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  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.
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