Some of the most toxic straight white cis dudes in Congress are currently engaged in a pissing match to make Kyle Rittenhouse their intern.
After being found not guilty in his highly publicized homicide trial last Friday, the 18-year-old has received multiple offers to work for prominent Republicans in Washington, D.C.
Accused teen sex trafficker Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida was the first to offer Rittenhouse a gig, posting on Twitter ahead of the verdict: “Kyle Rittenhouse is not guilty and deserves a not guilty verdict. In fact, he’d make a great Congressional Intern.”
Kyle Rittenhouse is not guilty and deserves a not guilty verdict.
In fact, he’d make a great Congressional Intern. https://t.co/WcldfhfdIx pic.twitter.com/GwaLBFJ5Hi
— Rep. Matt Gaetz (@RepMattGaetz) November 18, 2021
Next was accused sexual predator Rep. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, who took to Instagram to cheer Rittenhouse’s acquittal and encourage Americans to “be armed, be dangerous, and be moral.”
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“Kyle, if you want an internship reach out to me,” he captioned the story.
Madison Cawthorn offers Kyle Rittenhouse “an internship,” says he isn’t guilty, and tells followers to also “be armed and dangerous.” pic.twitter.com/m3EHnp5EOD
— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) November 19, 2021
And then came noted homphobe Rep. Paul Gosar of Arizona, who said he would “arm wrestle” Matt Gaetz to hire Rittenhouse first, tweeting: “Justice was served for #KyleRittenhouse and he is fully exonerated. As I said last year, obviously self-defense. I will arm wrestle @mattgaetz to get dibs for Kyle as an intern.”
Justice was served for #KyleRittenhouse and he is fully exonerated. As I said last year, obviously self-defense.
I will arm wrestle @mattgaetz to get dibs for Kyle as an intern. https://t.co/kon65IB1d9
— Paul Gosar (@DrPaulGosar) November 19, 2021
Rittenhouse’s attorney, Mark Richards, has called Republicans trying to cash in on his client’s acquittal “disgusting”, telling media, “There’s a lot of people trying to profit on this, and I don’t think people should.”
“They’re raising money on it and you have all these Republican congressmen saying come work for me. They want to trade on his celebrity and I think it’s disgusting.”
No word yet on whether Rittenhouse has accepted any of the offers.
Graham Gremore is the Features Editor and a Staff Writer at Queerty. Follow him on Twitter @grahamgremore.
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feejack412
Not at all surprising.
Cam
So the only qualification to getting a job with a Republican is to murder people who think Black people shouldn’t be mistreated or killed by police.
Ken A.
A pedophile, a drug dealer and a wife beater all have rap sheets long enough to go around this country twice and the video shows them attacking first and they were all white. So yeah he was rightfully acquitted. But the job offers are not in his best interest.
Den
Dissemble much? The only victim with a long rap sheet was Rosenbaum, whose life was a mess for many systemic reasons. But I guess you also feel that women who are victims of domestic violence or sexual abase or murdered by predators were also either asking for it or otherwise rendered non-victims based on their pasts.
Typical right wing attitude, and not at al bright.
BoomerMyles
So Rottenhouse knew of his victim’s past and decided to play judge, jury and executioner?
Rittenhouse will have a target on his back for the REST of his life.
Openminded
Ken A. I’m a conservative who believes in gun rights. I also believe Rittenhouse should be in jail right now. Maybe the video shows the 3- victims attacking him, but he was the one who crossed state lines with an AK, uninvited, and flaunted his self believing authority in front of already agitated citizens. I can understand that he probably panicked and shot the 3- victims as they approached him, but HE put himself in that spot, HE brought the murder weapon, HE traveled a long distance to be there, HE taunted the agitated citizens. You don’t walk into a biker bar and yell “biker’s suck” without expecting a fight. This kid needed the ever loving crap beat out of him so he would learn an important lesson. Instead he managed to help set a very bad legal precedent for other spoiled brats to follow after committing the same crime. I hope he and his parents who probably own the AK end up like O.J. Simpson and lose everything of financial value in civil lawsuits for wrongful deaths.
