If George Santos Were a Black Man…
…He wouldn’t have gotten past the ‘competent’ vetting and scrutiny of the Democratic Party in NY…
“In politics, opposition research (also called oppo research) is the practice of collecting information on a political opponent or other adversary that can be used to discredit or otherwise weaken them. The information can include biographical, legal, criminal, medical, educational, or financial history or activities, as well as prior media coverage, or the voting record of a politician. Opposition research can also entail using “trackers” to follow an individual and record their activities or political speeches.[1]
The research is usually conducted in the time period between announcement of intent to run and the actual election; however political parties maintain long-term databases that can cover several decades. The practice is both a tactical maneuver and a cost-saving measure.[2] The term is frequently used to refer not just to the collection of information but also how it is utilized, as a component of negative campaigning.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition_research
Apparently, competent opposition research is nonexistent in the NY Democratic Party infrastructure.
However, white privilege seems to have a free hand and appears to be running rampant among those who ought to have exposed Santos for what he is before he was able to perpetrate an electoral fraud by lying about who and what he is…
A black man could never have gotten past the vetting and the scrutiny that would have been reflexively heaped on him from the very outset…
As far as I’m concerned, the NY Democrats blew a golden opportunity and are possibly more to blame for the Santos debacle than their Republican counterparts.
02/11/2023 @ 5:12 pm
What seems to be emerging is that somebody bought Mr. Santos. Somebody could buy a Black candidate too. The GOP kinda did with Herschel Walker, who like Mr. Santos, has an impressive resume of questionable morals, embellished truths, hypocrisy and lies. He was very nearly elected too.
Something I’d offer is that people who are not white men are becoming more represented and amplified, slowly, and we’re getting to see more POC, LGBTQ, and women rising to public positions of power and influence. Along with people of integrity like Stacey Abrams, Raphael Warnock, and Maxwell Frost, we also unfortunately get people like Herschel Walker and Clarence Thomas. And don’t get me started on the women! Marjorie Taylor Greene….gah! And Diamond and Silk….
02/11/2023 @ 6:51 pm
“…Herschel Walker, who like Mr. Santos, has an impressive resume of questionable morals, embellished truths, hypocrisy and lies. …”
The difference between Walker and Santos is that Walker was exposed as a fraud well before the election took place.
He was prevented from lying his way into the Senate by the Democrats who did an adequate job re ‘opposition research’.
Had he won the Senatorial election in Georgia, it would have been a travesty that would have spoken volumes about the state and nature of racism in the electoral process in Georgia.
As it is, the idea that one black man is as good as any other didn’t pan out for the Georgia Republican Party and should be a reminder to all that stereotypes can’t and shouldn’t win elections in this country.
02/11/2023 @ 7:16 pm
“The difference between Walker and Santos is that Walker was exposed as a fraud well before the election took place”
And yet, Walker continued to debate and campaign, deny his resume embellishments and his aborted children, and hold up his toy police badge with the full endorsement of the GOP. Does it matter if it’s before or after an election, if the party is going to love them up regardless of what they did? I thought that was the point you were making. That if George Santos was Black, he’d be banished from Congress. I don’t think he would. I think things would be exactly the same as they are.
I do agree with you however that the choosing of Walker for the reasons he was chosen, the GOP premise that any old Black guy is the equivalent of any other Black guy, even when one is as capable and qualified as Warnock, and the other is a clown like Walker, is disgusting, and racist.
Worth mentioning again, Clarence Thomas. He’s been exposed for a growing list of transgressions and illegalities, yet is viewed as 100% untouchable. Once a person of any color reaches a certain level of power, they won’t be removed.
02/28/2023 @ 1:22 pm
The sad truth of the Santos victory is a little different. The Democrat that Santos defeated is a lifelong resident of Great Neck, a former activist, and was a prohibitive favorite in the race. Santos was a relative nobody, and damned near fictional. This is how he differed from Herschel Walker. Walker is a 60 year old celebrity, and has been a celebrity since he was 18 years old. The Senate contest was a much higher profile race. The wealth, power, and influence aspect of these two races had a counterintuitive effect.
