Paul Revere by Cyrus Dallin, North End, Boston

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Tuesday, December 27, 2022

The Republican/Trumpublican Party -- The Shame of America

 





“Santos is a really just a petty criminal from Rio de Janeiro. He is currently wanted in Brazil on criminal charges of elder fraud and check forgery. He stole checkbooks from elderly patients of his mother - and forged checks to steal merchandise, per prosecutors in Brazil.”



The congressman-elect confirmed The New York Times’s findings that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street firms, as he had claimed.



The Trumpublican Party that still supports Trump -- a Liar, a Cheat, and a Fraud, -- is prepared to seat George Santos, a Liar, a Cheat, and a Fraud, as a U.S. Representative after finding out that everything he campaigned on and was subsequently elected on was a  LIE!

 


The GOP's newest Liar, Cheat, and Fraud


When are lies about one's background, accomplishments, affiliations, (and everything else) so great, so material, that the electorate can fairly be said not to have elected that person to office? In the business world, Santos would immediately be fired for lying about his graduation and accomplishments. His resignation should not be in question, except he is part of the Republican party that puts power ahead of morals.

The people of Santos's district voted for a gay Jewish college graduate with a successful career on Wall Street, who self-financed his campaign. That person does not exist. If this result is allowed to stand, elections truly are meaningless. 

The same party that lied about Herschel Walker’s past, and that endorsed a candidate that they knew lied about his qualifications (Santos), continues to push a narrative that Democrats can’t be trusted!

George Santos actually said today that, “I never said I was Jewish … I said I was Jew-ish.” 

No really, he said this. That's right up there with saying you’re going to give someone a Toyota and then giving them a "toy Yoda."



"McCarthy on November 19th said with the election of George Santos, they have the largest Republican Jewish Caucus in 24 years."

 
Except the GQP doesn't, because George Santos LIED about being Jewish. And the Party of Liars, Cheaters, and Frauds happily welcomes another Liar, Cheater, and Fraud into its club.

54 comments:

Anonymous said...

To the Trumpublicans whatever enhances their perceived chances of winning is the truth. Even when it isn't.

To the Trumpublican a lie is unimportant. As long as it serves their interests.

To the Trumpublican truth is no different from a lie. They both are to be used to accomplish their ends.

To the Trumpublican there is no shame ion lying. Only in losing.

To the Trumpublican their god accepts lying because their god only wants Trumpublicans and authoritarianism to prevail and lying is the ONLY way they can win.

Republicans, Trumpublicans, and conservatives, fueling the dumbing down of America with pride.

Dave Dubya said...

There's no bottom to their corruption, dishonesty, and hate.
ANY fear-mongering or self-aggrandizing lie, or any crime, or any act of evil they think will be useful to gain or hold power is acceptable.

Anonymous said...

Herschel Walker lied about the abortions he paid for.
Ted Cruz lied about his trip to Cancun.
Gym Jordan lied about what happened at Ohio State.
George Santos lied about his past.
And donald trump lies about literally everything.

Lying isn’t a bug in the GOP.
It’s a feature.

Fed Up said...

Howler Trumpanzees excusing Santos' lies and deceptions because "LOOK OVER THERE! BIDEN DID IT TOO!" They truly are the scum of the scummiest.

Q: "Should Santos go through another election because of his mountains of lies?"

A from the Trumpanzees: "Of course he should not. The GOP margin is razor-thin, so Democrat toadies in the Infotainment Media Complex went dirt digging, probably on a whole host of newly-elected Republicans, and hit gold with this one.

Dems always scream for the GOP to adhere to standards that they themselves ignore."


Santos got up in front of a Jewish Organization and pretended to be "one of them" he even called himself a "fellow Jew."

The big question is where did this crook get the $750,000 to pay his campaign? When he didn't even have money to pay his landlord a few months back? Everything he claimed is a g-d lie.

Dave Miller said...

GOP partisans have indeed, as did Santos last night in a FOX interview with Tulsi Gabbard, pointed the finger at Pres. Biden. Echoing the words of the Capitana of the HMS Mothership, Santos when asked about his lying said he was sorry for "embellishing" his resume. Then added "Joe Biden has been doing it everyday for 40 years."

