By Noah
As we know, the wheels of justice turn slowly and sometimes they don't turn at all. In fact, when it comes to Washington, too often those wheels turn in reverse in order to reward the transgressors! Well, that ethics report on Santos is really something and it seems that ol' George or whatever his name really is has been such a bad boy that he's broken the ethics-o-meter. He's exceeded the limits! The limits that most of his colleagues consider "acceptable." He's gone too far!!! Worse in the eyes of Washington, he's been noticed!!!! To most of Washington, that is his biggest transgression. I'm sure it's not any one thing or two or three things that he did, it's that he did the whole lot. He lacked discipline.
I live in New York and I think I can hear crazy Bob Menendez screaming from across the Hudson, "Hey, what about me? Don't forget me! I've got gold bars from Egypt! Don't forget me! Then there's Trump of course, and there's Jared Kushner with his Saudi gift bag of $2 Billion, and Moscow Mitch, Joe Manchin, Darrel Issa, Kyrsten Sinema, Samual Alito, John Roberts and his wife and Clarence Thomas and his wife, too. Along with Menendez and Santos, those are just the current bi-partisan all-stars of Washington dirtbaggery. Anyway, George Santos is being painted as some sort of aberration and he might get the boot. But why stop with him?
The thing is, though, most Americans, for whatever reason don't pay attention and aren't aware of most, if any, of the sordid goings on. They aren't aware of this crap and that's what Washington counts on. Why else do you think Congress works so hard to make it so Americans have no time to do anything but spend all their days on 3 jobs just so they and their kids can survive? George's big mistake was that he was so sleaze prolific that he started to draw attention to himself and make his cohorts look suspect just because of the dangerous proximity.
The only way to increase public awareness of this crap would be to have all the various transgressors be forced to appear on a prime time game show called "It's America's Most Unethical!" or "Washington Dirtbag Of The Week!" The show could be sponsored by oil companies I guess. Why not? Big Pharma? Yeah, sure, them, too, but Raid Roach Killer would be more appropriate. I'd produce those commercials myself just for cost. I'm sure America would tune in bigly, or, maybe not. You know what? It's much more likely that FOX-Goebbels or Conservative News Network would just hire "George Santos" to be a talking head and everything will go on as before. Trust me, it will.
Reading comprehension, hatewatt.
The last paragraph is a simple statement of fact. It is not an attempt to persuade anyone of anything.
I learned a long time ago that if you cannot persuade someone they are doing something colossally stupid... all you can do is state the obvious. The hope is that others may realize, as I do, that such actions are truly colossally stupid. What they do or do not do with that knowledge is up to them and their individual intellectual potentials.
Were anyone persuadable, they would already have been inspired to have the epiphany by the facts of the shithole and would be asking for ideas to fix this shithole instead of bitching about the messenger.
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Hey, shithole guy below, you have a real unique way of attempting persuasion in that last paragraph of yours. How's it working for ya?
In a shithole like this, they'd have a good chance to get RE-elected! And it only depends on how well they serve the money. If they are good for the money, the money will make sure they get re-elected.
voters? they do what the money tells them to do. no questions asked.
which SHOULD clue y'all in to what the real problem is. it isn't that these motherfuckers are corrupt nor that their parties are also totally corrupt. it's that YOU are stupid enough to elect these motherfuckers... most of them iteratively.