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  He's perfect for the GOP!
context: He looks like Marco Rubio before he went to finishing school. >
  
  Looks like Rittenhouse to me >
  
  So, a lying piece of shit? Yes. >
  
  Say what you will about Rittenhouse, but if you’re trying to say he’s guilty, you’re just plain wrong on that. I don’t like Rittenhouse but even I can realize what he did was in self defence and his “victims” were trying to attack him.
  Edit: cmon guys, we downvoting rational statements and facts now? >
  
  Dipshit put himself in that position. Little boy should have stayed home. >
  
  Let's go somewhere, anywhere, especially during heightened social unrest, brandish a weapon ,and see if someone will assault me so I can shoot them. It seems almost premeditated. >
  
  It was. These fucken idiots don't understand that he went there with the intent of shooting someone. I daresay he was hoping for it. Was he confronted? Absolutely. Did he act in self-defense? Yes. Did he create the situation? Abso-fucken-lutely! It's like those fucken pigs that get in someones face, then tell them they better back off and assault them, then claim it was justified. If that little boy stayed home, it wouldn't have happened, not to mention he drove across state lines actively looking for shit. Makes sense he wants to be a cop. >
  
  They really leaned on his dad (or mum, honestly can't remember) being a resident in Kenosha to lessen the seriousness of it all. There's also a video where he stated he wished he had his AR on him right now so he could let off rounds at people. Dunno if that was shown in the trial. Probs not. He was handled with kiddie gloves. And sure, i would've shot too in those circumstances. But one thing I can say is I wouldn't cross state lines under the guise of wanting to help so I could throw myself into a situation which warranted me using deadly force. That's what he actually wanted. To go somewhere and shoot someone. >
  
  His mom died on 9/11 and died again in 2016.
  This guy can’t even keep track of his own lies. >
  
  Not his fault his mom keeps respawning >
  
  She won the gulag >
  
  This guy is such a piece of human garbage I actually can’t believe it. Everyday some new lie or piece of info comes out about this freak & it doesn’t even seem real. >
  
  A Racist Republican? My word, what are the chances? >
  
  He’s a racist pos, pathological liar. If this was fiction, it would be absurd. Being real just makes it another sad addition to the Republican Party. >
  
  Sounds like Trump, tbh. >
  
  That’s because trump gave permission to wear your batshit proudly and now being a mini trump is called “far right” and they are the same assholes holding up the House from doing a single godamn thing because McCarthy isnt “conservative enough”. KM is plenty fuckin GOP and he’s been a trump bitch, but he isnt stark raving Q head who brings guns to the floor and there are a couple dozen idiot psychos, elected by real humans, who are getting away with holding up congress for that. >
  
  It's not about McCarthy being conservative enough or not, because he certainly is. He's pandered to the Tea Party, and then grovelled for Trump, but now so much of the Republican party don't give a shit about policy or good government, they just want to be loud, obnoxious, disruptive, and famous. 
  Here's a great op ed about the whole thing - Leopards Eat Kevin McCarthy's Face. >
  
  Is the "leopards ate his face" title a common expression in that part of the US, or did the author just lift that straight from Reddit? >
  
  Thank you. >
  
  This is a guy who had a fundraiser for his mom's funeral claiming poverty. Then a week later invited friends to go skying >
  
  Which funeral? Hasn't his mother died two or three times now? First he claimed she died in the 9/11 attacks, then in 2021 he said it was the fifth anniversary of his mother's death... >
  
  no no no, you misunderstand, that was a different 9/11 >
  
  9/11 comes but once a year... >
  
  Twice if you use the British date format >
  
  Well, twice if you use two date formats. >
  
  It's crazy how low the bar is for entering politics >
  
  I'm halfway convinced that because politics is the way it is, you have to be a special kind of fucked up human being to even consider getting into it.  Any normal human being looking at this nationwide circus act is probably nope-ing the fuck out of any inkling of getting into politics... and I feel like this is why you have the amount of insufferable human garbage that you do in the game.  They're the only people applying and you have to have politicians.  Especially on team red, at this point it's filled with so much garbage that anybody who isn't literal human shit that comes into that landfill and is interested in cleaning the place up, or enacting reasonable centrist or relatively centrist policies, is just going to get thrown into the trash compactor before they get anywhere.
  It's cult-y.  Team red functions completely like a cult, other than having no clear leader.  A leaderless cult that somehow seems to have a hivemind. >
  
  I mean honestly I think that's just bias talking. The most fucked up politicians get the most airtime. The majority of "politicians" are low-level and just do some sort of job/function for their community at large.
  My guess (also just bias talking who knows if it's real) is that as we suffer more and more socio-economic issues that compound, it drives more and more people to extremes and so our politicians change to reflect the landscape of the population at large.
  So we have more crazies in general, so we elect more crazies. Wealthy people can just be as crazy or driven to political extremes, so it tracks that even high-level political positions that typically go to the wealthy would begin to show the cracks. >
  
  Power corrupts at every level, HOAs and PTAs are good examples. >
  
  Reddit moderators... >
  
  This is why we needed checks and balances, but now the whole system is checking and balancing itself against the public and it's all going to shit. >
  
  Yea but he also -checks resume -
  Freed the slaves? >
  
  And killed Hitler! >
  
  Wow. >
  
  How did his opponent fail so badly at oppo research?
  Even though people like Santos are not serious people, when they run for office they need to be taken seriously >
  