The above statement about Biden is what many of the far right believe, and as such, Santos can be excused, because "they" are just doing what "we've" done for decades. In fact La Capitana has essentially said as much regarding Biden.

Here's what conservative writer Charlie Sykes had to say about the claim of embellishment by Santos...

"To “embellish” is to adorn, decorate, enhance, gild, beautify, and festoon, and, on occasion, it means to “exaggerate.”

This Santos did not do. He just made shit up out of whole cloth. He did not place doodads on his resume: He lied about his schooling, his degrees, his background, his criminal history, his employment, and about the non-existent properties he claimed to own. He lied that his employees were killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting. He lied about his Jew-ishness and about his grandparents escaping the Holocaust. He used fake quotes from Winston Churchill. He lied about his money, probably lied on financial disclosure forms (which is actually a crime), and lied about his lying.

Dave Dubya said...

Who would be surprised if the House nutjobs shout "fake news" about his lies, and vote Santos as Speaker?

Shaw Kenawe said...

Fed Up

Sounds like MT Greene defending Santos, because she did just that the other day.

The Trump cultists marinate in lies and deceptions, so I'm not surprised that people like MT Greene and other Trump cultists are ready to overlook the Lying Liar and Cheat, Santos.

Santos admitted to lying about his family history, his purported Jewish heritage, his grandparents' escape from the Nazis. He hasn't revealed how he started "earning" $750,000 after not being able to pay his rent. He's a delusional, serial liar. He, Herschel Walker, and the champion liar, Trump, are the disgraceful faces of today's Republican Party.

His whole campaign stinks to high heaven. I hope some reporter finds out where that $750,000 came from. Follow the money to see who's promoting another Lying Liar Republican.

Paula said...

Al Franken gets pushed by Democrats to resign from the Senate after the release of an inappropriate joke.

George Santos will be welcomed by the GOP after lying about his entire resume and background.

How can anyone think the parties are the same?

Shaw Kenawe said...


Ritchie Torres
@RitchieTorres
·
Dec 26
George Santos, a former call center employee falling behind on his rent, lent his campaign a staggering $705,000.

Where did all that money come from? The Ethics Committee MUST start investigating immediately.

Ray said...

Who's the liar who wrote this?

"Dems always scream for the GOP to adhere to standards that they themselves ignore."




Democrats:

Cuomo resigned.
Franken resigned.
Spitzer resigned.
Weiner resigned.



Republicans:

Trump: Running for POTUS again
Greene: Begged for presidential pardon
147 Republicans: voted to overturn the 2020 election
Santos: Defended by Republicans and will be seated.

Never underestimate a Republican's ability to self-deceive.

Ray said...

Oops. I forgot this guy:

Rep Scott DesJarlais from TN, please read up about him...a Medial Doc with at least 5 sexually abusive conducts, several affairs, got at least 2 pregnant & had them terminate their pregnancies was found "guilty" & was fined but he's still in congress, 13th yrs in Jan 2023.


STILL IN CONGRESS!

Dave Miller said...

Ray... "Who said" it? Sounds like a member of the crew on the HMS Mothership.

Anonymous said...

How can anyone think the parties are the same?

In a word... delusional.

Anonymous said...

Must be these republican/trumpublican pols and lawmakers are following the cues they get from reading their bibles and praying to their conservative dictatorial god while clutching their weapons.

Truth is, at this point in time there is absolutely no equivalency between the two parties when it comes to integrity, decency, and loyalty to our constitution and the principles of democratic government. Republicans/Trumpublicans fail miserably in all noted areas.

May the republicans/trumpublicans soon go the way of the Whigs.

Anonymous said...

If we got rid of every politician who lied about his past we could achieve what is best for the country and have a 100% turnover of politicians. One liar not mentioned is the president, current and past.

I did see an interview with tulsi and santos and she crucified him so that shows some of her character. Remember the pelosi attack and how the attacker was a right wing nut to maybe he is not, does that mean she is a liar or just a politician. Face fact, politicians have to lie to keep their job and that is paramount in their mind.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Yeah, Anonymous, politicians lie, embellish, dissemble, etc., but not like George Santos. NOTHING. ABSOLUTELY NOTHING he has claimed about his life is true, including the fact that he claimed his mother died in the Sept. 11 attacks, but just five months later tweeted she died in December 2016.

