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  Thanks
context: Only in the republican party can a fantastical liar be welcomed. >
  
  
  More amazing than the time Michael Jackson came over to your house to use the bathroom? >
  
  Ok Michael Jackson didn’t come over to my house to use the bathroom….but his sister did! >
  
  "It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. "
  
  Thomas Paine >
  
  
  Mr. Santos has said that he grew up in a basement apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens. Until Wednesday, Mr. Santos’s campaign biography said that his mother, Fatima Devolder, worked her way up to become “the first female executive at a major financial institution.” He has also said that she was in the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that she died “a few years later.”
  In fact, Ms. Devolder died in 2016, and a Brazilian community newspaper at the time described her as a cook. Mr. Santos’s friends and former roommates recalled her as a hardworking, friendly woman who spoke only Portuguese and made her living cleaning homes and selling food. None of those interviewed by The Times could recall any instance of her working in finance, and several chalked the story up to Mr. Santos’s tendency for mythmaking.
  
  Mythmaking?   I think they mean "lying". >
  
  "HILARY LIED ABOUT HER PRIVATE EMAILS!! LOCK HER UP!!"
  "Oh, he was just engaging in a bit of mythmaking, no big deal." >
  
  Watch ‘mythmaking’ become a GOP buzzword. >
  
  Guaranteed >
  
  As his substantial and material lies get exposed, no one in power bats an eye at this walking ethics violation. >
  
  Votes > Anything fucking else >
  
  
  Vilarva said he felt on top of the world — even if he said he did find himself footing many of the bills.
  “He used to say he would get money from Citigroup, he was an investor,” Mr. Vilarva recalled. “One day it’s one thing, one day it’s another thing. He never ever actually went to work,” he said.
  Things began to unravel between the two men in early 2015, Mr. Vilarva said, after Mr. Santos surprised him with tickets to Hawaii that turned out not to exist. Around the same time, he said he discovered that his cellphone was missing, and believed Mr. Santos had pawned it.
  
  This guy is batshit. >
  
  And the Republicans think they can make him toe the line... >
  
  No paywall version
  Read it and weep.