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  It’s French for “to wish.”
context: He's welcome at any Jew-ish event however. >
  
  What was his excuse on what "jew-ish" means? >
  
  
  “Even though I’ve always said I’m Catholic, I grew up Catholic, I’ve always loved and had a deep respect for my Jewish heritage and I will continue to,” Santos told City & State. He further told the New York Post that “I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
  
  He claims to be Jew-ish not Jewish. It would be comedy gold if the constituents he fooled weren't stuck with him. >
  
  I have to watch that now. >
  
  It's fucking sublime
  I dare you not to sing Business Time or Boom King when it's 100% inappropriate after watching it lmao >
  
  Too many mutha'uckas 'ucking with my shi' >
  
  Have you ever been called Ms New Zealand?  Have you ever had hurt feelings? >
  
  
  After confirming a New York Times expose claiming much of his professional accomplishments are fabricated, Santos says ‘I never claimed to be Jewish,’ and that he is in fact a Catholic who is ‘Jew-ish’.
  Despite Santos' claims that his grandparents were Jews who fled the Nazis, reports proved that his grandparents were Brazil-born Catholics. 
  
  You'd kind of have some glimmer of hope that this level of deceit would be a step too far over the line for the alleged party of faith and family values, but I guess Kevin's worried about that very slim majority he has. >
  
  Jew-ish? OMG. >
  
  Yeah, sounds like something out of an SNL skit, doesn't it? >
  
  It’s actually something black Israelites say about Jews. They have screamed at me about it on a street corner, while also calling me a white devil, fake Jew, etc. Not saying he knows this, but I personally take a lot of offense to that, and don’t find it funny. >
  
  Jewish as well and I find it deeply offensive. The number of times I’ve seen my heritage co-opted by the Christian right is absolutely disgusting. 
  Passover Seders that are all about Jesus Christ and have bread as centerpieces. 
  Jews for Jesus trying to trick Jews into believing in Christianity. 
  Mormons doing post-humous baptisms of Holocaust victims
  The list goes on and on. It’s just disgusting. >
  
  Guy is full of shit-
  Reminds me a lot of those Christian Zionist "rabbis" who do those infomercials exploiting elderly European Jews. They don't give a shit about Jews, they just need all Jews to return to Israel for The Rapture to happen. Then the Jews can burn just like all the other non-believers. >
  
  Most mainstream evangelical Christians believe that the Jewish people will end up in heaven either because of the covenant or as an apology for the holocaust. >
  
  His position now seems to be "Yeah, I did it.  Yeah, it was stupid.  But your badgering me about it will not prevent me from continuing the ruse...so just quit it already." >
  
  I'm genuinely wondering at this point if his entire campaign is just a big rightwing trolling operation. >
  
  A test just how far they can go with a design-by-committee candidate.
  They’ll just try a holographic Max Headroom-style simulacrum of a “perfect” candidate for any given race. >
  
  Bring back holograms of Reagan and Michael Jackson. >
  
  I thought the GOP clown car may have been full with Gaetz, Gohmert, Bobo, Greene and so many others. 
  They still had room for Santos. >
  
  It appears the one thing he didn't lie about is being Republican. >
  
  Where's those people that were REEEEAL upset about Elizabeth Warren thinking she had some Cherokee heritage? >
  
  And according to a DNA test, she did. >
  
  Having a great great great grandpa who assaulted a Cherokee woman doesn't make her Cherokee. >
  
  According to the Cherokee, yes. They don't use DNA to decide if you're a member or not. But it doesn't seem fair to assume coercion was involved in the reproduction. >
  
  And despite lying about being Jewish and the descendant of Holocaust survivors, the Coalition isn't calling for Santos to step down. 
  No, he's just "begun his tenure on a very wrong note." 
  So a self-admitted fraud a dozen times over isn't welcome into their super-special treehouse, but they'll happily tally his votes on any and all legislation. 
  How brave. >
  
