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  Us = fired
  Them = vote on laws
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  “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.) >
  
  Given that it’s Michael Flynn I can only believe that he was acting in more deliberate evil than just trying to “disrupt”. >
  
  So if you're a constituent in his district, can you sue this guy for disenfranchising you or something? He literally pretended to be a different person in order to get elected. >
  
  It's a wealthy district, there's probably plenty of lawyers and plenty of people who could afford to sue for the point of it. But if they are all Rs that voted for him, they're likely to just be happy they got the seat. >
  
  They’re definitely not all Rs. So we’ll see! >
  
  I'm familiar with Long Island and there are a lot of very litigious people lol. The Ds should be blowing this info up everywhere til someone does something about it. Can the Dem candidate sue? File a challenge or something? 
  It's total bs, just like the bs 3rd party candidate they ran in FL(?) with the same last name, against the legit D candidate. And he lost by only a small amount of votes that went to the other candidate most likely through confusion, just as they intended, clearly the D would have won without that stunt. But nothing serious is being done about it. They should be able to be recalled in some way, and not just by their own party! >
  
  As tight as the House seat count is for Speaker votes, it would be malpractice not to turn this into a media circus. The only reason it may not be is because of the holiday break. But the Democrats should force Republicans to wear this around their neck. Either Republicans have to force him out and make the vote for speaker harder or illustrate clearly in the media cycle that Kevin McCarthy is depending on a literal fraud con man to help him get the gavel. >
  
  I'm sure Republicans will just strip any committee assignments but leave him in. 
  The local GOP leader is a lot more pissed then someone like McCarthy. NY republicans had a great year and now this guy is fucking up there goodwill, so we might see some action come up from the bottom. >
  
  He committed fraud against HIS OWN CONSTITUENTS and still thinks he can take office. It's absurd. He should be in handcuffs.
  I'm in his district and mad as hell about this idiot. This is a crime against ME. Why are they letting this farce go on? He cannot get away with this. >
  
  What mechanism is there to stop it?
  We don't have recalls for congresssional representatives. >
  
  There's a decent chance that he lied about being an American citizen. If so then he cannot take office. Other than that, it's just public pressure and his own shame, I think. >
  
  I hope the follow up was about why he falsely claimed his family were holocaust survivors who fled to brazil >
  
  So no college degree and lies about it. Jesus dude will Republicans ever get outraged about their candidates pulling the wool over their eyes? >
  
  No college degree. Pssh like that matters. Dude didn't even graduate high school. >
  
  Ikr look how far Lauren Boebert got >
  
  Can you imagine what republicans would say/do if dems did any of this shit? Unbelievable. Well actually it's all becoming believable politics is so fucked up. >
  
  
  Can you imagine what republicans would say/do if dems did any of this shit? Unbelievable.
  
  They complained that Dr. Jill Biden was calling herself a doctor because she earned a doctorate but wasn't a "doctor" >
  
  I expect they will bring this back up now and try to make it the same >
  
  “Both sides”. >
  
  Could he be impeached or recalled. If the Republicans cared about images, they would force him out! >
  
  McCarthy may not have the votes to be speaker without him. >
  
  McCarthy will definitely let him be seated.   He needs his vote for speakership. >
  
  It's actually pretty small potatoes compared to all the other soul-selling he's done over the past 6 years. >
  
  But he won’t resign. What a piece of shit this guy is. Fits right in with the GOP. I hope he is annoyed every single fucking day by this stuff. >
  
  It's amazing what you can accomplish with no morals. >
  
  He could be a Russian spy for all anyone knows. >
  
  Most of his money comes from a PAC associated with Michael Flynn so he’s definitely a Russian spy but that just means he fits in with the rest of the GOP >
  
  He likely has no money. According to his bio he’s embezzled and ripped people off and cheated fundraisers for cash. 
  This man is likely mentally Ill to lie as much as he has and done the things he’s done. He needs to be fired. >
  
  Sounds familiar- might be our next President. >
  
  Republican voters fooled again by a cheap con man >
  
  Are you really fooled if you choose to never believe the truth? >
  
  How the fuck is anyone supposed to trust you to represent them after you lied about your entire life story? >
  
  Because the people who voted for him are god damn stupid and only did so because he will vote with the rest of the republicans. They don’t give a shit about him not representing them personally, because they are told all the wrongness they perceive in the world is due to pronouns and drag shows >
  
  Yes-sounds like Long Island >
  
  So resign you lying fuck. >
  
  But then he won't get the job he lied to get. You can see why stepping down isn't an option for him >
  
  What does he have to lose that he hasn't lost already? >
  
  A job >
  
  That's going to be awkward showing up to work every day >
  
  Not with the kind of people he works with >
  
  I hope New Yorkers learn from their apathy and turn out at the polls in 2024. >
  
  Yeah, fuck this unimpressive dog turd. In 20 years of government service and now this bullshit. I am not partisan. But JFC…civil servants get one date wrong on a resume and you don’t get a job…a politician lies and they admit it but continue to the job. Maybe there is meme that will make me less angry. >
  
