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  This man is a literal conman from Brazil. He should be nowhere near American politics, the man is a self serving, utterly corrupt shit. He’s been caught in this massive web of lies over some of the most basic things already and he’s only just received his new position. The guys a solid gold bullshit artist.
context: I didn't say I was Jewish, I said I was jew-ish. Duh >
  
  Holy shit, that's an actual quote.
  (minus the "Duh") >
  
  Damn it, how is SNL supposed to make fun of this?!  There's no way to make that quote any more absurd than it already is! >
  
  I do want to see Rick Moranis play him. >
  
  Yes!!! >
  
  George Santos resume is total fabrication. He is a complete and utter fraud — his whole life story made up.
  He should resign before he starts. Instead  he will have two years to prove his worth, because  the GOP would never call for a vote to expel a fraud from their group. >
  
  they know if they did that they'd all have to go for fraud >
  
  I'm starting to think this guy might be a legendary troll. >
  
  Voters in that district must be suckers. If i were to start a fonzi scam i would be opemning up phonebook in that district.
  Then again, in Texas, the attorney general is finalcial fraudster who is under the indictment but were reelected with wide margin... >
  
  Fonzi scam?  Do you mean ponzi scheme? LOL >
  
  Ehhhh! Happy days >
  
  Republicans will allow this as they desperately need his seat in the House.  By allowing it they are teaching every American child that it is okay to lie providing the lie is needed by those politicians profiting from the lie.  In other words: character, dignity, honesty, and even God can be thrown away because of political need.
  Is this what you want guiding our country?  Oh, btw, he admitted lying to gain a congressional seat.  A seat that is paid for by the American taxpayers.  Would someone in his district please take him to court for fraud?  Deliberately lying to gain profit is fraud.  You'd have one hellova case. >
  
  Lying is the Republican way of life, along with hating anyone who isn't just like them. >
  
  Now now, it's fear disguised with hate and vitriol. Good Christians like them don't hate anyone right? Love the sinner hate the sin    /s >
  
  Santos lied about working for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, now saying he worked for a company that did business with those companies. By that logic, Starbucks baristas could say they worked for Goldman as well since odds are good that a banker has ordered a coffee at some point. >
  
  I’m a senior receiving social security so I guess you can say that I work for the government. >
  
  Only the best people. >
  
  I got $250 on "Takes a bunch of taxpayer money and flees the country" >
  
  Gonna be hard to do when Brazil wants him for fraud. >
  
  Anyone assuming we now have the truth from him is pretty foolish. I guarantee some of his subsequent explanations are also filled with lies and would not be surprised that there are some serious issues, if not crimes, in his financial dealings mention in the article. >
  
  Besides being wanted in Brazil on a charge of embezzlement, this guy also lied to his family's Catholic priest saying the family was not able to pay for his mother's funeral. He accepted cash collected during a memorial mass that went directly from the priest to Santos, a "substantial amount" according to the priest. 
  He is nothing but a con artist who decided to "go big or go home." The Republican party is truly a haven for crooks and fraudsters. >
  
  So, what you're saying is this is the launch of his presidential campaign. >
  
  Can he get recalled? >
  
  Sadly there’s no method in place to recall a US congressman. >
  
  Why is there even any hesitation at arresting this clown for fraud?  Defrauding an entire congressional district must be some sort of actionable crime, right? >
  
  It is not, unfortunately, because our entire political system is based on a fantastical idea that everyone will be honest and play fair. >
  
  
  our entire political system is based on a fantastical idea that everyone will be honest and play fair
  
  And yet at the same time, we apparently can’t hold politicians accountable for silly little things like blatant fraud, because “well, they all lie, so you’d have to arrest all of them” gotta love that doublespeak 🙄 >
  
  The idea is that voters are supposed to hold them accountable. Which, in a perfect world, would probably work...we just don't live in that world.     
  In the real world we have people like Sarah Huckabee-Sanders, who stood in front of a podium and brazenly lied to the country on a daily basis for her entire tenure as Trump's press secretary, being elected as governor of Arkansas. And people like George Santos, who apparently lies so much that we should probably make sure that his actual name is even what he says it is.    
  I don't think we can hold Republicans accountable for anything because the people who elect them don't even care if they lie, cheat, or steal, as long as it's their team that's doing it. >
  
  Right. I guess my thing is, maybe it’s time to tailor our approach to the real world that we actually live in, not the idealistic one that people wish existed. 
  Because really? We’re seriously at the point where someone can just blatantly lie about their entire life, hide their criminal history from another country (where the case is still open), get elected to Congress, and still be allowed to take the seat, and there’s no recourse other than hoping and praying that the people who live in that seat see anything wrong with it? When this guy likely committed several crimes in the process (lying on campaign disclosure forms, for starters). What kind of country are we running here? 
  And then there’s the unspoken truth that if he were a Democrat, he would have been forced to resign by now, investigations would be pending, etc. >
  
  So, he's Trump with a slightly lower net-worth. >
  
  I wanted to say that at least Trump never deceitfully used a genocide to make himself look like a victim AND an expert on rejecting socialism (like this guy's statement that "my grandparents escaped the Holocaust, so these socialist regimes don't work").
  But then I remembered how he commented on his tower being the tallest building in NYC now, on the literal day of the 9/11 attacks. Now I'm thinking George Santos is rather wholesome by comparison. >
  
  Holocaust deniers love saying "well the nazis were socialists!" just because it was in the name, meanwhile it was absolutely not in practice. >
  
  Poor people who knock socialism don’t know what socialism is >
  
  If they found out, they might want it.  Can't have that, now can we? >
  
  Yeah, when Fox News tells the idiots that socialism is the devil….. >
  
  He is highly educated-ish with an exemplary career-ish job in finance. He opened a animal rescue-ish charity. He's openly gay-ish . OMG, how ish-y can this scum be and remain as an elected rep-ish official-ish. >
  
  Everything he says is bull-ish >
  
  Remember, Democrats called out most of these lies prior to the election, and the media couldn't be bothered to report on them.