My god. This deliciously tasty excerpt:
In various campaign biographies, a résumé and interviews, Mr. Santos said he graduated from Baruch College in New York City, where he was a volleyball star on a championship team. He boasted of working at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and amassing personal wealth. He claimed to be descended from Holocaust refugees; that his mother was in the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks; and that he lost four employees in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.
None of those claims were true.
The real question is where tf were the journalists while Santos was running his campaign on these false claims?
Too busy playing horse race? Frantically trying to find something newsworthy about Hunter Biden’s laptop? Credulously glorifying some billionaire’s childish misconceptions?
Guess we’ll never know.
Why are you blaming journalists and not the GOP for not vetting their own fucking candidate.
¿Porque no los dos?
Have you seen most of the recent GOP candidates?
How do we know he isn’t above their threshold for corruption and dishonesty?
Their bar seems pretty low.
Pretty sure the republicans saw that fake resume and thought “fucking hell, we got president material here!”
I remember seeing articles about this stuff during his election. Republicans elected him anyway. That’s where we are now
where tf were the journalists while Santos was running his campaign on these false claims?
There aren’t enough journalists to go around. There are hundreds of congresspeople and there definitely aren’t hundreds of journalists covering random unimportant congresspeople.
People have voted with their dollars, saying they don’t care enough about vetting congresspeople before they’re elected to actually pay the salaries of journalists to do that.
Wow, so It’s almost as if expecting unregulated capitalism to solve this problem is not working? How could that be?
Oh well, I guess we just need to ignore the problem until it gets better.
Look the incredibly rich people who own the media wish that us peasants would care enough about politics to force them to cover these things properly but unfortunately all their journalists are busy writing opinion pieces about how we need to get back in the office, how we shouldn’t even try to make ethical purchasing decisions, and how great whatever makes them the most money this week is.
There’s a reason why there are so many memes about this guy:
How dare you sully the name of Sir Ulrich von Lichtenstein!
Well, go big or go home. I’m sure he met Jesus Christ personally and he knows where Excalibur is hidden.
But can he find Jimmy Hoffa’s body?
“Of course I know where the body is. He’s me!”
Jesus, after all the shit that has been uncovered about this fucker, 114 voted “No” to throw him out?
Investigate those 114 motherfuckers.
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Nah. They’re on record saying it sets a bad precedent to expel a member before they are convicted. I can only imagine the awful shit they’re hiding and are worried they could get expelled for.
Power protects power
George Santos is from tomato red Long Island. The seat is gonna stay red. Long Island was literally founded on racism (look up the history of Robert Moses)
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Nah bro, everyone on Long Island is a racist republican.
It’s not rocket science. The only publicly said reason it’s never happened before is they want to respect the decision of their constituents. Unofficially, nobody wanted to see themselves on that chopping block.
From a political scientist game theory point of view it’s possible that a majority faction of party A throws a minority faction of Party A on the chopping block and Party B obliges them because they think they can pick up those voters.
So yeah, a lot of resistance to actually unseating someone. For good and bad reasons.
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I can’t believe that they treated the first Congolese-American female PHD/Astronaut this way. Did she cure polio for nothing? You can’t do enough for some people.
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As with most things American the more likely explanation is we played ourselves
Nah he’s a piece of shit from my neck of the woods, he more than likely saw what Trump was able to get away with and said “I live in prime Trump moron land, I can pull this off.” So he lied about literally everything and almost got away with it lol I know 100 other people who would try the same thing.
Most of us long islanders are absolute garbage selfish greedy assholes lol
A Russian agent would be more subtle.
Which shade of Cheeto orange do you think he’d use? And how big are his hands and toupée?
This dude was a straight russian psy-op right?
Well, he claims to be gay, but the rest is spot-on
Hey everyone, so here’s the deal with Santos aka Kitara Ravache: he’s totally heading back to Brazil, probably to chill on a reality show. But the real game plan? He’s gonna make bank selling some sketchy stuff and, get this, he’s got a pretty good chance of landing a gig as a deputy back there
I refuse to believe the KGB has that much of a sense of humor.
Wow it finally happened. Now I wonder if they’ll take away his Grammy, 2 Oscar’s, MTV Movie Award, Nickelodeon Teen Choice Award, and induction into the Grand Ole Opry.
Wasn’t he also a winner of the Beijing Film Festival’s coveted Crying Monkey Award?
He never said any of those things. He just didn’t correct you when you said them.
I’m glad he’s finally focusing more on being the Green Ranger.
Now convict him of his crimes so he doesn’t have any of the other perks of Congress.
Seven counts of Wire Fraud. He’s donezo.