  "I never said I was Jewish.  I said I was Jew-ish".
  😒 >
  
  Used to be a piece of shit >
  
  And this is why the death of local journalism is a problem. >
  
  Leticia James publicly said she is starting to review the details to see if there were crimes committed. >
  
  What hasn't this dude lied about? Even for a politician, it's getting ridiculous at this point. >
  
  I suspect he is not a US citizen. That's where this is headed. >
  
  they’ll retroactively marry him off to milo yannapolis >
  
  Oh no they love milo again now actually >
  
  Fantastic. Resign. >
  
  Can his constituents recall his unethical ass? >
  
  I’d say he is grossly unfit for office but unfit for office seems to have become almost a prerequisite for incoming Republicans these days. >
  
  The only surprise here is he admitted to lying. >
  
  "I could shoot someone on fifth Ave and not lose one vote"
  Is it really that surprising? >
  
  “…but that’s no reason for me to give up my congressional seat 🤪” >
  
  They're not sending their best >
  
  or, they are…. >
  
  he went to F.U. >
  
  What happened to integrity???  OH!  Yea.  He musta missed out on that while growing up.  Asshat. >
  
  
  What happened to integrity??? OH! Yea. He musta missed out on that while growing up
  
  He was absent the day the they taught this in school >
  
  Well, that's a start. Now, what about that check incident in Brazil? >
  
  If he's willing to lie about his background to appear electable, what else is he lying about? This man unnecessarily opened a can of worms. >
  
  So sick of scummy con men >
  
  Was he even born or his he just made up out of the skin scrapings, bodily waste  and toenail clippings of failed GOP candidates. >
  
  Nixon would have survived today’s GOP. Santos only lied and since that seems to be the minimum requirement to be a GOP politician these days, Santos will serve as a NY representative for next two years. >
  
  "I never said I was Jewish, I said I was Jew-ish." Actual quote from him. >
  
  
  “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my résumé,” he said, later adding: “We do stupid things in life.”
  
  This was less than a month ago, asshole, not some momentary lapse of judgement twenty years ago when you were in college.
  What the fuck. This guy lied about his entire life; he’s just a common criminal who was busted for check fraud years back. His congressional run was just another con to him.
  New York Republicans: Is this really the best you can do? 😂 >
  
  It was always impressive when Madison Cawthorn would make similar time-compressing statements.
  For example, he proposed to his definitely-not-a-Russian-plant wife "long before [he] considered running for office", as a way of explaining that the stresses of being a politician's wife had led to the breakdown of their marriage.
  In fact, they announced their engagement six weeks before he filed. >
  
  If people can sue movie studios for misleading trailers because they sell something and produce something else, can't the same logic apply here? Who's to say how many voters chose Santos BECAUSE of those qualities, now they've been misled and deeply misinformed. >
  
  
  In both interviews on Monday, Mr. Santos also denounced reporting by both CNN and The Forward, a Jewish publication, that he may have misled voters about his account of his Jewish ancestry, including that his maternal grandparents were born in Europe and emigrated to Brazil during the Holocaust.
  “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Mr. Santos told The Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
  
  This is the sort of thing that would seem too over the top to be good satire if The Onion printed it.
  But it's not The Onion saying it; it's an elected representative for our government. >
  
  He took the seat in my district. Proud to say I voted for Zimmerman against this asshole. How an openly gay man can vote Republican let alone BE A REPUBLICAN REPRESENTATIVE is beyond me. >
  
  Our government is a fucking embarrassment. It really fucking is. Everything runs on what amounts to an honor system and there's literally no consequences for something that fucks over the whole goddamn country, but mf's get sent to prison for a hundred fucking years if some rich bastard gets scammed out of 47 cents. >
  
  So he lies about his religion, his family's connection to the holocaust, his work and educational history.
  Yet the Republican party is still totally silent on this guy? What the hell. >
  
  He has jo high school diploma just a ged.
  He’s conned many people. Committed fraud with organization fundraisers and kept the money. Writes bad checks. Stiffed several landlords on rent.
  He’s awful >
  
  Remember that time Al Franken resigned over a poor taste joke picture? Meanwhile republicans out here lying about any and everything. Trafficking people. Paying minors for sex. Admitting to lying about qualifications to get elected and they just keep going to work voting no on everything like nothing. Crazy. >
  
  Disqualification please.  His whole life is one big lie. >
  
  While Congress has no balls or power to do anything, I think fraud charges should be pressed for getting donations via fraudulent means. >
  
  Of course he intends to take the oath of office - he will
  fall in line and make the perfect modern Republican elected official. No honor, no morality, only power and cruelty. Any other job you would be on the street. >
  
