>

I guarantee that more fraud will surface and also be forgiven by the GQP
The GOP just gutted the ethics committee to avoid having to address these issues with its members. >

Ethics? Ethics? We don't have no stinkin' ethics >

We haven't had ethics in 36500 stinkin days! >

Get back, scum. The criminals go to McCarthy, sworn in and uninvestigated! >

Brendan Fischer, a deputy executive director of the watchdog Documented, and Robert Maguire, a research director at the watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, both told CNBC that the actions could be seen as criminal conduct.
"A person who misrepresented themselves as speaking on behalf of a candidate in order to raise money may have committed a criminal violation, and any other person who knowingly and willfully participated in the plan could also face criminal charges," Fischer said in an email, per CNBC. >

"Could be seen as criminal conduct"???
Uhh, okay.
What's stopping us from running for office and just going on a crime spree? It seems like that's what our "leaders" do. Must be legal. >


"Could be seen as criminal conduct"???

Law enforcement has to check to see if the perpetrator has the magic (R). If he does, then it's not a crime. >

Hi, I am a republican. I specifically am Trump. Please send me all your buttcoins and buy my MFTs. >

I snorted at buttcoins. 
Also, I'm selling CFTs. Also known as Cov-Fefe Tokens. >

They're jpegs of that tweet but with a single pixel difference in an imperceptible shade >

The entire system is a sham if this conman remains in office. >

No recall votes in NY? >

No recall votes for Congress at all, upper or lower house. Expulsion by the body is the only way >

And since he is a Republican in a crucial otherwise Democrat district, nothing will happen to him for 2 years. 
You would think defrauding Republican donors would get him booted, but not if the only option is to fill his vacancy with a Dem. They will drop support for him and support the next Republican candidate in his district instead. >

vote GOP, get catfished. >

How dumb are Republican voters? Or do they just enjoy being lied to? >

There's only 2 types of republican voters. Dumb, and rich. Dumb voters never for critical thinking skills so they're incredibly easy to manipulate so the GOP brainwashes them into voting against their own interests. 
Then the rich ones don't really care about what the GOP stands for as long as they keep making money. >


Dumb voters never for critical thinking skills so they're incredibly easy to manipulate

I suspect that's what some sort of internal polling revealed to the Trump team in 2016, and Trump's handlers were dumb enough to share it with him, and that's why he went out on stage that day and blurted out We love the poorly educated! early in his campaign then. >

Exactly my take. >

Congratulations Republicans, You managed to get a complete con artist elected again. Interestingly Santos is even more blatant than Trump. Shocking. >

It’s strange that he is representing a New York district. He should have had a robust challenger. How did the dem candidate not uncover these lies during the campaign. Perhaps it wouldn’t make a difference to voters, but it seems strange that things are coming out now and not when someone else actually had a chance to beat him in an election. >

The challenger reportedly turned over evidence to several news sources of his shady actions, but they who sat on them rather than report it. Honestly I would name names at this point on what reporters didn't run this story months ago. >

I hadn’t heard that. Yes. That seems like a big misstep by the “liberal media”. >

Apparently they felt the media would be better served with focused reporting on races we saw every day Fetterman/Oz or Warnock/Walker. Literally prioritized what you saw for you. >

He did call the GOP tanking the ethics oversight committee “fantastic”.
I’m starting to wonder if this is some sort of art project >

That was my thought as the initial lies started hitting the press. This reads like a situation where Sasha Baron Cohen will show up in two years with a movie. It would make sense too. He's too recognizable now, especially to the republicans he pranked as Borat. He'd need another person to keep this kind of thing going. >

Yeah after his term he’ll come out with a movie that opens with him going “in 2022 I set out to prove that not only would the Republican voter elect anyone, but that the party itself would protect any of their own, no matter what they did. There was only one rule - I had to lie…
looks dead in the camera
about EVERYTHING.
This is my story. >

I like the conspiracy theory that American politics isn't real, but is actually a television drama with heroes, villains, plot twists, and a lot of bad writing.
George Santos has quickly become my new favorite character in this season of America.
The writers really hammed his cartoonishly evil persona. He's almost too brazenly untrustworthy, even among his own gang of villains and criminals.
I can't wait to see his villain arc develops. Will he be written off the show in a bang of glory? Or will the writers will give Santos his redemption arc?
Next time on America: Bad Santos! >

I’m ready for America to be canceled if we’re being honest. We don’t deserve to be a superpower. >

In the real world we call this fraud and theft >

This guy is such a scumbag. Hopefully Brazil solves our George Santos problem. I'd be on board with a package deal: send him, Bannon, and Bolsonaro to Brazil to face justice. >

*slaps the trunk of the car* This baby can hold so much fraud! >

Remind me again, exactly why did Al Franken have to resign? >

Al Franken has a conscious and felt guilty. >

You’re right, and I assume it’s autocorrect, but Al Franken has a *conscience. And yes, he is also conscious. >

