Posted on 01/09/2023 12:49:47 AM PST by RandFan
OPINION
The strange case of Rep.-elect George Santos highlights the tendency of politicians to “embellish their resumes” — otherwise known as lying.
Among Mr. Santos’ falsehoods are the claims that he went to Yale, worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and has Jewish ancestry.
Then there’s President Biden, who (among a long list of tall tales told over a 50-year career) lied about his undistinguished academic record, being arrested in South Africa during apartheid and being “sorta raised” in a Puerto Rican community. He did watch a lot of “West Side Story” and tried to copy Chita Rivera’s dance moves.
Reprehensible as all of this is, the politicians you really have to worry about are the ones who can’t tell the difference between truth and lies.
A thoroughgoing denial of reality is the essence of woke-ism. Speaking of the New Left takeover of academia in the 1960s, liberal-turned-conservative cartoonist Al Capp remarked, “The inmates are running the asylum.” Today, the asylum has been enlarged to include the leadership of the Democratic Party, the mainstream media, public education and a swath of corporate America.
Here are just a few examples of how progressives embellish reality.
Transgenderism: They insist that if you feel like a woman, you are a woman, as if you can manipulate your genetic code at will. You were born a man or a woman, with XY or XX chromosomes. No chemical or surgical intervention will change that. You can have body parts removed. You can dress like Sam Brinton or Hulk Hogan, and you’ll still be what you were at birth.
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Judge them after that
He is no different than Lying “Slo Joe”
And Slo Joe has help. Those who impersonate him. His last speech is a good example, but I first noticed this during his speech when he accepted the ComDem Nomination for President. (It was a Not Joe, and it was recorded, not live.)
They used to be called Democrats.
(worry about those who can’t tell fact from fiction)
They are called “regular viewers of CNN and MSNBC” - just to make that clear.
Just to point this out on Santos...something to think about.
He ran in the 3rd district (Long Island, Nassau, and NE Queens). After the primary, local news outlets had plenty time to review his history and find these ‘problems’. They basically made no effort.
What does that indicate? I think literally everyone in the newsprint and TV journalism trade...in this district...just looked the other way, and allowed what was a Democrat in Republican ‘clothing’ to win. The public in the 3rd district wanted to send a message, and they were faked-out enough to think Santos was their messenger to send to DC.
He’s a one-term guy. The joke? It’s on the voters of the district, and half of the joke is that journalism is completely dead in that area.
He is different. Politicians have always lied and exaggerated within “sad, but unsurprising for politicians” parameters, but Santos took it to a totally different level.
If everything short of perfect is equal then a guy who got a parking ticket is equal to a child rapist - both lawbreakers.
I’m not defending him.
Just saying the Lies start at the top, with Xi-O’Biden.
Still more #ComDem_Insanity!
Santos had previously run and lost in 2020 in the same district. So the media and the political apparatus had more than TWO YEARS to go through his background.
>What does that indicate?
I think the other thing it indicates is that local news is near death and whatever of it is alive doesn’t care about politics.
Tip O’Neill once said “all politics is local” and that has changed. Now all politics is national. Therefore it doesn’t interest local news.
Witness LBJ and his fake Silver Star which he received as an participation medal as he was a sitting member of congress and a US Navy officer at the same time. The fact that the aircraft he was flying as an ‘observer’ on when it was jumped by the Japanese was a US Army Air Corp craft tells the tale. LBJ was just trying to run up his ‘combat sortie’ number before he returned to Congress so he could run in ‘42 as a genuine ‘war hero’. He wasn’t counting on getting up close with as much reality as he did that day.
It amazes me that so many of my fellow Americans willingly participate in all the deception. Sad.
If the USA had that luxury, we would have run out of rope long ago.
The primitive democracy of Greece created a stable system of clientelism. It brings poverty long term and the legacy of that is one of the reasons Greeks live in poverty now.
In America clientelism created the most corrosive Democrat machines. Life isn’t good where that system rules.
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The issue here is in part what caused no one to look into his background, even his Democrat opposition and the news orgs.
Did simply claiming to be minority gay make everyone refuse to look?
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