Catching up

[teragramm]

It has been over 5 months since I have posted in my LJ/DW. I seem to be drifting away and that makes me sad. I miss having a place to post the mundane day to day things of my life and I miss all the lovely people I have met through LJ/DW

Comments

[slaymesoftly]

Politics for the past several years has been enough to raise anyone's blood pressure! I think there is mumbling in the house not to seat Santos, but not sure where it stands right now.

[teragramm]

I think there is mumbling in the house not to seat Santos, but not sure where it stands right now. I don't put much faith in the mumblings. Santos is saying he won't resign and McCarthy doesn't care. As long as he gets Santos' vote for speaker of the house he isn't going to complain.

[slaymesoftly]

Sadly, probably true.

[teragramm]

Although, he is facing federal and local investigations. Hopefully, something will come of them.

[kazzy_cee]

OMG - how can no one have found out about the Santos lies? I’m amazed! Surely some interested journalist could have dug them up??

It’s lovely to see you here! Lj needs more people posting regularly. Half the time I’m talking to myself LOL!

[teragramm]

OMG - how can no one have found out about the Santos lies? Some people had a small inkling about his lies (but not to the extent it turned out to be.) A small local publication did do an article but it wasn't picked up by other larger publications. It wasn't until he won that the NY Times decided to write an article about "the new breed of Republicans" that the lies were discovered.

There are now questions about where his funding came from. He had enough funding to run a slew of local television ads. Which in my opinion, is why he won because his opponent couldn't afford to run ads.

It’s lovely to see you here! Thank you. I am going to try to post more often than once every 5 months. I miss writing my thoughts and would never do it in a more public forum like Instagram or FB.

Happy New Year to you and yours I hope 2023 is a good one.

[brunettepet]

How the hell was Santos not investigated AT ALL during the election process? He won't resign, the Republicans won't do squat because they need the seat, ethics won't get McCarthy elected. It's despicable.

[teragramm]

It is despicable!!

A small local publication did do an article but it wasn't picked up by other larger publications. Plus this district runs across 3 counties, so what was published in one county wasn't published in the other 2 counties. It wasn't until he won that the NY Times decided to write an article about "the new breed of Republicans" that the lies were discovered.

There are now questions about where his funding came from. He had enough funding to run a bunch of local television ads. Which in my opinion, is why he won.

[brunettepet]

An investigation will happen but the Republicans will scream, drag out the process and point fingers until the press and population forget what was being investigated. It's crazy making.

[teragramm]

Thank goodness NY is a blue state so maybe (fingers crossed) we will get some satisfaction.

I think there are a lot of people in the district (besides me) that are majorly pissed off at Santos.

It makes me crazy too!

[debris4spike]

Sorry to hear about the BP, but glad to read that things are a bit more settled.

Happy New Year

[teragramm]

Happy New Year to you too.

[curiouswombat]

Good to see you.

It is one of the things about US politics that has always struck me as odd - the fact that being found to have told lies during your campaign, or to the House, is not seen as an immediate resignation offence.

I remember years ago, when I hadn't been on LJ long, that Giuliani lied about the outcomes for men diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK, saying that the survival rate was very low and how he would almost certainly have been dead if he had not had the benefit of being in the USA, quoting a whole lot of statistics. This was part of his TV campaign ad as well as something he was saying in speeches. The figures he gave were clearly wrong - I knew this as patients with prostate cancer were part of my own caseload.

It was picked up by the UK medical profession, and then the UK media, and his mistake was pointed out to him at a press conference.

He didn't apologise for insulting the UK medical profession, or say he would check his figures - he said of course they had just made the figures up - they had

[teragramm]

Good to see you. Thank you!

Unfortunately, things like that Giuliani incident are happening more and more frequently and with fewer and fewer consequences.

I was shocked by this an LJ friend who thought he was wonderful* Let me guess, this was sometime after 9/11 and your lj friend was a non-New Yorker?

After 9/11, Giuliani rode a wave where people thought he walked on water. Nowadays people, for the most part, know who and what he is.

This Santos guy is just a con man plain and simple and there is no one willing or able to make him resign even though many people have called for his resignation he refuses.

[curiouswombat]

She was someone who felt Republicans in general could do no wrong. She defriended me (and even asked if I would please defriend her so that i wouldn't read any public posts, which is why I remember!) when I said that I didn't think it was possible to equate being a devout Christian with the belief that only those who could afford health care deserved it...

[teragramm]

when I said that I didn't think it was possible to equate being a devout Christian with the belief that only those who could afford health care deserved it... Lol! I am sure she loved that.