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There are people that won’t run for office because they smoked pot once in high school and don’t want to get dragged. Then there is this guy.
When he ran back in 2020, his campaign budget of 40,000 did not help.
But in 2022, he had millions in campaign budget and the media cannot simply ignore all thses dough and insult the potential customer with the truth. >

I am just surprised no journalist just innocently checking his credentials didn’t stumble onto any of this.  There is just so much! >

It was a matter of why would he lie about things so easy to check on let's not waste the 15 minutes on this.  Now that he has done this I believe many news sources will fact check work/education.  Hell Republicans won't shut up about Biden's claim he graduated in the top half of his class and promptly found out he was 75/83 so not top half. >

Why lie about something so easily fact checked? Well, now we know why. >

Yeah it opened eyes but seriously most news agencies wouldn't bother to fact check his education and resume because it's publically available info and so easy to check the just made asses of themselves and didn't check.  Now that this shit has happened and Santos just basically thumbs his nose at it I am sincerely hoping they check even the most basic simple aspects of candidates now.  Hell Santos was born in the 80's and claims to have worked for Reagan's administration. >

He must’ve been laughing every time he made crazy shit up and no one called him out on it-and then he won. >

All the way to the bank.  Dude had a 55k a year job and no assets in 2020.  This year he's a millionaire who dumped millions into his campaign and no records of where the money came from.  He's wanted for fraud in Brazil. And I believe the IRS is now looking into where his money came from and possible tax fraud charges.  The FEC is investigating his campaign finances.  Hopefully he ends up in jail or extradited to Brazil to face charges there so new York can recall and replace him.  His listed residence in NY is an office as well I think not a living quarters so he may be investigated over that as well. >

Why do I get this feeling that he's not even a citizen? I used to be a LEO and people who lie like Santos are always very bad news; either they're Sociopathic, or they have a history of associating with criminals, or possibly both. I think he was big trouble when he was in Brazil... >

looks like mccarthy will keep him around for his upcoming speakership fight....
this is the GOP loayalty above quality of character....  WTF? >

Of course. They need to waste time and investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop for the next 2 years. They need to know how often he visits pornhub. It’s very crucial. >

Who even cares that he likes porn? I'm assuming it's adults. >

Who cares if some guy who has no political influence enjoys smoking crack and banging whores, and for some weird reason felt the need to document every time he did so >

Yeah, I'm not saying Hunter is a great dude. If anything, he needs some help. But I honestly don't really care if he smokes cracks and bangs 30 year old hookers lmao. He's not in office, it's not a political matter. A police matter, maybe, but that's none of my business. >

I think we should all have the right to smoke crack and bang 30-year-old hookers. >

Crack dealers and 30 year old hookers are this nations backbone! >

I died on 9/11 as well. >

Did you get better? >

Well he was only partially dead >

MOSTLY dead >

It'd take a miracle. >

I'm not a witch; I'm your wife! >

Have fun storming the castle! >

Remember when Howard Dean said woohoo too weirdly and he got shit out of the political system.. >

It was more of a "YeeeAAHH!" >

It was a bit gutteral too, more of "yeeaAARRrrghhh." >

I've always written it as BYAAAAH. I'd love to see more energy like that :/ >

Chappelle's parody definitely was a byaww >


On his campaign website, Santos’s team acknowledged that while “George’s mother was in her office in the South Tower on September 11, 2001, when the horrific events of that day unfolded,” she was not among the more than 2,700 people killed at the World Trade Center.
“She survived the tragic events on September 11th, but she passed away a few years later when she lost her battle to cancer,” the campaign website reads.

So... how long until we find out she was nowhere near the WTC on 9/11? >

Also, since when is 15 years later a ‘few years’? >

I was born a few years before 9/11...
In 1980
Edit: absolutely loving these responses! >

Which was literally right before I was born a few blinks later in 1986! Wow, this new timeline made us twins! >

I too was born in June of 1971! >

What a coincidence, I was born just a six months later in January of 1998 >

Hey, right next to me! November of '85!! >

I think our mothers met in the hospital in 1976 when I was born up to 15 minutes or more before you were. >

Yes! My mom shared a room with your mom in 2003 and then sadly passed in on 9/11 >

A perpetual liar….he would fit in great as a trump crony >

Could teach ethics at Trump University! >

Like claiming on his taxes he had zero assets and only a $55k job but simultaneously he's also, "made many millions from  own business"? >

Man, I wonder where all these shitty Republicans are getting these ideas from that they can lie as freely as they want without any repercussions? >

It's worse than no repercussions, I legitimately believe that deep down the Republican base
actively appreciates politicians who just blatantly lie like this. Just people who look you straight in the fucking face and tell you the sky is green.
Lying constantly is an asset and not a liability for Republican politicians, specifically with the right wing base. They have completely given up on objective reality, if people haven't figured that out yet.
Santos figured it out, that's why he did what he did, and why he's an elected politician now. >

I'd say they see pulling a fast one on an opponent as a sign of strength, yeah, but also (importantly) they don't think there are any politicians that don't lie. Even the ones they like.
It's basically a truism of conservatives that politicians never tell the truth. They might even like some things Dems say, but since everyone is a liar,  there must be some catch. Things can never get better. No politician is really better than another. The world exists as it is, is structured as it is, and we must endure it as it is.
Ultimately I think this mindset is a result of the party itself having essentially no ethical or policy standards that are actually enforced (and to be clear, it's not that I think their ethics have to match mine; it's whether they enforce any ethical standards at all). >

And this is by design. If their base believes nothing can be done to make the world better, they it follows that nothing SHOULD be done. Government doing nothing benefits the rich, who CAN do something, while the rest of us sit around with our thumbs up our asses getting robbed blind. Complacency and inaction benefit the rich. >

Is there not concern about the dust from the tower collapses causing cancer in people, and do we not consider those people as also being victims of 9/11? 
I'll add a reddit hedge here to say that this guy is obviously a piece of shit, but we can't go around saying the emergency responders should be compensated for cancers caused by breathing the dust from 9/11 while simultaneously saying that someone had to have died on that date to be considered a victim of the attack... >

The emergency responders were in the pile for weeks, some of them months. That’s why they got sick. If you were down there that day, you ran away and found a way home. We didn’t stick around and we didn’t come back. >

Even people who werent first responders and ran away died from cancers due to 9/11. There was just a frontpage reddit post showing a pic of someone just like you claim didnt exist. >

TBF she died on 9/11/2016. >

Reminds me of some show or movie talking about going to 'Nam but it was like in the 80s or 90s >

Are you thinking of this scene from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia"? >

A lot of good men died >

Isn’t pathological lying a prerequisite for maga politicians. It’s like the X-games for falsehoods. >

Not necessarily a prerequisite. They just have zero  problem with those of their party who lie for 1 of 2 reasons:
1) They see the R next to the name and think it would be worse to have a Democrat in that position. It doesn't matter if the R was a murderer, child molester, or a rapist. Their religious doctrine tells them that person has been forgiven by skydaddy so past, future, and current sins don't matter. 
2) They are mired in "well, the other side lies too, so what's the difference?" >

This is what Republicons want. >

Sociopaths have zero anxiety about lying to get what they want.