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Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Public reports tonight say the former aide to Congressman Tony Gonzales, who took her own life last year, had been having an affair with Gonzales, according to the San Antonio Express News. Regina Santos-Aviles died in September after setting herself on fire. The Express News reports a former staffer in Congressman Gonzales' district office who worked closely with Santos-Aviles, says she told him they had an affair in 2024, and that she went into a depression.

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Another awful calamity coming out of Texas.

Texas, the gift that keeps on giving: Capital punishment, Christian proselytizing in the classrooms, rampant firearm deaths, rabid Islamophobia, petro-chemical disasters, the Waco cult disaster, and George "Dubya" Bush.

Plus the Lone Star State inflicts two good-for-nothing Republican US Senators on the rest of us every six years like precision clockwork.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 03:40 AM | Reply

And how many youngsters died in that terrible flood last year because Texas Republicans had an aversion to FEMA?

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-18 03:44 AM | Reply

I think that at this point, it's a safe assumption that anyone running for office as a Republican is a giant POS until proven otherwise.

How do the GOP voters keep falling for these people's lies and why do they keep electing them after they've been uncovered?

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 09:47 AM | Reply

-I think that at this point, it's a safe assumption that anyone running for office as a Republican is a giant POS until proven otherwise.

Nobody is going to bother to prove to you or anyone else they aren't a POS.

There are thousands of republicans in State houses, governor mansions, and in DC.

They'll just to live with your disappointment in them for being a republican.

Perhaps this doesn't make sense to you but the vast majority of folks who choose to serve in their state legislature or even in DC have roots, live, work, have families, friends, business interests, etc...inside the region/district they represent. It's where they want to be and if they are going to choose to serve, it has to be the district where they are standing in right now.

If you understand that, then you'll understand that those who choose to serve have to live with the political leaning of that area. IOW, if you want to get elected, you better know which party you'll be in. You seem to think those folks get to choose which party they can be in and expect to win. Or, if they really want to serve, they should just move to an area that better fits their political ideology. No fucking way.

I realize this place is a safe space for some of you to spew such absurd drama and hyperbole........but geez.

#4 | Posted by eberly at 2026-02-18 10:44 AM | Reply

"I think that at this point, it's a safe assumption that anyone running for office as a Republican is a giant POS until proven otherwise'

Sounds wise.

In my part of the world, the GOP still suckles at Trump's teat.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-18 11:23 AM | Reply

They'll just to live with your disappointment in them for being a republican.

The Republican part only comes in to play in that they claim to be righteous and moral and claim that basis for their governance ideals.

That's the only reason them actually being pieces of s*&^ is important.

Again, for probably the millionth time, if they didn't make an issue of it there wouldn't be an issue with this.

But you know that and decided that ebitcherly was gonna be the one to show up today anyway.

If you understand that, then you'll understand that those who choose to serve have to live with the political leaning of that area. IOW, if you want to get elected, you better know which party you'll be in. You seem to think those folks get to choose which party they can be in and expect to win. Or, if they really want to serve, they should just move to an area that better fits their political ideology. No fucking way.

That's a whole lot of obvious statements to get around to my point about the morally vacuous people who vote for this trash (often times after stuff like this is known about them) while still acting as if going to church once a week makes a damn bit of difference on their lack of morals and values.

#6 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 12:32 PM | Reply

Basically, what it boils down to is there are a ton of people who are absolute s*&^ and the appear to concentrate more heavily in the GOP than anywhere else.

Why? Because nobody questions hollow claims of virtue and righteousness cuz Jeebus because it's the norm in that cesspool.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2026-02-18 12:34 PM | Reply

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