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  Is it just me or does he look different on the House floor than he does in his photos? At this point I question everything about this guy, 😂
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. >
  
  That’s because he is Trump’s son. Seriously, that’s what some people are saying. >
  
  Some people say the earth is flat. Is there any evidence to this? >
  
  It’s becoming the Trolley Problem. How will the Republicans answer? Switch the tracks to Santos or the entire GOP? >
  
  their MO for scandals is to pretend their is no scandal. If there is a scandal, it's not a big deal. If it is a big deal, it's Democrats' fault. And if it isn't, well, you can't force them out and eventually people will be concerned with something else. 
  Although I really doubt he wins reelection in 2 years. He probably won't even win his primary. But he'll be there for 2 years since Republicans will just be like "Hunter Biden was worse!!!!!! Ben Ghazi!" >
  
  Think I read somewhere that he told leadership he will not seek reelection. Not that his word means anything. >
  
  It's the word "seek" which is malleable. >
  
  and the word "not" >
  
  and the word "will"
  You see the problem?
  When questioned about the meaning of a word...Somebody said, the only real question is who is to be the master, the man or the word. Republicans chose the man. >
  
  Will he show his birth certificate?
  We dont know who he really is. >
  
  Even if he does show one, we'd need to make sure it's real too. >
  
  I’m willing to bet that this clown doesn’t even need glasses.  They look fake.  lol >
  
  Thank you! I thought I was the only one. I've been thinking they are fake for a while now. >
  
  How tall is he? He lied saying he was a star volleyball hitter in college. Those guys are huge. I can understand people getting duped by the other stuff, but unless dude is alot taller than he looks, somebody should have known he wasn’t a college volleyball star. >
  
  Haha yeah that one struck me as odd also, and if he was tall enough.. he seriously let himself go because he doesn’t look all that old lmao. He looks 6’ MAYBE. >
  
  He’s 34 I believe. Would have been in college just over 10 years ago. >
  
  Not one, NOT ONE OF YOU listened when Grant Lally of the North Shore Leader started raising the alarm
  
  But, look, it was a busy year in New York. We had a very hotly contested gubernatorial election, which was within a few points. That dominated the news cycle. You also had a lot of other open congressional races in the neighboring districts. So a lot of the media got distracted in looking at really the bigger race, not the local races. >
  
  I'm expecting the news story that Santos is actually three toddlers in a trench coat to break any day now. >
  
  I feel like this actually will help Republicans amongst some members of their base. This person is a POC and allegedly gay. By him showing just how much of a fraud he really is, they can subtly or not so subtly start implying that POCs and LGBT are as craven as he is and that it was wrong for them to accept him into their ranks due to his background. They’ll make themselves out to be the “true victims” of such an insidious person. >
  
  “Of course it bothers me,” Daniel Zimmerman, a 70-year-old registered Democrat, told POLITICO as he left a local pharmacy Thursday in Great Neck, a waterfront enclave in the heart of the district. But, he added, he’d vote for Santos again. “Right now I’m a Republican because Democrats, they’re destroying our country. I don’t like the president,” >
  
  How do you counter this? I have family that thinks basically the exact same thing. >
  
  I'd say ask how? Biden hasn't taken guns nor did Obama, so and have evidence ready that shows they aren't socialists or respond with questions about Jared being in the cabinet despite cited security concerns and cutting deals with Qatar and MBS but that would require a lot of questioning and many people arent unfortunately open to receiving facts that question what tucker Carlson tells them. 
  Hell, look at how many people thought Obama was president during hurricane Katrina. >
  
  And the number of people that think Obama was president on 9/11. >
  
  And dodged the draft during Vietnam. (when he was about 8 years old ) >
  
  And to think, he started off the 2000s with one of the biggest hits of the decade, Smooth, with Rob Thomas. >
  
  At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if he turned out to be an android >
  
  I bet his glasses are flat lenses. >
  
  They're running Carlson/Santos 2024, I'm calling it now. >
  
  Wait, he had roommates? How is that possible? Is he a real human and not an android? The story of Santos is a great one for a book or movie. He's a real Walter Mitty. >
  
  I bet he doesn’t even need prescription glasses… >
  
  Those aren’t even his real eyes >
  
  How did this guy get to election day with none of his past coming out? >
  
  If Matt Gaetz, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert haven’t been removed from Congress, Santos sure as hell won’t be going anywhere.  The House is going to be a total shitshow for the coming two years. >
  
  Why does he look like a young Peter Griffin?  Someday this will all be a flashback to him. “Like the time I was inducted into Congress…” >
  