  Jewish Republicans may be Jewish, but they're obviously Republicans first - all 6 of them in the "coalition". 
  The tenets of Judaism are in direct opposition to the Republicans party, and Jews are the most solidly blue voting block in the nation after Black women. >
  
  This is not so black and white. Orthodox Jews vote Republican and Orthodox Jews and Conservative Jews in Israel vote for right wing and far right parties overwhelmingly. The Israeli right wing parties are socially right wing but tend to be more socialistic in terms of economics though. >
  
  Maybe the counter argument is that orthodox Jews don't follow the tenants of Judism that they don't like.   For example, the orthodox Jews are notoriously closed and isolated from others in their community, but they're supposed to treat outsiders as if they were one of your own (from Leviticus 19:33-34):
  
  (33) When a stranger resides with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. (34) The stranger who resides with you shall be to you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt; I am the Lord your God >
  
  I do not want to get off track but Orthodox Jews are fundamentalist and all fundamentalists are literally the closest thing to the original foundation of each religion. The Orthodox literally do not deviate from the words of the Torah, regarding the Leviticus passage there are many passages about not intermixing and not sitting at a table with those who break shabbat or follow strange God's and that is their justification. Also the Orthodox say that with regards to one who wishes to convert or is in need of help they can be open and friendly to those people. 
  One could easily counter by saying that liberal Jewish groups are pro LGBT and pro Women holding leadership positions when it is clear from texts throughout the Torah and Tanakh that Orthodoxy is against LGBT and does not promote women in leadership positions. I.e., the two ultra orthodox political parties in Israel never have had female politicians and the other more modern orthodox party only has 2 women on its list out of its like 14 members and the women cover their hair and speak about women following their husbands and the Torah... So yeah
  From a secular perspective or an agnostic one I do not see how people discount fundamentalists. I have respect for all fundamentalists in that they at least are not picking and choosing, to truly understand a religion any religion we need to analyze what fundamentalists say. >
  
  I saw an interview w/him pre getting busted and he had the gay part down pretty good. He must have watched the Birdcage 8,000 times >
  
  Was he doing Fosse, Fosse, Fosse or Madonna, Madonna, Madonna? >
  
  He was doing Twila Twila Twila ;) >
  
  “My Jewish grandparents escaped the Nazis”
  Republicans: praise the Lord!
  “—by which I meant they were similar to Christ in that they were harassed by the woke left, who were the real Nazis all along.”
  Republicans: it gets even better! Praise the Lord indeed!” >
  
  Santos isn't going to any future Jewish events.
  Santos didn't go to any past Jewish events.
  But he isn't going to any future Jewish events, either. >
  
  r/UnexpectedMitch >
  
  Someone needs to check his FEC filings.
  Edit: forgot to mention the speculation that Clown McCarthy doesn't want to say anything until the vote for Speaker because he needs the vote. >
  
  He's got two 100% contradictory filings, one for 2020 and one for this year. >
  
  If he lied on his resume in the private sector, he'd be fired. >
  
  He can still be “fired” but it just takes about 24 months. >
  
  He could be fired by Kevin McCarthy but he's a coward. >
  
  Let’s see if he joins The Squad.  (/s) >
  
  There is a point where this should be considered another form of voter fraud. 
  If you buy a car that was sold to you as have a 400HP engine but when you get it home it’s a hamster running on a wheel you are the victim of fraud. >
  
  Can reporters stop saying the word “embellished”?  He lied several times and should be disqualified from serving as a lawmaker for the US Congress. >
  
  Right. Embellishing your resume means making your previous position seem more important than it was,  saying you stayed in a job for a few months more than you did, or that you quit an earlier job instead of getting fired. 
  This is just fraudulent >
  
  "Who let all these clowns into our clown party?" - Republicans, after opening their ranks to conspiracy theorists, anti-Semites, Nat-C's, and domestic terrorists. >
  
  So he can't play with their space lasers no more? >
  
  This is election fraud on a scale conservatives only wish they could find. >
  
  I think it’s absurd candidates don’t have to be vetted before elections…. Corporations do it… and you’d be fired if you claimed a fake college degree… well, unless you’re Elon musk… I guess… >
  
