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  The look of pure misplaced “smarter-than-you” arrogance on this idiot’s face is…astounding. I’d bet money he actually thinks he’s being sneaky with this gesture.
context: The batshit incredulity of this walking, talking charlatan is a perfect encapsulation of the state of the Right in the USA. 
  Their supporters should be ashamed of themselves. >
  
  *NIncompoopery. >
  
  With a splash of buffoonery. >
  
  And for sure some carpetbaggering >
  
  A dollop of malarkey >
  
  A soupçon of chicanery >
  
  Untold volumes of shenanigans >
  
  200% of the recommended daily allowance of douchery >
  
  Buckets of tomfoolery. >
  
  Shithousery >
  
  This motherfucker is Kanye without the discography. >
  
  At least I know Kanye is black and a musician. >
  
  He was a musician for now. Don’t ever expect another album from him again after this whole year. >
  
  Then you clearly don’t know Kanye. >
  
  After seeing all the bullshit he’s done this year, he doesn’t have any mental stability. With the recent shit that he’s said, not only does he need to be held accountable, but locked up in an asylum before he actually harms someone himself. >
  
  Oh I’m not disagreeing with you. But as a once-diehard fan I’ve seen this over and over again. Absolutely shit show followed by an album to ride the publicity. It’s work for the last 15 years, would be shocked if he didn’t try another time. >
  
  Without a doubt kanye is gonna drop another album fans or not. He’s like a racist honey badger, he doesn’t care >
  
  He's gonna need the money lol >
  
  That's OK, Kevin McCarthy welcomes all racists, con men, idiots, and sex offenders. >
  
  And people say there's no diversity in the GOP. How wrong they are. >
  
  Eep, when Elise Stefanik was talking about how diverse their caucus us I wish I could have seen Paul Gosars face. He's tight with white nationalists >
  
  This guy is such a over-the-top cliché of a moronic alt-right, self-hating gay man... are we absolutely certain he's not actually Andy Kaufman just playing a bit? >
  
  Honestly, his lies are so transparent he had to have spent the whole campaign wondering “why is no one calling me out?”
  Think it is possible there’s a theatrical element to this, and when he won he just saw new possibilities. >
  
  I mean trump laid the roadmap >
  
  Trump at least was not claiming he’d done shit that it was easy to prove he absolutely had not done, like graduating from a college that had never heard of him or working for a bank that thought likewise.
  Forget oppo research, this dude’s campaign could’ve been foiled by anyone with some time and access to Google.
  NY Democratic Party should be ashamed as hell. >
  
  For what it’s worth, opposition research is usually farmed out to a private vendor….but I hear ya, there was definitely some professional malpractice here. >
  
  Holy crap.
  Is the issue the disappearance of local news? >
  
  Was listening to the New Yorker podcast last week and they actually took a minute to talk about that as part of the problem, how specifically they have become so nationalized they felt they didn’t do everything they should have in reporting on this guy, even though they had a lot of the research months ago. It was a really interesting part of the segment. >
  
  Is there any proof this guy is even a citizen? >
  
  There is actually an interesting case to be made that he came here illegally, had a green card marriage 2012-2019, conveniently the exact amount of time one has to be a citizen to run for office, then filed to run for office THE SAME WEEK HE FILED FOR DIVORCE. Shit's suspicious as fuck, especially coming from this fucking guy. >
  
  Wow.  That sounded like a silly conspiracy theory, so I went looking for evidence to refute it, but there really isn't any.  It looks like the only positive evidence that he's a U.S. citizen is that he was described as such by a Brazilian court when he was on trial for forging checks. The court was probably just taking his word for it, so that's not worth much at all. >
  
  Dude was in court for forging checks and now is an elected official? >
  
  Yes. He evidently admitted to the charges, though he says he is not a criminal, it is apparently still an open case.
  Also, happy cake day! >
  