  Real life Talented Mr. Ripley but without the subtlety and tact of Matt Damon. >
  
  I'm just waiting for him to rip off his wig and say...."I am Edward Kimberly, the recluse brother of my sister Anthea!" >
  
  The amount of publicity this clown is getting will make him the Republican nominee for president pretty soon, they’ll pick him to own the libs! It’s 2016 allover again >
  
  This guy just screams republican to me he’s a liar a cheater and a thief that’s the holy trinity >
  
  I think he’s just a perfect fit for the Republican Party 🤔 >
  
  It’s the Republican party’s fault for not vetted him or they intentionally overlooked his behavior. >
  
  Least surprising thing I've ever learned about Pantso on fire Santos >
  
  He fits right in >
  
  Government has proven they are dumber than a sack of potatoes. Each time George Santos story comes out, you begin to ask “how the hell did he get in?” >
  
  He’s the perfect personification of a political party.  And he will likely receive no repercussions and have a pension the rest of his life because he ran in a state dumb enough to elect him.  Congrats! >
  
  Just look at his face. 
  He’s a shit eating liar who cannot be trusted. >
  
  What is wrong with his skin!?!?!? >
  
  He is the epitome Republican. They have achieved totality. >
  
  He’s going to have the most edited Wikipedia entry ever lmao. >
  
  Room O2 levels are getting low....The omnipresent mouth-breather Trump, the sedition caucus, MTG & Butthead,  Santos....and now Biden's document problems. Congress will have to act to remove Santos otherwise this guy is going nowhere. I'd like to be wrong..... >
  
  In every picture of him, why does he always look like he is surprised you found Waldo in a Where's Waldo book? >
  
  Roommate implies that you are paying part of the living expenses. >
  
  This guy has been a bald faced liar his whole life. He’s not going to buckle under the pressure of a few politicians and reporters telling him to resign. He’s going to take his paycheck for the next two years and the benefits of a former congressman. Hell he’ll even sell the movie rights!
  He’s kind of like an evil Walter Mitty! >
  
  Selling the movie rights: Mr Santos goes to Washington!! >
  
  I don’t even think those glasses have a prescription. >
  
  He sold the most cookies in his Sun Flower troop, even beating Peter Brady. >
  
  What hits? He’s a US House Rep. that no one has the time to get rid of. Sure, he’ll probably lose the next election, but by then he’ll have made enough business contacts/blackmailing victims to get a job as a “consultant” or something. 
  Lying on this level with this frequency is something that most people can’t imagine, and don’t know how to handle very well, so when someone like Santos does it, people warp around the lie, or don’t engage with it, which has the effect of keeping it going. Everything in his life has told him there are no consequences for this strange behaviour and there probably aren’t going to be any. >
  
  Srsly where was all this during the race? >
  
  A politican who steals. Who knew. >
  
  I was substitute teaching today in a class with high school seniors, and not one of them had heard of George Santos. When I told them the story, they were absolutely enthralled, but my question is how cannot one teacher in this whole school have told them about this, and how could they have not heard about it even tangentally in their lives?
  And then I realized, this is what the Republicans bank on. The fact that a large portion of the population is so out of touch they don’t even know who George Santos is. I know technically these are still children, but no one in their lives has mentioned this around them, so it is obviously more widespread than just these students. >
  
  What difference do all these headlines make if literally nothing will happen to this fucking guy?
  Same for Trump. Hard not to feel like Santos is already past the point of being touchable. More revelations about him being a fraud and a liar only seems more on brand for the GOP, so not sure how this hurts him? >
  
  Why the fuck is this going on for so long? He lied. Ditch him. It shouldn't take this much pressure to get this little progress. >
  
  George Santos use to be my neighbor and I caught him trying to poison my little puppy. >
  
  At this point I would be surprised if his name is actually George Santos >
  
  At this point I don’t even think the glasses are real. >
  
  I feel like at some point, people are going to start making lies about him, and it'll all sounds believable...the irony! >
  
  “I don't trust government and I want the swamp drained. Santos, I mean…I trust in what’s best for our party.” >
  
  This guy can disrespectfully fuck off >
  
  
  U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has said he won’t ask for Santos to resign either.
  It was recently revealed that Santos’s campaign paid a staffer nearly $100,000 to pretend to be McCarthy’s chief of staff and get money from donors.
  
  You would think McCarthy would be more mad about this. >
  
  Has the man actually ever had a proven job besides maybe thief? >
  
  Lying Russian asset you mean >
  
  Lying Republican is a redundancy. Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a Republican. But I repeat myself.
       —Harry S. Truman >
  
  *one of the lying Republican congressmen. >
  
  He is what republicans are now! They all should be escorted out of the building