Santos benefitted from his lack of notoriety because Robert Zimmerman made the calculation that making an issue of Santos’s sketchy history would give him PR that he could not afford for himself. Zimmerman made the wrong choice, but given the polarization of our politics currently, it was not an illogical choice.
I am not saying that being Black is not a burden for politicians in most cases in the US today. I am just saying that with this particular set of circumstances, it was probably a non-factor. If Santos were Black, Zimmerman would likely have employed the same strategy. Given that, the resultant media would have been just as nonexistent.
03/01/2023 @ 4:36 am
Bitey;
I disagree.
If Santos were a black man, he would have been a much easier target/victim for the NY Democrats to smear with a shitload of negativity crafted in such a way as to make the NY Republican Party to appear to be disdainful of the voters in the district…
If Santos were a black man Zimmerman wouldn’t have had anything to lose by ‘going negative’ on Santos and his Republican supporters and handlers from the beginning…
Being the prohibitive favorite caused Zimmerman to make the same mistake Hillary Clinton made…
03/01/2023 @ 6:19 am
Well, while the issue of race was not introduced, Zimmerman stated that he didn’t mention Santos because he did not want to give him publicity. And as for what Zimmerman had to lose, it would have cost him money to mount a campaign against…anyone. At the very least, Zimmerman had money to lose.
I suspect the real difference would have come after he was elected. Also, if Santos were Black, and he had stated that his grandparents had died in the Holocaust, that might have gotten a bit more notice. That being the case, the privilege would attach to Santos himself for having the plausible case to make the claim, rather than his opponents for not exposing it.
More generally, I find that this demonstrates an interesting aspect of membership in a conspicuous minority within our society. Members of a minority like African Americans must choose between two categories and hold to the choice firmly. Those choices are power or ethics. To choose power, the individual must be actively, outwardly making war against the status quo. The other is to choose to follow the and and be obviously above reproach.
The privilege that attaches to less obvious ‘outsiders’ is that they are not as easily suspect while being ethical, and carrying more ethical camouflage while working against the system.
03/01/2023 @ 7:42 am
“…And as for what Zimmerman had to lose, it would have cost him money to mount a campaign against…anyone. At the very least, Zimmerman had money to lose.”
If Santos were a black man, Zimmerman wins the election with the tactical disclosures of the falsehoods in the Santos resume…
Zimmerman should have received a modicum of financial support from the NY and/ or the National Democratic Party…
A modest ad buy publicizing any element of the opposition research would have been enough to get the ball rolling against Santos .
The story would have grown legs and developed sufficient momentum on its own such that any additional expenditures could easily have been kept to a minimum.
If Santos were a black man with his ‘resume’ hung out to dry, race need not have been a topic of discussion. NY Republicans wouldn’t have nominated him to run for dog catcher.
02/11/2023 @ 7:58 pm
“However, white privilege seems to have a free hand and appears to be running rampant among those who ought to have exposed Santos for what he is before he was able to perpetrate an electoral fraud by lying about who and what he is…
A black man could never have gotten past the vetting and the scrutiny that would have been reflexively heaped on him from the very outset…”
Suzanne, you missed my point:
If Santos were a black man, Democratic ‘opposition research’ would have prevented his being elected…
He wouldn’t be in the House of Representatives…
Whether or not he would be ousted becomes a moot question…
02/11/2023 @ 9:20 pm
Democrat opposition research doesn’t matter if somebody wealthy or some foreign power bought your candidacy. Money is being exchanged for silence, in addition to paying for the campaign. Reading the recent news, this is part of the investigation into Santos: who paid that 700K? More will come out. Perhaps I’m too cynical, but I think whoever funded Santos knew. Knew and didn’t see it as a problem. GOP politicians with sketchy life details are no longer unelectable.
Something else about Santos. He’s a gay man. He’s also LatinX, not white. The GOP seems eager to appear as if they embrace diversity, which was what the Walker choice was about. They’re desperate for LGBT and LatinX voters, and a hip RayBan wearing thirsty gay man named Santos, who’ll vote as he’s told, fit their bill perfectly. If they’d opted for Black man, they’d have done that instead, and gone after image, and not looked at resumes beyond what the printed page said.
