sorry, that's from here: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/santosmentum-78-of-constituents-say-he-should-resign
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:22 (one year ago) link
i think george santos has earned the benefit of the doubt and deserves a seven thousandth chance
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:24 (one year ago) link
dude really needs to start some gas stove culture war shit right now, that's his only way out of this
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:33 (one year ago) link
I mean I'm kind of curious what exactly it is Republican voters don't like about him. I mean I guess we all know what it really is but is this guy really more dishonest than the guy they all wish was president right now?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 18:38 (one year ago) link
nobody tells george santos what to do!
In a chaotic scrum, Rep. George Santos told me “Nobody tells me to do anything I made the decision on my own that I thought best represented the interest of the voters.”I asked if he made the decision on his own or if it was a request of Speaker McCarthy pic.twitter.com/CBTRR8Pitu— Rachel Scott (@rachelvscott) January 31, 2023
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:41 (one year ago) link
Owww
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 19:54 (one year ago) link
On of the weirdest things about Santos is how much he always seems to be loving it, just bare supressing a shit-eating grin in that scrum. He reminds me of John Early's character in Search Party.
― Brio2, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
yeah he's an untrammeled chaos-beast: the garbage is home to him, he thrives in it, it gives him strength
(his tactical advisor vish burra also)
― mark s, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 20:34 (one year ago) link
anything he says can be interpreted several ways
Santos: In New York’s third congressional district, we are seeing an uptick in crime pic.twitter.com/ZKLeew5qIV— Acyn (@Acyn) January 31, 2023
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:22 (one year ago) link
is that an assault rifle on his lapel??
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:26 (one year ago) link
He doesn't strike me as an avid outdoorsman
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:27 (one year ago) link
It's because he was on the Olympic biathlon team.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 23:28 (one year ago) link
assault rifle is for outdoorsmen now? that’s the first step to a well-armed milishawndra my drag queen name which I don’t use at home with my ex — well, I am not much for the ladies but my rental properties were doing well until an airport went up and the plane taking off from that whooo let me tell you about my mom in finance 9/11 was a hell of a day and the next thing you know it’s over a decade later and she dies of hey have you ever done couch surfing?
― mh, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 03:43 (one year ago) link
I just finished that show and this is now how I will permanently see Santos, so thank you for this. In light of this committee news, particularly thinking about that monologue where he announces to his editor that he's had an epiphany that he simply doesn't like work, and will no longer be doing it.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 16:55 (one year ago) link
I, too, appreciate this comparison
― mh, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:41 (one year ago) link
Yes, very apt. Not the least reason being that Early's character (while hilarious) was a deeply terrible human being.
― Beautiful Bean Footage Fetishist (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
Santos could barely keep his shit together while being interviewed on a friendly outlet (OAN.) The interviewer was giving him an easy out "People don't feel like you've made a sincere apology yet" and he just went off into "I have. I've done it three times. What is sincere anyway? How do you if I'm being sincere or not?"
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 17:56 (one year ago) link
What is "truth"? Webster defines it, as, among other things, "the property of being in accord with fact or reality". but what is a "fact"? webster defines it as "something that has actual existence". but what do those words mean? *john early face*
― Karl Malone, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 18:51 (one year ago) link
what do you mean? you'd crucify your king?
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:00 (one year ago) link
is that the interview where he basically said "yeah I lied about a lot, but if I hadn't I probably would have lost, so what matters is I'm not gonna lie anymore"? hard to imagine a worse response than that.
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:02 (one year ago) link
he's done no wrongno, not the slightest thing!
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 19:03 (one year ago) link
I'm permanently creeped out by his "twink Henry Kissinger" vibe.Also I think the Rs like him as a test balloon for blatant liars in the post-consequence era.
― assert (matttkkkk), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 22:29 (one year ago) link
twink henry kissinger vibe
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
today truly one of the days that this board is showing how excellent it can still be, been laughing all day tbh
― Goose Bigelow, Fowl Gigolo (the table is the table), Wednesday, 1 February 2023 23:07 (one year ago) link
i've been waiting for some kind of article about the guy who lost to santos, robert zimmerman. as recently as a few weeks ago, there was no wikipedia photo for him, and it just seemed like he was an anonymous DNC shill who expected to coast to victory and lost to a guy who was not only lying about everything, but who had been exposed for lying about everything by a local conservative newspaper. the DNC and zimmerman didn't notice, i guess, or didn't bother to highlight it.
