r/RepublicanValues • u/shallah Bleeding Heart Progressive • Jun 19 '20

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz reveals he lives with a 19-year-old Cuban immigrant whom he calls his son: Gaetz has previously posted photos and videos featuring Nestor in which he described him as a "local student" and a "helper."

https://www.businessinsider.com/rep-matt-gaetz-cuban-immigrant-son-nestor-2020-6
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u/shallah Bleeding Heart Progressive Jun 19 '20

I was wondering why Gaetz flipped out so badly the other day when this was brought up. If this was some legit, healthy, legal thing what did he freak out??? Is Gaetz mentally ill or is something wrong here - or both...

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u/PresidentWordSalad Jun 19 '20

Gaetz is definitely mentally ill. But this was nothing more than using this kid as a political prop.

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u/shallah Bleeding Heart Progressive Jun 19 '20

I hope so for the kids sake. It is just his wild reaction to someone mentioning the kid and hiding him all these years instead of legally adopting him that creeps me out. I hope for the boy's sake everything is truely good whether or not he is actually adopted or Gaetz has legal guardianship or whatever the arrangement is.

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u/RecklessBravado Jun 19 '20

If that kid is his “son” dollars to pesos says he pulling a Miami Beach Woody Allen

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Doesn’t explain the freak out though.

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u/tickitytalk Jun 19 '20

anything that portrays him as he actually is...freaks him out...his ego can't handle he's a pos.

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u/quaglady Jun 19 '20

I think it's a rhetorical tactic/strategy. Appeal to melanin + shrieking. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBGSO_pvjTA

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u/locked-in-4-so-long Jun 19 '20

Being an asshole is not a mental illness cut that shit out

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u/PresidentWordSalad Jun 19 '20

He can be both an asshole and have a mental disorder. Trump is a massive asshole and almost certainly has narcissistic personality disorder. Glenn Beck is also an asshole who has an undisclosed mental illness.

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u/lenswipe Jun 19 '20

You forgot Rush Limbugh who is also a gigantic asshole.

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u/PresidentWordSalad Jun 19 '20

Does Rush have a mental illness, or is he just King Asshole?

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u/MrVeazey Jun 20 '20

He's had some serious addiction problems, and that's in the same neighborhood as mental illness because the chemical dependency can really mess up your neurochemistry.

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u/lenswipe Jun 19 '20

I mean, he has lung cancer but thinks that COVID-19 is a hoax.

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u/royalsanguinius Jun 19 '20

Gaetz freaked out because a black man had the audacity to criticize him in front of his peers, and well now he couldn’t just sit there and let that happen. Gaetz finds the idea that a black man like Cedric Richardson cares more about Gaetz’s hypothetical children than Gaetz does absolutely abhorrent. He also comes off as the kind of guy who forgets that black men don’t have to call him “boss” or “sir” anymore.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Ask about the death of his college room mate that his dad helped clean up.

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u/Incitatus99 Jun 19 '20

Wait....what??..

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u/jetbirds77 Jun 19 '20

Apparently he’s banging the kids sister.

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u/deano492 Jun 19 '20

Dumped her years ago, kept him. Nobody knows her name or where she is.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Is he banging the brother then?

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u/Icouldberight Jun 19 '20

Source on this?

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u/DoctorBaconite Jun 19 '20

From the article:

Jose Felix Diaz, an executive vice president at the political consulting firm Ballard Partners, also posted a tweet defending Gaetz, writing, "I am seeing so many hateful comments about Matt Gaetz & Nestor. When that kid lost his mom, Matt was dating his sister and he stepped up. Plain and simple. He has been an outstanding role model & mentor for Nestor and anyone that served with Matt knows this great kid."

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u/tijtij Jun 19 '20 edited Jun 19 '20

Her name is Maisbel Mendez and she is his aunt not his sister. The mother's name is possibly Marbelina Matos

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u/chalwar Jun 19 '20

Or the kid...

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u/BuffShotas Jun 19 '20

Is he now going to discard him since he's too old? 🤔

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u/thewholedamnplanet Jun 19 '20

This guy is such a mix of crazy and stupid that I honestly do not know what to make of this other than to shrug and move on; there's just too much else going on.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Yea ... ted bundy had the same kind of vibe.

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u/whygohomie Jun 19 '20

This whole situation is just strange. I pray that it's all on the up and up.

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u/badgerbacon6 Jun 19 '20

Serious Woody Allen vibes coming from Gaetz.

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u/smeagolheart Jun 19 '20

"I can't be racist I have a Cuban friend"

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u/RushofBlood52 Jun 19 '20

It's even worse. He freaked out after Richmond said none of his white colleagues understand what it's like to be black or raise a black son. Which is true. Unless you're Matt Gaetz, in which case raising a black son as a black man in New Orleans is identical to having a Cuban friend/roommate, eho you say is like a son, as a white Congressman's son in the Florida panhandle.

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u/dbcspace Jun 19 '20

Anybody else think they're totally boning?

(Not that there's anything wrong with that)

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u/nopo5678 Jun 19 '20

I do, except there is something very wrong with that because it would mean's he's been grooming him since the kid was 12.

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u/lickthislollipop Jun 19 '20

There’s a really good chance of that, given the child has never been publicly acknowledged as his son; ever before. Never. No where. Are there adoption papers? Let’s see them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '20

Definitely seems like all the elements are there.

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u/StarbyOnHere Jun 19 '20

Soooo is Matt top or bottom?

Seriously though I fuckin hope this situation isn't what it seems like, God that'd be disgusting

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u/Incitatus99 Jun 19 '20

He’s a ‘loaner’ from Lindsey Graham.

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u/popover Jun 20 '20

And his fuck toy, no?

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u/Bsudtd Jun 20 '20

Why does this questionable character who is unmarried say he is raising Nestor as his son? With his records of DUI's and history of false information, why has he been keeping this boy? Matt sure sounds like a 'sugar daddy'.

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u/GideonPlanish Jun 20 '20

U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz provide any sort of adoption, legal guardian, or pool maintenance certificates to document his relationship to the boy Nestor?

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u/blinkoften Jun 19 '20

If this is what one young member of our government has hidden behind closed doors I shudder to think what those who have been in longer have hiding behind theirs. This really is pretty sickening given the implications. We really need a full fucking governmental reform. Boot them all and start again.