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  It only matters if he stole from people who are richer than him, and if those vile rich republicans want him to be charged with crimes. They may be content with having a completely obedient wealth-submissive in Congress that will hurt the people Christians want to hurt.
context: There simply couldn't be a better Poster Boy for what the republican party has become. Is this the kind of 'quailty canditate' that Mitch McConnel was referring to in the mid-terms? >
  
  I think Herschel Walker might still have this guy beat, especially when he waved that toy police badge on the debate stage. Or maybe Rudy Giuliani dripping hair dye while spouting fraud lies at Four Seasons Total Landscaping across from the dildo shop. Or maybe Dr. Oz and his decades of scamming people with miracle cures.
  Ugh, it’s so hard to choose! >
  
  Those other guys are old.
  This guy is part of the future of the party.
  In the 1980s when Reagan and Bush told lies to their base to win over voters most of the party elite knew the lies for lies but liked the sound bites and power.
  Then you had a generation of people who started to form that believed the lies.  Examples are people like Paul Ryan in the US and Stephen Harper in Canada.  Kevin McCarthy is in that lot too.  But those guys could only have power with a base that believed even more outrageous lies.  You can't just come out and call someone like Obama the N word (as Lee Atwater so correctly understood) you needed mobilize the racists without being overtly racist. You need to mobilize people who believe nonsense because without them you have no party, but you need the crazies to vote, because people who understand anything about policy aren't voting for a party with fundamentally anti-reality views. 
  And now we see the second generation. Marjorie taylor geene is the leading edge of it but now you've got people like boebert cawthorne and Santos as the next generation, to them there's no such thing as lying because calling out lies is something only the woke left does.  Truth and facts can't exist when you have been through an entire education system from k-universities that teaches future representatives and think tank goons to believe shit that isn't true. 
  What to do about these nutcases is going to be the problem. >
  
  To be fair a host on Fox News grilled Santos on his lies. She asked how his constituents can trust him to represent them and he immediately tries to "what about the democrats!" but she wasn't having it. He was giving her the death glare by the end of the interview, it was glorious >
  
  The Tulsi Gabbard interview… crazy stuff there! >
  
  Is she just mad that he’s now the highest paid Russian asset? lol >
  
  As if this guy would be a valuable asset? >
  
  Compensated with high fives and little gold stars >
  
  Well, he does need to explain how he made $55,000 in 2019 but received a huge influx of cash in 2020, of multiple millions of dollars. Daddy Warbucks he isn’t. 
  He also has that felony warrant in Brasil to deal with if it’s still active. >
  
  Shout-out to Jason Torchinsky from Jalopnik and The Autopian.  The first time I'd ever heard of George Santos was last year when Jason called him out for lying about how much he was paying for gas.  Then a year later it turns out the guy was lying about everything. >
  
  Shit I think I remember this. I just don’t understand. Did he run unopposed?? >
  
  Nope. The NY Dems fucked it up. >
  
  What about the Primary though? Who ran against him there? >
  
  From a quick google, Dems spent $3 million and Republicans about $58k. The Republican super pac donated millions to the neighboring races but not his. The primary for republicans in 2020 AND 2022 were canceled, which is pretty common for republicans since 2016. He simply had no significant opponent for 2 elections. Many states literally canceled their Republican primaries for Trump to advance, especially in 2020. It’s their strategy for unity in the party and it seems to work well.
  He only got 142k votes which was 22k more than 120k from Zimmerman. LOTS of people just don’t vote which is a country wide problem. Our country is like. 55-75% “Democrat,” but democrats and specifically younger people who heavily lean democrat don’t vote. There was over 100k people who voted in 2020, making the Democrat win, but they didn’t show up in 2022 which lost the seat. >
  
  That's crazy. So really it wasn't either party that won this. It was highly lazy voters that lost it. >
  
  Welcome to America. >
  
  
  The Times uncovered records in Brazil that show Santos was the subject 
  of a criminal investigation there in 2008 over allegations that he used 
  stolen checks to buy items at an clothing shop in the city of Niteroi. 
  At the time, Santos would have been 19. The Times quoted local 
  prosecutors as saying the case was dormant because Santos had never 
  appeared in court.
  
