Oh, the Whataboutism is strong with the conservative idiots in this post.
Why can't you just admit that Santos is an embarrassment to your party? Doing so doesn't mean other people haven't ALSO lied. But you can't even bring yourself to admit Santos is a comical-level liar.
Which just goes to show, you guys will support anyone so long as the correct letter is after his name (R).
Man, oh man, George Santos is just the gift that keeps on giving. Now, come to find out, he lied to donors and said that he was one of the producers of the Broadway musical Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark.
So, he's now been caught lying about:
His actual name (he has at least 5-6 aliases, e.g., Anthony Santos, George Devolder, Anthony Zabrovsky and George Anthony Santos-Devolder, and Anthony Devolder).
Faking a Jewish heritage (He's not Jewish; he now claims only to be "Jew-ish").
Claiming his grandparents fled the Holocaust (They did not).
Claiming his grandparents were from the Ukraine (They were born and raised in Brazil).
Claiming his mother was the first female executive at a financial institution (She was a cleaning lady and nurse).
Claiming his mother was in the South Tower of the Twin Towers on 9/11 (She was verifiably in Brazil at the time).
Claiming his mother died of 9/11 induced breast cancer a couple years after 9/11 (She died in 2016).
His early education (He never went to Horace Mann for prep school).
His college education (He never went to Baruch College or any other college. He has no college-level degree).
Being a volleyball champion while at Baruch College (He never went there; he never played there).
That he worked for Goldman Sachs (They'd never heard of him).
That he worked for Citigroup (They'd never heard of him).
That he never committed a crime (Brazil has reopened its case involving him having stolen his mother's patients' checkbooks, now that Brazil can locate him in the US).
That he's the survivor of an assassination attempt (No record has been produced that supports someone having tried to kill him).
That four of his employees had died in the Pulse Nightclub shooting (He couldn't name a single victim and has since retracted this lie).
That he did not perform as a drag queen named Kitara while in Brazil (The LGBTQ community in Brazil has come forward with photographic and video records of him performing drag).
Claims to have ran an official animal charity called Friends of Pets United (No such charitable organization has been registered anywhere).
As an unofficial charity, Santos (via Friends of Pets United) swindled a US veteran out of at least $3,000 in a GoFundMe scam set up to raise money to pay for surgery for the veteran's aide dog (Records of the GoFundMe account exist and GoFundMe reports that Santos email addresses have been banned by their service).
He claims to have survived having a brain tumor (Yet no one recalls him ever being sick).
He claims his family is rich because of real estate holdings (No one can locate any real estate holdings for his family. The only property other than his current residence reported to be owned by Santos on his financial disclosures is an apartment in Rio).
He claimed that his campaign was funded by a $700,000 loan from himself (His attorneys have amended his election disclosures to withdraw this loan claim; however, where the money came from since it wasn't a personal loan has not been explained. He's under FEC investigation now).
He worked at Harbor City Capital, which was declared a Ponzi Scheme by the SEC (And yet he demanded that Republicans seat him on a financial committee in Congress, which thankfully they refused).
He has ties to Russian oligarchs, mobsters, and human traffickers.
If McCarthy had been telling the truth when he said that he wasn't going to seat certain people on committees because "integrity matters," then he should never have seated Santos on TWO committees. Yes, Santos has "voluntarily" stepped down from his committees, but that's likely because they took him into the backroom and explained to him that he's going to lose them anyway the moment he's under Federal indictment. If he didn't step down now, they weren't going to help him then when that happens.
Frankly, I think the GOP just wishes that he'd sit the fuck down and never say another word for the next two years.
Flash, but early Flash is better than later Flash. I liked when Flash was more monster-of-the-week early in its run than the drawn-out melodrama of the later seasons.
If you haven't watched The Last of Us on HBO yet, then you should. It is one of the best video game adaptations ever done. It's a post-apocalyptic world wherein a fungus has taken over the bodies of billions of humans and turned them into "zombies."
Episode 3 is a bottle episode about a gay couple who grow old with each other in the post-apocalypse world.