Lying about where and when his own mother died, and then not remembering he lied about it, and saying she died again, only in 2016 is how a liar lies. When you tell the truth, you don't have to worry about remembering when your mother died.

And leave Nancy Pelosi out of this discussion. You sound very familiar, Anon.

Santos is in a league all his own. He even surpasses the lying liar Donald Trump, but only in the quality of his lies, not quantity!

Shaw Kenawe said...

Santos on Feb. 28, 2022: “For a lot of people who are descendants of World War II refugees, or survivors of the Holocaust, a lot of names and paperwork were changed in the name of survival. So I don’t carry the family last name — that would’ve been Zabrovsky.“

Lied about his family name and being Jewish! What a monstrous creep!

Shaw Kenawe said...

"In interview with Fox News on June 13, 2021, Santos said the following:

“My grandparents escaped socialism, they’ve escaped communism and the Holocaust.”

The Forward and other publications found no evidence of that.

Santos also falsely claimed he’s the grandson of Holocaust survivors in his campaign launch video on June 10, 2021 (with imagery of the death camps):

“I've seen how socialism destroys people's lives because my grandparents survived the Holocaust.”
--Jacob Kornbluh

Dave Miller said...

Shaw... the guy demonized his opponent for... wait for it, lying, intimating it should DQ him from serving. How does America and the GOP see that?

Look, I feel like a broken record but... what can America do when we've got rabid GOP and MAGA fans bemoaning that they can't be John Birchers any longer and complain that they can't be open in support of the McCarthy hearings in the 50's?

I'm waiting for them to call for reinstatement of the Klan... just so they can belong.

skudrunner said...

I am surprised you place anyone ahead of the hated trump but it seems santos has achieved exalted status. This also proves how gullible the American people are to not do any investigation about a candidates past. Joey B and his top of the class in law school and his being accepted to the academy are small lies compared to trump and santos but they are still lies which you condemn.

Hope you have a safe holiday and stay warm. I am grateful that our leader is warm while so many are freezing including the invited border crosser's. I hear St Croix is great this time of year.

Shaw Kenawe said...

“As a proud American Jew, I have been to Israel numerous times from educational, business, and leisurely trips,” Santos wrote in the fabricated campaign mailer sent to pro-Israel groups like the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)."

He lied about his lie saying he was a Jew. Santos claimed he didn't say he was "Jewish," but rather "Jew-ish." A lie, as the above proves.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Dave M.

I went looking after reading your comment and found this:

"My friend Sally’s parents were in the Birch Society….which was SO demonized that they had to disband. They could have done a lot of good.
Their having to disband is not unlike the McCarthy Hearings being SO demonized “in the name of free speech”(rubbish) that we can’t mention it without looking like White Supremacists… They were trying to show the country….but..

That’s what the Left does; demonizes anything on the Right and we go scattering like scared cockroaches. Her parents were SO upset at what they saw and the John Birch was hopeful but so INSULTED…a la Saul Alinsky. ..who was a genius, sadly. People scattered; the leftwing media worked …again."


The Captain of the Mother Ship is old enough to know better, but of course she doesn't. There she is pining for the good ole days of the John Birch Society and the McCarthy hearings? Dear Gawd, their ignorance is bottomless!

Remember, even William F. Buckley couldn't stand the Birchers, and Buckley was a staunch conservative -- the Birchers were too crazy even for him!

HERE'S A GOOD BACKGROUND ON THE WHO JOHN BIRCH WAS AND THE FOUNDING OF THE SOCIETY.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Brooks: "In a sense Santos is a sad, farcical version of where Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party — into the land of unreality, the continent of lies. Trump’s takeover of the G.O.P. was not primarily an ideological takeover, it was a psychological and moral one. I don’t feel sorry for Trump the way I do for Santos, because Trump is so cruel. But he did introduce, on a much larger scale, the same pathetic note into our national psychology."

