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  Better question…what made everyone believe and elect him?
context: “In one study, we found that low self-esteem was one of the strongest personality predictors of someone’s tendency to lie — and so this pervasive sense of being inadequate and worrying that you’re not going to measure up. … On the other hand, we conducted other research that suggested that having kind of a dark, manipulative personality also is associated with high levels of lying. These people see everyone is a pawn in their game, and they are happy to manipulate people to get exactly what they want.” >
  
  can't put my finger on it but this sounds like someone else... >
  
  Is he orange perchance? >
  
  Is it possible their low self-esteem is because of big diapers and tiny hands? >
  
  In all seriousness, it was probably being terrified of not satisfying his father, getting cut off,  and being driven to self destruction like his dad did to his brother
  He's dead Donny, he's never going to tell you he's proud of you >
  
  I know a couple people like this who lie about everything. Sometimes they will even lie about things that don’t matter to lie about or that are just clearly lies to begin with. I don’t think that some people can control it. >
  
  It's been awhile but I knew someone like this in HS.  He was in my home room and would just lie about the most random stuff.  Easily disprovable kinds of things.  When confronted with his lies he lied some more until eventually he laughed and was like, "fooled yah!  I was just kidding around."
  Except afterwards he went back to lying.  People just stopped talking to him after a while because nothing worthwhile could be discussed without him fibbing about something.  It seemed to be a game to him but no one else found it particularly entertaining.
  I didn't see him the next year. Maybe his parents finally got him some help.  That's what I hope happened because for obvious reasons he didn't make friends so no one really knew or cared why he was no longer going to our school. >
  
  Pathology. >
  
  The better question to ask is why the Republican party attracts so many pathological liars.  Santos isn't the only one in the party.  The entire party is full of them. >
  
  He's the kid at school who's uncle is Michael Jordan and Dad invented the Xbox so he gets all the games for free but can never describe them. His girlfriend is really hot but lives lives in another town.
  He's the adult version of that. >
  
  Weird that they are using past tense like he just stopped lying when he got elected or something >
  
  To me, the very presence of Santos represents the sheer magnitude of McCarthy's craven need to be called "Speaker of the House" (I use the word "called" because he certainly isn't a real one.  He is so bound to the far right,  heck, Trump doesn't even permit him to have an opinion about the insurrectionist that was killed by a copy during the Jan. 6 insurrection attempt).
  If Santos were a Dem, McCarthy et al would be screaming for his ouster.  There would be no case made that he was elected and it was the voter's choice.
  To me, the very presence of Santos says McCarthy will tolerate anyone even someone who is a serial liar, a swindler who takes money from the elderly and a dying dog, and to put a bow on it all, a drag queen, something the GOP culture wars seems fixated on, except when its one of their own apparently.
  How is it that all these contradictions don't cause massive cognitive dissonance in Republicans!?? I mean even people like McCarthy must have some aversion to hypocrisy when it gets this bad??  Or, maybe not... maybe McCarthy et al really are this devoid of any sense of morality. >
  
  Am I the only one linking this guy, Boebert, MTG, Gaetz, etc. to russian interference in US politics? >
  
  Not everything is a conspiracy, some people just lie a lot >
  
  I dunno,  but it might be because he's a piece of shit. >
  
  Santos share the same gene with Donald Trump. Today the Republican party is a party of LIARS. >
  
  No, trump at least lies strategically. Santos is compulsive. He lies when there’s not even any point to the lie. I knew a compulsive liar in college. Compulsive liars are nuts. >
  
  More interesting is what made him tell the truth (if he ever did)?  If telling lies is his default state, what takes him out of that? >
  
  Confrontation with Irrefutable evidence sometimes works… just sometimes. >
  
  He did because he could. What consequences has he faced? What consequences did trump face when he tried to overthrow democracy? >
  
  Reminds me of George costanza, but on a whole other level >
  
  Insecurity. >
  
  Some people are just compulsive liars. I had a roommate who compulsively lied. He was always telling stories. They were pretty obvious though. Like the time when he was ten and took five hundred dollars from his mother's purse and took it to a casino and played Blackjack with it.
  He also had a tell. He'd put his index finger on his upper lip and look you in the eyes. >
  
  prob keepin his lip from quivering, unable to avoid making his tell more obvious >
  
  I think that he thought of it as his "I'm serious" gesture. >
  
  Member of GOP. Part of entrance exam. >
  
  He learned it as a child from all of his moms. >
  
  Because in politics lying or twisting the truth has little consequences. For the GOP, it’s an Olympic endeavor for the gold. >
  
  How about getting what he wants and knowing there is really no cost in lying? He cracked the code! People like to be impressed by power and fame and will give you their trust without question. It’s a human trait to want to be associated with winners. Otherwise why would we bother with sports and the Olympics if we didn’t have the ability to attach ourselves to winning teams? >
  
  It feels like extreme narcissism. 
  Another example is nr. 45. >
  
  It’s because people with his face just lie, look at Kristen sinema