i saw mommy kissing santos (george)

I am not gonna lie, the story about the dog tipped me over into “this isn’t a human being, this is movie character” territory and I know am just waiting for the next ridiculous revelation with a level of anticipation that I will absolutely regret once he manages to do something consequential on a national level

"The reports that I beat Morgan Wallen and stole his car are shocking and insane. I didn't steal his car, he offered it to me."

"Lots of people whose cars I didn't steal have been sending me messages thanking me for not stealing their cars."

"I did not dress that dog up in drag."

https://i.makeagif.com/media/1-05-2016/ND8MN_.gif

“Over the past 24hr I have received pictures of my drag Queen “performances” throughout the years along with supportive messages.”

Isn't Santos made out of pure negative id, a folk devil made from left over fear after the pandemic.
LIke if you look back into his past long enough are you going to find out that he never actually existed. Just manifest to feed off other people's panic

That sounds like a Coscarelli horror movie

Brazilian outlet Piauí has resurfaced an incredible 2021 interview with George Santos, where he claimed he was just mugged on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight—they stole his *shoes*—and said he planned to donate his entire congressional salary to "four NGOs" https://t.co/n9PG6vuDW0

— Roger Sollenberger (@SollenbergerRC) January 20, 2023

the intersection he claims he was mugged at is one block from trump tower

checks out

https://media.cnn.com/api/v1/images/stellar/prod/230120141217-01-george-santos-drag-queen-claims-brazil.jpg

A clearer photo of Kitara, but there's so much deep-fakery these days, this could've been made by a 14 year old for all we know

In an interview with CNN, Rochards said that it’s Santos in the pictures, adding that she knew him from LGBTQ events he attended in the town of Niterói, near Rio de Janeiro, where she said he was well known in the gay community.

Rochards said she recognized Santos from a recent news report and dug up the old pictures but was surprised to learn that Santos was a Republican.

“I don’t know him now, I only knew him then,” she said.

I once worked with a guy who was a pathological liar. Everyone knew it, but didn't really care because he was sort of childlike and his lies were of the variety of "I ran into Kanye West and he gave me a tape of his new album but then this guy dressed as Spiderman stole it from me on the bus."

that's more plausible than some of the Santos ones

reminds me of when MTG was first elected and it was discovered she had a "sex guru" who was tracked down and interviewed and one of the things he said was "I thought I knew her pretty well, she was not like this at all". Madison Cawthorn has maybe a similar story. I know a lot of people were worried that we were gonna wind up with a lot of Trump-like figures in politics post 2016 but I think the reality is we're getting a bunch of Omarosas

The wife of a good friend of mine went to high school with Marge Taylor (as she was then known). Her recollection is that she was "completely unremarkable."

There was a good article in the Atlantic about how all of these reactionary movements around the world (the author focused on Poland, but it was applicable to most of them) are really giving an opportunity for revenge to the utter mediocrities of the world.

I actually know very little about Santos' politics, the myth has greatly overshadowed any policy leanings.. is he trumpy?

I'm thrilled to be joined on the Science Committee by my Republican colleague Dr. George Santos, winner of not only the Nobel Prize, but also the Fields Medal - the top prize in Mathematics - for his groundbreaking work with imaginary numbers. https://t.co/RJQ7eP8n8x

— Congressman Bill Foster (@RepBillFoster) January 20, 2023

ok I'm actually starting to come around on this guy

I know everyone is talking about how George Santos wrote a fake wiki that said he appeared on Hannah Montana, but I’m obsessed with his alleged movie that starred three of the actors from Batman and Robin. pic.twitter.com/x7ugThowYA

— Collin Murr (@CollinMurr) January 21, 2023

Surprised no one has made the obvious connection between George Santos and George Soros.

this is like some Tim Heidegger shit

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If his politics weren't toxic and harmful (just by association) I would be enjoying the lolz more. It would be a comedy gold mine.

a real movie, with a completely different cast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Invasion_(film)

I think Santos is a perfect culmination of the Trump years, specifically w/r/t how the US blithely assumed "checks and balances" would protect us from bad-faith actors but, it turned out, were often useless because it didn't account for a group in power becoming craven evil-doers--I assume due to some naïve belief in the American people not electing such folks, or something. ("The system will regulate itself.")

