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  I blame the New York Times for this.  They waited until after he was elected to do their expose.
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. >
  
  Thanks >
  
  Despicable. Not too long ago, everyone would've agreed he should resign or be impeached. Now, he's just an average Republican... 😔 >
  
  The republicans will never impeach, he’s in for his term >
  
  This guy is a walking, talking nightmare. 
  As bad as the last few years have been… letting this guy skate by, and make decisions that affect millions upon millions of Americans… we just continue to set new standards of depravity.
  “Yeah, I lied, I made a mistake, but please, don’t do anything to take away my power to abuse millions of people” >
  
  How could any politician be willing to work with this guy.  You can’t trust a single thing that he says.  How do you get anything done when his word means nothing. >
  
  Head of house ethics it is! >
  
  I hear he’s been in talks with John Lovitz all week. >
  
  Yeah, that’s the ticket >
  
  I doubt he is a US citizen >
  
  He’s going to be the model Republican congressman. /s >
  
  /s He’s going to be the model Republican congressman. >
  
  
  “I would be scared to have someone like that in charge — having so much power in his hands,” he said. >
  
  It’s totally crazy that such a proven liar can be exposed and carry on like nothing happened. I remember the days when just misspelling the word potato was seen as an insurmountable barrier to office. How far the Republican Party has fallen. >
  
  Santos is the perfect reminder of what the Republican Party has become. >
  
  It’s sad for all of the young aspiring gay, Jewish, Latino conservatives out there to be failed by this guy’s lies and untruths. >
  
  And he'll have more credibility than Marjorie Taylor-Greene? >
  
  Upon arriving in Seattle, Santos admits he lied about knowing which Washington he was supposed to go to. >
  
  Wonder who will be foolish enough to rent him an apartment? >
  
  He'll just sleep in his office like Jonah Ryan. >
  
  Maybe his next boyfriend will make him get circumcised then dump him while he's in the recovery room. >
  
  [Uncle Jeff laughing hysterically] >
  
  Everyone is talking about George Santos and his obvious lies.
  Have people forgotten that Marjorie Taylor Greene is an actor? She plays the part of a conspiratorial sycophant, but she's completely lucid and aware of the act the entire time.
  MTG literally breaks character when the script becomes too absurd.
  The real Marjorie Taylor Greene behind the character is a far more dangerous psychopath. >
  
  Oh my God that’s her >
  
  He’s just kidding. His real name is Walter Mitty. >
  
  Can't believe this fraud is gonna be sworn in. Embarrassing, Hopefully, NY-03 is already ready to vote him out in two years. >
  
  I am a constituent in his district and it is totally unacceptable that there is no recall option nor any way to hold him to account before the next election. By allowing him to be seated and in congress for two years predicated on a total and complete fabrication is a dangerous precedent. The local Republican Party should be held to account for putting up such a terrible person. >
  
  It is incredibly sad that it has gotten to the point where candidates just make up any old shit to sell themselves to a target voter base.  It reeks of desperation;  those to get some power, and those to be heard.  's fucked up. >
  
  This is America, the land of possibilities, where you can re-invent yourself via the First Amendment, which allows you to say whatever you want, and face no consequences:
  It's not a lie, if you believe it, and nobody bothers to fact-check... >
  
  no conservatives bother to fact-check...* ftfy. >
  
  Being a GQP fact-checker is the easiest job in the world because no one expects you to do anything. >
  
  If you’re going to lie, you have to remember it. That’s the golden rule. >
  
  Not even that anymore, they just don't care. Mark Twain is rolling over in his grave. >
  
  How come he’s not being accused of lying like tRump?    ie.  Lying because think your audience is not smart to detect dishonesty.   I would think this would be an admirable quality for a politician given the state of the Republican Party in 2023 >
  
  Mr. Santos Goes To Washington (generational media comparison)
  Frantic, frenetic fun ensues when career dissembler and all around jello bowl, George Santos gets the spotlight for which he eternally lusts, only for it to arrive at the precise moment both his Freudian and ethical slips are showing.
  The callback to 'Mr. Smith Goes To Washington' is largely by reference, used primarily to compare/contrast the idyllic, masturbatory parading of (white) entitlement against the more realistic and now failing 'values' of its twin cores: eugenics and supremacy.
  Themes of anarcho-capitalism, social democracy, socialism, and more collide and conflict as successive lens/perspectives reveal the root remains unchanged and just as rotten as ever.
  Key moments present economic reality in context and compare them to deliver a picture of Santos as a corrupted being who stands as example of how/why all contact with this system is corrosive and conversely, that the system is designed to corrupt and then consume or completely compost what remains of any challenge.
  Demonstrated neatly by how gloriously quick his own party turns on him. (Queue LoTR 'meat on the menu' meme)
  I should write it, but I won't, because I'm not willing to endure the industry to 'sell' it.
  #UnloadingBallast
  #Hello2023
  (More I could outline, but as it requires a nuance Reddit doesn't provide, I resist.)