Go visit Trumper blogs like "Geeez" and see how far into the muck and mire of lies it has sunk. They no longer know reality, just the unrelenting lying Trump and his wannabe lying liars feed them and they swallow.

skudrunner said...

Voters need to do a better job of checking into candidates and we need to demand our leaders do a better job of serving the people and not just their ideology. We have mayor pete who has been absent during the supply chain shortage, absent during the rail negotiations, now he is blaming SWA and going to get to the bottom of their flight disruptions after saying the airline industry is in good shape just three months ago. As mayor of a huge city he couldn't even get pot holes fixed, yes I have been to SB, so what qualifications does he have for his job. Could it be because he checks several boxes and qualifications just don't matter. The voters elected cruella so that was our fault but the non functioning federal government is the leaders fault.
The republicans nominated Oz, Greene, Santos, Lake, Bobert so that is their fault and at least two failed. Now trump's campaign is failing so maybe they are waking up. Maybe more will follow sinema's lead and do what is right for the country not just their party.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Santos says he has "acute chronic bronchitis" which are...two different things.


From the Mayo Clinic site: "Often developing from a cold or other respiratory infection, acute bronchitis is very common. Chronic bronchitis, a more serious condition, is a constant irritation or inflammation of the lining of the bronchial tubes, often due to smoking."

Santos also claimed he had a brain tumor and received radiation!

Shaw Kenawe said...

skud, apparently you know NOTHING about what caused the disastrous SWA debacle. So you come here and trash Secretary Pete instead of educating yourself:

"Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg has called the situation “unacceptable” and plans to investigate the meltdown. “From what I can tell, Southwest is unable to locate even where their own crews are, let alone their own passengers, let alone baggage,” he said.

What’s particularly egregious is the fact that Southwest had the money to upgrade its systems but chose to hand it to shareholders instead. The airline recently announced it would pay a dividend again that amounts to $428 million a year. Southwest also received more than $7 billion from the U.S. federal government to shore up its operations during the pandemic. It paid a quarterly dividend for years before the coronavirus struck, signaling to Wall Street that the airline had cash to spare.

In other words, given a choice, Southwest put its investors ahead of its customers and crew. Now, the full ramifications of those decisions are causing massive pain — and what will almost certainly be a collapse of trust from the budget-minded travelers who have consistently ranked it among the best airlines when it comes to customer satisfaction." Editorial, WaPo


You seem to be interested only in scoring political points, not in looking into why this happened. HINT: Capitalism and enriching the already rich!

Dave Miller said...

So... HRC said she landed under sniper fire. An obvious lie.

Sen Elizabeth Warren claimed she was a member of the Cherokee nation. After a DNA test found she was not a native American, she apologized and said she had made a mistake. Was it all a lie? I guess it depends on who you are.

Here's how to lie and lie are defined...

1. A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth.
2. Something intended or serving to convey a false impression.

It seems the most meaningful word here is intent. What was the intent of the speaker. In Clinton's case, she claimed embellishment. I don't buy it. To me, she was set on deception, but others may have another opinion.

Senator Warren, has said she was simply stating what she was taught as a child regarding her upbringing. As my wife recently learned that her grandmother's family has roots in the white people of the Mayflower, I can see Warren's claim as truthful. families are funny things sometimes.

President Biden has been known for sometime to be what some have called a serial fabulist. A guy who just says stuff. And yes, he has also stolen whole cloth, parts of speeches from others, for which he apologized and took his lumps.

So we're back to intent.

I get Skud... GOP fans can't face the fact that Santos has been lying because punishing him leaves them open to the question of why they are punishing him and accepting the lies of Trump.

At the end of the day I guess everyone has to make a decision regarding Santos. Were his now admittedly false statements made with the intent to deceive, or innocent mistakes?

You all tell me...

Anonymous said...

Skud, “Mayor Pete” as you say is twice the human you will ever be. When transportation issues happened in the past I never saw you say one cross word about Elaine Choa. Your bias is noted.

On topic - I’ve read that the more journalists dig into Santos’s past the more they find, including financial ties to Russian oligarchs. Honestly, the more I lies I hear the more it sounds like someone created Santos out of perceived foibles of the Democratic Party. But that’s just crazy talk, right?