Despite Santo being entirely fictional, he's sitting there in Congress, with no consequences beyond embarrassment, because the only check involves getting his fellow craven evil-doers to voluntarily give up a bit of power by expelling him.

naïve belief in the American people not electing such folks, or something

Reading backwards, recently, I realize I had something like this naïve belief circa 2015.

It's not that I believed the American people to be good (in a moral sense) or serious (in an intellectual sense). Nor was it that I believed institutions and norms would save us. After all, I sit (and type) on Virginian soil that has soaked up plenty of blood from 400+ years of fundamental disagreements about institutions and norms.

It's more that I underestimated humans' capacity to have adolescent nihilism last into adulthood.

The old right wing was cravenly evil, but at least it wore the trappings of an ideological foundation. It made claims to a higher purpose, albeit misguided and disingenuous.

This new stuff (Trump, Boebert, MTG, Santos, Crenshaw, Gaetz, Hawley) is just a middle finger in the air. Owning the libs uber alles.

The old right wing was cravenly evil, but at least it wore the trappings of an ideological foundation. It made claims to a higher purpose, albeit misguided and disingenuous.

I go back and forth about this, and was thinking about it recently after reading a recent Nixon biography. Was it preferable when right-wingers presented themselves like respectable politicians who paid lip service to things like civil rights or tolerating dissent by keeping their hatred coded, even when we knew they were bullshitting? Or is it "better" that the mask is off and there's no pretense about being anything aside from what they are, i.e., hateful shitheads?

it definitely seems to be better in terms of electing Democrats. on the other hand we are fighting a culture war about fuckable M&Ms right now

It's a dileM&Ma.

_The old right wing was cravenly evil, but at least it wore the trappings of an ideological foundation. It made claims to a higher purpose, albeit misguided and disingenuous._


I go back and forth about this, and was thinking about it recently after reading a recent Nixon biography. Was it preferable when right-wingers presented themselves like respectable politicians who paid lip service to things like civil rights or tolerating dissent by keeping their hatred coded, even when we knew they were bullshitting? Or is it "better" that the mask is off and there's no pretense about being anything aside from what they are, i.e., hateful shitheads?

It's a dileminema. Will the real George Santos please stand up?... Are we going to have a problem here?... y'all act like you've never seen a gay republican before...

Yeah I think on balance it’s probably a bad thing. Do we get an anti vaxx/pro horse drugs movement without Trump?

Frogbs, you say "horse drugs" like that's a bad thing

It was definitely preferable when they kept their hatred coded. The rise in hate crimes against all kinds of marginalized people is proof that letting it out of the bag has been downright awful.

They used to sell souvenirs from lynchings in this country.

Not really sure what your point is there, unperson— I, too, know the history of lynchings and racism in the US, and it is pretty demonstrable that those times never ended, but certainly became less absolutely pervasive when vocal, outspoken racism was considered uncouth at best and career-ending at worse for politicians. In recent years, it’s become normalized in ways that it hasn’t been for years, and you can see the results of that normalization of discourse.

i agree with table

outward displays of hate and racism seem to also be contagious.

xxxpost yeah, there was this naive belief not even that long ago that racists would wear the label as a badge of honor, and anybody who couched their hate in dog whistles and coded language in an attempt to shift the center of the debate (see: "argument to moderation" fallacy) to greater normalize what kind of hate is acceptable...was a small minority. which is why lots of well-meaning but hella naive people thought this shit was a thing of the past.

we saw troubling signs before Trump of people who were starting to feel a wee bit more comfortable saying things that would not have flown a decade earlier and not receive the same level of punishment that would normally be meted out. You had the New Hampshire Police Commissioner proudly call Obama the n-word and press actually gave this piece of shit way too much attention beyond the "old white racist cop is racist, house should be set on fire, back to sports and weather" treatment it deserved. The Bundys militantly usurping land that wasn't theirs, obtaining a platform to say horribly racist shit that got national press coverage, and also desecrate Native American land, and having this seen as a valid, harmless 'first Amendment protest' by the jury. Geraldo Rivera stated that Trayvon Martin was wearing "thug wear" (a fucking HOODIE) and that was why he got shot, and nothing material happened to his career.

all this shit bubbling up and then these assholes miraculously get an Islamophobic, white supremacist President, and finally make them feel comfortable saying how they really felt and jut amplify the targets on people's back. idk that this wouldn't have happened years later if Trump hadn't gotten elected, but lord did he accelerate it.

even David Duke couldn't have done for racism what Trump managed in office.

