Seth CotlarDec 19, 2022
The NYTimes today published a piece showing that this newly elected GOP Congressman from NY fabricated most of the life story he told on the campaign trail. The fact that this statement on his behalf ends with a fake Churchill quote is just...I mean come on now...if I wrote it in a piece of fiction you'd give me a stern talking to about how hamfisted that detail was.
Show threadKen Burnside

@sethcotlar And it was reported by local news, and his opponent's campaign, multiple times...while the world news organs were chasing The Outrage Du Jour or giving air time to Trump's grievances and lies (but I repeat myself).

Quite simply, Staten Island's voters were far more interested in Sticking It To The Libs to actually ask who could do the job.

Which is on brand for that part of New York. They're effectively all "second ring" suburbanites and the only issues they care about:

A) Cut my taxes! I don't want to pay for Dark Skinned People's Drug Addictions.
B) Pay more cops! I don't want Someone With Melanin moving into MY Neighborhood and lowering My Property Values!

And the NY State Democratic Party more or less played into their hands.

Dec 19, 2022 at 11:49pmWeb