The Atheist
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I'm wondering if he wears glasses just to keep from getting punched in the face.
Or has taken a page out of Rebecca Watson's book and thinks they make him look smarter.
I'm wondering if he wears glasses just to keep from getting punched in the face.
Or has taken a page out of Rebecca Watson's book and thinks they make him look smarter.
¿Por qué no los dos... para los dos?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/01/15/george-santos-harbor-city-capital/In July 2020, a small Florida-based investment firm announced that a man named George Devolder had been hired as its New York regional director. “When we had the opportunity to welcome him to our team, I was delighted,” the company’s founder and chief executive said in a news release. “He’s a perfect fit.”
Devolder is now better known as George Santos, the 34-year-old freshman Republican congressman from New York’s 3rd Congressional District who brazenly lied to voters about key details of his biography. And the company for which he was “a perfect fit,” Harbor City Capital, is no longer in operation. Its assets were frozen in 2021, when the Securities and Exchange Commission accused it of running a “classic Ponzi scheme” that had defrauded investors of millions of dollars.
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It's pretty clear from his interviews that there's something seriously wrong with this guy, beyond just "embellishing." He reminds me of that SNL character who was always lying about everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV85E2S-Idw [starts with fake commercial]
Santos helped promote massive Ponzi scheme.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/01/15/george-santos-harbor-city-capital/
It's pretty clear from his interviews that there's something seriously wrong with this guy, beyond just "embellishing." He reminds me of that SNL character who was always lying about everything:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV85E2S-Idw [starts with fake commercial]
Who will take bets that Santos flits the USA soon?
CNN just ran an interview clip where Santos claimed to be a star of the volleyball team at Baruch, which he said he attended on a full volleyball scholarship, and played so vigorously that he got two new knees. And James Carville says he hopes Santos won't resign because the Repubs will have to answer for him every day for the next two years.
Who will take bets that Santos flits the USA soon?
Why?
He’s having a grand old time.
If shame, embarrassment, and a sense of right and wrong are removed from one’s personality then lying becomes a most natural and pleasant thing.
I just hope that the medical community names this condition Trump’s disorder.
ETA
Random curiosity: are you really going to wait that long to change your Avatar?
MUSTGoing to live on 'Love Island' with the orange buffoon?
That's my impression. Useful idiot. I am going to imagine that they will keep him away from committees and any important meetings, in order to prevent him blabbing stuff inadvertently out loud amongst his fantasy life movie. Just make him sit out in the corridor or something. Go play with himself in the break room.The GOP will keep Santos as long as he's useful, i.e. as long as they need his vote which is the next two years. Remember, being a glaringly pathological liar is not a negative to the GOP.
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That's my impression. Useful idiot. I am going to imagine that they will keep him away from committees and any important meetings, in order to prevent him blabbing stuff inadvertently out loud amongst his fantasy life movie. Just make him sit out in the corridor or something. Go play with himself in the break room.
Actually, make him the Brazilian ambassador, and send him to say hello to Lula in Brasilia ASAP.Tell him he's on a special committee so important, it only has the one, best, person on it, involving secrets so big, nobody can talk about them.
We have a comedy character in an adult comic Viz in the UK that reminds me of Santos
Aldridge Prior - The hopeless liar
George Santos has sometimes called himself George Devolder and Anthony Devolder. It has been alleged that he stole from his roommates, including at least one scarf and one shirt (this may have been before he learned about Ross Dress for Less, a discount clothing store, near his Florida office). Yet the $700,000 question is where did the $700,000 come from. I don't know, but I thought that this CBS story was interesting.Vox reported, "But most importantly, we don’t know where Santos’s money comes from. The Representative-elect loaned his own campaign $700,000 during the 2022 cycle and claimed an income of $750,000. He also listed millions of dollars in assets including an apartment in Rio De Janeiro worth up to $1 million and a seven-figure savings account. It’s a major shift in fortune for someone who was evicted twice, in 2015 and 2017, for failing to pay rent and had been taken to court for not paying debts. Even in 2020, he reported income in only one category — compensation in excess of $5,000 paid by one source — with no other assets." hmm...
We have acomedyreality TV character that's a pathological liar, too. Only he was elected President in 2016. Oh...and in 2020!
George Santos has sometimes called himself George Devolder and Anthony Devolder. It has been alleged that he stole from his roommates, including at least one scarf and one shirt (this may have been before he learned about Ross Dress for Less, a discount clothing store, near his Florida office). Yet the $700,000 question is where did the $700,000 come from. I don't know, but I thought that this CBS story was interesting.
"A controversial donor, who along with his apparent domestic partner gave a combined $34,500 to Santos, is Andrew Intrater, the CEO of a company which once had ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch Intrater is the CEO of Sparrow Capital — an investment firm formerly known as Columbus Nova...Santos claimed to have earned $750,000 in annual salary for the period between January 2021 and December 2022, as well as millions in dividends from his company, Devolder Organization LLC."
FTFY - he isn't a comedy character!
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SCRUB
BRAIN
That's my impression. Useful idiot. I am going to imagine that they will keep him away from committees and any important meetings, in order to prevent him blabbing stuff inadvertently out loud amongst his fantasy life movie. Just make him sit out in the corridor or something. Go play with himself in the break room.
My only question is why would smart Russian oligarchs invest so heavily in such an outright idiot and loser as Santos to get him into Congress? For the lulz?
Aren't Gaetz, EmptyG and Boebert supposed to be running interference? Or is their brands of lunacy now too "GOP-mainstream" to be effective?A distraction?
If a Republican scandal is about to break, his handlers could give him a call and tell him to claim that he won the last four Superbowls, that he coined the word Super Bowl, and that he invented the number 7. That would be a major story that would take airtime away from whatever negative story was about to break.
When does Santos peel off the mask to reveal that he's really Sacha Baron Cohen?
My only question is why would smart Russian oligarchs invest so heavily in such an outright idiot and loser as Santos to get him into Congress? For the lulz?
Either they have become too mainstream, or the Russians don't have enough direct control over them. (They know Gaetz, EmptyG, etc. will be doing dumb things, but they may be doing them on their own schedule, not when the Russians specifically want a distraction.)Why would russians want to get Santos elected?
Aren't Gaetz, EmptyG and Boebert supposed to be running interference? Or is their brands of lunacy now too "GOP-mainstream" to be effective?A distraction?
If a Republican scandal is about to break, his handlers could give him a call and tell him to claim that he won the last four Superbowls, that he coined the word Super Bowl, and that he invented the number 7. That would be a major story that would take airtime away from whatever negative story was about to break.
My only question is why would smart Russian oligarchs invest so heavily in such an outright idiot and loser as Santos to get him into Congress? For the lulz?
He's a vote and influence. Very reachable and already proven to have no moral compass.
Plus anything that discredits the US political system is a win. This is pretty embarrassing.