Saturday afternoon, we were driving through the rural Shenandoah, reached the small town of Flint Hill, Virginia, population 209. There were hundreds of citizens out there for the No Kings rally. House Speaker Mike Johnson said that there would be hate America people all over with supporters of Antifa and pro-Hamas supporters.
I don’t know what he was thinking about because in Flint Hill and towns and cities across the country, these were people who were patriotic. They were waving American flags, had clever signs. They wanted to make America great again, like it was before Trump. know, millions around the country rallied peacefully, but with passion. Mike Johnson, who takes his orders from Donald Trump, just doesn’t get it.
Neither do the editors of the print edition of the New York Times, who somehow put the story back on page 23. It was a huge story, something like seven and a half million people. Now, one person missing from those rallies was George Santos, the self-styled Baruch College volleyball star, Wall Street executive, and descendant of Holocaust survivors. Except all that was a lie.
The former Republican congressman was sentenced to seven years in the slammer this year for stealing money, spending campaign funds on Botox and design fashions, illegally collecting unemployment benefits, and of course, always lying. So he went to jail in the spring.
So what happened this past week? His sentence was commuted by Donald Trump. And the president said, for a good reason, Santos has always been a Trump supporter.
Those good folks in Flint Hill might suggest that’s the way a king acts.
So disgusting! When law abiding citizens take their citizenry responsibilities seriously and don’t break laws, to witness this kind of lawlessness from our elected officials is damn disgusting! Then for us as adults to tell our children to live by the “golden rule”, only to watch their efforts to be totally scuttled by unscrupulous elected officials! America, we have got to do better, or we will end up with a seriously lawless society, that sees that “crime does pay” for a select minority!