Re: Dem opposition research. Maybe they did, and caught some things, but not all. Who could imagine there would be that much? The list just goes on and on, never-ending. Or perhaps they figured Santos was unelectable. NY voters are fairly savvy and skew Dem. Yet as we’ve seen, the ‘unelectable’ do get elected. It’s frightening.
Sadly, we may both need to get used to a diverse line-up of GOP criminals, clowns, liars and freaks. The ignorant screeching white fur wearing woman embarrasses me as much as the fake police badge displaying Black man must embarrass you. Yet these people are gaining legitimacy and traction, and undoubtedly we can expect more.
03/01/2023 @ 8:58 am
Ron, the ball was rolled against Santos. A local L.I. paper released a story of Santos’s personal issues. It was already out. Zimmerman chose not to make an issue of it and make Santos more well known. Zimmerman made the decision to let it blow over. It was a bad decision, but it was a rational one. Presumably, Zimmerman had areas where he thought his money could be better spent. If there were no barrier whatsoever to making a case about Santos, presumably he would have done so. Strategically, it would be insane to ignore Santos’s weaknesses, except for the one reason that Zimmerman gave, notoriety. Given that Santos was unknown and perceived to be a weak opponent, the same strategy would apply if he were Black.
Keep in mind, racism, and caste systems have a practical purpose. They exist to leverage power. Power exists in many forms. Wealth is one form. Fame is another. Group membership still another. Zimmerman made a calculation to not make a redundant expenditure, thinking that notoriety would achieve the result he sought. Yes, he guessed wrong, but no one pays twice the price for a good or a service on purpose. The failure had to be Zimmerman’s since he had the information, and since Black candidates have achieved office in other races. before and since. If race were an absolute barrier, no Black could ever achieve office.
The case does have some similarities to Clinton versus Trump, but there is one massive difference. Trump had notoriety…and used it very effectively. Santos had none. And Santos’s lack of fame was his main strength. Therefore, the examples of Clinton and Hershel Walker fail to match the circumstance. The strategy against a famous person will always differ from the strategy employed against an unknown. Press coverage is only automatic for the famous. Coverage by the nonentity has to be acquired. Zimmerman was determined not to acquire it for Santos. Your analysis does a paradigm shift that you are not accounting for. Famous versus not famous.
03/01/2023 @ 9:38 am
The NY Democrats failed to do their homework and lost the election to Santos who shouldn’t have gotten as far as being on the ballot.
In my view, that is the fault of the DEMOCRATIC campaign apparatus in NY.
I blame the NY DEMOCRATS not the Republicans for the Santos debacle.
I’m saying that white privilege and racism got the better of the Democrats who should have stopped Santos in his tracks through competent and effective opposition research…
“Famous v Not Famous”, sounds like the ‘famous’ last words of someone who lost an election because he/she was afraid to get his/her fingernails dirty or get some bruised knuckles.
A black man could never have gotten past the vetting and the scrutiny that would have been reflexively heaped on him from the very outset…
Was the outcome of the election the result of a bad rational decision or a tactically wrong guess?
“The failure had to be Zimmerman’s since he had the information, ”
And failed to use it effectively!
03/01/2023 @ 11:04 am
Opposition research is research. That is the investigation of the opponent. Santos was known by the Democrats. It is not that they failed to research him. The failure was in using the information against him. There is an important difference. They did not fail to vet Santos. He was vetted. They failed to act on it by choice. They knew much of what everyone else came to know later.
Given that…if you understand what I am saying…your theory is that they chose not to act on it because Santos is not Black, and in the case that Santos had been, they would have acted on it…because racism. That actually makes no sense. Santos race (had he been Black) would not have become a factor because Zimmerman would have chosen not to exploit it…because Santos’s lack of notoriety would have sufficiently snuffed out his campaign. Zimmerman, or the Democrats, or even Republicans, don’t value racial hatred more than the actual electoral victory. The goal was to win the election, not to maximize privilege that comes from membership in the majority. None of it works that way. And none of this is denying racism, or privilege.