here's one!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2023/02/01/robert-zimmerman-george-santos/
PORT WASHINGTON, N.Y. — The man who lost to George Santos looks like a winner. Chin up. Good humor. Clean-shaven, sparkly-eyed. Navy suit, flag pin, walnut-hued wingtips. Robert P. Zimmerman has dreamed for 40 years of being a congressman, and so Robert P. Zimmerman is still acting like a candidate, even as his would-be constituents greet him with a sympathetic tilt of the head, as if to say: I’m sorry for our loss.“How are you?” two members of the local school board asked him, with near-simultaneous bereavement.“Holding my head high!” Zimmerman replied, undefeated by defeat, as they walked into a luncheon Friday hosted by the League of Women Voters of Port Washington-Manhasset.“As you should!” the women said.In a banquet hall of fake flowers and real Rolexes, Zimmerman worked the luncheon as if his congressional race never ended, as if he didn’t lose by more than seven percentage points to a man who appears to be a bamboozling cipher and who has become — even by the putrid standards of Trump-era politics — a national embarrassment. Zimmerman, lifelong dream shunted to a near-term crusade, hustled around the clubhouse of the Harbor Links Golf Course.“We’re going to get him out of office,” he told retired women wearing chunky necklaces, taking their crinkled hands in solemn fortitude.He greeted library officials and town supervisors with the same pledge: “We’ll get him out of office.”Isma Chaudhry, co-chair of the Islamic Center of Long Island’s board of trustees, breezed toward Zimmerman with words of affection and thanks.“But I’m losing hope,” she said. “I’m getting exhausted.”“We’re gonna get him out,” Zimmerman said, repeating his oath of officelessness.One campaign is over, and another has begun: an urgent mutiny against a sitting congressman, led partly by his vanquished opponent. The residents of New York’s 3rd Congressional District, a 30-minute train ride from Manhattan, are pissed. They’re affluent and educated, by and large, and they got took. They feel empowered by a unifying rage; they feel powerless from the lack of speedy redress. Santos has refused to surrender, despite a cascade of alleged lies and deceptions and legal and ethics investigations.“Trust me: No one’s more frustrated than me,” Zimmerman says. “There are a few times I shouted into my pillow: ‘Why didn’t this come out earlier?’”...At the Stop & Shop in Bay Terrace, Zimmerman joined citizens in collecting signatures for a letter asking McCarthy to expel Santos for his “lies, deceit, and likely fraud.” Wearing only a suit jacket in the 40-degree air, Zimmerman intercepted shoppers as they exited the store. Bayside resident Dan Cruz said he voted for Santos, called it a “big mistake,” and signed Zimmerman’s sheet.“We’re gonna turn it around,” Zimmerman told him.“We’re gonna pull through,” Zimmerman told the next person who walked out.“We’re gonna make it happen,” Zimmerman told the next person.
“How are you?” two members of the local school board asked him, with near-simultaneous bereavement.
“Holding my head high!” Zimmerman replied, undefeated by defeat, as they walked into a luncheon Friday hosted by the League of Women Voters of Port Washington-Manhasset.
“As you should!” the women said.
In a banquet hall of fake flowers and real Rolexes, Zimmerman worked the luncheon as if his congressional race never ended, as if he didn’t lose by more than seven percentage points to a man who appears to be a bamboozling cipher and who has become — even by the putrid standards of Trump-era politics — a national embarrassment. Zimmerman, lifelong dream shunted to a near-term crusade, hustled around the clubhouse of the Harbor Links Golf Course.
“We’re going to get him out of office,” he told retired women wearing chunky necklaces, taking their crinkled hands in solemn fortitude.
He greeted library officials and town supervisors with the same pledge: “We’ll get him out of office.”
Isma Chaudhry, co-chair of the Islamic Center of Long Island’s board of trustees, breezed toward Zimmerman with words of affection and thanks.
“But I’m losing hope,” she said. “I’m getting exhausted.”
“We’re gonna get him out,” Zimmerman said, repeating his oath of officelessness.
One campaign is over, and another has begun: an urgent mutiny against a sitting congressman, led partly by his vanquished opponent. The residents of New York’s 3rd Congressional District, a 30-minute train ride from Manhattan, are pissed. They’re affluent and educated, by and large, and they got took. They feel empowered by a unifying rage; they feel powerless from the lack of speedy redress. Santos has refused to surrender, despite a cascade of alleged lies and deceptions and legal and ethics investigations.
“Trust me: No one’s more frustrated than me,” Zimmerman says. “There are a few times I shouted into my pillow: ‘Why didn’t this come out earlier?’”
...At the Stop & Shop in Bay Terrace, Zimmerman joined citizens in collecting signatures for a letter asking McCarthy to expel Santos for his “lies, deceit, and likely fraud.” Wearing only a suit jacket in the 40-degree air, Zimmerman intercepted shoppers as they exited the store. Bayside resident Dan Cruz said he voted for Santos, called it a “big mistake,” and signed Zimmerman’s sheet.
“We’re gonna turn it around,” Zimmerman told him.
