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  It's funny that he is obviously to the fact that there is a line of accusers waiting in the wings!
context: Santos has become the absolute poster child for Republican hypocrisy.  No matter what he does now, or did in the past, McCarthy will close both eyes just so he can look in the mirror, hold up the gavel and call himself Speaker of the House.
  The saddest part is - pretty much the rest of the country knows he is  Speaker in name only.  He has no freedom to even have his own opinion (as Trump most recently reminded him of), leave alone make any legislative decisions.  And for this, McCarthy enables someone as corrupt as Santos to remain in the House,  doing who knows what kind of damage to the country.
  How sad it must be to be so desperate. >
  
  
  The saddest part is - pretty much the rest of the country knows he is  Speaker in name only.
  
  SPINO! >
  
  SPINO and still THIRD in line for POTUS. Imagine how horrible he'd be as POTUS. >
  
  If the line of succession actually is needed, does he become actual president or is he still considered a speaker of the house that a single house rep could bring to a vote of no confidence? >
  
  he would be sworn in as President and therefore no longer Speaker or a member of the House >
  
  And if before he's sworn in a no confidence vote is called, is the country without a president? >
  
  IIRC there’s a line of succession that goes all the way down the secretaries of each department (state, defense, agriculture, energy, etc) in some kind of order. >
  
  So you think if the speaker is challenged during a time of succession I'd move down the line to the next level?  When speaker is then reconfirmed would it go back to succession you think? >
  
  I’m not sure, not least because we’ve never had that situation happen before 😂 I’d assume the situation would get pretty contentious tho lol >
  
  I predict a shit show end to end >
  
  "I didn't harass anybody. That was Kitara." >
  
  “That wasn’t me; that was Patricia.” >
  
  That was that Devolder fella! >
  
  I really do wonder if these allegations are so slow to come out because no one can figure out if they’ve been abused/lied-to/stolen-from/etc the same asshole. >
  
  Jesus Christ, such a slow-moving train wreck. >
  
  I'm beginning to think he's more valuable right where he is .... As a poster child for  anti-republicans >
  
  i think that's why Dem's didn't fight hard against Santos before his election. Like Dem's probably hope Trump is on the ticket in 2024, He splits the votes. >
  
  He won in a seat the dems easily should have held. Same for a lot of about 5 or so Dems from NY. If the NY dems didn't drop the ball they could have retained control of the house
  It's also the same reason McCarthy isn't pushing to oust him. It would make his slim majority even slimmer. If the Republicans had a +25 majority, I'm sure McCarthy wouldn't be fighting to keep Santos seated >
  
  In a seat the dems should have held if you know nothing about the situation in NY.
  We were always losing at least 4 seats, the dems tried to pull a South and wanted to gerrymandering the state and got hit with a GOP friendly redistricting.  
  Santos being north shore and 03 is....iffy, Suozzi would have held it but he was a dumbass.  For most of the other dems you had major district issues because downstate got crunched, so there was a lot of fighting for spots.  As a result you had seats where Dems who might have won got ousted due to seniority.  
  Also Cuomo basically destroyed a lot of stuff internally to fill with his fans for his planned run.  
  We weren't holding every seat, but we could have shaved 2 more off.  
  But otherwise yes, if Santos is ousted it's highly unlikely an R would win the district, and that would cut it down.  This is the whole crux of the issue with the House, McCarthy was busy planning to rule with a 30 seat majority that he got his nuts taken away just to hold the gavel now. >
  
  As a New Yorker, what was the reasoning behind Cuomo nominating 2 conservative justices to the court?  I also think Mondaire Jones would have won reelection if Sean Patrick Maloney out didn't force him out of his district only to lose the seat >
  
  So clearly this means that karaoke is his go-to seduction move.  Am I the only one curious what his song choices are?  You know he's got at least one that he thinks is a panty-dropper (not sure what the gay male version of "panty dropper" is)
  "Well, I've met a lot of guys who think they're straight, but then I whip out "Footloose" on the karaoke stage and all that's left is me asking what they want for breakfast." >
  
  This was too good. Thank you. >
  
  Santos is basically the talentless version of the Talented Mr. Ripley. >
  
  Catch Me If You … Whoops, You Caught Me >
  
  Now You See Me, Now You Still See Me >
  
  Kind of a rite of passage for Republicans tbh. >
  
  Dude will be presidential nominee in no time >
  
  He can’t actually, since according to Santos he’s already served two full terms as President. >
  
  George Santos is useful to the republicans:
  
  
  It draws attention from the performance or lack of performance from the speaker of the house
  
  
  It draws attention from other republicans & there prior or current scandals ; it relies on the fact that people are drawn to newer information and larger controversies instead of prior events 
  
  
  George Santos is essentially the class clown distracting the teacher while the other students steal lunch money and break the rules.
  
  
  So long as George Santos exists in the house ; the speaker of the house is shielded from attention to his mismanagement & other committe chairmen such as Jim Jordan >
  
  Yup it feels like rather than having Mccarthy as the "lightning rod" like many past speakers have been, this guy is. >
  
  That's the feeling I've been getting too. George Santos is the GOP scapegoat >
  
  I think the only things missing now are 
  
  Drug trafficking 
  down form if a child abuse
  
  Only a matter of time… >
  
  Or murder >
  
  I bet he's db cooper. >
  
  High-jacker———>Drag Queen————->US congress >
  
  What are the chances at this point George Santos is a performance artist just showing what the GOP will tolerate from it's members for power?
  I'm going with low but that would be funny. >
  
  He's the unfunny Borat. >
  
  At this point I fully expect it to be revealed that George santos has been Sacha baron cohen this entire time. >
  
  How much shittier can this pile of crap get? >
  
  See Trump >
  
  I wish I had as much time in my life as George Santos. He's somehow managed to get elected to Congress AND do all this other wild shit along with everything else we haven't heard of yet. 
  Someone get this man's schedule we need to learn his secret. >
  
  “his secret.”
  With a Little Help from My F~~riends~~SB >
  
  Am I out of the loop here? What's SB? >
  
  FSB. The F in friends isn’t lined through. >
  
  Can't be.. George said it did not happen.