Faking It

MR. SANTOS, the young man who told a pack of lies, is about the face his karma, and had best resign from Congress before he even takes a seat in it, if he knows what's good for him, which, seemingly, he does not. Agreed, we all embellish from time to time, or at least a whole lotta us do, but this dude really takes the cake, as it were. The way Davy Croekett put it: he "stretched the truth a mite". All this stuff about being Jewish, working for a hot shot Wall Street firm, and so forth; hell, he might as well go whole hog, and tell us that he played football for Princeton and then in the NFL, and is currently in NASA's aastronaut training program, beceause he qualified by graduating with a doctorate in engineering from Princeton and served as a fighter pilot in Nam. Five'll get you ten that he never takes a seat in congress, even though most Republicans will defend him and will still want him to take a seat, but that enough Republicans will have enough intergirty, barely, to demand his resignation. Most Republicans'll use that "but everybody does it" crap to try to shoehorn the little faker into the House. They need every seat, after all, to maintain their super slim majority. And, of course, since America's conservative Christian Republican community demonstrably has neither any class nor intergrity, never hold your breath waiting for them to do the right thing, in this case, giving Mr. Santos the boot. Their other tried and truly predictable tactic is to drastically downplay the extent to which Santos went to blow himself up into a hero. Oh, just a few exaggerations and fibs, that's all. Why the big fuss?.... That sort of thing, the same way they describe the insurrection of January 6th as "a dust up", and "a rally that got out of hand", and, a protest", and, "a guided tour"....The mere fact that something close to two thirds of America's far right Christian demographic still supports Trump tells you everything you need to know; namely, that America's far right Christian community is demonstarably both morally and intellectually bankrupt. But, what else is new?