Grey One Talks Sass on their phone

Dave Miller said...

Regarding Southwest Air, not even part of the post, but a typical Skud diversion from uncomfortable facts, here's what the leader of the pilot's union said, essentially echoing the words of SWA CEO bob Jordan when he said SWA needs to modernize...

“Our internal scheduling software can’t handle massive cancellations... the company hasn’t invested the money into scheduling infrastructure to support the network they have developed.”

Could the SWA meltdown have been foreseen? Of course, in fact, the union warned of just such as failure. But the American citizenry, happy with the dividends and soaring profits of SWA looked the other way as detailed in this article from Michael Hiltzik.

Anonymous said...

Thank you Shaw for bringing all the receipts to the conversation. Your abilities and heart are why i continue to visit your blog. In my book, you are an absolute rock star.

Grey One Talks Sass on my phone

Anonymous said...

In other words, given a choice, Southwest put its investors ahead of its customers and crew.

Like all capitalists do. At some point most capitalists put investors and profit ahead of all else. Until the government is forced to step in. Like it did when the government broke up the big monopolies.

Capitalism works ONLY when ALL benefit by it. When the gap grows too wide and too pervasive (as it now is) between the uber wealthy and the rest of society cultural and societal upheaval will result. In America capitalism is the biggest driver of ignorance and greed. It shall be this nation's eventual undoing if the brakes are not soon applied.

skudrunner said...

So we should investigate the cities that allowed their city to shut down because of snow. We should investigate the federalists for the deaths of our border guests. Mayor pete is a joke and has done nothing since he was appointed to his seat. He is far more interested in going on his jaunts than taking care of his job. Can you name one thing he has done. He just sits back and lets time resolve any issue. Why didn't he investigate the supply chain fiasco.

As to SWA, they will pay the price for their decision to not upgrade their computer system because we all have a choice who to fly and this will last for awhile. That is called the free market who rewards the companies who provide a service to their customers. What will the federalists achieve by "investigating" SWA except to embarrass the company, cost them millions and make the politicians on the investigating committee look like they know what they are talking about, which of course they don't.

Dave Miller said...

As a point of clarification, Cabinet Secretaries are "hired" by the president, subject not to the voters for approval, but the Senate. Mayor Pete was questioned, judged and approved by the US Senate on an overwhelmingly bi-partisan 86-14 vote.

So at the very least, a lot of folks in government thought he was qualified to do the job for which he was nominated.

Shaw Kenawe said...

As a child, I often heard my father say that an ancient ancestor of ours was an Arab prince. Being a 7 or 8 year old, when I heard my father talking about that at family gatherings (not realizing he was joking) I understood it as the truth, that I had an Arabian prince in my heritage (after all, the Arabs were in Sicily for 800 years!) I carried that belief around with me for years, until my older siblings told me it was a family joke! But I had repeated it to friends, believing it was true. THAT'S the same thing that happened to Elizabeth Warren, but the Trumpublicans, being the vicious haters that they are, will not let that go, even as their beloved Lying Liar Leader, Donald Trump, called her "Pocahontas" in front of Native Americans.

Skud just likes to come here and be the Eeyore of Progressive Eruptions and whine about how bad the Democrats are, because, IMO, what the Trumpublicans are and have done to America is too embarrassing and humiliating for him or any other Republican to acknowledge. So he lumps the rottenest of the rotten Republicans (See Santos, Greene, Boebert, Jordan, Gaetz, Gosar, Cruz, Flynn, Giuliani, Lindell, Trump), in with the few Democrats who are bad actors as well.

Elizabeth Warren is no Santos by any stretch of the imagination. To pretend she's as big a liar as Santos or Trump is a slander on her reputation. But typical of where the Republican Party is today -- in the sewer.

Shaw Kenawe said...

Thank you Grey One talks sass

This has been a difficult holiday, since I got COVID the Thursday before Christmas and had to cancel all family plans.