According to factcheck.org
Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at age 62 if they have completed at least five years of service.
He didn’t last a year…
You can’t just kick a Galactic Emperor out of Congress, WTF?
He’s not our Lord zaphod beeble brox, he’s one hoopy frood
We live in historic times. Sixth congressman ejected. First speaker voted out. I wonder what happened around all the other historic times?
I wonder what happened around all the other historic times?
You could learn all about it at your local library!
For now.
Cos 'Won’t someone think of the children!"
Halt citizen! This is a library! No thinking allowed!
The American Troubles: Part III
So there’s finally a line: “you must be this shit to get fired”. I expect a lot of people toeing up to it.
Goodbye to Rep. Evil Pee Wee Herman. He was often hilarious, but he had to go. 
You shouldn’t sully Pee Wee Herman’s good name with this man, lol.
I did say Evil Pee Wee Herman 
Probably can’t even grow a proper evil goatee.
Too much Botox
And he went home and masturbated and the world went on like nothing happened.
Seriously wtf, is this the actual end?
I’m sure he came, he’s dirty like that.
Which two Democrats voted against expulsion and which two voted Present?
According to NYT, Robert Scott of VA and Nikema Williams of GA voted No.
Al Green of TX and Jonathan Jackson of IL votes Present
Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), AOC (NY) and Dean Phillips (MN) have no vote recorded
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/01/us/politics/santos-expulsion-vote.html
Overall vote tally:
98% (206) of Democrats voted yes (to expell)
1% (2) voted No
1% (2) voted present
49% (105) of Republicans voted to expel
51% (112) of Republicans voted No
I’m betting AOC is because they’re both from NY and they’re very close geographically. Definitely seems like a conflict of interest
She voted to expel him last time. I’m assuming she just wasn’t there today.
Probably. They can’t all be there for every session
That’s a weak excuse.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/01/us/politics/santos-expulsion-vote.html
[No]
Nikema Williams
Robert C. Scott
[Present]
Jonathan Jackson
Al Green
Their no votes were because they wanted due process and judicial conviction before kicking him out.
“Unfortunately, George Santos won a free and fair election and elections have consequences. He also has not yet been convicted of a crime and the ethics investigation is ongoing. It would be dangerous to set the precedent of expelling a Member of Congress who has not been convicted of a crime. When and if Santos is convicted of these serious offenses an expulsion resolution would be more appropriate. Let’s be clear – we have current members who have been accused of even more egregious crimes while the Republican majority continues to look the other way.”
“The Ethics Committee is charged with investigating alleged wrongdoing by members of the U.S. House of Representatives. In the past, I have been appointed to serve on multiple investigative subcommittees, and I can personally attest to the nonpartisan, rigorous and deliberative process conducted by the committee. In fact, the committee is expected to soon release findings and recommendations on the Santos matter. These resolutions were rushed to the floor outside of that deliberative process. In 2002, I voted to expel Rep. James Traficant but that was after he was found guilty in a court of law. Absent any report or recommendation from the committee, or a criminal conviction, these resolutions are premature. For the sake of the institution, we must stop the cheapening of the censure and expulsion processes for political expediency and get back to the process that we already have in place to appropriately deal with these matters.”
Congressional expulsion is not a “innocent ‘til proven guilty” situation and has never intended to be. Expulsion and conviction are unrelated, and these people struggle with basic elementary school level civic concepts for their reasonings.
“We want to drag things out when people are blatantly lying because there is a sliver of a chance that it might set a precedent that clearly does not apply to the things we are worried about, like false accusations.”
If any of those processes took less time than the two year term of a Representative I might agree with them.
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The two year term is key here. Let’s say that instead of just being a conman and liar, he was accused of being put into office by Chinese or Russian spies. Should he be allowed to spend 2 years voting on things, attending confidential meetings, serving on committees, etc. while there’s an investigation about whether or not he’s an agent of a foreign government?
If he’s found innocent of everything, all that happens is that he lost his job. He could run again, and being kicked out over lies and rumours would be a good grievance to campaign on. But, the potential damage he could do during the time it takes to investigate, try and convict him is enough to say that he should be removed now.
Which is bullshit, because his open, verified non-criminal lies should have been enough to have him expelled from Congress.
I guess we know which side of the truth these particular so called politicians are on.
guess we know which side of the truth these particular so called politicians are on.
Lying is the default position for politicians. Save the “so called” label for the rare honest one
He needs jail time for his theft and fraud.
That’s still in the works. Congress doesn’t have control over that.
Poor guy, he’s never going to have good work references.
So just like any other government job, it was porn at work that does a person in.
