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[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview." ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)", ">\n\nWon't the designs be covered by the keyboard? How about some designs that have stuff mostly on the right/mouse side?" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)", ">\n\nWon't the designs be covered by the keyboard? How about some designs that have stuff mostly on the right/mouse side?", ">\n\nMy only criticism is it might be cute if one was just chilling, sleeping, or cleaning itself instead of having all four staring at the viewer. Unless there is a theme beyond just being kinda quirky that I'm missing." ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)", ">\n\nWon't the designs be covered by the keyboard? How about some designs that have stuff mostly on the right/mouse side?", ">\n\nMy only criticism is it might be cute if one was just chilling, sleeping, or cleaning itself instead of having all four staring at the viewer. Unless there is a theme beyond just being kinda quirky that I'm missing.", ">\n\nI dunno, if one has a reason to look all wide-eyed in a certain direction, they all do 🤣 \nSource: have cats" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)", ">\n\nWon't the designs be covered by the keyboard? How about some designs that have stuff mostly on the right/mouse side?", ">\n\nMy only criticism is it might be cute if one was just chilling, sleeping, or cleaning itself instead of having all four staring at the viewer. Unless there is a theme beyond just being kinda quirky that I'm missing.", ">\n\nI dunno, if one has a reason to look all wide-eyed in a certain direction, they all do 🤣 \nSource: have cats", ">\n\nInstapurchase status on that green one" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)", ">\n\nWon't the designs be covered by the keyboard? How about some designs that have stuff mostly on the right/mouse side?", ">\n\nMy only criticism is it might be cute if one was just chilling, sleeping, or cleaning itself instead of having all four staring at the viewer. Unless there is a theme beyond just being kinda quirky that I'm missing.", ">\n\nI dunno, if one has a reason to look all wide-eyed in a certain direction, they all do 🤣 \nSource: have cats", ">\n\nInstapurchase status on that green one", ">\n\nmake a greyscale version with yellow eyes so I can comfortably buy that and the green one" ]

[ "I would definitely buy this if it came out. I really like the green one.", ">\n\nagreed", ">\n\nI won’t complain about anything cat related 😸", ">\n\nMy criticism is that my wallet won't be able to handle it if you keep making such good designs", ">\n\nNo criticism, only cat.", ">\n\nvery nice! the eyes are just a little creepy to me", ">\n\nr/VoidCats", ">\n\nIMO the two cats in/behind the potted plants seem a bit out of place, the image would be more balanced with just the two middle cats", ">\n\ncute", ">\n\nSuper cute, love the style", ">\n\nI’d buy both!! 🐈‍⬛", ">\n\nI like it! Maybe consider some options with different color cats as another variation? Maybe a mix of colors or just straight same across the board like you have with the preview.", ">\n\nit's cute, but did you design with in mind mouse and keeb placement ?", ">\n\njinx", ">\n\ngreen one is super cute! if you sell these i’ll buy one! my girlfriend would love it (＾▽＾)", ">\n\nWon't the designs be covered by the keyboard? How about some designs that have stuff mostly on the right/mouse side?", ">\n\nMy only criticism is it might be cute if one was just chilling, sleeping, or cleaning itself instead of having all four staring at the viewer. Unless there is a theme beyond just being kinda quirky that I'm missing.", ">\n\nI dunno, if one has a reason to look all wide-eyed in a certain direction, they all do 🤣 \nSource: have cats", ">\n\nInstapurchase status on that green one", ">\n\nmake a greyscale version with yellow eyes so I can comfortably buy that and the green one", ">\n\nI love the green one but I'd personally have even more green in it. Maybe make the plant on the left more leaf and less stem and pot. You could also put something green in the middle of the mat like adding trees in the background and making the hill more of a soft green than grey" ]

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[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too)." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only..." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September)." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?", ">\n\nWell, I don’t want him to resign…\nI want for him to be in office in 2024, so that every Democrat running can point to him and say, “this is what Republicans stand for. This is the face of the Republican Party. Deception and lies.’\nMost people don’t really like that.\nTrump should have been enough, but apparently not." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?", ">\n\nWell, I don’t want him to resign…\nI want for him to be in office in 2024, so that every Democrat running can point to him and say, “this is what Republicans stand for. This is the face of the Republican Party. Deception and lies.’\nMost people don’t really like that.\nTrump should have been enough, but apparently not.", ">\n\nWhy do they have to wait on him to do the right thing? Start a recall election effort." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?", ">\n\nWell, I don’t want him to resign…\nI want for him to be in office in 2024, so that every Democrat running can point to him and say, “this is what Republicans stand for. This is the face of the Republican Party. Deception and lies.’\nMost people don’t really like that.\nTrump should have been enough, but apparently not.", ">\n\nWhy do they have to wait on him to do the right thing? Start a recall election effort.", ">\n\nIn other news: 22% of residents are republicans who vote consistently." ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?", ">\n\nWell, I don’t want him to resign…\nI want for him to be in office in 2024, so that every Democrat running can point to him and say, “this is what Republicans stand for. This is the face of the Republican Party. Deception and lies.’\nMost people don’t really like that.\nTrump should have been enough, but apparently not.", ">\n\nWhy do they have to wait on him to do the right thing? Start a recall election effort.", ">\n\nIn other news: 22% of residents are republicans who vote consistently.", ">\n\nHow did this guy get elected anyway?\nWhere they just all sleeping?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?", ">\n\nWell, I don’t want him to resign…\nI want for him to be in office in 2024, so that every Democrat running can point to him and say, “this is what Republicans stand for. This is the face of the Republican Party. Deception and lies.’\nMost people don’t really like that.\nTrump should have been enough, but apparently not.", ">\n\nWhy do they have to wait on him to do the right thing? Start a recall election effort.", ">\n\nIn other news: 22% of residents are republicans who vote consistently.", ">\n\nHow did this guy get elected anyway?\nWhere they just all sleeping?", ">\n\nWho are these other 22% that enjoy being lied to so much?" ]

[ "What is scary is 23% don't. Same MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nThe entire bottom 1/3 of the electorate is responsible for 90% of the bullshit conspiracy nonsense. They will believe almost anything as long as it is only supported by allegations and speculation- there can't be any actual evidence. If there isn't room for them to make a leap of faith in believing something, they refuse to believe it at all. They need to feel like they are smart enough to make the connections that others don't.\nThe cynical Republican leaders play to that credulity gap, stoking the conspiracy nonsense because those voters who who gravitate to nonsense are the ones who actually go to the polls in primary elections. The whole charade is so transparent and obvious, except to the bottom third, for whom obvious transparency can only mean the Deep State is even more effective in misinforming people. The easier it is to prove, the more it must be fake. We have finally reached Terminal Stupidity.", ">\n\nTurns out having a room temperature iq doesn't stop you from voting.", ">\n\nYou ever think about how idioms like that change depending on the scale you're using? Standard room temperature for stuff is considered what, 68 Fahrenheit? Very dumb, but potentially livable. Then in Celsius, that's like 20, not sure how you'd even measure that low. On the other end, that's like 293 Kelvin, some kind of super genius. Or 527ish Rankine is unfathomable as well. Not at all relevant to the comment, just got me thinking down that line.", ">\n\nWhat was it the dude in Alien 3 called them? The 85s.", ">\n\nThe Weyland-Yutani prison guard guy on Fiorina 161. His nickname was 85. The other inmates had read his personnel file and saw his IQ score.\nPoor guy tried to do the right thing at the end and was iced by his own employer when the mercs got there to retrieve Ripley and the gestating Queen.", ">\n\nOh right! Been a long time since I've seen it. Good memory.", ">\n\nIt’s such a weird thing bc it’s so clear he’s a grifter and not an ideologue. He could use his two years to cause so much chaos and have so much fun but he’ll probably just vote party line :(", ">\n\nVote the party line and collect a pension for the rest of his life.", ">\n\nGotta have 5 years for the pension.", ">\n\nI think it’s like 20+ years or so to have it be fully vested as well.", ">\n\n5 years is fully vested, but you have to be 62 in order to collect. So sometime in 2053 Santos can collect his pension if he manages to serve five years.", ">\n\nAh. Maybe it was just health care that takes longer to best.", ">\n\nMaybe they should have paid attention during the election, too. Then this could have been an election result and not a poll.", ">\n\nDidn't the big stories about him break after the election? I think it's a bit much to expect an individual to figure this stuff out.", ">\n\nI mean, given that Republicans have been nothing but regressive, obstructionist pigs in 85% of state and federal government for the past 24 years, I can not see what would compel a New Yorker to vote for a Republican, ever, let alone GEORGE SANTOS.", ">\n\nGreat logic, Dems aren't doing enough so let's vote for the openly virulent racist party that hates us for being Asian and has never done anything to reduce race-motivated hate. In fact, they consistently stoke it. Ditto for Cubans in Florida.", ">\n\nDon’t hate on the voters in this case, they were duped into it. \nYou have to remember they were having right wing propaganda jammed down their throats, and knew nothing about Santo’s lies at the time.