Since I'm vaxxed and boostered and had my flu shot, I haven't had a terrible time of it: No headache, no sore throat, slight fever that lasted only 2 days, but I'm still feeling fatigued, a bit weak, and congested. I have continued to wear my mask at all times and have stayed away from crowds, but I got it anyway.

I hope you are healthy and safe.

Anonymous said...

Who's the genius who wrote this crap?

"Q: "Should Santos go through another election because of his mountains of lies?"

"Of course he should not. The GOP margin is razor-thin, so Democrat toadies in the Infotainment Media Complex went dirt digging, probably on a whole host of newly-elected Republicans, and hit gold with this one."

This low-life believes Santos should be seated as a US Rep.? Because the GOP margin in the House is "razor-thin?" So the logic is that it is important to keep a lying scumbag who probably is also a thief as a Representative?

And then the genius says the Dems are worse? What a tool!

skudrunner said...

SWA screwed up big time. Both my wife and I were airline employees and know the difficulties airlines face but in this case it was preventable if the investment was made years ago. Now it is catch up which will take a couple of years. The federal investigation that mayor pete wants to conduct is more grandstanding by our serving elite. Maybe the answer is to create one airline run by the federal government. Stupid idea but no more stupid than national healthcare. Governments, federal, state, local have the ability to screw up anything. How long has the FAA had billions to update the ATC system and it is just recently they started. Was that because the paid dividends or just was to inept to do anything.

Again I asked what mayor pete has done and the answer is typical, under trump..... because everything is about trump and the current mess is just ignored.

Shaw, Hope for feel better soon. I have avoided covid but people I know say it is miserable but you do get over it in time.

Dave Miller said...

Skud... as to the free market and SWA, once again, you are in error. SWA is the largest domestic carrier in that states, the only real choice some ppl have because since deregulation, the other airlines have mostly left a lot of the places SWA serves. Think Midway. Their traffic is huge, but it is mostly SWA. And because ORD is so busy, SWA is the major point to point carrier in the area.

Perhaps if Congress help our corporations to the monopoly guidelines we'd have a better system, but they don't. In the end, SWA will keep the great majority of their business because customers do not have real choice in many markets.

Anonymous said...

skud should put his expertise to productive use. Run skud, run! You might even win.

Apparently republicans forego actually researching in depth the dishonest morons they elect. Like Trump, Santos, et all.

Anonymous said...

Republicans defending a serial liar like Santos after they threw Liz Cheney out of the party for telling the truth is everything you need to know about today’s GOP.

Anonymous said...

Reading that Santos is being investigated in his home district. That’s a good thing.

Shaw - sorry to read about your COVID encounter. I somehow caught the mother of all colds so my brains are filled with oatmeal at the moment. Thanks for the good wishes. Back atcha dontchano.

skud, what do you expect Secretary Pete specifically to do? As a government employee he has laws and guidelines to follow when dealing with private enterprise - that bastion of excellence you wave about whenever a Democratic lawmaker hints at raising taxes. There is no magic wand to cure over paid top of the food chain executives of their greed. So what exactly do you expect him to do?

Or am I overthinking this and you are a plain ole homophobe who can’t stand anyone from the LGBTQ community being happy (pix of the twins rocked social media this holiday by the way) and enjoying a bit of success and popularity from both sides of the political aisle? Honestly I thought his appearances on Fox were a mistake until I saw the impact they made.

Seriously you sound as if you’ve been chewing on sour grapes. Not a good look.

Grey One Talks Sass on their phone

Shaw Kenawe said...

Grey One Talks Sass,

I'm somewhat amused, but not at all surprised to read the Trumpers defending Santos -- even those who are angry because the Democrats (actually the NYTimes) started nosing around and found the mountains of lies propping up this charlatan. (Imagine still supporting a liar who lied about the death of his own mother!) And yet, here we are. A third of our voting population still making excuses for the dregs of society, wanting those types to serve in the US Congress! But that's what Trumpism did to this country.

skudrunner said...

Rev, You say SWA is the largest domestic carrier which is incorrect since Delta is larger. You mention one airport they have the vast majority of flights but there are over 40 carriers serving that city so you may be incorrect as well. SWA has competition in most if not all of the markets they serve. If you will recall it was jimmy who signed deregulation which creates the free market for airlines.

