Eric Swalwell has been (at best) an adulterer and sexual predator throughout his career in Congress. The Democratic Party didn't care, until he became a problem in the California governor's race.
The CCP paid Fang Fang. Everyone else did it for free. How amazing it would be if 2 republicans won the jungle primary that democrats designed to never lose because their clown car is too big.
Tells you everything you need to know about them. They will elevate someone into power, knowing all the awful things they've done, and use those things to destroy that person when they are no longer useful. They are sleazy to the core.
Not even leftist tyranny survives leftist tyranny.
I always think about Torricelli in New Jersey who was losing to Tom Kean Jr.- how they replaced "the Torch" on the ballot at the last minute with ancient former Senator Frank Lautenberg even though the rules did not allow it and no one in the media said a thing.
And if it starts breathing, kill it again with the "that's old news" trope, and point out that they made reference to it at the time in a couple of page 8 stories with misleading headlines.
Sleazy doings are actually a feature, not a flaw in Democratland. Once they're known to insiders, the Party can exercise control over its politicians by stealth blackmail. This explains how terrible candidates like Swalwell, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris get nominated, and why the Democrats' "bench" has so little talent. Real leaders don't want to be someone's puppet.
Did it for free more than once. The nudes apparently preceeded the dick pics. These ladies made judicious use of the casting couch. But when the Party calls, you answer with charges "he got me drunk, twice." Seriously?
Correct, when the party calls you to do your duty, there is nothing that you won’t do, including laying down your life or killing for the party, that’s their religion.
Evil has no shame , no compassion, no self control, and certainly no ability at introspection.
Do people here really think a Republican will be elected Governor when not did they reelect but not vote to remove Grusome…
The lack of being able to see evil and then pontificating that the media does nothing responsible nor accountable says to me most here will be harmed inevitably by this aconfrontational aconflictual hellbent attitude to wait for a hero… and Trump AIN’T no hero…
And by the way, it is beyond overt and blatant that most Republican/ conservative/ right wing sites like Townhall and Red State and Hot Air & PJ media wouldn’t exist if they stopped talking about all the bullshit and scumbags of the left and the media and their ilk.
Do you think these sites could wake up and realize that if they stopped talking about all these despicable leftist shit bags, that the publicity would at least drop by 50% and these leftist losers wouldn’t have an audience so no one would give a shit what’s being shown on CNN, the View or MS Now, or what to read from politico or the New York Times or Washington Post, and who gives a shit what any of the Democrat politicians have to say.
But no, all these anti-left sites can only talk about the left, thanks for keeping it in our faces, assholes!
When the useful idiot is no longer useful. If he’s too “tarnished” to run for Governor, then he’s too tarnished to keep his current job in the House of Representatives. He needs to resign or be expelled if he refuses.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is already working on getting him expelled. Nancy Pelosi will fight his expulsion because she doesn't want to lose a Democrat House seat.
It seems to be explained by Haidt's work on the moral foundations and the difference between liberals and conservatives in how they process choices that support their behaviors.
Liberals also tend to be secular... reject religion and the associated base of morality.
Per Haidt's work, liberals tend to operate only on care-vs-harm. And when you consider that all humans are egocentric, meaning that they pursue their own self-interest as a first priority, and they also reject base religious morality, all that is left is selfish behavior. Because liberals will fixate on their own care vs harm as their primary driving motivation.
Conservatives more often give up their own selfish interests to rely on the fate of God's plan. They also process choice through a much more diverse set of moral filters that include: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, and Liberty/Oppression.
I have been working on this puzzle for decades... why my liberal family, friends and neighbors... people that have led a life similar to mine... have ideas and positions that I consider 180 degrees off from being good or righteous. But they claim I am wrong and mean and uncaring and stupid and a fascist and racist and misogynist and xenophobic and homophobic and transphobic (the list goes on)... when from my perspective they are f*cking irrational, stupid and frankly evil in that their ideas and positions end in massive socioeconomic decline and more harm to the overall human condition.
But this also explains the blatant hypocrisy that has become the hallmark of Democrat behavior. They pursue their own self-interest for power and money and status and they believe this is righteous behavior as it is their moral wiring to believe so.
The bottom line for me is that liberals as a species of human are flawed and thus hazardous in positions of power and influence, and yet their flaws also cause them to crave positions of power and influence. It seems God put liberals in the population to keep the rest of us on our toes to prevent self-destruction. We appear to have taken our eye off that ball and are paying the price with people like Eric Swalwell.
Frank: The disconnect that you and many are experiencing the is classically explained in "A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles" by Thomas Sowell. In this book he describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. Well worth reading.
