And if she doesn't get removed and laws put in place to prevent this, people will do it again, and again, and again
this post was submitted on 01 Aug 2023
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Yeah you shouldn’t be able to run on blatant lies and not face actual punishment
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George Santos proves that you can, in fact, lie blatantly, right down not even being who you say you are.
I mean, it’s honestly not that different from the party swap in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Political parties aren’t some sacred temple of worship. They have a long and dirty history of being created, ignored, absorbed, and realigned.
There’s a difference between “ideas shift over time” which is democracy and “I pretended to be a candidate for the other party and then pulled a bait & switch when I got elected” which is fucking fraud.
Personally, if I were God Emperor (ie if it was up to me) this asshole would get 20 years.
There’s a difference between “ideas shift over time” which is democracy and “I pretended to be a candidate for the other party and then pulled a bait & switch when I got elected” which is fucking fraud.
Personally, if I were God Emperor (ie if it was up to me) this asshole would get 20 years.
Bait and switch is bad, certainly, my lord God Emperor, 20 years? Isn’t that excessive?
For defrauding the public and eroding the trust in our political institutions?
Fuck with elections, sit out for 5 election cycles. Certainly more deserving than anyone in a cell block over some weed.
Well, it didn't happen with Kirsten Sinema, what makes you think this time will be different?
I hate living in NC so much. By the numbers we should be a blue state. Our governor is a democrat because he's elected by popular vote. Narrowly of course, but still our lawmakers should at least be close to a 50-50 split down the ausle. Instead we avoided a republican supermajority in congress by the skin of our teeth. And just as we're breathing a sigh of relief SURPRISE this bitch decided she wanted to upend what little faith we had in our state government.
Republicans are always finding ways to subvert democracy but this is the most vile shit they've pulled yet imo. I can't imagine anything more effective at keeping people from the polls like showing them no matter how they vote, even if their candidate wins, it's all for nothing because their candidate was a plant.
If Team Red is planting their own members in Team Blue in order to bamboozle voters, and if Team Blue is actively sponsoring the campaigns of Team Red, then can we truly say we live in even a two-party democracy? Or do we just have a single political class in a two-colored dress, who biennially hand us a half-broken "stop the baddies" button while pinky-promising to duct tape our problems if we press it enough times?
As a NO-US dual citizen who's spent a lot of time in both countries and voted in either country's elections, I would say that America needs PLPR like yesterday, but even PLPR is a deeply flawed system: still an improvement over the status quo by all means, but the real problem runs much deeper.