03/01/2023 @ 1:02 pm
“The failure was in (NOT) using the information against him.”
I fully understand and agree with that and have stated as much here.
If “the goal was to win the election” why didn’t Zimmerman and the NY Dems use what they had on Santos to win the election?
There are people who voted for Santos marching in the streets of the NY’s 3rd district demanding that Santos resign or be removed…
“…even Republicans, don’t value racial hatred more than the actual electoral victory….”
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If this is so, why do they continue to nominate racist and religious bigots in electoral contests where open and public racism and bigotry guarantees losing the general election?
AND
There are still places in this country where racism and bigotry wins the majority of the vote….
Look at Florida and Texas and the so-called ‘safe’ red states and districts all over the country.
02/12/2023 @ 1:08 am
The flaws and blemishes in the Santos political profile didn’t come out until after he was elected.
In my view, it was the responsibility of the NY Democrats to uncover and expose Santos for the slime ball he is, especially since the Republicans aren’t above buying a political dupe who would do as he’s told once elected to whatever office being sought…
Re Herschel Walker; I can assure you that he didn’t embarrass me as much as he embarrassed his Republican purchasers and handlers…
Please, keep in mind that there are Hispanic people who are not perceived as people of color, and who do not self identify as people of color…
Just ask Ted Cruz…
Re Republican ‘diversity’, the question is as follows:
Is Santos Woody Allen’s ‘Leonard Zelig’, or Tom Hank’s ‘Forrest Gump’?
02/12/2023 @ 8:33 am
Ron, I don’t think we’re really arguing here unless it’s about angels on a pin. Also, I think your argument of what if so and so was a Black person has a gazillion and three better examples than Santos. You have the right argument, but the wrong hill to make it on.
About privilege and passing. Even if white people think someone is white, POC always know. Not just Black people, but Brown people, also LGBTQ people re:gay. The reverse is also true, when a white person appropriates color, like Rachel Dolezal, remember her? She was torn apart at The Root, in seriousness and hilarity. Ask a random gay person about Matt Gaetz or Lindsey Graham, but prolly you wouldn’t, because you already know too. So even if some white voters did assume Santos was white, LatinX voters know, Black voters know, LGBTQ voters know, and the GOP can lay claim to embracing equity and diversity. Black, brown, gay, girls–the GOPs got everybody!
To me the mystery is why POC embrace the GOP back. Write a post and explain that. Why Black people join Blacks For Trump, why they wear his Tshirts and hold his signs and listen to him spew every racist trope ever conceived. Or DeSantis, touting his Black Surgeon General, even as he embarks on a campaign to eradicate ‘woke’ curriculum from Florida schools and colleges. Why does a respected medical professional agree to work for such a man?
P.S. Ted Cruz is not a real human and consequently doesn’t count 🙂
03/01/2023 @ 4:41 pm
Ron, when you have a question about my statement, you should at least read the entire statement first. The answer is likely included within. In this case, it is.
>>>Here it is<<< Zimmerman, when asked, said that he did not make an issue of Santos's background because he was a nobody...essentially. Making an issue of his background would make him more well known. Zimmerman figured that he would defeat Santos on recognition and experience alone. In congressional district races, that is often the case. Zimmerman essentially tried to pretend that Santos did not exist and hoped that the voters in the district would see it that way. What Zimmerman did not quantify was the recent GOP voter practice of dredging up the dregs of society and putting them in office in this nihilistic trend that we are in currently. Incidentally, Zimmerman owns a PR firm called "Z Communications Creative" or something like that. He is biased towards a view that values notoriety.
03/01/2023 @ 7:43 pm
I read your statement. The Zimmerman ploy of pretending Santos didn’t exist was an exercise in arrogance and hubris…
If Zimmerman is a PR professional, he’s not very good at it…Which is why his tactic made sense to him…
03/01/2023 @ 9:07 pm
Yes! And…given all of those failings on Zimmerman’s part, it is likely that race had nothing to do with the failure to expose Santos. In this particular case, as my first comment stated, it is a bit different. Santos was known, and Zimmerman guessed wrong on how to deal with it. Santos wasn’t given a pass for being part of a powerful caste. He was ignored for being part of a weaker one.