Any Republican in the same situation would have been. Too bad the media leans so far left that they suspend their morality to ignore him having an affair with a Chinese spy. Or maybe they don't have any morals?
You gotta hand it to the Dems. They have dirt on all of their politicians and when they won’t do what the party wants that dirt becomes public to create an outcry that eventually makes said person do what they should have from the beginning. It’s been done plenty of times before. Those in charge run the party with an iron fist even if the whole lot of them should jump off a cliff. I’d imagine both parties have some form of it but the Dems are just so good at it. I also don’t think anyone wants Katie Porter.
Exactly, James! I told my husband that Katie Porter may be next. She has skeletons too and several(at least) less than stellar video clips of her behaving badly. Who are the Dems trying to elevate? Becerra? Steyer?
Steyer is a fraud who made money from fossil fuels while promoting green renewables. Tom Steyer owned and profited from oil, gas, and coal investments through his hedge fund, Farallon Capital, before pivoting to climate activism. While he pledged to divest from fossil fuels in 2012, reports indicate he held lingering investments in oil, gas, and fracking companies for years after. He's like a lesser Al Gore who profits off of the green scam. He is also a friend to Biden. He let the Biden family vacation at his Lake Tahoe estate a couple of years ago.
Thanks to CA's unique primary rules, Republicans and Democrats compete together. The 2 with the most number of votes are the choices in the general election. It could be 2 Democrats or 2 Republicans or one of each. Steyer probably won't be one of the 2 candidates.
Completely agree that this is not, Troll Hunter, something we should ever vote for again. I received one of those political texts from his campaign yesterday. One of the things listed as an accomplishment was that he got COVID shots into the arms of millions of Americans at no cost to the patients. What he lists as a good thing, I consider to be disqualifying. He obviously views the role of government in a way that is completely different than how I view it.
yeah, it's no accident that all these perverts get recruited. very easy to control and drop when inconvenient.
ironically they seemed to lose control of biden towards the end and essentially had to kidnap him and "quarantine" him long enough to type out a hastily written note dropping out of the race. they probably convinced him he wrote it the next day even though the tone sounded nothing like him.
I can't imagine huge numbers of women in CA voting for Katie Porter. Most working women have encountered someone nasty like her. And surely men find her detestable. However, even if few people vote for her, she could still "win". It's California, after all.
I’m wondering if she might be next in the Democrats attempt to consolidate the pool so that other candidates will receive more votes, thereby blocking the Republican attempt at having two candidates who win the jungle primary.
That may be the case! Overall, virtually every one of the Dem candidates is unimpressive at best. But maybe it doesn't matter because the "machine" runs California, especially the Teacher's Union.
Good point, CMCM. The former president of the teachers union, Tony Thurmond is a candidate. Correct me if I’m mistaken. Teachers union was number one donor to Newsom, followed by the union representing prison guards, I think…
Swallwell should have been removed from office after sleeping with a Chinese spy, but clearly no one cares about that.
My husband has always said that if a man can break his marriage vows, how can we trust him in public office? Adultery is almost always ignored ... until it's politically expedient not to ignore it.
As Mollie Hemmingway says: no matter how much you hate regime media, its not enough. These people are deeply corrupt and soulless. Whoever says both parties are as bad is just wrong. Republicans are at least sane.
Remember when Swalwell went after Justice Kavanaugh for sex crimes on the word of an alcoholic woman with mental illness issues who couldn't even name a date or place that she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh?
With everyone screaming Epstein, Epstein, release the files. Now this with Swalwell. How about we start screaming release the congressional records tied to the slush fund that protects the Congress from all their sexual escapades. We could probably replace 1/3 of the Congress.
If only he had stuck to DC politics i assume the Congressional Sex Slush Fund would have just paid off all accusers and the voters wouldn't be allowed to know where the money went.
What is IT with CA politicians and the word SMARMY. Both Newscum and Swalwell exude it! Not surprising in the least to see the DEM party eat their own when no longer useful, but no one cares in this case as scummy as Swalwell has always come off in persona. Let's not forget about that TAXPAYER funded slush fund which still exists in the swamp used for covering legal fees to contain swamp sexual exploits which are common. WHY is that slush fund STILL in existence!
It seems everything the Dems—the high and the low—do comes down to either getting more votes/staying in power or virtue signaling, no matter how many people get hurt, killed, prosecuted, robbed, etc, in the process. So Swalwell was good to go until he became a threat to retaining California...
For the record, Gonzales is a Republican but the rest are all Ds. Alex mentioned Matt Gaetz but I do not think Gaetz was married at the time of his questionable relationship. I say questionable because while she was young, I do not think she was underage at the time of the relationship or any potential consummation. Creepy, yes, but illegal no.