  There was a local newspaper, run by a former Republican that found all of this information before the election. The editor even went so far as to write that they’d like to endorse a Republican in the race but couldn’t endorse Santos because of these issues. It’s a report that would’ve and should’ve been picked up by larger media outlets and newspapers and there was nothing. Newsday on Long Island didn’t, the AP didn’t , nothing until the New York Times ran the article a few weeks ago. >
  
  I would never expect a Long Island publication to expose a Republican for being shitty. >
  
  Can confirm. On long island, just because of the proximity to NYC and the fact that we're in NY does not mean we're blue. I'm constantly surrounded by conservatives and trump flags still fly.... (What happened to "get over Hillary, she lost?") >
  
  Long Island is where all the pigs go to sleep after their shifts harassing minorities. >
  
  Always  thought it would be Staten Island >
  
  IIRC Staten Island has the most cops as a proportion of population, but Long Island outside the city limits has the most cops in absolute terms.
  Edit: yeah, it’s 26 percent of the force living in non-NYC counties on Long Island and 10 percent on Staten Island. >
  
  Wow good recall on the stat and thanks for the source! >
  
  Lies about his race? Thats a stretch. He never claimed to be Jewish, just Jew-ish.
  /s >
  
  My mom and I had tears streaming down our faces laughing so hard when we heard that on the news because that’s just SO fucking crazy to say! >
  
  I haven’t kept up with this ridiculous person…he actually said that??
  Edit because omg he did >
  
  What???  A racist Republican?  Not possible!  Deep state dark web fake forgery for sure! >
  
  But he’s gay.  R’s gotta hold on to their token gay members so they can refer to him every time they are accused of being homophobic. >
  
  I'm shocked I tell you, shocked >
  
  Well, not that shocked >
  
  People better be careful with this. I'm from Long Island, and this will only make some people support him more. Just stick to the fraud issues (including the alleged check fraud in Brazil) and the fraud he committed when his mom died (he asked a church for money for the burial and did a go fund me page for the same thing) along with the jobs colleges and alleged homes he owned. But trust me, this issue won't make a dent. It'll just make the more conservative like him more and feel sympathy for him and make it seem like a witchhunt >
  
  I’m more than a little curious about how a recently evicted high school dropout jackoff, who recently worked at a customer service call center and had no known assets loaned his campaign $700k. Someone should probably look into that. >
  
  He started a business, that business made over 1 million dollars in a year with no discernable income stream and then immediately shut down because he filed absolutely no licensing or tax paperwork when he started the business. Totally normal, not suspicious stuff. >
  
  What was this business again? >
  
  Four Seasons Total Landscaping >
  
  I might be cynical, but this doesn't sound oniony at all to me. >
  
  Thought this an expectation of republicans during the Obama years >
  
  I didn't even click past the headline - after all, that's what's supposed to be oniony. And this isn't a particularly interesting topic to me, since I'm European.
  My whole train of thought was:
  
  News at 11: Another politician turned out to be a lying shithead. >
  
  Disable my adblocker? Oh I see you mean don't use this website. >
  
  Get a better adblocker, I don't see any prompts like that. >
  
  I'm on my phone. Ad block choices are not nearly as abundant. >
  
  Try Ublock origin on mobile firefox >
  
  Yuuuuup! I never see ads anywhere. YouTube is ad free with this too. I LOVE IT! >
  
  Seriously, anyone who still sees ads is just accepting it. It is so easy to stop seeing the ads >
  
  TLDR: Racist lying party elects lying racist. >
  
  Hey they changed their priority from racism to lies, give them a break >
  
  JFC, what an absolute and complete piece of shit. Fits right in with the horde of other scumbags in that deranged political party. >
  
  How do pieces of shit like this guy win seats? Apparently the bar is pretty low… >
  
  One, GOP vetting is one question - "do you want to own the libs?"
  Two, Republican voters will vote for anything that's not a Democrat.
  Three, Democratic establishment shit-for-brains assholes spend the entirety of their oppo research budgets on primary challenges from the left. >
  
  I really wonder if that third point even matters.  Take Herschel Walker, dude also lied about his jobs, his education, his work with the police, his family, where he lived, and his abortions, he got thoroughly called out over and over again, and still only lost by less than 1%.  
  It's true they could have done a better job with "George Santos" (did we confirm that's his name, honestly, I need to know), but I think it's also on us voters to start having better standards. >
  
  An Outstanding Republican, no Republicans seem to care about this filthy bastard. >
  
  He's a fuckstick >
  
  And not the fun kind >
  
  That might be the thing that redeems him with the Republican party.  There's nothing they love more than lying and racism.  He fits right in. >
  
  So he definitely didn't lie about being a republican. >
  
  He's not fit to even speak the name of the Obamas.  He's absolute trash. >
  
  
  Santos, 34, is facing an internal investigation by the Republican party for actions
  
  An "internal investigation" by the GOP is meaningless. >
  
  As long as he keeps voting for McCarthy he'll get an absolutely free pass, as will anyone else at this point. >
  
  Republican... racist... lied
  You could drop that into any article about today's Republicans. >
  
  Yeah? Well, that's probably true of more than half of the sitting Repubs in ALL of Congress...sad, so sad.