  It's open because Brazilian authorities didn't know where he was,  until now. >
  
  Yes, I guess I should have said, "no, he was not in court but his case was!" >
  
  I just gotta ask, why does a guy who variously claims to be Latino, Black, and Jewish think he’s going to be in with the white power crowd? I’m beginning to wonder if he doesn’t need medication. >
  
  And what's the alt right white power opinion of gay folks? >
  
  I argued with a guy I knew from high school who was gay about how Trump was gonna be terrible for LGBTQ+ people. He was adamant nothing would change for gay men. I think some gay men think even if they’re part of LGBTQ, they’re men so they’re better than the rest. >
  
  A gay white man is almost the right’s favourite person so some of us come to believe if we can just be discreet about who we see in our “personal time” we get to be part of them instead of the undesirables, and for a few it actually works. 
  Any group has members willing to be “one of the good ones” but the fewer minority groups they belong to the more you find. 
  For example republicans have some gay white men, some straight white women, and some straight BIPOC men, but how many black lesbians do you see in the Republican Party? Not nearly as many, even relative to population sizes. >
  
  They like to have a small group of token minorities to display. >
  
  Dude's just trolling us at this point. It's crazy that this is what our highest legislative body has turned into: a bunch of immature grifting attention seekers. >
  
  The GOP is succeeding in their goal of making a mockery of government. They want to discredit, destroy, and retool it for their fascist fantasies. >
  
  Grover Norquist straight up said out loud that they want to shrink the government until it’s small enough to drown in the bathtub. 
  And nobody even fucking blinked. >
  
  There is no bottom to this man's stupidity is there? >
  
  He’s a gay white supremest from Brazil that went to Harvard, Yale, UCLA, and trump U. He won the Indy 500 in 1988, the NBA scoring title last year, and he’s really good at golf. I’m not sure what more he can do to earn your respect. 🤷‍♂️ >
  
  Don’t forget Jewish >
  
  Oh yeah, forgot that one…he’s a gay, jew-ish, white supremest form Brazil, where he forged checks and fled the country, allegedly. He has my vote! >
  
  Ran a marathon backwards and still came in first.
  Bodyslammed Andre The Giant in front of 100 million screaming Santosmaniacs at the Superdome, and then the next day Andre died. >
  
  Naw,  he's only white suprema-ish. >
  
  Bravo. :) >
  
  The far right would love to drag his gay Hispanic mutilated corpse behind a truck and what’s he do? Salutes them.
  Georgie they’re never gonna accept you in the club, and indeed they actively hate you. >
  
  He isn’t Hispanic, he is Latino. >
  
  The more I know of this guy, the more I hate him. >
  
  He is con artist >
  
  Wtf is wrong with this dude.  And how the hell did anyone vote for him?   He just seems bat shit crazy.  I thought the two howler monkeys were nuts but this dude is “I probably have a human foot in my freezer” nuts. >
  
  Because the Dems dropped the ball on NY as a whole and the media focused on crime. >
  
  This is not a politician. This person is obviously paid to weasel into congress to cause chaos and disruption.
  Our country is being destroyed and half of the country is cheering it on >
  
  We should assume nothing about this guy. 
  We should not “just believe” he is gay just because he says he’s gay.
  He has lied about everything else. >
  
  I’m skeptical as well. I think he’s a plant. His entire identity is essentially made up, or at the very least twisted into something else. I wouldn’t believe a word that comes out of his mouth. And it greatly concerns me that he will be privy to potentially sensitive information very soon here. He needs to be thrown the fuck out of Congress. Extradite his lying fucking ass back to Brazil to face those fraud charges. Then when they’re done with him, he can come back and face fraud charges here too probably. >
  
  I mean the dude is basically a mole right?  Do we seriously even know who he actually is?  Like 100% his real name or where he’s from? >
  
  Someone needs to teach this man about a fucking v neck sweater >
  
  He dresses exactly liked a repressed gay man. It's uncanny. >
  
  this person is literally mentally ill and should be in a psych ward somewhere >
  
  I mean some Brazilians are crazy racist. I met a Brazilian Uber driver who just went off on African Americans unprovoked when I went to the US a few years back. >
  
  The irony of citing the behavior of one specific Brazilian to support your thesis about Brazilians being racist shouldn't be lost on you. >
  
  Wait until you find out it wasn't a thesis. It was a comment on reddit. >
  
  Wait till you find out the definition of thesis >
  
  
  A proposition that is maintained by argument.
  A dissertation advancing an original point of view as a result of research, especially as a requirement for an academic degree.
  