  As a Jew, Republicans aren't welcome at any Jewish event. >
  
  I like how he tried to back up his "jew-ish" claim by mentioning Israel twice. 
  Not that he would get why that just makes him look more like an ass. >
  
  There’s still a Republican Jewish Coalition? >
  
  There are still Log Cabin Republicans for whatever it's worth. >
  
  They love tax cuts more than they hate themselves >
  
  I don’t even understand why any Jews would be Repugnican at this point. >
  
  Not many are, but they exist in any group. Hell, there's trans Republicans. Jews are the most solidly blue voting block in the nation after Black women. >
  
  *After black women AND black men. If you break Black voting down by gender, I think it's fair to break Jewish voting down by gender. I want everyone to get their fair, deserved credit and I've seen you make that claim multiple times in this thread. Accuracy in statements like that matter. >
  
  I'm sure he's losing sleep over it and mopping up his tears with the millions of dollars that magically materialized in his accounts. >
  
  What does the Republican Jew-ish Coalition think about this though? >
  
  Is this what they call the “Rachel Dolezal defense”? >
  
  So they are going to let him keep the office he lied to get? >
  
  Honest question- why on earth are there ANY Jewish republicans these days? >
  
  I had a very wealthy Jewish client, she is a multi-multi millionaire. She voted Trump for the tax breaks and because she had Fox on all the time and she had a visceral hatred of immigrants. My guess is that if I spoke with her now, she'd tell me that the LGBTQ community is full of groomers and pedophiles. Propaganda is powerful. >
  
  I’d like to understand why his dem opponent didn’t do any opposition research. It doesn’t seem like it would be hard to find out that he didn’t graduate from college or work at Goldman. >
  
  Democrats are bad at politics. >
  
  They control the Presidency and Senate and only just barely lost the House by the slimmest of slim margins. That's not fair to say.
  It's just that Democrats don't have dedicated propaganda networks who screech the party line and outright lie 24/7 >
  
  Lifelong Dem here.
  In 2009, the Democrats had the White House with a resounding mandate.  They also had comfortable majorities in the House and Senate, and yet, still refused to codify Roe, paid family leave, voter protections, and other important shit that has since been stripped away. 
  No, they’re bad at politics. >
  
  Santos replied, “It’s cool, because I’m the president of the Republican Jewish Coalition. I actually founded it. I can fly.” >
  
  Actually the Gay Republican Jewish Coalition. >
  
  I bet both of them are preeettty mad right now. >
  
  Is it a stretch to say George is not the first person to say he is Jewish but is not? Now go down that rabbit hole. Mix in a little Orwell 1981 and you have the basis of the Black Israelite origin point >
  
  These parasites are everywhere, aren't they?. These parasites want to be everywhere too, don't they?. USA has let them fvcked up America and that's the parody of century. >
  
  Oh, no!  A Republican lied?  Who could have thought that was possible? /s
  (Okay, I'll acknowledge that many, if not most, politicians, regardless of party, "spin," slant," and/or exaggerate/diminish certain facts/events in their own favor.  But,.... outright, deliberately lying?  That takes a Republican.) >
  
  "but we definitely still support him in Congress and will absolutely not ask that he resign or be investigated" >
  
  What else is he willing to lie about? Get his sorry ass out of there. >
  
  They didn’t say they are not going to vote for him. >
  
  But seriously anything he did any worse than what Amy Coney Barrett or Brett Kavanaugh did?
  By the way all three are Catholics... >
  
  But he’s “Jew-ish”! >
  
  I’m patiently waiting for this guy to just peel his face off and reveal he’s actually Roger Stone or Paul Manafort. >
  
  But the guy is jew-ish? Are they anti-semite-ish? >
  
  It’s either “Jewy” or “Adjewcent” >
  
  A “Republican jew” makes about as much sense as a “black klansman”.