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  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.
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.