  Common sense. Ask an adult to explain it to you some time. Ask them if they think a thesis is exactly the same thing as a two sentence comment on reddit and if they have enough sense to differentiate the two. You'd be surprised. >
  
  Thesis 
  Noun
  “a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.”
  Rekt
  Gg n00b >
  
  He is whatever Q-anon wants him to be >
  
  He’s Qay. >
  
  Does a "gay" (no disresprect to the LGBTQ community, I just don't know what is true with this guy) Republican think the Proud Boys will embrace him? Maybe after he undergoes conversion therapy. >
  
  His boyfriend he was seeing while married to his wife came forward to dish, so I trust he is LGBTQ. >
  
  I don’t trust that that wasn’t a fabrication at this point either. Literally every major point in this guy’s resume/background was made up. >
  
  That's fair, lots of straight republican men with wives also have boyfriends. >
  
  Or Unmarried Rs from South Carolina... >
  
  The ladybug farmer? >
  
  The ladybird himself. >
  
  Fuck this Nazi.  I'm still waiting to hear a good reason why he should be sworn in and not permanently ejected from politics. >
  
  I'm betting that as soon as McCarthy gets enough votes to become Speaker he ends up ejecting Santos from the House. >
  
  Can the speaker do that? >
  
  The House can choose not to seat him if he doesn’t meet the criteria - e.g doesn’t meet the citizen requirement. That has happened before (age criteria).
  Once seated a Rep can be removed for a variety of issues.
  The latter requires a supermajority vote. Can’t remember if the former does. >
  
  There’s a zero percent chance they’d get get rid of him >
  
  This is fucking bullshit. These people have no place in a civil society. Kick this scumbag to the fucking curb. >
  
  Ok , so when I first heard that the ok sign was co-opted by white supremacist's I didn't believe it. I myself used that sign and all it meant was ok. But after years of seeing certain people use it and learning that it was in fact co-opted I had no choice but to accept the truth and stop using it.
  At this point everyone knows what the ok sign is being used for. He knows it. >
  
  The OK sign means asshole in some cultures. Like worse than the middle finger. Similar to the peace sign but you have palm facing inward not outward. 
  But actually today is the first I've hard it was a white power hand signal. I don't use the OK sign so I haven't missed much. I still point at people to get their attention even though I had one person one time tell me it's rude. >
  
  It's been a thing since trump first got elected and if you Google it you'll find a lot of instances in political settings from people who would seemingly be racist. >
  
  It was a gesture being used to mean white power long before trump got elected. Someone flashed it at me and said “white power” in 2004 >
  
  It's not the OK symbol, it just looks like it.
  The 3 raised fingers are form a W, and it has been the White Power "gang sign" since at least as long as gang signs have been around.
  I first saw it in the early 90's but I'm probably not the first person ever to see it, so it's likely longer than that. >
  
  Fuck him. As a gay man, fuck him! It’s going to end badly for him when all the homophobic assholes turn on him. I won’t feel bad at all! Again…fuck him! >
  
  Yup, just look how well being close to Hitler and the head of the SA worked out for Ernst Rohm, who was gay.
  Spoiler alert for those unfamiliar: It didn't. >
  
  what a sack of human waste >
  
  I wonder if his district is proud of the clown they elected? >
  
  Has anyone seen this guy in the same room as Sacha Baron Cohen? >
  
  Not far right.  White supremacists. Say what they really are.  Nazis >
  
  He looks like an effeminate priest, doing the Macarena >
  
  I'm cracking up lmfaooo >
  
  He's desperate for acceptance from anybody at this point! >
  
  “Everyone hates me anyway so why not go full scumbag?”
  -George Santos, probably. >
  
