The New York Post reports:
President Biden would be a puppet of the Democratic Party’s noisy progressive flank, GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz said at Monday’s Republican convention kick-off — calling Biden’s White House a “Weekend at Bernies.” “Settle for Biden — that’s the hashtag promoted by AOC and the socialists,” the Florida lawmaker, 38, said, referring to NY Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
“And they will settle because they know it’ll be like Weekend at Bernie’s — and they’ll be pulling the strings,” he continued, riffing on the 1989 black comedy film of the same name and suggesting socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders would be calling the shots. “But instead of a comedy, it’s a horror movie. They’ll disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home, and invite MS-13 to live next door. And the defunded police aren’t on their way,” he continued.
Business Insider reports:
The Florida congressman falsely claimed that Democrats will “disarm you, empty the prisons, lock you in your home, and invite MS-13 to live next door.” “And the police aren’t coming when you call in Democrat-run cities, they’re already being defunded, disbanded,” he said.
“Blaming our best and allowing society’s worst? That’s the story they write in Hollywood. That’s if the lights even stay on in California anymore. They used to write only in fiction, but nightmares are becoming real.” Cops killed, children shot,” he said.
“At the Democrat convention they say if you vote against Trump, it will all stop. Appeasement is never a winning strategy. No, we won’t settle for violence in our neighborhoods or at our border. We won’t settle for decades of bad decisions by basement-dwelling Joe Biden.”
Matt Gaetz opened the RNC. But who is home watching his “son”???
— bettemidler (@BetteMidler) August 25, 2020
Matt Gaetz just spoke at the RNC. Not once did he mention:
-The 175K Americans who died of COVID
-The 31 million Americans who are unemployed
-The millions of Americans without health insurance or at risk of losing itWhy? Because Gaetz & the GOP have no plan to fix any of it.
— Phil Ehr (@PhilEhr) August 25, 2020
Wow! The Republican convention feels like a cross between Plan 9 from Outer Space and The Stepford Wives. But we all now know . . . the stars belong to Matt Gaetz.
— Glenn Kirschner (@glennkirschner2) August 25, 2020
Reminder that Matt Gaetz’s clumsily paced and rambling speech was written by a guy who was let go from the White House for having white nationalist ties: https://t.co/ChomBxi3cn
— Michael Edison Hayden (@MichaelEHayden) August 25, 2020
Matt Gaetz tried to make a Biden joke and referred to AOC and others as “Woketopians” who will “invite MS 13 to live next door” and I am not even making this up.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) August 25, 2020
Maybe this is unduly literal of me, but it does seem strange to complain both that your opponent filled the prisons and that he wants to empty them.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) August 25, 2020
Matt Gaetz just took the stage at the #RepublicanNationalConvention. Now might be a good time to revisit our piece on how Gaetz achieved his rise to political fame: his dad.
“Matt would be an assistant manager at Walmart if it weren’t for his father.” https://t.co/AtxEgxAVeM
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) August 25, 2020