Failed GOP candidate for New Mexico's state House couldn't handle losing his election and decided to shoot up people's houses, including two election officials responsible for certifying the election against him.
Not only did he have an easily discoverable criminal history, but also had copious amounts of bonkers, conspiratorial Internet postings; however, the GOP neglected to vet him and instead gave full-throated endorsements of him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/20/us/solomon-pena-new-mexico-shootings.html
But, I'm sure the crazies on the Right will do what they usually do and accuse him of being a Democratic plant or part of some false flag stunt. I'm sure it wasn't he that shot up those houses; it was Antifa!!
Looks like Heartstopper won big, which it deserves.
@blablarg18 said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:
Matthew 7:3-4 then.
I agree @blablarg18. That's another good quote regarding why @raphjd shouldn't be complaining about lying Democrats, since he's NOT complaining about lying Republicans. Go back and read the verse right before:
"For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you."
@raphjd said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:
You are still intentionally ignoring that not a single Dem is calling out any of your liars.
Here's some reading for you:
@raphjd Tulsi is saying something, but then getting attacked by Republicans for doing so. McCarthy is not going to do or say anything because he needs Santos's vote to support his Speakership once the new Congress is seated.
@raphjd said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:
At least some Repubs are calling out Santos.
Well, now we have to retract any glory your side would have been given for Gabbard attacking Santos on FOX, since now Gabbard is being attacked for not being soft on him during the interview. For evidence, just check Marjorie Taylor Greene's Twitter feed.
@MrMazda said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:
What exactly did he lie about?
He lied about his schooling, claiming to have gone to prestigious Horace Mann prep school, but they have no record of him. He claimed to have gotten a bachelor's degree from Baruch College, but they have no record of him. He claimed to have gone for at least some time to NYU, but they have no record of him. He finally admitted that he has no college education on Monday.
He claimed to be Jewish, stating that his maternal grandparents were Ukrainian Jewish that escaped WWII Nazism by coming to America, changing their last name from Zabrovsky to Devolder. Genealogical records do not show any Jewish or Ukrainian heritage for his family, and he has been castigated by several Jewish organizations. On Monday, he tried to claim he didn't mean he was "Jewish," but that he was "Jew...ish."
Strangely, while also trying to maintain that his family immigrated here to the US to escape Nazism, he also claimed that his mother was a white immigrant from Belgium. His mother is Brazilian, well-documented as a Brazilian and having worked as a nurse in Brazil for some time.
During the period within which his mother was working as a nurse in Brazil, Santos was living with her. He stole some checkbooks from some of his mother's patients and went on a spending spree. Despite his denial, the criminal records exist.
He has tweeted in the past that his mother died in the 9/11 attacks. But then also claims that she survived 9/11 for a few years and then died of cancer. He mother didn't die until 2016, unrelated to 9/11.
He claimed that 4 of the victims killed in the Pulse nightclub shooting were his friends and employees. No record of that has been found. He has since changed his story and said that he was only thinking about hiring some of the victims of the shooting, but couldn't name specific victims.
Basically, the man is a pathological liar who takes any opportunity to embellish his story. He seems to have a habit of trying to link himself to important events to make himself more interesting.
@raphjd said in ‘Get Rid of This Loser’: Trump Adviser Jason Miller Calls on Republicans to Ditch George Santos Over Fake Life Story:Ga
Repubs call for their liar to be disowned, while Dems worship their liars.
No one in power within the Republican Party has called out or criticized George Santos. Neither McCarthy nor McConnell have said anything. All you've got is an ex-Trump advisor and a Tucker Carlson fill-in Gabbard.
NYT: Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction.
Long Island, NY's Rep-Elect George Santos (who used to go by George Devolder until he wanted to play up his Latino-ness) is purportedly a gay, Latino, Jewish Catholic MAGA Republican son of Brazilian immigrants.
However, his biography seems to be collapsing like a house of cards. He claims to be a rags to riches story, while simultaneously claiming that his family's fortune comes from real estate. No real estate owned by the family has been located.
