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  That's crazy. So really it wasn't either party that won this. It was highly lazy voters that lost it.
context: There simply couldn't be a better Poster Boy for what the republican party has become. Is this the kind of 'quailty canditate' that Mitch McConnel was referring to in the mid-terms? >
  
  I think Herschel Walker might still have this guy beat, especially when he waved that toy police badge on the debate stage. Or maybe Rudy Giuliani dripping hair dye while spouting fraud lies at Four Seasons Total Landscaping across from the dildo shop. Or maybe Dr. Oz and his decades of scamming people with miracle cures.
  Ugh, it’s so hard to choose! >
  
  Those other guys are old.
  This guy is part of the future of the party.
  In the 1980s when Reagan and Bush told lies to their base to win over voters most of the party elite knew the lies for lies but liked the sound bites and power.
  Then you had a generation of people who started to form that believed the lies.  Examples are people like Paul Ryan in the US and Stephen Harper in Canada.  Kevin McCarthy is in that lot too.  But those guys could only have power with a base that believed even more outrageous lies.  You can't just come out and call someone like Obama the N word (as Lee Atwater so correctly understood) you needed mobilize the racists without being overtly racist. You need to mobilize people who believe nonsense because without them you have no party, but you need the crazies to vote, because people who understand anything about policy aren't voting for a party with fundamentally anti-reality views. 
  And now we see the second generation. Marjorie taylor geene is the leading edge of it but now you've got people like boebert cawthorne and Santos as the next generation, to them there's no such thing as lying because calling out lies is something only the woke left does.  Truth and facts can't exist when you have been through an entire education system from k-universities that teaches future representatives and think tank goons to believe shit that isn't true. 
  What to do about these nutcases is going to be the problem. >
  
  To be fair a host on Fox News grilled Santos on his lies. She asked how his constituents can trust him to represent them and he immediately tries to "what about the democrats!" but she wasn't having it. He was giving her the death glare by the end of the interview, it was glorious >
  
  The Tulsi Gabbard interview… crazy stuff there! >
  
  Is she just mad that he’s now the highest paid Russian asset? lol >
  
  As if this guy would be a valuable asset? >
  
  Compensated with high fives and little gold stars >
  
  Well, he does need to explain how he made $55,000 in 2019 but received a huge influx of cash in 2020, of multiple millions of dollars. Daddy Warbucks he isn’t. 
  He also has that felony warrant in Brasil to deal with if it’s still active. >
  
  Shout-out to Jason Torchinsky from Jalopnik and The Autopian.  The first time I'd ever heard of George Santos was last year when Jason called him out for lying about how much he was paying for gas.  Then a year later it turns out the guy was lying about everything. >
  
  Shit I think I remember this. I just don’t understand. Did he run unopposed?? >
  
  Nope. The NY Dems fucked it up. >
  
  What about the Primary though? Who ran against him there? >
  
  From a quick google, Dems spent $3 million and Republicans about $58k. The Republican super pac donated millions to the neighboring races but not his. The primary for republicans in 2020 AND 2022 were canceled, which is pretty common for republicans since 2016. He simply had no significant opponent for 2 elections. Many states literally canceled their Republican primaries for Trump to advance, especially in 2020. It’s their strategy for unity in the party and it seems to work well.
  He only got 142k votes which was 22k more than 120k from Zimmerman. LOTS of people just don’t vote which is a country wide problem. Our country is like. 55-75% “Democrat,” but democrats and specifically younger people who heavily lean democrat don’t vote. There was over 100k people who voted in 2020, making the Democrat win, but they didn’t show up in 2022 which lost the seat.