  So now that the Brazilian authorities know his whereabouts, should we expect the next headline over the coming weeks/months to be, "Prosecutors in Brazil reopen investigation into Republican Rep. George Santos"? >
  
  Wait this is real??? >
  
  It's an interesting tale that deserves more attention. I'm not sure he has denied it. At least not yet. It's an unfolding story, so stay tuned. >
  
  He flat out denies it.. "I have never been wanted in any jurisdiction, here in the US or otherwise." >
  
  I'm actually impressed with the way this POS has drawn scrutiny so quickly.  He's not even sworn into Congress and there's an investigation into him.  That's a record even by GOP standards. >
  
  Maybe this should have happened before the election? >
  
  Idea: the FBI is legally required to do a background check of each candidate polling above some threshhold (maybe 10%?), releasing the results of their investigation at least two months before the election (so if the investigators themselves are biased / compromised, we'll have plenty of time to realize it before voting starts). >
  
  I don't think we want to make polling part of the legal election process.  Because then polling will be gamed as well. >
  
  I just saw his interview with Tulsi Gabbard. He doubled down on some of his lies about working at Goldman Sachs. He said that the American people wouldn’t understand what he did with the financial companies. 
  Lied about his education. 
  Lied about his work experience. 
  Lied about being Jewish. 
  I don’t know if he is lying about being gay, but he has previously divorced a woman. >
  
  He's Jew-ish
  I can't believe how dumb the gop has gotten.  And when I thought it couldn't get worse, they prove me wrong. >
  
  Incredible he won.  There’s no rock bottom with the GOP.  It’s just an endless unempathetic pit. >
  
  The person on the Zimmerman campaign that was supposed to perform opposition research had one job and they failed. >
  
  They went to the media before the election and got ignored anyway >
  
  Do you really believe that they couldn't find a journalist who wanted to break the "congressional candidate is lying about their whole life, basically" story?
  sounds like a bullshit CYA move >
  
  The whole thing is weird. This was a Dem leaning district too. While dems are notorious for not voting, we showed up this year. There are some odd voting results in odd places. >
  
  Funniest comment I've heard on this was from an earlier thread in this sub, I don't have the username but I loved it so I'm gonna repeat it: Someone else named George Santos should go to his swearing in and insist that they're the real George Santos and should be the one taking the oath. >
  
  As long as they are a Republican. >
  
  They should SAY they are republican and then switch parties. >
  
  Republican-ish. >
  
  Nice one >
  
  Just saw a tweet of his from the summer saying his mom died on 9/11
  Then before xmas he tweeted his mom died 5 years ago on Dec 23
  That poor woman.... >
  
  She died twice?! Damn. She has bad luck. >
  
  She was cosplaying Jesus >
  
  The Republican response to all of this has been funny to watch. MTG clearly demonstrated that she does not care at all about lying, while she was, ironically, accusing the Democrats of not caring about lying.
  She said Democrats do not care about lying and that they are only attacking Santos because he is the first openly gay Republican elected to the House. She then went on to say that she is looking forward to working with him and is interested in learning how he will legislate.
  In typical Republican fashion, she accuses the Democrats of the exact thing she is actually doing right in front of our faces as she is speaking. And, their base are so clueless they cannot even connect the dots. It is mind-numbing. >
  
  They couldn't connect two quarter sized dots on a fucking post it >
  
  They couldn't connect the dots if they were actually working on a connect the dots puzzle complete with numbers.  With the little perforated line that shows where the connections are.  And the line already traced by a five-year-old who solved the puzzle for them. >
  
  5 minutes into the investigation:
  His actually name is Larry Krapowski.
  His job for the last 15 years was as a Subway sandwich artist.
  He is a registered sex offender in 5 US states.
  He has a glue addiction.
  He is wearing his Dad's suit. >
  
  He is actually 3 kids in an overcoat >
  
  And... what is your account.... number? >
  
  Uh, seven. >
  
  ...seven?!!!! >
  
  Try eight. >
  
  Thank you for perfecting an important childhood memory <3 >
  
  He committed fraud. He gained a valuable position by lying. He has admitted to it. >
  
  He was forced to admit it. It's not because he wanted to. >
  
  Who knows what might come out if we apply a bit more force? >
  
  Probably a little bit of mayonnaise. >
  
  Follow the money.  He lied about everything else, probably lied about money too, which matters.