During the time he claims to have been attending Baruch College, we only have legal records of him having been accused of stealing his mother's patient's checkbooks and written fake checks in Brazil. He moved their to live with his nurse mother after getting his GED. Baruch College has no record of him having attended or receiving the Bachelors in Economics and Finance that he claims to have received.
He also claimed to have attended New York University after having the above fake Bachelor's degree. NYU also has no record of him having attended.
After college he claims to have worked as an asset manager for Citigroup, despite the fact that Citigroup had sold off and disbanned its asset management business before he claims to have worked there. Citigroup has no record of his employment in any capacity.
He also claimed to have worked for Goldman Sachs. If you're catching on to the pattern, then you've likely guessed that GS likewise has no records whatsoever of him having worked for them.
Between then and now, he's been evicted from at least 2 apartments in New York for not being able to pay his rent, including a rent-controlled apartment that he fell behind by more than $10,000.
His purported current employer, Devolder Organization, is a boutique client consulting firm....except that has no, and never has had, any clients. From all appearances, Devolder Org has never done any kind of business that would generate any revenue at all. The only "business" that the DO seems to have done is pay Santos a ~$750,000 salary, which he then loaned $700,000 of to his own election campaign.
It has been reported that his campaign received substantial donations from individuals associated with Russian oligarchs. For example, the Daily Beast has reported on donations received from those associated with Russian Viktor Vekselberg, who snatched much of Russia's aluminum and fuel industries during the post-Soviet period.
Other than a social media presence trolling the Left and being a proud online contradiction (e.g., a gay Republican), this man seems to be an empty shell. Did he just receive a lump sum payment from someone wealthy to run in Long Island's election? Did a Russian oligarch just buy a seat in our government?
@serenity I don't know a lot about what's going on in Germany, but from what I've read about these people, they sound a lot like the Sovereign Citizen nuts we have here in America.
@MrMazda Nah, I've read enough posts from him to know when he's triggered, especially when he's choosing to use the snowflake trigger word "woke," my sweetie.
The irony of the ACLU weaponizing the Religious Right's own weapons against them is just so sweet and delicious; I wish I could spread it on toast. Looks like there might be unintended consequences to the Right's religious freedom nonsense. They forgot there are other religions than fundamentalist, evangelical, white Nationalist Christianity.
This is a hollow bill. It doesn't do a damn thing that the Full Faith and Credit Clause of the United States Constitution doesn't already do. Under the FF&C Clause, if you're married in one state, then all other states have to give full faith and credit to that marriage. It's why when you elope to Vegas and then fly back home to Alabama, you're still married. Alabama constitutionally must recognize the legal relationship created under Nevada law.
Gay Rights advocates and attorneys have been arguing against the Defense of Marriage Act for this precise reason for decades now.
@raphjd I don't know anything about the threats part of the story, but calling him a "Huffpost Contributor" in an attempt to malign The Huffington Post is a stretch.
HuffPost used to have a "Contributor Platform" where anyone and everyone could post unpaid articles to their system. They weren't moderated or vetted by HuffPost beyond taking down posts after reader complaints. All of his articles are from that platform. He is not, nor was ever, an employee of HuffPost.
You might as well say "Frequent Reddit Poster..."
@raphjd Didn't he originally become an "influencer" by being obsessed with K-Pop, specifically Jimin from the group BTS? I think at one point he claimed to have married a cardboard cutout of Jimin.
Then he tried to become Jimin through surgery, claiming that he was trans-racial. People were upset by his claims of trans-racialism because he was trivializing the elements of a culture. For example, he had his eyes surgically slanted, and claimed that he wanted to get penis-reduction surgery so that he would have a tiny penis like Asian men.
He's an attention whore who has consistently gotten more and more outlandish in attempts at extending his fifteen minutes. He was never truly a trans person. He was a trans woman for six months, and now he's using his de-transitioning to get on shows like Tucker Carlson and extend his 15 minutes even longer.
