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  Reagan always had his of stories designed to make people made at government programs like the Welfare mamas buying steak.  He didn’t care if they were the exception or not true.
context: “Speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday admitted to having direct knowledge of George Santos’s web of lies intended to dupe his voters into electing him, confirming reporting by the New York Times that House Republican leadership was aware of Mr. Santos’s fraudulent campaign while it was happening due to internal research that exposed his lies.”
  Crooks the lot of them >
  
  
  Crooks the lot of them
  
  From the top all the way down.  
  
  “The Times’s reporting also exposed that House Republican Chair Elise Stefanik was even more deeply involved in the scheme than Speaker McCarthy, including by endorsing Mr. Santos, fundraising for him, and assisting him in replacing his campaign team members who resigned following the revelations in the vulnerability study. >
  
  That's some consorted effort. What's the endgame? >
  
  Power.  What better way to win a swing district than by lying about everything that makes Republicans detestable and pretending to be moderate/left-ish. >
  
  Did Santos introduce his husband at any point during the election campaign? >
  
  His husband did not appear at any campaign events. He was present for photo ops afterwords, such as New Years Eve. 
  But he did talk about his husband and wear a wedding band during the campaign. >
  
  McCarthy didn’t care. None of the republicans care. 
  They all lie and cheat. >
  
  That has been the norm for them thanks to Donald Trump >
  
  Thanks to Newt Gingrich... >
  
  Thanks to Ronald Raygun >
  
  Reagan was definitely the vanguard of the modern GOP. Nixon had been far too old school/mob and didn’t have the evangelical vote and he was smart. Reagan was a buffoon even before he went soft in the head and every GOP president afterwards has been progressively worse. If people lived for centuries, Reagan would have evolved into a jelly bean eating Trump.