Jack, I think you are right and your friend is wrong. George Santos was not serious about policy and was not introducing bad legislation, just voting for it. Suozzi will introduce bad things, vote for bad things and block even the possibility of good things if Democrats get a 2/3 House majority. When you say, "Joe Manchin-like “Democrats” who are determined to run as far right as they need to retain their seat"-- that's not why they're running right. Many "left" positions are popular. Over 60% of independents and 80% of Democrats want a ceasefire. They don't run right because it wins elections. They run right because they are going to enact right wing policy, which is what they believe in. It's a signal that the electorate has no real options on policy for the most part. He's not a lesser evil. He's an evil consensus machine with lesser evil branding.
I think what we should learn from Mazi Pilip is that the Chief Rabbinate of Israel should declare the Palestinians presumptively Jewish so that thirty years from now Palestinian American congressional candidates can run on batshit anti-immigrant platforms like their Zionist counterparts can today.
(I say “presumptively Jewish” to as an observation that most Palestinians have never personally converted to any religion and as such should not be considered converts from Judaism. Such converts would, of course, be their very distant ancestors, but the Israeli Supreme Court has previously held that ancestral—well, parental—conversion should not be held against anyone else attempting to make Aliyah.)
I would take 10 George Santos' over one Bob Menendez any day. George was awful and corrupt as hell but at least it was hilarious. Rome is burning and we don't even get any music while we watch.
Jack, I think you are right and your friend is wrong. George Santos was not serious about policy and was not introducing bad legislation, just voting for it. Suozzi will introduce bad things, vote for bad things and block even the possibility of good things if Democrats get a 2/3 House majority. When you say, "Joe Manchin-like “Democrats” who are determined to run as far right as they need to retain their seat"-- that's not why they're running right. Many "left" positions are popular. Over 60% of independents and 80% of Democrats want a ceasefire. They don't run right because it wins elections. They run right because they are going to enact right wing policy, which is what they believe in. It's a signal that the electorate has no real options on policy for the most part. He's not a lesser evil. He's an evil consensus machine with lesser evil branding.
I think what we should learn from Mazi Pilip is that the Chief Rabbinate of Israel should declare the Palestinians presumptively Jewish so that thirty years from now Palestinian American congressional candidates can run on batshit anti-immigrant platforms like their Zionist counterparts can today.
(I say “presumptively Jewish” to as an observation that most Palestinians have never personally converted to any religion and as such should not be considered converts from Judaism. Such converts would, of course, be their very distant ancestors, but the Israeli Supreme Court has previously held that ancestral—well, parental—conversion should not be held against anyone else attempting to make Aliyah.)
I would take 10 George Santos' over one Bob Menendez any day. George was awful and corrupt as hell but at least it was hilarious. Rome is burning and we don't even get any music while we watch.
“a bumbling, corrupt fool, whose antics were so cartoonish that he inspired ridicule instead of fear and disgust”
But enough about the former/current/future president…