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[–] [email protected] 265 points 1 year ago (3 children)

My god. This deliciously tasty excerpt:

In various campaign biographies, a résumé and interviews, Mr. Santos said he graduated from Baruch College in New York City, where he was a volleyball star on a championship team. He boasted of working at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and amassing personal wealth. He claimed to be descended from Holocaust refugees; that his mother was in the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11 attacks; and that he lost four employees in the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando.

None of those claims were true.

[–] [email protected] 122 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The real question is where tf were the journalists while Santos was running his campaign on these false claims?

Too busy playing horse race? Frantically trying to find something newsworthy about Hunter Biden's laptop? Credulously glorifying some billionaire's childish misconceptions?

Guess we'll never know.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

I remember seeing articles about this stuff during his election. Republicans elected him anyway. That's where we are now

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why are you blaming journalists and not the GOP for not vetting their own fucking candidate.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

¿Porque no los dos?

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The North Shore Leader, a small paper on Long Island, broke the scandal before the November election. By the time other outlets picked it up, Santos had been elected. Grant Lally joined Geoff Bennett to discuss.

PBS News Hour - Small, local paper uncovered and reported George Santos scandal before November election, January 9, 2023

Local media does need support.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

where tf were the journalists while Santos was running his campaign on these false claims?

There aren't enough journalists to go around. There are hundreds of congresspeople and there definitely aren't hundreds of journalists covering random unimportant congresspeople.

People have voted with their dollars, saying they don't care enough about vetting congresspeople before they're elected to actually pay the salaries of journalists to do that.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a reason why there are so many memes about this guy:

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well, go big or go home. I’m sure he met Jesus Christ personally and he knows where Excalibur is hidden.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jesus, after all the shit that has been uncovered about this fucker, 114 voted "No" to throw him out?

Investigate those 114 motherfuckers.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (6 children)

They know the seat will go Dem in the special election, and it just chips away at their teeny tiny majority ahead of the 2024 elections. That's all there is to it. They know he's an embarrassment who continuously broke the law, they just don't care.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Nah. They're on record saying it sets a bad precedent to expel a member before they are convicted. I can only imagine the awful shit they're hiding and are worried they could get expelled for.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not rocket science. The only publicly said reason it's never happened before is they want to respect the decision of their constituents. Unofficially, nobody wanted to see themselves on that chopping block.

From a political scientist game theory point of view it's possible that a majority faction of party A throws a minority faction of Party A on the chopping block and Party B obliges them because they think they can pick up those voters.

So yeah, a lot of resistance to actually unseating someone. For good and bad reasons.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't believe that they treated the first Congolese-American female PHD/Astronaut this way. Did she cure polio for nothing? You can't do enough for some people.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought he stormed Delaware Beach at Normandy while solving P=NP.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wow it finally happened. Now I wonder if they'll take away his Grammy, 2 Oscar's, MTV Movie Award, Nickelodeon Teen Choice Award, and induction into the Grand Ole Opry.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Wasn't he also a winner of the Beijing Film Festival's coveted Crying Monkey Award?

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now convict him of his crimes so he doesn’t have any of the other perks of Congress.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Seven counts of Wire Fraud. He's donezo.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

According to factcheck.org

Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at age 62 if they have completed at least five years of service.

He didn't last a year...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You can't just kick a Galactic Emperor out of Congress, WTF?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So there's finally a line: "you must be this shit to get fired". I expect a lot of people toeing up to it.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We live in historic times. Sixth congressman ejected. First speaker voted out. I wonder what happened around all the other historic times?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wonder what happened around all the other historic times?

You could learn all about it at your local library!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Which two Democrats voted against expulsion and which two voted Present?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (5 children)

According to NYT, Robert Scott of VA and Nikema Williams of GA voted No.

Al Green of TX and Jonathan Jackson of IL votes Present

Sheila Jackson Lee (TX), AOC (NY) and Dean Phillips (MN) have no vote recorded

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/12/01/us/politics/santos-expulsion-vote.html

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

And he went home and masturbated and the world went on like nothing happened.

Seriously wtf, is this the actual end?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Goodbye to Rep. Evil Pee Wee Herman. He was often hilarious, but he had to go. 

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

You shouldn't sully Pee Wee Herman's good name with this man, lol.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He needs jail time for his theft and fraud.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Poor guy, he’s never going to have good work references.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

So just like any other government job, it was porn at work that does a person in.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or did they... apparently the NY Times source was a Mr. George Santos...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You might remember him because he was the first Asian-American to join the Harlem Globetrotters.

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