02/12/2023 @ 8:50 am
‘To me the mystery is why POC embrace the GOP back. Write a post and explain that. Why Black people join Blacks For Trump, why they wear his Tshirts and hold his signs and listen to him spew every racist trope ever conceived.”
Stupid is as stupid does:
It’s not too difficult to find the stupid folks in any community and pay them a nominal sum to do or say what they’re instructed to do or say…
Some are openly ignorant and publicly stupid as a matter of course and wouldn’t have to be motivated or incentivized by an offer of payment for the public displays of their idiotic lunacy.
02/12/2023 @ 9:22 am
“I think your argument of what if so and so was a Black person has a gazillion and three better examples than Santos. You have the right argument, but the wrong hill to make it on.”
This post is about a white imposter being elected to the House of Representatives under circumstances such that if he were black, his getting elected never would have happened.
As of the moment, Santos is the only example there is in Congress of a total imposter getting a pass re white privilege and racism in the electoral process…
I repeat: “A black man could never have gotten past the vetting and the scrutiny that would have been reflexively heaped on him from the very outset…”
If you agree, there is no argument here at all…
If you don’t say why you don’t agree and make your case…
BTW:
If you don’t get it, you can say that too…
02/12/2023 @ 10:56 am
Ron, I did make my case. Herschel Walker. He’s equally fake and equally addled. In his case, he has my empathy because maybe too many football head injuries, while Santos is just a run of the mill grifter and a pathological liar who never accomplished anything. You feel it’s a wrong comparison. I don’t. Also, you keep labeling Santos white. Not in most books. Plus, unlike Walker who seduced and produced many many children, a good old straight guy, Santos is gay, the biggest bozo nono after color in the white extremist supremacist playbook. The point is the GOP doesn’t care about the integrity or quality or competence of either of them. Just that they vote with the GOP.
So Blacks for Trump are stupid people. OK. Let’s say that. Yet you neatly side step the new Surgeon General of Florida. Is he stupid? Did you ever listen to conservative Candace Owens, who is pro-Trump and anti BLM, as hateful as any old GOP white guy? Call me naive. I’m 100% sure I’m missing something, and don’t know what it is. That is what I don’t get.
Also, am headed out today so can’t keep up tossing the words ball back and forth, but I’m interested in hearing what you have to say about intelligent and professional POC for Trump. It’s more than a check for fifty dollars and a complimentary T-shirt and red hat.
02/12/2023 @ 11:16 am
Santos doesn’t self identify as a person of color. However, he did claim familial ties to survivors of the Holocaust.
Walker was exposed prior to his election…
Santos got a pass from Democrats until he was caught in lies AFTER he was elected…
The GOP got what they wanted in Georgia by nominating Walker, and the Democrats won the election.
The NY Democrats failed to do their homework and lost the election to Santos who shouldn’t have gotten as far as being on the ballot.
In my view, that is the fault of the DEMOCRATIC campaign apparatus in NY.
I blame the NY DEMOCRATS not the Republicans for the Santos debacle.
I’m saying that white privilege and racism got the better of the Democrats who should have stopped Santos in his tracks through competent and effective opposition research…
Intelligent people are quite capable of stupid thought and behavior…
Check the video in this thread on a theory of stupidity…
Stupidity is not necessarily a manifestation of intellectual deficiency. It can be the result of a moral or ethical shortcoming….
02/12/2023 @ 4:01 pm
Thanks 🙂 I was at our local ice festival, a friend was in an art exhibit, and there was free chocolate, and some cool ice sculptures.
Ron, how Santos self-identifies doesn’t matter to voters who recognize color, both POC and white. I know you find him as loathsome as I do, yet this particular Santos bit seems to stick in your craw more than mine. We’re living in a time when anyone can identify as whatever race or gender they prefer, genderless even, as non-binary. Some will support your identity, some won’t give a hoot, and some will hate you. The LGBTQ community hates Santos.The GOP is clueless, thinks a gay candidate will be well received on the basis of queerness alone.