I swear to god this guy has to be a plant. There’s no feasible way that he is actually doing all this without it being some sort of stunt to see what he could get away with and still get elected to congress. 
In another thread I joked that this was all being directed by Sacha Baron Cohen. Every day that feels more like reality. >

Grifting on the new Speaker. Wow. >

The US needs to purge all the George Santos and all his colleagues from government and society. Their existence make everything worse for everyone. >

This has been true for several elections now. >

Yep, it sure has. >

George Santos is a new persona of Sacha Baron Cohen. Calling it now. This is becoming way too absurd. >

I literally just arrived at the same conclusion. This has to be performance art. >

Has Netflix optioned this yet?
I can see it now: "Inventing George". >

Thank you for the laugh today. >

Lol this guy is terrible >

George Santos is an even bigger grifter than Donny Boy! >

Learned from the worst! >

I don't understand how this guy was sworn in. George Santos isn't even his name. NY elected a person who doesn't exist. How does this guy get to fill that spot?
And how is it not a massive conflict of interest and national security threat to have this dude serve when he can be coerced to vote a certain way or face prison time for fraud? >

Please stop piling on George Santos, he's had a rough week. On Saturday his grandma died, and then last night his grandma died, and then this morning his grandma died 🥺 >

Isn't it frustrating how people like Santos can commit multiple career-ending crimes like this and everyone knows they will never face any repercussions for it >

Hell I bet they start talking about him as a possible presidential candidate. >

This guy has not limits >

Wait, what? Is this real? Can the guy be that stupid? And why did the staffer cooperate? >

$100K of Russian(?) money makes the right person pretty cooperative. >

I think this dude (Santos) is a right-wing troll in “disguise”, and has lied completely about everything, not just his professional or educational background. I think this was a complete joke so he could get into Congress. >

“Remember, The False Will Be With You, Always.” 

Republi-Cant Kenobi >

This mf'er man, what else is coming >

This is criminal fraud.  Santos should be charged and arrested, but he won't be because the DOJ considers Republicans and rich people above the law. >

How did this guy go from stealing checkbooks in Brazil and stealing/pawning his boyfriend's cell phone to US Congress (R). It can't be that easy. You just need to use your  meager campaign money to convince some rich guy that you're speaking form the office of the GOP House Leader? And to give you money to keep snowballing more money? Insane that we allow mechanisms like this and reward for it. >

The news here isn’t this Santos guy but how people are somehow surprised by the current state of the GOP.
How could it not end in the shitshow it is today? >

And nothing will come of this. >

The fact that the GOP is going to put up with this is still mind boggling, even after all these years. >

This is just cartoonish levels of buffoonery at this point. >

Pretty funny that.
What I don't get is why don't Santos' own constituents sue to get rid of him. >

They feel it is better to keep a lying slime in order to “own the libs”. >

The whole Santos show has just gone from being a comedy and crossed the line into criminal activity if this is true. AFAIK impersonation+grifting = crime. >

Yeah, and the House GOP is gutting the Ethics oversight group.  Just  in time for little slim ball Santos. >

I am kind of starting to like this guy, he is exposing our political system as farce. That nothing matters. >

The hits just keep comin. >

Things must really be coming off the rails if ppl are using the politically powerful/connected to steal from ppl wealthy enough (or ppl that believe themselves to be wealthy enough) to donate to republican politicians. What a time to be alive! >

Yeah that's fraud and definitely criminal >

Santos is obviously a professional criminal. He'll go far in today's GOP. >

Ouch. This may be the bullet that ends Santos run in office. Let's hope so. >

Please, the rest of them will just be mad they didn’t think of it first. >

Shit I'm mad that my brain and morals make it hard to openly just lie to people, even people that I don't think should really count as people. Just a 3 month grift if I could shut off the anxiety and guilt parts, would probably set me for life. >

And McCarthy had just descended to a new level of hell. How delightful >

Notice all these right wing tools use the super cliche steepling hand posture whenever they know the camera is on them. It’s like the non verbal equivalent of stating “I’m an alpha!”, which, as we all know by now, is definitely not “alpha” behavior. >

As long as right wingers continue to be idiots with their money the grift will proceed. >

Crimes with a site of crime to go please >

Jail time for this dopey fuck >

Seems almost like...fraud. >

It really isn't in doubt.  Impersonating an elected official is illegal. >

CoS isn’t an elected official, FWIW >

True, but anytime you misrepresent who you are to get money, it is illegal.  I imagine you could consider him an employee of the us gov as well since that is who pays him, and it's a federal offence to impersonate fed employees. >

« Fake it till you make it » political spinoff >

If followed like 5% of what this guy has done and that small number would be unbelievable if you made a Netflix show on him. >

Santos going to jail there's just *too* much fraud going on. Even if the house don't want to address it, there's plenty of criminal exposure here. >