\nThe Dem party holds a large portion of the blame here, as they just paid no attention to the matter during the run up to the election. They turned a blind eye because they were so overly confident that voters in the district would never vote republican, which was just incorrect. Alarm bells had been rung too, the dem party just didn’t want to invest any time or money to fight it.", ">\n\nI don’t know how the election campaigns were around NYC and that specific district, but let’s not pretend Democrats have been ignoring hate crimes against Asian Americans in general\nMaybe not enough was done in the district, or maybe not enough attention, but to say it was ignored by Democrats is pretty blatantly false, especially when plenty of prominent Republicans were egging it on and standing in the way of anything getting done", ">\n\nOh, I had in no way intended to imply that Dems were ignoring crime against Asian Americans, just that they allowed the GOP to campaign on misinformation that made said Asian Americans feel like Dems weren’t doing anything about it. The problem was the Dems just didn’t think they needed to invest further in fighting for that district because they assumed they didn’t need to. It was a strategic mistake.\nStill, that doesn’t change that the GOP lied to these voters about their own candidate and gave misinformation about which party was able to better protect its voters from crime. That lie is on the GOP and Santos, but the fact it wasn’t better challenged in this district is the Dems fault as well.\nI was just saying don’t blame the voters themselves in this case, as they were the ones being lied to.", ">\n\nI get you, I’ve just seen a lot of stuff online the past few years where it’s subtly implied that anything bad happening to X minority is being condoned by Democrats, because secretly Democrats are the “real” racists\nAnd I get falling for lies, but at the same time it’s a tough pill to swallow when for the past half decade near on every single Republican politician was lining up to imply Covid was the fault of Asians and deny any hate crimes were happening as a result of that implication", ">\n\nI don’t think I’m implying that Dems are racists, nor do I have any intention to.\nStill, it’s really not the fault of the voters here. They genuinely want the guy recalled, and he straight up lied to them. That doesn’t really make them gullible, just vulnerable to political manipulation, which is what happened here.\nFan of the Dems or not, you have to admit this is partially because they dropped the ball in this district and didn’t take the time to fight the candidate who was feeding their voters lies.", ">\n\nThis won't be forgotten. Even though he's not running for reelection, this could have downstream effects for how vetting occurs here going forward.\nAnd to make that point even clearer, the front runner for special election or 2024 on the GOP side would be Jack Martins. His record and credentials are well established. But he could lose simply because of the anger.\nBy the time the next census comes around, yes the district could revert to its newly questionable redder demographics from the recent redistricting. If not for Santos, this district could have been a GOP hold for a few years.", ">\n\nYeah I don't think they'll forget. Reps are only elected for two year terms, he'd be running for reelection in 2024 himself if he thought he could somehow pull it off.", ">\n\nHe won't, the Republicans are bought by the Russian mob and he's no exception.", ">\n\nAnd he'd turn on them in half a heartbeat if someone paid him enough.\nHe has no loyalty to anyone other than himself.", ">\n\nThe Russians will murder their family members. They're blackmailing them.", ">\n\nI know of the extensive corruption, oligarch interests, and dark money, but do we have evidence of violent threats and extortion?", ">\n\nYes. Exhibit A-Z what happens to Putin's rivals. Defenestration or polodium tea.", ">\n\n22% of third district residents are human garbage.", ">\n\nI think he should stay until next election when a Democrat can run against him.", ">\n\nThat's not a bad strategy. If he resigns he might get replaced with someone more effective. But if he sticks around, he'll be so busy dealing with this ongoing scandal that he'll be ineffective at politics.", ">\n\nExactly!", ">\n\nWe're delivering a 100k signature petition tomorrow to his office.\nThe local-only petition is ongoing.", ">\n\nWhat makes you think his office would care about that if recalls are not a thing in your state?", ">\n\nIt's not a state issue. There are no recalls in any state for members of Congress; because the Constitution doesn't allow for any.\nAnd in fact, specifies the opposite: that each house of Congress itself is the sole judge of the qualification of its membership. A house of Congress can vote to expel a member, but that's literally the only way to remove one from office against their will (other than death, which is presumably against their will too).", ">\n\nOk same question. Why would his office care about a petition?", ">\n\nI suspect he doesn't care at all about any petition.