DennisMpls
Openminded – Well, this is interesting and a bit ironic. I’m a progressive who believes in a lot more gun control, essentially the opposite of you. But I think you’re very wrong about the Rittenhouse case. We live in a basically nuance-free world where one’s opinions are routinely formed by one’s ideology, so I hesitate to violate the “progressive code of conduct” in this case. But I long ago threw away my “Little Black Book Of Proper Progressive Thought.”
I care about facts above ideology, and you’ve got a few things wrong. First, Rittenhouse did not travel “a long distance.” His home is 15 miles from Kenosha. Further, his father lives there, and he had worked there as a lifeguard. And no, his parents don’t own the gun. An older friend had bought it for him several months before. By an odd quirk of a bad law it was actually legal for Rittenhouse to carry the gun.
I watched much of the trial, and I listened to extensive commentary by multiple legal experts who were not defending ideology. Based on all of that I think the verdict was correct BASED ON THE LAW. And we have to maintain a society where that still matters. As an aside, it turns out that his infamous photo with white supremacist members at a bar was arranged by a far-right attorney affiliated with the infamous Lin Wood, and he was fired by Rittenhouse shortly after that.
Having said that, Rittenhouse displayed extremely poor and immature judgement throughout the whole situation, and his basic attitudes toward society don’t align with mine at all. He’ll be making a massive mistake if he allows himself to become a “mascot” for the right wing. All the non-thinkers on the right will see him as a hero, and all the non-thinkers on the left will see him as the face of evil. He is neither, but is rather an immature kid who made extremely poor choices. Choices that Wisconsin law, as written, allowed him to get away with. The gun law is especially galling. As someone said, he may be not guilty of the crimes he was charged with, but he is certainly not “innocent.”
Cam
@DennisMpls
I see the troll account is back to the old “I’m a liberal BUT…..” Tactic.
Your troll game is sad and weak.
Mister P
The crybaby murderer should not be allowed near the Capital
hatmaker
Kyle Richards, your client is not and never will be considered a celebrity, so do us all a favor, and get over yourself!!!
Terrycloth
I watched Kyle Rottenhouse’s trial intently…he came across as a smart young man.th8nk twice about running into the republican cult …they will brainwash you to no end
Mack
I can just see him sitting there crying if the Capitol got attacked while he was working there.
GrizzleyMichael
???????????
Prax07
Makes sense that a gang of criminals wants to hire a gunman. Less than human garbage every last one.
Gordon of the Bassets
I would pay good money to watch Kyle lap-dancing Madison Cawthorne.
bsg1967
I really do not get the world
edwardnvirginia
Great to see that juries work! They worked hard, reviewed evidence, asked relevant questions, discussed for days, and concluded their work!
If you don’t want others to defend themselves then you plan to keep calm and say/do nothing the next time you are mugged, robbed, bullied, harassed, abused, raped …
… and be sure to tell your sister, or grandmother, or nephew, just to cooperate with their rapist.
Because what else can they do? You don’t want them to own or carry or use a weapon! And, your”Woke” BS is ‘defunding the police: so there won’t be any to help … well, maybe you can leave a message and a social worker will call sometime in the next couple days … after you, or your niece, or mother, or grandfather have been raped or robbed or abused time after time.
edwardnvirginia
… OH, and btw, you can be sure the a bunch of attorneys are even now proposing plenty of defamation civil lawsuits on behalf of their ‘not guilty’ client. Rittenhouse may soon be a wealthy person like so many get wealthy from suing cities for this and that and the other thing that they consider ‘discrimination’.
‘Discrimination’ grievance can pay big money! So can ‘defamation’.
To prevail in a defamation lawsuit, a plaintiff must prove that the defendant made a false and defamatory statement about the plaintiff that was communicated to a third party. No matter how damaging, insensitive, rude or inappropriate a statement may be, the plaintiff will lose if the statement is true.
And since Rittenhouse is factually – according to the court as ‘fact finder’ – not a murderer; and is not proved to be a ‘Nazi’. ‘White Supremacist’, etc (in fact he recently spoke well of Black Lives Matter), various celebrities, media etc who defamed him with those charges …might get sued.
Dwight
Worked on the Hill many years ago. Congressional internships were pretty coveted. You were pretty much expected to select interns from your own District, possibly one from elsewhere in your state IF the intern didn’t share the same party affiliation as their own Representative.