What We Can Learn from the George Santos Story
From CBS News:
Prosecutors are seeking more than seven years in prison for disgraced former New York Congressman George Santos after he pleaded guilty to federal fraud and identity theft charges.
A federal judge on Long Island is scheduled to decide Santos’ sentence during a court hearing April 25.
In a court filing Friday, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York argued that a significant sentence was warranted because the New York Republican’s “unparalleled crimes” had “made a mockery” of the country’s election system.
“From his creation of a wholly fictitious biography to his callous theft of money from elderly and impaired donors, Santos’s unrestrained greed and voracious appetite for fame enabled him to exploit the very system by which we select our representatives,” the office wrote.
Prosecutors argue Santos has a “high likelihood of reoffending”
Prosecutors also argued that Santos had been “unrepentant and defiant” for years, dismissing the prosecution as a “witch hunt” and refusing to resign from Congress as his web of lies was debunked.
There are a couple of aspects to the case that make it particularly sickening:
Santos was elected in southeastern New York, not some rural part of the Deep South that brought Marjorie Taylor Greene to power. It’s impossible to blame a lack of education for this humiliating catastrophe.
He actually is a threat to reoffend, because he’s crazier than an outhouse rat.
This whole revolting story illustrates how it’s possible that the United States re-elected Donald Trump as its president. As a population, we have very little capacity to differentiate between a decent human being and a criminal sociopath.
I had to laugh at this discussion on the video on sea-level rise and the post I just made:
This video makes the point that melting ice on our planet’s surface is causing sea-level rise
This from senior physicist Dr. Brian Cox.
As shown here, my old colleague Jigar Shah is still quite active in the field of clean energy and electric transportation.
American political scientist, author, and entrepreneur Ian Bremmer writes frequently on global political risk. He notes: American consumer sentiment drops to second lowest level since 1952 (pandemic was slightly worse).
Vance is one of America’s top-notch morons, but I doubt he actually said this, as even he understands that China’s government and Chinese business interest own about 1% of all foreign-owned U.S. farmland. It’s negligible, 
Trump isn’t the only pathological liar I’ve known in my life, and I’m sure most people can say that as well.
Sure, both world leaders:
At left we see a few of the folks who will be fighting in the civil war that will erupt if Trump is deposed for any reason, e.g., impeachment.
