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@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.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/judge-blocks-indiana-abortion-ban-religious-freedom-grounds-2022-12-03/

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.

@MrMazda My point is that @raphjd is an old snowflake getting triggered by something trivial.

@raphjd

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.

@Rotron I'd also love to see the look on the faces of all of the MAGA Edgelords in his comments when they learn that Superman was created by two Jewish immigrants.

@Rotron To be honest, I didn't watch that guy's entire video because it quickly became apparent to me that he doesn't know what he's talking about.

It seems that his entire premise was that Son of Kal-El failed because it had "woke" politics in it, as opposed to classic comic books. Um, frankly, anyone who thinks that comics haven't been progressive since at least the 1970's wasn't really paying attention. Comic book writers, and I know and or have met quite a few, old and young, are generally progressive thinkers. From introducing black superheroes like Black Panther, having the X-Men be a stand-in for nearly all oppressed, marginalized peoples (gays, blacks, Latinos, etc.), to Watchmen being anti-Nixon to V for Vendetta being against Thatcherism.....I could go on.

Comics have always been pushing a progressive agenda. That's why they were attacked by traditional, conservative forces, e.g., Congressional investigations after the publication of "Seduction of the Innocent," or the establishment of the Comics Code Authority.

@lololulu19 First, I believe that Superman's son, Jon Kent, is technically bisexual, not gay.

Second, I think those comics are aimed at a younger audience, so I don't see them doing a dildo storyline. I don't think the Comics Code Authority, or what's left of it, would approve. I don't think they've done anything more than kissing in the books.

@Rotron said in UK - All charges over convoy who shouted ‘rape Jewish daughters’ are dropped:

I somehow understand the hatred about Jews, but have they really done anything that harms other people?

While I'm sure that some Jewish people somewhere did something bad to someone, that's true of all peoples, I'm sure.

People hate Jewish people because they are an insular minority that, throughout history, has refused to integrate or convert to the majorities around them. This makes them an Other, and Others are easy targets for hatred.

Also, humans generally have a hard time conceiving that historical events, on a large scale, are random and irrational. Instead, magical thinking leads people to believe that events aren't actually random, but instead are happening because of some cabal or illuminati guiding the seemingly-but-not-really random events. It's the same human tendency to put order onto chaos that leads people to believe in Q-Anon, Lizard People, or that Illuminati.

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2022/11/20/us/colorado-springs-shooting

22-year old armed and armored gunman entered lgbtq Club Q in Colorado Springs, CO and opened fire. So far, they have announced 5 dead and 25 injured. Police have not released a motive yet.

LINK: Former Anti-Abortion Leader Alleges Another Supreme Court Breach

The façade of the Supreme Court being an apolitical institution takes another hit as it is revealed that Justice Samuel Alito leaked the result and his authorship of the Hobby Lobby decision weeks before the opinion was released. And now we have a peek into the ultra-wealthy, ultra-conservative individuals and organizations that swarm around the Justices in attempts to sway their decisions.

Andor is pretty good. Luthen is basically Space Batman.