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  I've heard talk that McCarthy is waiting until after the Speaker vote to say anything because he doesn't want to lose his vote.
context: He's a scam artist.  How many Jewish folks voted for him because of his story?  It's not like we have access to a genetic chart to prove these things.  He has done harm to his district and to the republican party that refuses to deny him because they need his vote in a narrowly divided House.  Ugh. >
  
  Republicans lying to get elected is on brand. >
  
  Obv. McCarthy, the wannabe leader, still hasn’t said a thing about it. >
  
  He'll wait until after the vote. >
  
  So not a leader but a puppet >
  
  Yikes how much did Santos lie about? I feel like the next revelation is gonna be he's actually 3 possums in a trench coat... >
  
  That doesn't make any sense.
  Three possums would have more integrity than your average republican. >
  
  Possums eat parasites, not become them. >
  
  Yes, yes. We all made the mistake, we put the wrong em-PHA-sis on the wrong syl-LAB-le.
  
  It goes 'ding ding ding di di ding ding… ding ding ding di di ding ding.' That's the way theirs goes. Ours goes 'ding ding ding di di ding ding… DING… ding ding ding di di ding ding.' That little bitty change — it's not the same."
  
  Vanilla Ice >
  
  That DING is what makes it a "brand new invention" >
  
  He should have said "Jew-esque" >
  
  Jewadjacent. >
  
  Adjewcent >
  
  They're not saying "boo" they're saying "boooo-urns" >
  
  Damn, you posted that literal seconds before someone else did. >
  
  As a child of survivors, this a kind of stolen valor. Fuck you. >
  
  "I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jew-ish'."
  So like, my birth mom was Jewish, and my paternal grandmother was a survivor of Buchenwald.  I still don't claim I'm Jewish.  Why?
  Because I was raised Catholic.  My grandmother was raised Lutheran, she was imprisoned because of Jewish ancestry, not because she was a practicing Jew.  My biological mom was a practicing Jew, but the last time I celebrated a Jewish holiday was when I was a toddler.  I don't even know how to spell the special food we ate (some apple thing for Passover?)
  It would be really disrespectful for me to claim to be Jewish, so I don't, even with my family history.  I don't practice the religion, I know very little about my heritage beyond what I listed here.  What I know about my grandma's ordeal was horrible, but it's still not my right to claim to have a religion I don't practice.  It's incredibly disrespectful. >
  
  Incoming congressman's claims his grandparents fled the Holocaust contradicted by genealogy records >
  
  He's definitely a special kind of asshole. >
  
  I'm really curious how this going to play out. Do people that voted for him or groups that backed him have the ability to sue the campaign or candidate for falsehoods if they knowingly lied?
  If he is pressured into resigning after he is sworn in (which is interesting) who gets to appoint him replacement until a special election occurs?