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  That’s because he is Trump’s son. Seriously, that’s what some people are saying.
context: I just think back to when I held a clearance as an entry-level gov contractor and the degree to which I had to be investigated, it absolutely baffles me that candidates for congress are not subjected to the same levels of investigation once they officially declare candidacy. I know OPM is always backlogged, but seriously, we should never be in this mess in the first place. >
  
  Yeah, I'm wondering what's going on.
  Did his opponent do no research at all? >
  
  His opponent is a wealthy establishment Dem, so no one above the level of reddit poster is going to ask how he managed to fuck up so badly. >
  
  his opponent's campaign put out a thick packet of oppo research (someone linked on Twitter, I don't know how to find it again) and it was a pdf with page after page after page of questionable tweets and stuff.
  Someone put a lot of time into that. That someone didn't pick up the phone and call NYU. >
  
  Screw that. You don’t need to leak it or get a newspaper to do the writing. Just post it loudly during the campaign. They didn’t. Santos is the villain but the Dem campaign screwed up being so milquetoast on how they handled this. >
  
  "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. He takes up the trade of a priest (or representative) for the sake of gain, and in order to qualify himself for that trade, he begins with a perjury. Can we conceive any thing more destructive to morality than this?"
  
  Thomas Paine - Age of Reason >
  
  "George Santos" inspired Paine to write those words when he was a younger man in England. >
  
  In fact Santos ghost wrote all of Paine's work. >
  
  ghost wrote it before he was even born last year
  He's rather amazing. >
  
  He stole my birth certificate,  don't trust him even if he shows long form >
  
  Will the real George Santos please stand up? >
  
  This is the real Santos. A leopard cannot change it spots. Every time we notice another spot… there’s another we’ll notice tomorrow. >
  
  At this point I'm starting to think this guy's fucked over every person he's met in some way.