“ . . . drooling veterans of the War of 1812 or the Real Horndogs of Capitol Hill.” Alex, you could retire on this one. But I hope you won’t.
WHO in their right mind would have sex with him, willingly? You would have to shower him beforehand he always looks so dirty.
The CCP paid Fang Fang. Everyone else did it for free. How amazing it would be if 2 republicans won the jungle primary that democrats designed to never lose because their clown car is too big.
Tells you everything you need to know about them. They will elevate someone into power, knowing all the awful things they've done, and use those things to destroy that person when they are no longer useful. They are sleazy to the core.
Not even leftist tyranny survives leftist tyranny.
I always think about Torricelli in New Jersey who was losing to Tom Kean Jr.- how they replaced "the Torch" on the ballot at the last minute with ancient former Senator Frank Lautenberg even though the rules did not allow it and no one in the media said a thing.
The media will dogedly cover a story...with a pillow until it stops moving...
And if it starts breathing, kill it again with the "that's old news" trope, and point out that they made reference to it at the time in a couple of page 8 stories with misleading headlines.
!!!!!!!!
ANOTHER Great Quote of The Century!
Good one!
So democrats have been destroying democracy for decades!
At least since the Woodrow Wilson admininstration.
Wow!
Sleazy doings are actually a feature, not a flaw in Democratland. Once they're known to insiders, the Party can exercise control over its politicians by stealth blackmail. This explains how terrible candidates like Swalwell, Joe Biden, and Kamala Harris get nominated, and why the Democrats' "bench" has so little talent. Real leaders don't want to be someone's puppet.
Sounds kind of like a Mob tactic. Oh, wait...
Great analysis, Ryan. Democrats love blackmail.
This has got to be The Quote of the Century: "Not even leftist tyranny survives leftist tyranny." 🤭😆🤣👏
If a Republican is elected, the recall begins the same day.
Alex, If “bootlicker” doesn’t work, you can always go with lickspittle jocksniffer.
Did it for free more than once. The nudes apparently preceeded the dick pics. These ladies made judicious use of the casting couch. But when the Party calls, you answer with charges "he got me drunk, twice." Seriously?
Correct, when the party calls you to do your duty, there is nothing that you won’t do, including laying down your life or killing for the party, that’s their religion.
"Ladies"??! Females is a better description.
Evil has no shame , no compassion, no self control, and certainly no ability at introspection.
Do people here really think a Republican will be elected Governor when not did they reelect but not vote to remove Grusome…
The lack of being able to see evil and then pontificating that the media does nothing responsible nor accountable says to me most here will be harmed inevitably by this aconfrontational aconflictual hellbent attitude to wait for a hero… and Trump AIN’T no hero…
Commiefornia wil never elect a republican Governor. Because that would take an actual honest election. Haven’t seen one of those for about 20 years.
Your writing sucks. You AIN'T no writer.
Fuck you too.
Simple and direct, jerkoff…
And by the way, it is beyond overt and blatant that most Republican/ conservative/ right wing sites like Townhall and Red State and Hot Air & PJ media wouldn’t exist if they stopped talking about all the bullshit and scumbags of the left and the media and their ilk.
Do you think these sites could wake up and realize that if they stopped talking about all these despicable leftist shit bags, that the publicity would at least drop by 50% and these leftist losers wouldn’t have an audience so no one would give a shit what’s being shown on CNN, the View or MS Now, or what to read from politico or the New York Times or Washington Post, and who gives a shit what any of the Democrat politicians have to say.
But no, all these anti-left sites can only talk about the left, thanks for keeping it in our faces, assholes!
For real. Swalwell is a PIG. Always has been. The ick factor is off the charts.
He is still pissed for not getting an introduction to Epstein!
oily
leaves a grease slick in his wake
ick ick ick
Wait...I thought that was Governor Newscum who was leaving that grease slick! I think Swalwell leaves a slimy trail like a snail.
These are finer points you are making so yes, I acknowledge their merit:
Newscum is straight up industrial strength can't-miss-it greasy
Snails leave kind of a gross disgusting snot like slime which is Swalwellian
oleaginous
My other fave Substacker, Jeff Childers, uses that term ALL THE TIME to describe greasy Gavin. It's perfect.
Jeff is awesome!
Dood is beyond talented. If I ever need an attorney, I'm hiring him! (Yep, I'm in Florida.) And can he WRITE!!
I live in Tampa and met him last year at an event where Dr. Lapado was the keynote speaker.
He might be a great lawyer but I think he missed his calling in stand up comedy
He's a giant ashtray with a face
That seems to be the point. The sex wasn’t willing.
