Like all of you I had not heard of George Santos until the scandals came out. He’s a gay non-white Republican from New York. Seems legit.
The picture above is him flashing the ‘white power’ hand sign at his swearing in and that’s when I finally decided
“Okay, yeah, this is 100% a sabotage conspiracy.”
If you have followed his situation at all you know he made like $55,000 per year until two years ago and then suddenly he ran for congress and donated $700,000 to his own campaign.
This is clearly money laundering. Wealthy donors gave him money for doing ‘work’ and then he was expected to use that money to fund his campaign. It’s a good trick because he can donate unlimited amounts of his ‘own money’ to his campaign AND because of preferential treatment for campaign funds over Super PACs, the rate his campaign pays for advertising is literally 1/10th what a Super PAC would have to pay for the same advertising.
Bottom line is that wealthy donors absolutely funded this guy. They paid him huge amounts of cash for ‘services’ knowing he would use this money to fund his own campaign and get a 10x advantage in terms of advertising dollars.
So now we need to do some thinking. Are there wealthy Republican donors in New York? Probably. Are they totally reckless imbeciles? No. I mean they just could not be. Am I really supposed to believe that people with millions of spare dollars to spend on a random House race in New York are not vetting the candidates they fund at all? Because that is the type of vetting required to come up with George Santos: zero vetting.
Now it’s not surprising George Santos’s primary challenger (if he had one) did zero opposition research. It’s a Republican primary in New York. It’s weird that anyone even bothers to run as a Republican.
Do you see where I’m going with this? The wealthy donors who are most likely to aggressively fund a total fraud like George Santos to run as a Republican in New York are Democrats. And there’s a shitload of them and they have a shitload of money and they are smart and they don’t fuck around.
Santos is gay. They’ve got dirt on him. Probably some sex shit. So now we are here. His job is to act absurd so the media can smear Republicans.
Before you say this is an insane theory, this is the exact thing I would do if I had $2 million spare dollars to throw at a House race. Call me a bad person but I would do exactly this.
Now I’m not really 100% on this. It’s possible that there really are extremely wealthy Republican donors in New York who used all of the resources they had at hand to come up with George Santos. BUT…….if that is the case we will find out exactly who those donors are and the money laundering scheme they ran will be the crime of the century. Front page of the New York Times.
But if I’m right, you will never find out who the wealthy donors are who funded George Santos. Because they are Democrats. I’m betting we never find out who funded him.
“It’s a Republican primary in New York. It’s weird that anyone even bothers to run as a Republican.”??? I think living in Seattle’s CHOP zone too long has addled your brain. 11 of NY’s 26 congresspersons are republicans, 11! I know several and they are party hacks but republicans none the less. Fyi my iphone tried correcting “living” to “loving” in the above sentence, so maybe I’m the problem here.
I keep trying to think of a good analogy for politics but everything I come up with is to disgusting to share.