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Hang All the Members of the Liars’ Club?
American Greatness ^ | May 15 2023 | Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on 05/16/2023 3:28:27 AM PDT by texas booster

Federal prosecutors last week announced the indictment of U.S. Representative George Santos (R-N.Y.) on a host of charges, including misuse of federal campaign funds and wire fraud, almost all of them resulting from his pathological lies.

Certainly, Santos deserved the attention of prosecutors for lying on federal documents and affidavits that may have helped him win a congressional seat as well as personal lucre.

But if that’s the case, why haven’t federal prosecutors also gone after Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)? She clearly lied her way into a Harvard Law School professorship and an erstwhile presidential candidacy by claiming, in part, quite falsely she was a Native American, supposedly Harvard’s first indigenous law professor.

Her Senate colleague, Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), flatly lied (he said “misspoke”) about being a Vietnam War veteran. He never confessed to “misspeaking” about his résumé until caught. Both senators, apparently like Santos, gained political traction in their various campaigns from such lies, but the two apparently never put them in writing, or at least not as blatantly as did Santos.


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Are federal and states prosecutors now setting a new moral and legal standard by criminalizing Santos’ lies? If true, congratulations — it is long overdue.

Now can we please extend the long arm of the law to reach far beyond a bit player like Santos?

Why not reboot with the really big liars? Their lies far more undermined the integrity of our key agencies and indeed our national security.

1 posted on 05/16/2023 3:28:27 AM PDT by texas booster
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Ping! Out to the Victor Davis Hanson list

Just a few of the liars discussed by the esteemed VDH:

Brennan, only when caught, admitted to both lies. But he faced zero consequences and, in fact, was soon rewarded with an on-air analyst job at MSNBC.

He (James Clapper) faced zero consequences for his perjury. And like Brennan, he marketed his anti-Trump phobias into a comfortable cable news gig.

Then we come to the former interim FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He is also currently working as a cable news commentator.

And so on. Truly a reason to start at the Top - rather than the bottom with (R)epublicans ...

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2 posted on 05/16/2023 3:32:57 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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When Biden prefaces his whoppers with “No joke!” or “This is the God’s honest truth!” and especially when he swears, “My word as a Biden!” then it is a fair bet that he is lying.

And yes, VDH does go there!

3 posted on 05/16/2023 3:35:20 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: texas booster

Santos.... The Dems have their liars and we have ours, AOC grew up middle class in Westchester, but in her early politician days, presented herself as a working girl (bartender) from the Bronx.


4 posted on 05/16/2023 3:38:23 AM PDT by dennisw (Santos...)
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AOC pretends to being Puerto Rican but can’t even speak a word of Spanish. She is a fraud through and through.

Santos is a real Latino so the Rats have to make an example of him.

Notice they let Bob Menendez get away with raping the underage girls in the Dominican Republic. Two tier justice system.


5 posted on 05/16/2023 4:01:41 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: texas booster

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6 posted on 05/16/2023 4:06:16 AM PDT by sauropod (“If they don’t believe our lies, well, that’s just conspiracy theorist stuff, there.”)
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To: texas booster

Since you asked…


7 posted on 05/16/2023 4:12:14 AM PDT by combat_boots
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To: texas booster
There are never any consequences for ruling party lies in a dictatorship or banana republic or an oligarchy.
At least until the populace is fed up with the lies and the corruption. Then the consequence is death.
Nicolae Ceausescu comes to mind.
8 posted on 05/16/2023 4:16:27 AM PDT by Tupelo (A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand)
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To: texas booster

Lefties who lie get rewarded, the more outrageous the lying the better the reward.

Lefties want people who can brazenly lie at the top.


9 posted on 05/16/2023 4:19:16 AM PDT by Fido969 (45 is Superman! )
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To: texas booster

So, if citizens were to HANG every politician that LIES, would that mean that there would be NO POLITICIANS LEFT after the hangings??

Would that be a bad thing??


10 posted on 05/16/2023 4:39:36 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: texas booster

Politicians lie. The government lies. Salesmen lie. Lawyers lie. Madison Avenue lies. Wall Street lies. Big pharma lies. This should be taught in high school. Children are brought up thinking truth telling is the rule and lying is the exception, when the opposite is true.


11 posted on 05/16/2023 4:47:24 AM PDT by Spok (“Winston, how many fingers am I holding up?”)
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One thing to remember, no matter who you vote for, you elect a politician.
The definition of a politician is "someone who's figured out how to buy you with your own money".
Politicians always make statements during a campaign that they know they can't deliver on.
If reporters find out after someone is elected that a candidate makes claims about themselves that are not true, shame on the reporters for being lazy and not doing their jobs.
If people elect someone that reporters publish lies about, or even if the reporters publish true facts about a candidate that show they have lied during the campaign, it's called democracy.Reporters don't get to pick the government.
Neither does the FBI, CIA or DOJ.
One might think the charges against Santos are an attempt to slim the margin in the house

If campaigns embellish, suppress, or lie on their resumes or in their ads, we've called that politics in the past.
Some people in this country want a one party state.
Sorry folks, you still have to convince the rest of thew country that your not full of shit.
Also, santo's past exploits stand him in good stead.

12 posted on 05/16/2023 5:13:00 AM PDT by Waverunner
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To: OHPatriot

I have often said that I would pay good money for a screen-saver that depicts Obama, ValJar, Holder, Rice, and other’s rotting corpses gently swaying at the end of a rope attached to a WDC cherry tree.

Good money ...

Disclaimer: This is not a threat, merely an offer to purchase a product.


13 posted on 05/16/2023 5:14:41 AM PDT by ByteMercenary (Cho Bi Dung and KamalHo are not my leaders.)
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To: Spok
Politicians lie. The government lies. Salesmen lie. Lawyers lie. Madison Avenue lies. Wall Street lies. Big pharma lies.

One possible surprise about the new AI technology is it may enable God-tier lie detection. Such an invention would totally transform our lives for the better.

14 posted on 05/16/2023 5:39:31 AM PDT by Reeses
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To: texas booster

Hang ‘em all? Works for me!


15 posted on 05/16/2023 6:00:55 AM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized of man.)
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To: texas booster

When Trump is back in the White House, I hope he hires a REAL AG that WILL go after anybody and everybody whether Democrat or Republican.

I have no idea WHO could fill that role. All attorneys these days seem corrupt. I can’t NAME one off hand that is prominent (in the news) that is not corrupt AND who is young enough to have the energy to go after the ocean of crooks in public life.


16 posted on 05/16/2023 6:09:05 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: texas booster

Thank you for the ping...great as always.


17 posted on 05/16/2023 6:14:12 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: texas booster

John Kerry also lied


18 posted on 05/16/2023 6:26:17 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: texas booster

If you like your doctor you can keep him.


19 posted on 05/16/2023 6:50:21 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Flavious_Maximus

Max Dittos!


20 posted on 05/16/2023 6:59:09 AM PDT by dennisw (Santos...)
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