  Yeah that’s the “white power” hand gesture… if it’s not photoshopped then the guys depravity just went to another level.
  Edit: not photoshopped, watched the video. >
  
  That's a very dainty Hitler salute >
  
  Keep Mein pinkie extended >
  
  Important to have the Reich form for the gesture, of course. >
  
  This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 82%. (I'm a bot)
  
  
  WASHINGTON - Incoming Rep. George Santos appeared to flash a widely known white supremacist hand sign on the floor of the U.S. House on Thursday evening, according to images captured by photojournalists.
  In photos, Santos is seen raising his right hand to vote for Rep. Kevin McCarthy to become the next Speaker of the House.
  A Santos aide, presented with the photo outside Santos' congressional office, refused to answer questions from Newsday about the hand gesture and shut the door in the reporter's face when pressed for comment.
  
  
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  Skin check, son. You will still be up against the wall. >
  
  Where exactly is Sasha Baron Cohen at this moment? I mean... Clean shaven, glasses, new hair cut... I'm calling it: "Santos" is the next "Borat". >
  
  Whose gonna tell him what white nationalists think of gay Latinos who are “Jew-ish”. Also nazis hate Catholics too. This guy is nuts. >
  
  The dude is a stooge. >
  
  Kakistocracy >
  
  Compulsive liar, Nat C, and all around perfect example of why the 14th amendment exists. This deceiver is the very definition of 'unqualified'. >
  
  "Hand gesture used by the far right"
  White Power.
  Say that, it means 'White Power'.
  It's not an OK sign, the thumb and index finger and the middle finger are a P and the middle, ring and pinkie are a W.
  Don't tip toe around it because most people will just be like 'oh it doesn't matter it's just an "okay" sign'.  It isn't. >
  
  Allow me to display the hand gesture of antifascism. 🖕 >
  
  You cant even accidentally do that... >
  
  What a piece of lying garbage >
  
  All these people making Nazi gestures and statements like the Nazi’s wouldn’t have come after them first! 
  Buncha fools >
  
  He's the plaything that Gavin McGinnis and Stewart Rhodes pass between each other.
  Alpha male super studs.
  Edit- My last name is Rhodes and I can not tell you how much it bothers me that I share a name with that traitor. If I met him in person, we would have words. >
  
  I keep waiting for Ashton Kutcher to come out on the House floor and tell us we've all been Punk'd... >
  
  Im sorry, but the hand gesture is used by white supremacists and this should be clearer and called out for what it is. >
  
  Using the same gesture NZ Christchurch killer used is so fucked up. >
  
  Used by white supremacists.  It’s a “white power” gesture. >
  
  This is what I'm talking about when someone (white) says they're afraid of using "OK" because they might be called a racist.
  1) Racists love that fear because it assumes minorities are stupid and waiting to call someone racist. "It's just an OK symbol, they think everyone's a Nazi."
  2) Look at how weird he's doing it. These losers NEED you to know it's racist. That it's not "OK". 
  When I got a grimy fucker throw one at me, it was always weird like that. And the cowards never spoke to me where it'd make sense they'd be saying "okay". >
  
  Looks like he's found a new grift
  That isn't going to go over well with the huge Jewish community in his Long Island district >
  
  He really should have specified "total dumbass" on his resume.
  At least there would have been something true about it. >
  
