Matt Gaetz Hit With Cup While Visiting His District

Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz was back in his district this past weekend, but some folks in Pensacola were not very happy to see him. After walking out of a local coffee shop, Gaetz was struck by a cup containing an unnamed drink, and the woman who threw it has now been charged with battery. This may seem like a minor incident, but the truth is that the cup means a lot more than most people think – and Pensacola native Farron Cousins explains why.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

On Saturday, not very far from where I'm sitting right now. Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz was hit by Flying Cup containing an unspecified drink. Many have said that this drink was in fact a milkshake mirroring the, uh, milk shakings taking place over in the UK over the last week. But nonetheless, Matt Gaetz was here in Pensacola doing a little event, you know, shaking some hands. He's walking out of a coffee shop and bam, cup hits him. Oh my gosh. He's got stuff on a shirt now. He was totally fine. It obviously was not a scalding beverage.

The woman who threw the drink at him, a woman by the name of a Amanda Kondrat'yev was charged with misdemeanor battery. And released from prison on $1,000 bond battery. For throwing a little drink over at Matt Gaetz, one of the worst members of Congress that we have ever had representing us here in Florida's first district. This story is very important and it's very important for several reasons. It's not just Haha Matt Gaetz got hit by a drink. Although I would still make that video even if that was the only point of it. But it's not here. It is. First and foremost, we right now have Republicans as a result of this.

Who have actively called for Republicans to go out and buy more guns and ammo because the left is getting violent. There is a world of difference between throwing a drink on another human being and trying to murder them because this was not attempted murder. This wasn't even, I want to physically injure you. This was, I want to humiliate you. I want to stand up to you and show you that we do not like you and we do not like your policies. And yet Republicans are out there telling us go stock up on guns. Go stock up on is because the left is getting bad. Which is again, ironic and I brought this up before because at any given moment the left goes from being complete little snowflakes and need their safe spaces to some kind of violent hoard that's going to kill every one of us. Uh, those two things really are mutually exclusive. We can't be both, but Republicans love to classify us as both because they have no idea how to actually win a battle of ideas. So they try to reclassify who their opponent is and that's what they're doing. Uh, in this particular instance, the second reason this is important is because two years ago in a town like this, a town like Pensacola, Florida, this wouldn't have happened.

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