confederate generals that they hate than they would like to admit gates later supported kenosha shooter kyle rittenhouse who killed two protesters during a house session about race and the police representative cedric l richmond relayed his experiences with the police as a black male who went to the fifth best public high school in the country who was a victim of excessive force who has a black son who has worries that you all don't you are all white males you have never lived in my shoes and you don't know what it's like to be an african-american male gates strangely and without provocation interjected are you suggesting that none of us have non-white children this non-sequitur was bizarre as that is not really what congressman richmond had said in an attempt to shut richmond down as some kind of poorly conceived gotcha gates announced that he does know what it's like to be black and to have a black son because his son is cuban not black if this were not confusing enough gates does not have a cuban son or any son for that matter gates dated a cuban woman for a time they did not marry and when they broke up the woman's brother nestor gobin remained a family friend and sometimes housemate gates's family tried to cover for matt claiming that matt adopted nestor which was quickly disproved he never did gates changed his story about who nestor really is over the years previously calling him a local student and my helper gates is not nestor's adoptive father stepfather biological father or any other kind of father he is undoubtedly a close friend to the family and to give gates the completely undeserved benefit of the doubt maybe he really does think of nestor as his son good for him i also sometimes think of my close friends as almost family but the first time gates ever claimed this grown man as his son was to use him as a prop to defend himself from a racial accusation an embarrassing tactic among white men that is so common that it became a source of satire long ago even if nestor were both black and his son it is not significant because a white man having a non-white relative is not a shield to defend oneself from such an accusation white proximity to a minority is never an excuse for behavior or dangerous ideology and nobody with an ounce of sense is falling for i have a black friend in 2021. there is no version of this no matter how charitably one describes their familial relationship that makes gates seem less racist in 2018 matt gates invited charles c johnson to the state of the union johnson is a holocaust denier a fake news journalist an alt-right activist and one of the worst internet trolls of all time he once claimed that homosexuality caused the 2015 amtrak derailment johnson once had a social media account banned when he used it to enlist help taking out a black lives matter activist when confronted with the backlash gates downplayed johnson's controversial politics perhaps out of self-preservation alone or perhaps because they do not deviate that far from his own this is far from the only time gates has consorted with the far right though at a republican event in florida last year the proud boys a far-right fascist group were in attendance and gates seemed to be on friendly terms with them when questioned about it later gates confirmed that the proud boys were there to provide security for the event gates pretended he didn't know about the proud boy's ideology but that is simply not believable this was in october 2020 after president trump made every effort to mainstream the proud boys during a presidential debate in short gates libertarian populism always trends towards punishing the poor punishing people of color protecting the police protecting white supremacy and slowly choking the environment to death but there is so much more [Music] maybe it should have been obvious that matt gates was a sex criminal he is made entirely out of red flags when gates was in the florida house he and his colleagues created a sex challenge game complete with a point system based on how many women in politics they could convince to have sex with them according to the tampa bay times legislators got one point for sleeping with a lobbyist two for sleeping with legislative staff three for another legislator and six for a married legislator abc news reported that there were extra points for virgins the business insider called it the worst kept secret in tallahassee everyone knew about it but nobody could do anything about it despite the fact that it could easily be described as creating a hostile work environment it was not simply unprofessional it was dehumanizing to the women who worked alongside the men the amount of sexual harassment this could engender is staggering as a side note the point system and terminology used in their sexual harassment game is based on the harry potter children's novel series also while gates was in the florida house he managed to stop a bill that would have banned revenge or the non-consensual sharing of intimate or lewd pictures of current or former girlfriends or wives that bill passed unanimously in 2014 in the state senate died when a house committee that gates chaired refused to give it a hearing when a more limited version of the same senate bill did pass in 2015 only gates and one of his roommates voted against it in 2017 at this point in the house of representatives gates was the lone vote against an anti-human trafficking bill in july 2018 when jim jordan was accused of covering up sexual abuse at ohio state university gates actually defended jordan stating the deep state is out to get jim jordan in the final weeks of the trump administration in exchange for his loyalty over the years matt gates asked president trump for blanket preemptive pardons for himself and unidentified congressional accomplices for any crimes they may have committed the white house denied his request earlier this year axios reported that gates was considering leaving the house and becoming a political pundit instead despite winning re-election only months prior what could prompt such a strange turn of events and sudden change in career goals and why did he seek a pardon mere hours after the axios report we had answers to both questions gates was planning an escape gate is currently being investigated for being involved in sex trafficking and sex with a minor gates probably already suspected that authorities were looking into him before the news broke in the summer of 2020 gates close associate joel greenberg had been indicted for several crimes including sex trafficking of a 17 year old girl greenberg is the son of a millionaire he's a republican who was elected as seminole county tax collector in 2016 but that's not his only job according to reports greenberg had been acting as a middleman who granted access to young women for sex gates is being investigated for soliciting sex from at least three women one of whom was that 17 year old connected with greenberg remember when i said libertarians have strong feelings about lowering age of consent laws and the terminology about attraction to young women well we are seeing it in full display right now because of how vulnerable he is greenberg has reportedly reached a deal with authorities that may include naming his clients that is why matt gates was so nervous at looking for a pardon gates has tried to do damage control appearing on what he thought would be a safe space tucker carlson tonight on fox news however in the course of the interview gates appeared to implicate carlson in his misdeeds gates suggested that carlson may have met the young woman in question which carlson has denied with that bridge burned gates reached out to donald trump who apparently wants nothing to do with him where this goes is anybody's guess power tends to protect itself nevertheless this looks pretty bad and if he does go down for this it will be a fitting end to the career of this creepy racist immoral monster [Music] you

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Length: 22min 33sec (1353 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 18 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/The_Angriest_Duck]

He looks like a possessed televangelist fucked a loaf of stale Wonder Bread.

[u/Mumrider]

When privilege goes unchallenged it always takes it too far.

[u/MurderMeatball]

That it takes trafficking investigations to even touch people like this is beyond disturbing. Makes you think of all those who are more powerful and/or more careful still running around.

[u/Satevo462]

I really like Renegade cut. I've watched a lot of his stuff and he makes good videos. Also, Matt Gaetz can suck a broccoli fart for my unwashed asshole

[u/NahImmaStayForever]

Accurate.

[u/romworld]

Whenever I see something like this I wonder who are the people voting for this monster? The majority of his voters are getting screwed by the very system he enables. Politics is just entertainment at this point. Really, really bad entertainment.

[u/o_valley_of_plenty]

Great video, but I was kind of hoping RC would go more into the current charges he's facing rather than a general overview of his character leading up to it. Still good, it just didn't match my expectations.

My favorite part had to be RC pointing out just how utterly ridiculous the episode with Nestor was. Gaetz just chose some random dude he was friends with to be his son so he could win brief argument he had with a black congressman... what?

[u/AlSweigart]

I'm always going to upvote Renegade Cut. I don't know how he's able to produce 20-minute length videos on a regular basis and always at good quality.

[u/olbaidiablo]

Used car salesman, with what a friend once referred to as a "shit eating grin".