Power is said to be a powerful aphrodisiac for some women.
When the useful idiot is no longer useful. If he’s too “tarnished” to run for Governor, then he’s too tarnished to keep his current job in the House of Representatives. He needs to resign or be expelled if he refuses.
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna is already working on getting him expelled. Nancy Pelosi will fight his expulsion because she doesn't want to lose a Democrat House seat.
Update: Swalwell resigned from Congress. No Democrat fought for him.
It seems to be explained by Haidt's work on the moral foundations and the difference between liberals and conservatives in how they process choices that support their behaviors.
Liberals also tend to be secular... reject religion and the associated base of morality.
Per Haidt's work, liberals tend to operate only on care-vs-harm. And when you consider that all humans are egocentric, meaning that they pursue their own self-interest as a first priority, and they also reject base religious morality, all that is left is selfish behavior. Because liberals will fixate on their own care vs harm as their primary driving motivation.
Conservatives more often give up their own selfish interests to rely on the fate of God's plan. They also process choice through a much more diverse set of moral filters that include: Care/Harm, Fairness/Cheating, Loyalty/Betrayal, Authority/Subversion, Sanctity/Degradation, and Liberty/Oppression.
I have been working on this puzzle for decades... why my liberal family, friends and neighbors... people that have led a life similar to mine... have ideas and positions that I consider 180 degrees off from being good or righteous. But they claim I am wrong and mean and uncaring and stupid and a fascist and racist and misogynist and xenophobic and homophobic and transphobic (the list goes on)... when from my perspective they are f*cking irrational, stupid and frankly evil in that their ideas and positions end in massive socioeconomic decline and more harm to the overall human condition.
But this also explains the blatant hypocrisy that has become the hallmark of Democrat behavior. They pursue their own self-interest for power and money and status and they believe this is righteous behavior as it is their moral wiring to believe so.
The bottom line for me is that liberals as a species of human are flawed and thus hazardous in positions of power and influence, and yet their flaws also cause them to crave positions of power and influence. It seems God put liberals in the population to keep the rest of us on our toes to prevent self-destruction. We appear to have taken our eye off that ball and are paying the price with people like Eric Swalwell.
Frank: The disconnect that you and many are experiencing the is classically explained in "A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles" by Thomas Sowell. In this book he describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. Well worth reading.
Great! I'll get a copy, thank you so much!
He should have been tossed when the "relationship" with the Chinese spy became known.
Any Republican in the same situation would have been. Too bad the media leans so far left that they suspend their morality to ignore him having an affair with a Chinese spy. Or maybe they don't have any morals?
The media largely ignored Dianne Feinstein's Chinese spy driver of 20 years!
I remember.
You gotta hand it to the Dems. They have dirt on all of their politicians and when they won’t do what the party wants that dirt becomes public to create an outcry that eventually makes said person do what they should have from the beginning. It’s been done plenty of times before. Those in charge run the party with an iron fist even if the whole lot of them should jump off a cliff. I’d imagine both parties have some form of it but the Dems are just so good at it. I also don’t think anyone wants Katie Porter.
Exactly, James! I told my husband that Katie Porter may be next. She has skeletons too and several(at least) less than stellar video clips of her behaving badly. Who are the Dems trying to elevate? Becerra? Steyer?
Probably Steyer
Steyer is a fraud who made money from fossil fuels while promoting green renewables. Tom Steyer owned and profited from oil, gas, and coal investments through his hedge fund, Farallon Capital, before pivoting to climate activism. While he pledged to divest from fossil fuels in 2012, reports indicate he held lingering investments in oil, gas, and fracking companies for years after. He's like a lesser Al Gore who profits off of the green scam. He is also a friend to Biden. He let the Biden family vacation at his Lake Tahoe estate a couple of years ago.
A “lesser Al Gore”, now that’s a low I didn’t know existed. CA doesn’t need another fraud in the Gov. mansion.
Thanks to CA's unique primary rules, Republicans and Democrats compete together. The 2 with the most number of votes are the choices in the general election. It could be 2 Democrats or 2 Republicans or one of each. Steyer probably won't be one of the 2 candidates.
Steyer is flooding the California airways and TV with his ads, which largely just attack Trump. He comes across as an idiot.
That would be my assessment of him.
Sounds like the perfect candidate!
Stayer is an environmental lunatic. Even though he made him money on the backs of the oil industry.
I think you may be right.
Becerra will force all to submit to untested dangerous mRNA injections come the next "plandemic." Is that something we should be voting for?