“If the candidate’s personal wealth wasn’t the source of the loan, then what was?” he asked. “The only other permissible source would be a bank, and they would require collateral… If a bank wasn’t the source… the only alternatives are illegal sources.” https://t.co/7t4FeQe5pO

— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) January 25, 2023

He had a rich uncle no one knew about

He was in a movie "“startting Uma Turman," he's got loads of dough.

resiidualls

this is a classic ILX thread title in that I already automatically think of it anytime I see his name

this is like when you're pumping gas and you want the meter to land on exactly $40... he just ordered very carefully.

The vast majority of congressional campaigns never recorded a single disbursement of $199, just below the level requiring preservation of receipts.

Santos reported 40 of them... Those included eight charges of exactly $199.99 at an Italian restaurant in Queens and another $199.99 charge at a Miami-area hotel where rooms do not usually go for less than $600 per night

In fact, his campaign accounted for roughly half of all expenses by all campaigns that cost exactly $199.99 — a statistical improbability.

I think about this thread title several times per day

Those included eight charges of exactly $199.99 at an Italian restaurant

A bottle of red, a bottle of white

All depends upon your appetite

Meet me any time you're inclined

To spend exactly $199.99

omg

maybe it's a prix fixe menu

Probably, but for me it's more fun to think about the actual animals.

I can’t get past “I’m so happy the management at Arby’s allowed you to come to work in your fursona”

tho now that i think of it octobeaver does as well, nvm

i wonder what octomom is up to these days anyway

Does the octobeaver have eight legs or eight tails or a mix thereof? Inquiring minds want to know.

https://abcnews.go.com/amp/GMA/Wellness/octomom-nadya-suleman-shares-inspiring-gym-selfie-after/story?id=100452691

i'm envisioning more of a pantycthulu

aw, she seems to be doing well!

lol okay the Beavapus thing was a prank from the Jimmy Kimmel show

...and there is now evidently a legal dispute about whether a TV prank constitutes commercial vs. personal use, which changes the Cameo pricing structure.

https://1984fortheloveofpopsgreatestyear.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/larry-blackmon.jpg

I think Santos might actually be right on this! I think they've shown weird Cameos before from guys like Scaramucci but when it's requested specifically to generate content for the show, yeah I think that's probably commercial use

must be some teeth to the dispute too, despite claiming he had a bunch of these on Monday that they'd show throughout the week they haven't done any since

leaning way too hard into this villain shit now. dude had an impressive run but he's basically just a more successful version of Scaramucci. feel like he's got about 2 weeks of this quasi-fame left

Ziwe: What can we do to get you to go away?
George Santos: Stop inviting me to your gigs.
Ziwe: The lesson is to stop inviting you places?
George Santos: But you can’t cuz people want the content.pic.twitter.com/Osz05aw9qL

— philip lewis (@Phil_Lewis_) December 18, 2023

Santos on the money, though.

https://media1.tenor.com/m/fm_6VT9WhgAAAAAC/its-true-but-he-shouldnt-say-it-marge-simpson.gif

i just want to see him dance and then he can go away

lol, didn't even see the clip yet but i see ziwe asked about that! it's the question america is asking

Dancing With The Frauds

my friends: https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/other/ousted-george-santos-continues-cameo-appearances-with-new-christmas-themed-videos-santos-claus-is-coming-to-town/ar-AA1lHGSt

https://www.axios.com/2024/03/23/house-republicans-chaos-majority-motion-vacate

headline good: Republicans livid as chaos threatens to cannibalize House majority

final paragraph better: “Amid Friday's chaos, disgraced former Rep. George Santos announced he's leaving the Republican Party to run for Congress in New York as an independent — saying the GOP was too embarrassing.”

chaos-muppet undefeated