“Walker was exposed prior to his election… Santos got a pass until he was caught in lies after he was elected…”
Nobody cared, before or after. There are yards and yards of dirt on both these men that was never made public, that the GOP knew would come out at some point, and that Dems prolly were also aware of. If Walker had been elected a senator, a more important position than house rep, there would definitely been extra dirt exposed. Every ex and love child would be located and interviewed on The View and it would not have changed a thing. Personally, I think it’s worse that despite the exposed mounds of Walker dirt, the GOP tried feverishly to get him elected anyway.That photo of Walker sandwiched between Ted Cruz and Lindsey Graham makes me feel sorry for the poor guy; it was a perfect metaphor for what he was to them, just a piece of deli meat. With Santos, people could cluck away about how they didn’t know. Maybe they did, maybe they didn’t.
“Intelligent people are quite capable of stupid thought and behavior…”
This is more than stupidity. Joseph Ladapo grew up in a racist system. Candace Owens grew up in a racist and patriarchal system. They were called slurs and denied opportunities. If their ancestors were enslaved, they stood on those shoulders, yet supported and advocated for people who deny their experience, and worse, want to erase them, their history, their contributions, their successes. Don’t get me started on the DeSantis curriculum plan for Florida public education, it’s terrible for my heart health, makes me apoplectic. As a former educator, are you following this?
“Check the video on a theory of stupidity…
Stupidity is not necessarily a manifestation of intellectual deficiency. It can be the result of a moral or ethical shortcoming….”
Of course it has to involve some amount of moral and ethical shortcoming, but there’s something more twisted as well.
I just finished reading a historic novel, ‘Horse’, by Geraldine Brooks, about the crucial role Blacks played in southern thoroughbred racing before the Civil War. Many horse trainers and grooms were black, some formerly enslaved who’d bought their freedom, others who were still enslaved, but elevated to positions of management and responsibility in training and breeding thoroughbreds. The legendary record-breaking racehorse Lexington (his skeleton was on exhibit at the Smithsonian for decades, and is now in the International Museum of the Horse in Lexington, Ky) was bred, trained, and cared for by a Black man, who eventually rose to run the largest of the Kentucky thoroughbred horse farms. He chose to remain enslaved, rather than purchase his freedom, which he could afford. Free blacks struggled, endured beatings and rape, were routinely cheated, murdered by marauders, labored in cotton and cane fields, same as when owned. He had prestige, status, the respect of breeders and horse people, the joy of loving his job and making an impact on his profession, nice clothes, nice house, pretty wife, and as property, was protected. Periodically, the author reminds the reader that he was a rich man’s possession, in case you begin to perceive his life journey as triumph over adversity.
Maybe there’s some version of that operating in Candace Owens and Herschel Walker, that they accredit their power and achievements to whites, even though most Black people know that their achievements are in spite of whites. What happened to Owens? Is she pretending not to know? Not sure if you’ve listened to her diatribes. They are like stabbing yourself in the eye.
02/12/2023 @ 4:10 pm
P.S. Being There is one of my favorite movies of all times, and of course I agree with that clip! And with Jerzy Kosiński. He came to speak at my college when I was an art student, and blew me away.
02/12/2023 @ 4:41 pm
New York’s 3rd congressional district is a congressional district for the United States House of Representatives in the State of New York. It is represented by Republican George Santos, who was elected to represent the district in 2022. …Wikipedia
Ethnicity: 69.5% White; 14.6% Asian; 10.6% Hispanic; 3.1% Black; 1.5% Two or more races; 0.7% other
Median household income: $130,679
Population (2021): 746,449
…Wikipedia
NY 3rd Congressional District covers Oyster Bay. Smithtown. City of. Rye. City of. Glen Cove. North Hempstead, Long Island
There’s no way Santos could be identified as a person of color by the voters in this part of New York and win in a local election…
02/12/2023 @ 6:19 pm
We disagree then. I don’t think NYers, or white residents of that area of Long Island (dropping the veil a little, my sister lives in the next district up) care much about ethnicity. It was his fake resume–working for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, 3.98 GPA at NYU, mom killed on 9/11, Jewish with grandparents at Auschwitz that got him elected, things that go deep to a NYers heart. 70% white in NY isn’t the same as 70% white in Alabama.