“We’re gonna pull through,” Zimmerman told the next person who walked out.
“We’re gonna make it happen,” Zimmerman told the next person.
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 2 February 2023 01:35 (one year ago) link
Have you tried googling Robert Zimmerman's own pseudonym?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 February 2023 01:50 (one year ago) link
Rob Dylan?
― StanM, Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:03 (one year ago) link
the answer my friend
― I HAVE NO IDEA HOW THE DIAPER GOT LOOSE (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
The Santos, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:09 (one year ago) link
Agh!
lyin' in the wind, surely.
― nickn, Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:09 (one year ago) link
I was so much Devolder then; I'm younger than that now
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:12 (one year ago) link
^ I'm pretty proud of that one tbh
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:17 (one year ago) link
I don’t blame you, the pickings are rich. “twink Kissinger vibe” is hilariously uncanny, can’t stop myself from (partly) stealing it
― i saw mommy kissing twink henry kissinger (breastcrawl), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:33 (one year ago) link
Santos is my Congressperson. I voted for one of the more progressive candidates because Zimmerman seemed like a total DNC hack.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:43 (one year ago) link
thanks PBKR
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:46 (one year ago) link
Sorry :(
Otoh, I don't think Santos will finish his term.
― Unfairport Convention (PBKR), Thursday, 2 February 2023 02:50 (one year ago) link
Thread title is already a Bob Dylan pun in the heart
― Cinta Kaz is comin' to town (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 2 February 2023 06:06 (one year ago) link
Santos in the Heart
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 February 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
"You hurt the ones that I love bestAnd cover up the truth with lies.One day you'll be in the ditchFlies buzzin' around your eyes--Blood on your saddle."
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:47 (one year ago) link
https://i.redd.it/v0uk3kknpdz41.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 2 February 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
Lol at George Santos’s face lighting up when someone asked him about Drag Race. pic.twitter.com/CifCY0JTLY— Sawyer Hackett (@SawyerHackett) January 28, 2023
― sault bae (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 February 2023 15:18 (one year ago) link
Kinda trivial piece here about how yes, Santos is a loon; no, most people don't care.
Gift link = https://wapo.st/3HVBgW4
I would not be surprised if the data presented here were accurate - only media and political junkies care about this inside baseball stuff, all politicians lie, etc. - but there is something flippant about the tone, as if to say "no one cares, nothin' to see, move along."
Thing is, MSM outlets' following this story is already seen as hypocrisy / bias by the right.
If wapo / nyt go even more Full Santos, in the hopes of telling people to care more, it gives that argument ammunition, and inevitable backlash
― forbidden fruit salad (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 3 February 2023 01:15 (one year ago) link
Congress is full of kooks, he's just a little more out there right now... I imagine most Americans neither know nor care about him
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 3 February 2023 01:23 (one year ago) link
- Santos fires a staffer, claiming the staffer's past made him untrustworthy. - As he does so, Santos jokes that the staffer might secretly record him.- The staffer says he would never do that.- He, apparently, did.- We got the recording. https://t.co/47hS6OKzGf— John Light (@LightTweeting) February 3, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 February 2023 02:11 (one year ago) link
in a way i'm gonna miss Santos
― Karl Malone, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:18 (one year ago) link
i've barely listening to that 25 minute recording, but in my very first random skip to the middle of it, santos starts talking about how he used to be a journalist, "hopes
"so they charged me with passing out a recording that they knew was illegal. here's the thing the thing - the supreme court of the united states - i was journalist at the time...i'm coming over here...and i hope that doesn't go anywhere... but anyway, the supreme court had ruled that journalists are allowed to publish things. so let's say charlie gets really mad at you and he goes to the wall street journal and gives them a bunch of information..."
someone in the room makes the incredibly smarmy joke "i have an NDA for 3 years...that i WILL hold you accountable too" *smarmy laughter, very fake, long* "...I love this kid!"
Santos laughs along, without realizing or caring that he's the butt of the joke, and continues to speak about whatever he's talking about with 100% confidence
then the person he's talking to mentions that he has a NDA "
― Karl Malone, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:48 (one year ago) link
sorry, extra words scattered throughout that post. i'm just trying to say that he's getting owned by his underlings, who ALSO suck, and he doesn't seem to care
― Karl Malone, Friday, 3 February 2023 02:49 (one year ago) link
mark s I wish to say that your thoughts on george santos are very delightful to me and merit publication, in a slim volume, maybe a limited edition with a nice tactile cover bearing the title THE GARBAGE IS HOME TO HIM
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 3 February 2023 02:51 (one year ago) link
ha ha Santos' staff must be thinking about how to scrub this job from their resumes
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Friday, 3 February 2023 14:39 (one year ago) link