  He lied about everything. He got caught. He confessed that he lied about everything. 
  He'll pay no price. He'll still serve in  congress. Republicans will eagerly embrace him. Democrats will complain for a bit and do nothing!
  What a country! >
  
  If we set aside the lying part then he was voted into office without the knowledge and experience as advertised. Thus making him unqualified.
  Level the field and call a new election. >
  
  Still no admission about the lie that 4 of his colleagues/employees were murdered in tbe Pulse Nightclub shooting... >
  
  Or how he suddenly found wealth, or the illegitimacy of his charitable organization, and more... >
  
  In Oregon, we have criminal laws that cover offenses like this.
  Resign, you lying S.O.B.! >
  
  How can someone run for an elected office that high in government without a fucking background check??
  I feel like I'm taking crazy pills >
  
  And he says he is not going to step down. How the hell is that even possible he should be effectively removed from office. Like wtf is wrong with the fucking country. >
  
  "Everyone embellishes..." Dude... you made up everything. You aren't the person who they voted for at all. This is the new Republican standard... lie, lie, lie... >
  
  My favorite part is he’s claiming he never said he was Jewish, he said he was “Jew-ish”. Killin me. >
  
  
  “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Mr. Santos told The Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
  
  This guy... >
  
  George Santos Admits to Being Republican.
  Fixed it. >
  
  This is the Trump GOP standard. God help us. >
  
  Why is this a big deal? Pathological prevarication has become a central part of the GOP way of life. >
  
  I’m an HR Manager.  An employee who falsely claimed on an application to have a degree or other information would be fired for that falsification.  Almost all companies have disclaimers on their applications about this.  
  I’ve gone back and terminated new hires a month later when we found that they lied on the application.  
  Do we hold our Congressional Representatives to the same or a lower standard?  
  Let’s see what happens here…. >
  
  I guess his next step is to run for President as a Republican.   He certainly meets their standards. >
  
  I hope the NY media breaks this guy. >
  
  Awesome. What's going to be done about it? Are his peers in his party going to censure him? Send him home and tell his constituents to try again? So, yeah. Nothing. It doesn't matter to them because he's just someone who will vote as he's told so the can all continue.  
  Grift
  Oppress
  Profit >
  
  As the old Bellamy Brothers song went:
  "I'm a doctor, I'm a lawyer, I'm a movie star....
  I'm an astronaut, and I own this bar
  And I'd lie to you for your love" >
  
  Republicans won’t care. >
  
  I think narcissistic diagnosis should be required and it’s no longer about digging dirt on your opponent but really verifying their facts. That’s how this political system has degraded until this point. >
  
  I didn’t need more evidence that America is broken, but if you lie on your application to drive a dump truck, they’ll fire the shit out of you. It’s unbelievable that he can be exposed and publicly acknowledged as a con artist, and he’s still going to be voting in congress. Fucking GOP. >
  
  Where was the media, especially the New York Times, before the election? Why did they wait until after the election to report on this? >
  
  So basically everything he said to get elected was a lie. And this is A-okay in the USA. >
  
  In a normal company, lying on your CV is considered by many to be an instant dismissal case; no appeal or allowance. >
  
  A politician lying, that’s complete poppycock!!!! 😂 
  So on my next resume, I’ll put I graduated from Harvard, was a part time nuclear physicist while working full time for NASA, I helped write the hit song Hip to be Square by Huey Lewis and the News, and was the inventor of many common household items including the vacuum cleaner. >
  
  he should be removed from office >
  
  He did not lie. It was alternate facts. Didn’t you learn anything from KellyAnn ConJob? >
  
  For most people this would be grounds for dismissal. For craven politicians and their misguided followers, being a lying fraud is a prerequisite. What a shame. >
  
  remember when al franken had to resign for a dumb, not funny attempt at a joke photo? >
  
  This is Trump's legacy. Politicians have always played fast and loose with the truth, but Trump taught us that R pols can blatantly lie about obvious, objectively provable facts and their party's voters will eat it up like meatloaf with no negative consequences for the liar. >
  
  MAGA movement needs to be cut off 
  - Cut the limb - save the body >
  
  "OK, I'm a bold-faced liar, but I promise to better in the future as your congressman!"
  I have no faith at all that the goons in the GOP-controlled house will care about this at all.  They'd rather keep him than risk losing the seat to a democrat. >
  
  ETTD
  Now we just elect and tolerate clown shoes. Get it together, America, expel this fuck. C’mon >
  
  Hes only there to vote for kevin for speaker then they will dump him >
  
  Susan Collins: (wagging finger) >
  
  This will just make him more popular with the Republicans >
  
  Checks google -
  Republican
  Every damn time. >
  
  More says “everyone embellishes”.  
  I bet there is more “embellishments” coming. >
  
  Susan Collins must be very concerned about this. >
  
  This is insane. He should be removed immediately…