Completely agree that this is not, Troll Hunter, something we should ever vote for again. I received one of those political texts from his campaign yesterday. One of the things listed as an accomplishment was that he got COVID shots into the arms of millions of Americans at no cost to the patients. What he lists as a good thing, I consider to be disqualifying. He obviously views the role of government in a way that is completely different than how I view it.
yeah, it's no accident that all these perverts get recruited. very easy to control and drop when inconvenient.
ironically they seemed to lose control of biden towards the end and essentially had to kidnap him and "quarantine" him long enough to type out a hastily written note dropping out of the race. they probably convinced him he wrote it the next day even though the tone sounded nothing like him.
I can't imagine huge numbers of women in CA voting for Katie Porter. Most working women have encountered someone nasty like her. And surely men find her detestable. However, even if few people vote for her, she could still "win". It's California, after all.
I’m wondering if she might be next in the Democrats attempt to consolidate the pool so that other candidates will receive more votes, thereby blocking the Republican attempt at having two candidates who win the jungle primary.
That may be the case! Overall, virtually every one of the Dem candidates is unimpressive at best. But maybe it doesn't matter because the "machine" runs California, especially the Teacher's Union.
Good point, CMCM. The former president of the teachers union, Tony Thurmond is a candidate. Correct me if I’m mistaken. Teachers union was number one donor to Newsom, followed by the union representing prison guards, I think…
Swallwell should have been removed from office after sleeping with a Chinese spy, but clearly no one cares about that.
My husband has always said that if a man can break his marriage vows, how can we trust him in public office? Adultery is almost always ignored ... until it's politically expedient not to ignore it.
The congressional pay off list to alleged victims needs to be made public. They were paid off with our money.
And it must be done away with. These people can use their OWN money to defend themselves. Just the fact that there IS a fund for this is disgusting.
As Mollie Hemmingway says: no matter how much you hate regime media, its not enough. These people are deeply corrupt and soulless. Whoever says both parties are as bad is just wrong. Republicans are at least sane.
Dang Karmas a bitch. The little weasel is getting his just dessert 🥴
Remember when Swalwell went after Justice Kavanaugh for sex crimes on the word of an alcoholic woman with mental illness issues who couldn't even name a date or place that she was sexually assaulted by Kavanaugh?
Yes, and I can't tell you how much I relish and enjoy watching his fall from Democrat grace. He so so SO deserves this.
With everyone screaming Epstein, Epstein, release the files. Now this with Swalwell. How about we start screaming release the congressional records tied to the slush fund that protects the Congress from all their sexual escapades. We could probably replace 1/3 of the Congress.
Wouldn’t.that be wonderful? Start with the “ lifers” pleeze…
Great idea. How do we get media to start talking about that?
How do we get MSN to report this? Just tell them the list contains mostly republicans.
Lisa it would probably take a full court press from the citizentry since Nancy Mace and Anna Paulina Luna could not get anywhere with legislation.
If only he had stuck to DC politics i assume the Congressional Sex Slush Fund would have just paid off all accusers and the voters wouldn't be allowed to know where the money went.
What is IT with CA politicians and the word SMARMY. Both Newscum and Swalwell exude it! Not surprising in the least to see the DEM party eat their own when no longer useful, but no one cares in this case as scummy as Swalwell has always come off in persona. Let's not forget about that TAXPAYER funded slush fund which still exists in the swamp used for covering legal fees to contain swamp sexual exploits which are common. WHY is that slush fund STILL in existence!
Right after Newscum and Swalwell is Adam Schiff...he's in the smarmy category too, top contender.
It seems everything the Dems—the high and the low—do comes down to either getting more votes/staying in power or virtue signaling, no matter how many people get hurt, killed, prosecuted, robbed, etc, in the process. So Swalwell was good to go until he became a threat to retaining California...
Until she files charges, it never happened.
Alex: Here are the Democrats:
Fred Richmond (New York): 1982
Brock Adams (Washington): 1993
Mel Reynolds (Illinois): 1995
Gary Condit (California): 2003
Eric Massa (New York): 2010
David Wu (Oregon): 2011
Anthony Weiner (New York): 2011
John Conyers (Michigan): 2017
Al Franken (Minnesota): 2018
Ruben Kihuen (Nevada): 2019
Tony Gonzales (Texas): 2026
Eric Swalwell (California): 2026
For the record, Gonzales is a Republican but the rest are all Ds. Alex mentioned Matt Gaetz but I do not think Gaetz was married at the time of his questionable relationship. I say questionable because while she was young, I do not think she was underage at the time of the relationship or any potential consummation. Creepy, yes, but illegal no.
I am shocked, shocked, that the holier than thou Swalwell has behaved badly.