Hi Alan. There were about umpteen other news stories that were getting coverage that week. It is unsurprising that news of the Santos plea was missed.
My Republican opponent, Elise Stefanik, is a former "bestie" of (Little Boy) George Santos. She opposed the initial attempts to have him removed from Congress. I suppose she needed as many Republican misfits in the NY Congressional Delegation as possible.
The amazing thing to me about George Santos is that his political career ever happened at all. How is it that Santos managed to petition and get on the ballot? How is it that he had enough fundraising to fund his candidacy? The answer is through party support. Wanna run for office? Put an "R" behind your name and you're in. And through PAC money and voter numbers in many counties, you're soon packing your bags for DC. Am I envious? Kinda, but no. I would much rather be a member of a party that maintains a healthy cynicism and skepticism about its candidates, than to be in a party that is desperately seeking its next 90-day-wonder. But we should take caution: the 90-day-wonders of the MAGA party (JD Vance, Elise Stefanik, Josh Hawley, Mike Johnson, and that ilk) are young, well-educated, and well-funded. I'm in my race because I see the threat of their collective power to be far more ominous than the threat of MAGA in Chief Donald Trump. Trump will leave the scene one day (soon, I hope). But he will leave behind a relatively young class of political misfits who have spent 8-10 years under his gaze, and who are now morally and ethically bankrupt. It will take at least a generation to correct what happened in approximately 10 years.
Agreed. "Reality" television, with its ever-lowering standards and modeling of behavior, along with similar in social media "discourse," has facilitated the utter debasement of public life. Even twenty years ago, the contemptible likes of Trump, Santos, Taylor-Greene and Vance would be gone -- simply banished from politics and government. Objectively it is remarkable what has happened to us, but in the end it is sad, really.
Those shows were big hits. I have never seen one single episode from any of them. Why? Because I could barely tolerate the advertisements trying to get me to watch. The fake, ridiculous, contrived, shallow nature of those programs is, for me, like garlic to a vampire. The people in the running for the worst of the worst, all follow the same script.
A lot of people alive are pretty stupid & they all have unprotected sex. A lot of unprotected sex. It's probably been the problem with humans since being human was a thing. Since we can't TNR these fools, we will be forced to use empathetic intelligence and patience to appeal to their banal nature. The joy campaign does this quite well. It's a simple message delivered with a lovely smile. Full stop.
The Democrat party can win with this particular angle. It will need to find other shiny ideas to keep their attention after the election. I realize none of my thoughts here, you were asking for. But thinking that hard about which clove of garlic has the worst smell for this vampire is not possible for me.
Hi Alan. There were about umpteen other news stories that were getting coverage that week. It is unsurprising that news of the Santos plea was missed.
My Republican opponent, Elise Stefanik, is a former "bestie" of (Little Boy) George Santos. She opposed the initial attempts to have him removed from Congress. I suppose she needed as many Republican misfits in the NY Congressional Delegation as possible.
The amazing thing to me about George Santos is that his political career ever happened at all. How is it that Santos managed to petition and get on the ballot? How is it that he had enough fundraising to fund his candidacy? The answer is through party support. Wanna run for office? Put an "R" behind your name and you're in. And through PAC money and voter numbers in many counties, you're soon packing your bags for DC. Am I envious? Kinda, but no. I would much rather be a member of a party that maintains a healthy cynicism and skepticism about its candidates, than to be in a party that is desperately seeking its next 90-day-wonder. But we should take caution: the 90-day-wonders of the MAGA party (JD Vance, Elise Stefanik, Josh Hawley, Mike Johnson, and that ilk) are young, well-educated, and well-funded. I'm in my race because I see the threat of their collective power to be far more ominous than the threat of MAGA in Chief Donald Trump. Trump will leave the scene one day (soon, I hope). But he will leave behind a relatively young class of political misfits who have spent 8-10 years under his gaze, and who are now morally and ethically bankrupt. It will take at least a generation to correct what happened in approximately 10 years.
--Paula Collins, Democratic Candidate, NY's 21st Congressional District.
Good luck Paula -- carry on the fight!
Agreed. "Reality" television, with its ever-lowering standards and modeling of behavior, along with similar in social media "discourse," has facilitated the utter debasement of public life. Even twenty years ago, the contemptible likes of Trump, Santos, Taylor-Greene and Vance would be gone -- simply banished from politics and government. Objectively it is remarkable what has happened to us, but in the end it is sad, really.
Those shows were big hits. I have never seen one single episode from any of them. Why? Because I could barely tolerate the advertisements trying to get me to watch. The fake, ridiculous, contrived, shallow nature of those programs is, for me, like garlic to a vampire. The people in the running for the worst of the worst, all follow the same script.
A lot of people alive are pretty stupid & they all have unprotected sex. A lot of unprotected sex. It's probably been the problem with humans since being human was a thing. Since we can't TNR these fools, we will be forced to use empathetic intelligence and patience to appeal to their banal nature. The joy campaign does this quite well. It's a simple message delivered with a lovely smile. Full stop.
The Democrat party can win with this particular angle. It will need to find other shiny ideas to keep their attention after the election. I realize none of my thoughts here, you were asking for. But thinking that hard about which clove of garlic has the worst smell for this vampire is not possible for me.