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This feels like some kind of misdirection. It is so weird, it wouldnt surprise me if it was staged
Lally points out that, “Downstream, local and regional newspapers used to monitor the weekly papers more closely. So, something that popped in a weekly would be picked up very quickly. They’re not monitoring to the same extent.”

So basically, in addition to gutting their investigative reporting departments, larger papers don’t even bother to search interesting local headlines and just publish what gets views on Twitter.  Sounds about right >

They are driven by profit, not truth or even an ideal that democracy requires an informed electorate.
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Who cares what society needs to know, push what sells.
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If people parented like capitalist, all kids would have diabetes. >

The debacle is that the GOP is rewarding him. >

Exactly. [furious emoji] 😡 >

In 2016 Bush, Cruz, Graham, Rubio, etc all called Trump a conman and pointed out his corruption during the primary. It didn't matter. Republican voters didn't care. 
George Santos is the logical progress of Trumpism. If the candidate at the very top is the ticket is a perpetual liar why wouldn't candidates down the ticket be? >


“We would hear things, get tips about Santos’s disclosures. They started tracking him and his fraudulent expenditures and receipts. People started calling him Scamtos.”

Didn’t make national news until after he was elected. And why would it? At that point it was a local story.
The difference with Trump is that Trump's lies were in the national news before he was elected. The Access Hollywood recording should have eliminated Trump as a candidate. Republicans chose to ignore all negative stories about Trump and vote for him anyway. >

As a Canadian who has watched this Reality Television Series since 2016, I am amazed that the writers can consistently find more and more dirtbags to represent the GOP. Kudos! >

Be careful, I hear that the writers are trying to pitch a spin-off set in Canada, but like most spin-offs, it looks like it isn't getting much traction and nobody is really watching it aside from diehard fans. >

Something is going on in The Hill. New editor, writers , cause they have been running ads critical of Republicans. Haven't done much of that since pre Obama. >

The Hill is absolute pure shit on a stick. And yes they were acquired by a conglomerate in 2021 who may be nudging them further down the pit. They're main value historically has been to repackage MSM stories with click bait headlines and quintuple the ad space and occasionally giving oped space to unvarnished Russian propaganda >

I am patiently waiting for this to blow up. >

Not getting rid of this guy right now is going to blowback in the Republicans faces in two years.   This kind of bs is going to give the Democrats the executive branch and both houses in two years when we find out this guy has a clown suit and dead boys in his crawl space under his trailer.