I am not defending SWA because they really screwed up but for the government to chastise them and have someone who has no clue head it up is ridiculous. No grey I am not homophobic but I do want to see some form of leadership from the government and just putting someone in charge of a major department just because they are gay is just plain stupid. I will ask you again, what has he accomplished? Fining an airline because they have a melt down will do what and where does that money go. He seems to be out of the country when things go down hill. Maybe you consider that doing his job but most don't.

Ms Shaw, Hope you get to feeling better soon. A third of our voting population wanting these types to serve in congress, where did you arrive at the third figure?

Anonymous said...

To think Republicans are the only party that acts in shame in America, is laughable.

possumlady said...

Happy New Year Shaw and everyone!

Hope you are starting to feel better, Shaw and GOTS.

Did you see the article in The Post about the tiny Long Island newspaper (North Shore Leader) that was sounding the alarm in September about Santos? The Post wrote: "The Leader reluctantly endorsed Santos’s Democratic opponent the next month. “This newspaper would like to endorse a Republican,” it wrote, but Santos “is so bizarre, unprincipled and sketchy that we cannot. … He boasts like an insecure child — but he’s most likely just a fabulist — a fake.”

TOMMY said...

If you are shocked the GOP is rallying around George Santos, let me tell you about this kid named Kyle Rittenhouse…

Ray Cranston said...

Isn't it right on brand for the panty-assed turds on the right to pretend what Santos did was no different than Elizabeth Warren, or Blumenthal? This is the morally bankrupt Republican Party in all its glory, trying to minimize the lies of Donald Trump and now this Santos pos by saying the Dems are just as bad if not worse.

Morally bankrupt cowards and turds -- every last Republican who will not face what a corrupt party it is.

Les Carpenter said...

Happy New Year to you and yours Shaw! I hope you're rebounding and feeling better from your bout with Covid.

On a different note. Congrats to the North Shore Leader.

Anonymous said...

skud, Secretary Pete wasn’t given his position just because of his sexual orientation. The fact you think so proves your bias.

I went looking for what the Department of Transportation accomplished this year and found a seven page break out of how monies were distributed to different projects in the States, all provided by the various acts passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden.

Honestly it is a very comprehensive document. I’m surprised you haven’t stumbled on it yourself skud.

Grey One Talks Sass on my phone

Shaw Kenawe said...

Thank you everyone for your good wishes.

Because I've been vaxxed and boostered, my bout of COVID was as bad as an annoying cold. I'm still feeling tired, but other than that, okay.

Wishing all of you wonderful readers a very healthy and happy 2023.

Dave Miller said...

Skud... I'll just cherry pick the easiest of your obfuscations...

SWA largest domestic carrier... as of December 2022.

skudrunner said...

Rev, Statistics can mean many things. Is SWA the largest passengers boarded, no that would be AA, total revenue no that would be Delta, you must mean number of daily flights which is 4000.
Regardless they imploded and inconvenienced thousands of people so they need to be held accountable. Keep in mind there was a federal program who's computer program imploded at the start so having the government scold any company is not a great idea.

Grey, Having a president give away billions of tax dollars doesn't mean mayor pete did anything and you comment about mt bias based on sexual orientation is not up to your standards but being the holidays I forgive.

Going to be an interesting year or two for everyone.
Have a Happy New Year and Ms. Shaw hope you feel good as new soon.

Anonymous said...

skud, you asked what Sec Pete accomplished. I gave you what the Department he heads did and you imply he didn’t do all that work and besides it’s just another ‘tax giveaway’.

Sigh. Your inability to understand the workings of government and professional moving skills are noted.

It is the holidays so I forgive your ignorance and lack of desire to do better. Some people aren’t cut out for ‘doing better when we know better’.

To the rest of the PE crew, May your 2023 be better than 2022. (Including skud too. I’m not a monster after all)

Grey One Talks Sass on my phone

Dave Miller said...

Hey Grey!

And RN, Blue, Ray, Free, hopefully Ducky, Possum, Skud and anyone else, have a Happy New Year.

And of course you too Shaw...

Bendiciones...