Politics Thread

[paulxu]

See, now this guy is going to be a great grifter, and he's just getting started:

The New York Times is out with an incredible expose on an incoming GOP member of Congress from Long Island who does not at all appear to be who he says he is.
Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) first hit Morning Memo’s radar a week ago, when he was one of the attendees at the New York City gala where Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) bragged that if she and Steve Bannon had been in charge on Jan. 6, they would have coup’d more effectively.
Now the Times has a blistering examination of Santos’ biography. Let’s just say who he claimed to be on the campaign trail doesn’t match with the newspaper’s reporting.
Let’s start with his work history. NYT could find no record of him actually holding claimed jobs at Citigroup or Goldman Sachs.
Education? No record of him attending Baruch College in NYC as he has claimed, the NYT reported.
A tax-exempt charity he claimed to have started? No record of it having registered in New York or New Jersey, and the IRS had no record of it, the paper found. A supposed beneficiary of a 2017 fundraiser for the group, who declined to be named by the paper, said she never received any of the funds, only excuses from Santos.
The kicker is criminal charges for check fraud in Brazil!

[GoMuskies]

I didn't pay very much attention to politics until relatively recently, and one of the more shocking things about it once you DO start paying attention is the number of weirdos (like this Santos guy apparently) who get elected to the House. The Senate has its share of characters, but needing to win statewide election generally means you need to at least be a relatively serious person (with apologies to Fetterman, Tuberville and nearly Senator Herschel Walker). But in these House districts that are incredibly safe for one party or the other you get some real whack jobs.

[STL_XUfan]

See, now this guy is going to be a great grifter, and he's just getting started:

Seems like the time to investigate that would have been before the election. But it isn't like this guy with NYT back yard or anything...

[Strange Brew]

See, now this guy is going to be a great grifter, and he's just getting started:

Sounds a lot like Obama's bio. :)

[xubrew]

Trump is fucked! All the MSM is saying so! This time they’ve got him for sure!!!

Yeah…okay.

[Masterofreality]

Anybody with any sense of propriety should be concerned in the revelations contained in the Twitter files release regarding the FBI’s direct involvement in suppressing and attempting to discredit a legitimate, now proven factual, news story by the NY Post of Hunter Biden and the direct involvement of Joe Biden in Hunters non legit business dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine.
This is Soviet era crushing of free speech and major league meddling.
It’s shocking and no where near a level playing field.

[noteggs]

Guess we all now know why grand juries are done behind close doors for criminal referrals? Obviously Trump is already guilty by the court of public opinion before any charges for many (J6 stuff). And this is coming from a person who thinks Trump is trash.

Guess this is nothing new since we witnessed the Russian Trump collusion debacle. So this is where we are…perfect.

[XU_Lou]

Anybody with any sense of propriety should be concerned in the revelations contained in the Twitter files release regarding the FBI’s direct involvement in suppressing and attempting to discredit a legitimate, now proven factual, news story by the NY Post of Hunter Biden and the direct involvement of Joe Biden in Hunters non legit business dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine.
This is Soviet era crushing of free speech and major league meddling.
It’s shocking and no where near a level playing field.

He doesn't care that our Constitutional rights are being eroded. Rather, he wants to get in the weeds to argue over meaningless nothingburgers.

[Masterofreality]

See, now this guy is going to be a great grifter, and he's just getting started:

Too bad this didn’t happen under the old rules where, Twitter, Facebook and all the other mainstream media would have conspired to bury the story as “Russian Disinformation” aided by the Jackbooted FBI thugs.
But now that Elon Musk owns Twitter it’s FREE SPEECH!!!!

[noteggs]

Anybody with any sense of propriety should be concerned in the revelations contained in the Twitter files release regarding the FBI’s direct involvement in suppressing and attempting to discredit a legitimate, now proven factual, news story by the NY Post of Hunter Biden and the direct involvement of Joe Biden in Hunters non legit business dealings with China, Russia and Ukraine.
This is Soviet era crushing of free speech and major league meddling.
It’s shocking and no where near a level playing field.

100%. Amazing how long this story was hanging there. Unfortunately it took a change of management to find out the details. Don’t get me started on the lack of interest today and years ago from MSM. Oh yea, that Jim Baker dude is a real piece of work.