If he’s will to be this open with it, I’m sure there’s all sorts of fraud in his personal life. >

This dude looks like Jonah from Veep more and more everyday. >

Just openly committing fraud now. >

Bro this isnt even funny anymore what the hell is going on with this guy? Is he a comic book villain? Is he even from the planet earth? >

Dang. This guy is like a Riverdale villain. More and more is revealed as the weeks go on about the things he did, and there’s no way you could see them coming because it’s so out there. >

That show was a fucking trip. I love how the whole thing feels like no one ever said “no” to the writers. Any idea was just taken and ran with. >

He will fit right in among his Republican colleagues! They should nominate him for a Chair of the Ethics Committee. >

No can do, just defunded it >

From pathological liar to straight up conman. Dude is going to get crushed. >

"I have done nothing unethical." George Santos, January 10, 2023
"i think it's fantastic," also George Santos on the gutting of the office of congressional ethics. >

It’s Pat! >

I honestly can’t believe I haven’t heard this yet - it’s what I think every time I see their cringy face…🤷🏼‍♂️👀 >

This guy is a regular GOP poster child. >

Maybe the ethics committee will look into…oh yeah that’s right it just got gutted… >

I wonder when a big donor will sue for his money back and claim fraud. I can see a class action case. I’d love to here from an attorney on this >

let’s talk about identity theft and wire fraud >

He was just Kevin McCarthy ish. No biggie. >

Even if any future allegations are not true, there will always be suspicions that they are.
However, since those allegations are unlikely be acted on by the authorities, it doesn’t really make any difference. >

This guy looks like a sleazy movie villain.  Only thing is he’s real and this is not a movie. >

Just when you think this story couldn’t get anymore insane another thing gets added to the pile. >

republican = fraud >

What are the odds this guy makes money one day selling the movie/book rights to all the lies and truths. >

A famous person once said ,  " If you can't lie cheat and steel , stay The Hell out of Politics ! >

Grifters going to grift >

If you told me tomorrow that George Santos was stealing cleaning supplies and toilet paper from the Capitol custodial staff on the reg, I would believe you. >

Throw in accusations of transporting minors across state lines for sex and you have the perfect Republican Congressthing. >

This guy who’s name may or may not be George Santos’s lies are just amazing… like Idk how this guy is real >

this guy is hilarious. i want him to stay .wanna watch his shananigans. you think it cant get worse and then ... >

That's a great idea! Would be even funnier if we elected a guy like him for president! So many funny shenanigans would make it so worth it! I've heard of a guy who did game shows that would be perfect for the funnies... >

He's such a king... So glad idiots like this get elected and if you're somewhat sane or try to do something better than the status quo you basically get kicked to the curb sometimes. >

He’s the perfect politician. Just imagine all the good things he’ll get accomplished. >

Wow. This is so unbecoming of the first guy to throw tea into the Boston Harbor. >

This guy is king of the Republican's POS troup. >

Seriously lock that lying little fuck up for fraud tonight. >

So… fraud? >

I think Republican voters like being lied to. >

There are no ethics for republicans.  Anything goes in the pursuit of power. >

He’s going to jail >

At least in Brazil.  And their jails are not very pleasant. >

That would be the best possible outcome. >

Someone fucking arrest this guy already >

Hey, it’s Kevin, again, guys. Can you Venmo me? >

This guy will set all new standards for grime >

The gift that just keeps giving. >

Uh oh, committed a crime  against a 14-time loser republican? That might actually get some traction. >

Normal persons reaction to this, this fucking grifter should be locked the fuck up. 
GOP response. Shit, why didn’t I think of that. >

So... fraud... >

The lies and frauds. He’s the perfect GOP rep >

That’s ok. They got rid of the ethics department so he is now a hero. >


“I am not a criminal. This [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success,” Santos said. “I will be effective. I will be good.”

"I will be good" is basically what a nine year old tells their parents after they messed up but still wants a ride to GameStop. >

I bet his days as a elected official are numbered. >

Interesting. That’s a crime. Time for jail. >

Some low lever staffer will take the fall.  Every time >

Dafuq?? That’s gotta be illegal!! >

Hard to understand. So: why exactly isn’t this lying, scamming, racist pos in jail by now? >

As I've been saying this entire time, this guy is obviously Andy Kaufman. >

Jesus christ this guy. It's almost come to a point that I respect it now. He's just leaning into what we all know is already going on as hard as he possibly can. And by god he's winning. >

Republican criminals all clapping him on the back "good one Georgie! We never thought of that one". >

Gosh, that's cute.  Just imagining the steam coming out of McCarthy's ears. >

The perfect Republican! No ethics, disdain for his electorate, and a money grubbing, pathological liar willing to do and say anything to get elected. Somehow, I'm amazed that he wasn't elected as Speaker of the House!!