\nIf it has any impact, it'd be as a demonstration to other Congressional Republicans that the public, including a large share of Republican voters, want the guy gone and that they might be harming themselves by not getting rid of him.", ">\n\nMaybe they could have gone and voted. Or at least look into who they voted for.", ">\n\nMany of those same folks voted for this idiot. Amazing.", ">\n\nI hate low-information voters so much", ">\n\nIf only the people of that district would have had an opportunity to weigh in on his fitness for office prior to this. If only...", ">\n\nMuch of the news coverage of Santos is \"too little too late\". For crying out loud, a similar candidate in Ohio got exposed earlier by national media (JR Majewski, by the AP in September).", ">\n\nMaybe Newsday could have done some investigative journalism and broke some of these stories themselves before the election?", ">\n\nSeriously, Long Island’s Newspaper completely ignored the dirt dug up by North Shore Leader. They changed tack like NYPost only after things went from awful to abominable.", ">\n\n22% said not to resign? Wow", ">\n\nThere's a large, uncaring percentage of the general populace. Trump supporters, for example.", ">\n\nDid all 78% vote in the midterm?", ">\n\nThey do mention the voters in the article. Out of the people who voted for him only 2 out of every 3 said they wouldn’t vote for him again. Embarrassing really.\nThe ones who would still vote for him are probably a bunch of conspiracy theorists with room temperature IQ.", ">\n\nThe reality is likely that almost all of them would vote for him again in a general election. He'll lose a primary.", ">\n\nThey are the dummies that voted him in lol", ">\n\n“bUt ThE VoTeRs hAvE SpOkEn!”\n-probably some asshole Republican", ">\n\nMaybe they can vote for someone else next time but he was elected democratically by the same people so buckle up bukaroo", ">\n\nLike GOP has ever cared what a majority wants…", ">\n\nJust bs to try and justify their unpopular beliefs and ideas…", ">\n\nIf he had any decency he would resign. \nSo I'm betting he's not going to.", ">\n\nGo home Becky, no one wants you here.", ">\n\nWhat in the hot blue fuck is wrong with the other 22%", ">\n\nThat number should be 100% lol wtf", ">\n\nRemember how when ever a Dem is heavily favored in a race and reporters go to some small town diner and interviews the \"salt of the earth\" people about their views on like Hillary's jobs programs? How come these same reporters aren't crawling Santos's district and asking their opinions? Took months and the oublic gets this poll.", ">\n\nConstituents sound off about Rep.-elect Santos, who is under investigation\nEmbattled Santos silent as his constituents sound off\nFrustration Stirs on Long Island on Day of George Santos’ Inauguration\nConstituents make it clear at rally they don't want Congressman-elect George Santos seated\nSantos voters speak to CNN after his false claims were revealed\nThis is all just from before he was even sworn in, and easily available on Google, btw", ">\n\nIf only they had conducted this type of polling around November of last year.", ">\n\nHopefully the people that voted for him will realize they're not actually voter material and refrain from voting in the future.", ">\n\nDisturbingly low", ">\n\nResign? At the very least he should be removed, made to pay any expenses he's incurred, and do jail time for fraud.", ">\n\nRemoving him would be overturning the results of an election. I’m not an insurrectionist so I’m totally against this", ">\n\nI want to hear about the people who don’t want him to resign. \nThat 78% is a number from those polled. \nNot those that voted.", ">\n\n22% of Republicans don’t care as long as he votes the party line. Wild given that this isn’t Alabama.", ">\n\nWell well well, if it isn't the consequences of their own actions!", ">\n\nI can’t believe they voted for him in the first place.\nAlso, what was his opponent doing during the election? Seems like half of the dirt on Santos was just waiting in the open to be used.", ">\n\nSame MAGA number every time.", ">\n\nRepublican voters: I really hate this guy. Better vote for him again.", ">\n\nThese people would vote in a Martian from Mars Attacks, if they had an R next to their unpronounceable name.", ">\n\nLike Democrat's with in Pennsylvania by voting in someone with literal brain damage?", ">\n\nGOP already lost those voters by keeping up this farce! They are about to lose another seat.", ">\n\nNew York needs recall laws.", ">\n\n22% are idiots.", ">\n\nAt this point do we even know if his name is George Santos?", ">\n\nWell, I don’t want him to resign…\nI want for him to be in office in 2024, so that every Democrat running can point to him and say, “this is what Republicans stand for. This is the face of the Republican Party. Deception and lies.’\nMost people don’t really like that.\nTrump should have been enough, but apparently not.", ">\n\nWhy do they have to wait on him to do the right thing? Start a recall election effort.", ">\n\nIn other news: 22% of residents are republicans who vote consistently.", ">\n\nHow did this guy get elected anyway?\nWhere they just all sleeping?", ">\n\nWho are these other 22% that enjoy being lied to so much?", ">\n\nMAGA. They love being lied to." ]