The QAnon Shaman is a scorned insurrectionist.
The face of the January 6 riots, who served 27 months in federal prison for his outsized role during the day’s events, attended Turning Point USA’s “AmericaFest” over the weekend. There, he got to see his favorite right-wing reactionaries up close and personal.
But sadly, he didn’t get to speak with all of them. Matt Gaetz left the Shaman hanging.
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When the Shaman (a.k.a. Jacob Chansley) spotted Gaetz backstage, the Florida congressman kept on walking.
What a snub! Never meet your heroes, as they say…
“Did you see that?! Coward!” shouted Chansley. “And these are the people who are representing Americans? They can’t even speak to an American?”
“He was saying my name all over Spaces, he’s been talking about getting me out on Tucker Carlson. Can’t talk to me! Won’t even talk to me! These are big names, that claim they’re for the little guy getting screwed by the machine. And he will not talk to me!”
Ah, the poor guy. He spent more than two years of his life in prison for people who won’t even look at him.
Naturally, after getting subbed, Chansley—while wearing his horn hat—began chasing Gaetz around the event only to have Gaetz's body man box him out. "You stole my campaign platform," Chansley yelled at one point.
— Zachary Petrizzo (@ZTPetrizzo) December 18, 2023
If he wanted Gaetz's attention, Chansley should've dressed like a 16-yr-old high school girl.
— Dave #VoteBlue (@dwh112655) December 18, 2023
The Shaman is far from the first person to denounce Gaetz, otherwise known as “Rapey McForehead.” The party boy is one of the most disliked members of Congress, with even his fellow Republicans lining up against him.
Gaetz made himself no friends this fall, when he led the charge to oust Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. His GOP colleagues blasted him as a legislative kamikaze and stunt queen.
“He’s not somebody who’s willing to work as a team. He stands up there. He grandstands. He lies directly to folks,” said Republican Rep. Mike Lawler of New York.
Lawler has also called Gaetz “disgraceful” and said he should be expelled from the Republican conference for his behavior.
Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, who chairs the House Rules Committee, said of Gaetz and his far-right pals: “I think it’s time to take the sharp knives away from the children.”
Around that time, a source told Fox News that “nobody can stand” Gaetz.
McCarthy, who’s clearly not over Gaetz destroying his legislative career, recently called him “psychotic.”
“People study that type of crazy mind, right?” he asked.
Gaetz’s “crazy mind” could be expelled from Congress, should an ongoing Ethics Committee investigation into his 2021 teen sex scandal turn up any evidence of wrongdoing. He’s been accused of supplying a 17-year-old girl with drugs and alcohol, flying her to to the Bahamas, and having sex with her.
Tellingly, few of Gaetz’s Republican colleagues defended him when the allegations surfaced.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma implied that’s because they believe the accusations are credible.
“There’s a reason why no one in the Congress came and defended him: because we had all seen the videos he was showing on the House floor—that all of us had walked away—of the girls that he had slept with,” he said.
Mullin also alleges Gaetz would brag about how he “crushes E.D. medicine” and “chases it with energy drinks so he can go all night.” (Mullin, for those who forget, made headlines this fall when he challenged a hearing witness to a fight. Could Gaetz be next?)
Chansley, for what it’s worth, seems prepared to come to blows. He also ripped Gaetz on social media.
Chansley is right about one thing: Gaetz has made the January 6 riots a centerpiece of his legislative record. He’s said he’s “proud” of that day and is “ashamed of nothing.”
But apparently, he’s ashamed of the Shaman, who’s undergoing a bit of a rebrand. He recently announced his intention to run for Congress; and by the way, doesn’t want to be known as the “QAnon Shaman” anymore.
“I was wrong for entering the Capitol,” said Chansley at his sentencing hearing. “I have no excuse. No excuse whatsoever.”
It’s so upsetting when there’s MAGA-on-MAGA crime, huh?
inbama
After 27 months in prison, Jacob Chansley is still chasing after the MAGA crowd?
I guess he didn’t learn much in his “rehabilitation.”
ShaverC
He no way had an “outsized” role. If you actually looked at the videos he was flanked by two guards as they walked through the capital building. It’s ridiculous because he was dressed strangely he was picked to be a scapegoat.
FreddieW
Mental illness and a paunch. Sad. Too many drugs, I imagine.
basils_Herald
What a country we live in. Chansley is one of the few on the right who admit they didn’t have a right to storm the capitol.
ZzBomb
“He was saying my name all over Spaces, he’s been talking about getting me out on Tucker Carlson. Can’t talk to me! Won’t even talk to me! These are big names, that claim they’re for the little guy getting screwed by the machine. And he will not talk to me!”
Well this is what you get when you completely ignore reality and everyone telling you the truth about some of these people. Esp the orange fat one.
dbmcvey
Gaetz and the QAnon Shaman! That’s the inbama, Shaver, Freddie spank bank!
inbama
Don’t you have a gay child to castrate somewhere?
dbmcvey
Uh-oh. I seem to have triggered one of the gay conservative trolls.
Also, inbama doesn’t seem to know how transgender works. But that’s no a surprise because he’s so stupid.
JPB
Rep MIke Lawler on Gaetz
“He’s not somebody who’s willing to work as a team. He stands up there. He grandstands. He lies directly to folks,”
Sounds like he’s taking his cues from trump