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  Given that it’s Michael Flynn I can only believe that he was acting in more deliberate evil than just trying to “disrupt”.
context: From another outlet..
  “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I said I was `Jew-ish.'” >
  
  Holy shit that's an actual fucking quote. 
  Santos now says that he’s “clearly Catholic,” but claimed his grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism. “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was `Jew-ish.'” >
  
  
  Santos now says that he's "clearly Catholic"
  
  If there is a single shred of decency left in our society this asshole will be forced to quit. >
  
  What makes you think they wouldn't turn around and re-elect him in the special election? He's proven himself to be a pathological liar incapable of shame or decency, that's literally what conservatives clamor for. >
  
  The district he won was a D+10 district in New York City.  The reason he won is because he was able to attract voters from multiple demographics who believed his rhetoric that he was a gay, Jewish, Latino with a great college education who was an investment banker who wanted to bridge the ideological divide.
  He packaged a lie and managed to keep people from discovering it until he was already elected. >
  
  As someone living in this district I think the reason he won was largely because Zeldin was at the top of the ticket and drew heavy republican turnout while democrats in the district didn’t come out for Hochul. I doubt most voters knew anything about Santos other than him having an R next to his name. >
  
  I drive around northern LI sometimes and I saw a ton of Zeldin ( and Santos, in the GN area) lawn signs.  I know Democrats rarely use these signs but there was an overwhelming amount of campaign signs for Zeldin.  
  I thought GN is a Jewish area, with a growing Asian population.  Doesn't make sense that they would vote MAGA.  Then again I never thought Trump would be elected and here we are. >
  
  Yeah same here there were a ton of Zeldin and Santos signs everywhere but very little for Hochul or Zimmerman. It’s like the democrats weren’t even trying. I don’t think our district was even polled despite being a battleground. >
  
  You do this with any other job and you get fired. >
  
  Except when you're a judge on the Supreme Court. >
  
  Actual Rapist Brett Kavanaugh approves this message. >
  
  Clarence Thomas seconds the approval >
  
  So do Squee and PJ. >
  
  And Donkey Dong Doug >
  
  And Brocolli Rob >
  
  And boofin’ Moose >
  
  Lie.
  Cheat.
  Steal. >
  
  Kill. 
  Win. 
  (Everybody doin' it) >
  
  Always upvoting RTJ references >
  
  
  He told WABC, “I want to make sure that if I disappointed anyone by resume embellishment, I am sorry.”
  
  You can prove it by stepping down immediately. >
  
  Yeah that's a bit more than embellishment >
  
  Yeah embellishment is calling yourself a sanitation engineer when you're a garbage man. He didn't embellish. He lied. These were not lies of exaggeration, or lies of omission. These were outright fabrications not based in his reality in any way. Unfortunately, for the GOP, Trump has normalized just ignoring the critics when you get caught lying. I'm a little surprised Santos admitted it. McCarthy probably told him he had to if he wanted any future in the GOP. >
  
  Yep, I just posted basically the same thing you said.  These "toads" have watched many other politicians (like Trump) lie and get away with it for so long, that this is just normal now and they know there isn't much anyone can do about once they get elected. >
  
  And no shock or the Republicans are saying it’s no big deal they will still seat him in Congress.  Literally they are the party of no standards and they have absolutely no ethics. The question is really who sent him up to run? Who funded his campaign? >
  
  He won a democrat seat. They will work with/through him to get things done. He can't legally be removed for lying about all this stuff. >
  
  That fact incenses me. A lowly burger flipper would be fired on the spot once a lie was found out from their application or résumé, but someone in the nation's Highest Body of Government does it with impunity. 
  Are there no ethics rules that might apply? >
  
  Pretty much all of the ethics related procedure with regards to elected officials is based on recommendations to entities that could theoretically act.
  Our founding fathers established oaths and assumed elected officials would act in good faith from beginning to end, and further trusted that if such a person were to run for office that they surely wouldn't be elected into office. And then even if there were such a person in office that they'd likely be removed.....assuming that the entities that could act were acting in good faith.
  Over time politics became a battle between two teams and the evolution of technology and communication brought us to what we see today.
  Republicans proudly and by design act in bad faith at every turn in the name of power, dare Dems, Biden, or the DoJ to do something knowing that they won't or can't even if it's deserved. >
  
  Yeah but the founding fathers were also aristocrats (by comparison to the general population at the time) looking to strengthen their hold within the country and just not pay taxes to the king.
  The shortcomings of good faith on such positions of power is not unforeseeable, it’s by design. You’d be a complete idiot to weaken your own status and holdings.
  I dare you to try winning the next presidential elections. >
  
  The problem is we had a rogue president breaking every political norm, pissing on precedent, and delegitimizing the foundations of democracy when he didn't get his way. Aiding and abetting Christian Nationalism and White Supremacist ideals with the equivalent of state run media behind him in FOX. Turning the opposing media into the enemy of the people.   The other side of this is that his backing party knew it and curled in fear. They were scared of their own voters and still are.  The president had enough power over his voters that he could remove those in the same  party...and he did. Matt Ryan? Liz Cheney? 
  Lastly we have a system with almost zero accountability for politicians. George Santos should have already been ejected. This is another example of Republicans refusing to hold their guilty accountable for power. >
  
  They went after Obama’s birth certificate and THIS IS OK? Jeez >
  
  Where is the Santos birth certificate? >
  
  Given one outlet has called into question his citizenship based on what he allegedly told an old coworker, that's actually a reasonable question. >
  
  I assume he has to fill out something like an I-9 to collect his congressional paycheck right? >
  
  You're supposed to walk through a metal detector to enter Congress too, but that doesn't stop people like Boebert and MTG from just walking around it.  If he refuses to fill out the required forms, what is anyone going to do to him? >
  
  "misleading"
  "misrepresented"
  "embellished"
  I feel like there is some other word they should be using here ... >
  
  Indeed.
  Embellished is like saying you graduated college with honors when you had a 3.2 GPA.
  Dude just straight up lied about his whole damn life. >
  
  He lied and he continues to lie about his background. Someone like that is dangerous and should never be allowed any level of responsibility. >
  
  Any level of responsibility? This lying, untrustworthy, self-serving member of Congress about to get access to classified material despite being a guaranteed fail on even the most basic of background checks. >
  
  But totally believe all his campaign promises. 🤞 >
  
  I believe that he will be a (R)ubberstamp >
  
  The conservatives must be thrilled, he’s the perfect guy for them >
  
  Conservatives will say "It's okay because Democrats always do it" and never provide evidence to back their claim. >
  
  Gaslight  ⬅️   
  Obstruct
  Project >
  
  Maybe he was just supposed to be a disruptor. The people bank rolling him never expected him to be elected. 
  (of course, I think the same was true of Trump run of presidency.)