Ennyhoo, am about done on this. We’ll agree to disagree, except, I think we really agree mostly. The man is not someone suited for higher office. Even Mitt Romney thinks so.
02/14/2023 @ 11:59 pm
NY Democrats didn’t speak about Santos like this before he got elected:
If Santos and his Republican backers and handlers had been called out on his lies and fraud like this prior to election day, there’s no way he wins a seat in the House of Representatives.
In my opinion, this is the primary difference between Walker and Santos…
02/15/2023 @ 9:08 am
Let’s review, without weeds.
Santos was elected with a resume stuffed with lies appealing to NYers, and is now enjoying his office in the Capitol, ready to do whatever McCarthy tells him.
Walker was very nearly elected with a resume stuffed with lies appealing to Georgians, and barely lost to an intelligent competent Black senator. If Walker had won, and scored a nice Capitol senate office, he would do everything McConnell told him.
Santos and Walker are the new normal. If you’re running for GOP higher office, race, gender, sexual preference, and honesty don’t matter as long as you vow to call out ‘woke’, abortion, voting rights, and gun control.
RE: this discussion. It just feels like it’s going round and round, so to let you know, am dropping my end of the rope
P.S I like that pastor and we need three hundred more of him!
02/15/2023 @ 7:54 pm
“I like that pastor and we need three hundred more of him!”
AMEN!!!
02/16/2023 @ 8:30 am
🙂
He tells the truth. It is so good to be told the truth. Maybe you remember the Key and Peele skits with Obama and his anger translator? Jordan Peele played Obama and Keegan Michael Key played his translator. Obama would make a diplomatic carefully worded political statement and his translator would say the true thing.
I just finished reading an essay in HuffPo this morning by Amaris Ramey, about Black History Month. Ramey hates Black History Month and goes into depth as to why. It rings true. I hate Breast Cancer Awareness everything pink month for many of the same reasons, but theirs go much deeper. It’s here:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-black-history-month-excellence-reality_n_63ed9252e4b0063ccb2a99c4
Worth mentioning, apparently George Santos announced yesterday that he intends to run for a second term!
02/26/2023 @ 1:46 pm
Don’t blame me! I voted for Govenor Michael Dukakis….& thought I saw Truman Capote juggling oranges outside that Hemingway doppleganger bar in Key West, FL{LO;}
02/26/2023 @ 5:19 pm
JP;
“Michael Stanley Dukakis is an American retired lawyer and politician who served as governor of Massachusetts from 1975 to 1979 and again from 1983 to 1991. He is the longest-serving governor in Massachusetts history and only the second Greek-American governor in U.S. history, after Spiro Agnew.” Wikipedia
This post is partially about NY politics…
Warm beer, cold dice!
02/28/2023 @ 1:55 pm
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George H. W. Bush became the first sitting vice president to be elected president since Martin Van Buren in 1836. This remains the last time that a Republican has carried California, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Vermont.’ Of late, Senior was profiled with an IQ of 153 … and last week ‘This Day in History’ pictorialed the timeless Iwo Jima Memorial in Arlington, MA ‘Parently I’m just harping about our perpetual election and want the kids to know that old soldiers never die … they just fade away. Like Old Blue Northern …
03/02/2023 @ 3:56 pm
Unforgettable! Another island in the stream these incessant waves awash like old sweet saws toward the drama of Ides of March {…} red bandana at night, sailors’ delight; red in morning, sailors’ shout warning, unidentified obscuRANTcism: bramble afire to spike the lilac this loud roaring lion’s day as the good earth yet frost frozen, your cast iron skillet to the flame. Reflections to blame. Truth marches; lamb is born.
03/02/2023 @ 5:48 pm
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