We're not even going to be at the bottom when someone gets assassinated. Someone, somewhere thinks that's going to stop things but it'll just make it worse.
Unless it's a Dead Zone sort of scenario, and even then you'll hear "false flag" etc.
Christopher Walken! The perfect weirdo to lead us through the looking-glass and into Bizarro World!
I had to watch that YouTube clip to understand your reference. Amazing that Walken was actually sorta good-looking once...
Maybe Santos isn't the nadir of American politics. He's close, though. And he's so creepy/awful that I don't think he'll ever get much Republican support. I doubt Trump supporters will stand by a gay man who's promoted transgender people in the party and practiced cross-dressing. Then you have reports that he swindled a homeless veteran out of GoFundMe donations to save the life of the vet's dog. I don't know who Santos's base is supposed to be...
You can only hope that the voters who want to burn the house down get tired of the lies, incompetence and destructiveness of the current GOP. But you may be right: we may come to yearn for the good old days of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Matt Gaetz.
I think that we are near the bottom, but not near the end.
We're not even going to be at the bottom when someone gets assassinated. Someone, somewhere thinks that's going to stop things but it'll just make it worse.
Unless it's a Dead Zone sort of scenario, and even then you'll hear "false flag" etc.
Or if he comes out and admits that he is a Democratic plant who just made up the most outrageous story to prove they will elect anyone.
What I don't get is that a) no one found any of this prior to the election (either party), and b) this is the best they have for a candidate? Really? and yeah, both parties, the Dems lost to this guy.
I have a sneaking suspicion that he's Trump's illegitimate son—the constant lying, the refusal to accept reality, the clinging to victimhood.
And the GOP wallows in its kakistocracy...
The NYT wrote about the spotty opposition research into Santos and failure to follow leads. One small local paper—The North Shore Leader, I think—published a piece about the huge gaps in Santos's life story but didn't capture them all. Unfortunately, he wasn't regarded as a serious threat to the incumbent who had limited resources to research and expose Santos.
And yeah, losing to Santos has got to burn. But he's a great unintentional coda/parody of the Trump era.
Or if he comes out and admits that he is a Democratic plant who just made up the most outrageous story to prove they will elect anyone.
What I don't get is that a) no one found any of this prior to the election (either party), and b) this is the best they have for a candidate? Really? and yeah, both parties, the Dems lost to this guy.
Santos, Boebert, Gaetz, Jordan etc. are all products of the outrage legitimized by The Orange Horror.
The only way the Republicans will get rid of him is if he is convicted of a crime and sent to prison. And being a pathological liar isn't a crime.
Since he was 17 at the time, I'm sure this will be used as proof that children are being corrupted by drag shows.
Or if he comes out and admits that he is a Democratic plant who just made up the most outrageous story to prove they will elect anyone.
What I don't get is that a) no one found any of this prior to the election (either party), and b) this is the best they have for a candidate? Really? and yeah, both parties, the Dems lost to this guy.
That was interesting.
Let me preface this by saying that once again the republicans have the wrong answer to the right question,
let's not forget we do have a very big spending/debt issue that isn't solved by simply raising the debt ceiling.