  He’s pathetic, and he fits right in with the Republican Party. >
  
  Of course he did, he was jew-ish last week. >
  
  Genuinely thought he was dressed as a priest at first glance. >
  
  I thought Republicans hate divorced, gay, immigrants? >
  
  First the confederate flag in the Capitol and now this. SMH my head >
  
  Yea hes saying hi im an asshole in q anon sign language >
  
  What a douche… >
  
  Boy that means white power. >
  
  George Santos: “None of this drama happened when I was the speaker” >
  
  This SoB will now have access to Top Secret material - when in fact - Santos could not qualify for a position at Walmart! >
  
  "I didn't say I was Black, I said I watch Black-ish" - George Santos >
  
  Well, he’s a republican. So. >
  
  It always baffling when I see a minority person pretending that they are a white supremacist. Guy is a fucking POS. >
  
  I don’t understand how his charade can be allowed to continue. The voters didn’t vote for this person, they voted for a version so heavily distorted, that they bear no resemblance to one another. Isn’t there a point where that means something, and constitutes fraud? There certainly is within consumerism, so what’s the difference? >
  
  Which part of his Jew-ish heritage is down with white power? >
  
  Gang signs in the capitol? I guess it's ok if there's an R next to their name >
  
  He looks like evil Stuart Smalley. >
  
  How does a gay guy with the last name of “Santos” flash the white power sign? >
  
  According to Nick Fuentes, this would fit with his notion of Castizo Futurism: white nationalism by non-white people or those who are commonly aligned with Hispanic/Latin. >
  
  hey!  he's a Q-anon sheep!  who knew? >
  
  In all seriousness, the media needs to print this photo and constantly ask McCarthy and other Republicans for comment on camera.  Don't stop. >
  
  The DNC really fucked up by apparently not doing any opposition research on this guy when he was running. >
  
  George Santos uses white power hand gesture popularized by right....there, I fixed the chicken shit headline >
  
  He’s such a liar about everything. He doesn’t stand for anything. My guess is that he’s smart enough to know that the worst element of congress would embrace him for making the hand signal. >
  
  He was probably rolling a booger. >
  
  Fifty bucks the Smails kid picks his nose. >
  
  This guy is a pathological liar who plays in his own reality. He has no dedication to any movement or ideology except for his own self interest. He is incapable of embracing any ideology, good or bad. There is no way he is affiliated with anyone except himself. >
  
  "far-right."
  Let's go ahead and call them white supremacists. >
  
  *Regular Republicans >
  
  Republicans flashing gangsta signs. >
  
  Dude it’s a fucking 4chan sign >
  
  The biggest losers, these people. This is grade school shit >
  
  Absolute no shame. >
  
  I don’t understand. Do right wing neo Nazi fascists support gay people now? Doesn’t this guy understand that the people he’s pandering to would put him against the wall the first chance they get? >
  
  How edgy. When I was 12 I also like signs like that and we made secret codes where A was 1 and B was 2. 
  Pretty sure when they meet up in his treehouse they talk about mean girls. >
  
  What's with all the racist shit on the downlow? Shouldn't we just skip to arm bands? >
  
  I have a hand gesture of my own I'd like to show him. >
  
  I mean, he has no other choice but to align with whoever will have him. The rest of the congress doesn't want that shit stain. >
  
  As George Santos is the son of Adolph Hitler, this does not surprise me.... >
  
  Republicans will vote for anything >
  
  And he still isn’t wearing a V neck with a tie! >
  
  Do we even know if he's a citizen? Do you need to show proof of US citizenship to get into Congress? >
  
  So cartel gang signs!, very professional, criminal that is! >
  
  I’m convinced he’s just a Borat wannabe actor. >
  
  Is this guy not super gay? >
  
  Why a paywalled website when a photo could do? >
  
  He is a twatwaffle. >
  
  Hang on to your kids; I think that this guy actually eats babies.
  This is what Republican voters deemed worthy to represent them in Washington.
  This is what the Republican Congress deems worthy of their caucus.
  This is a leading indicator of a country at risk of losing its democracy. >
  
  This fucking guy… >
  
  I should be surprised. >
  
  Another proud Republican that will face zero consequences from the caucus.