i saw mommy kissing santos (george)

what do you mean? you'd crucify your king?

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.

he's done no wrong
no, not the slightest thing!

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.

twink henry kissinger vibe

today truly one of the days that this board is showing how excellent it can still be, been laughing all day tbh

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.

Have you tried googling Robert Zimmerman's own pseudonym?

Rob Dylan?

the answer my friend

The Santos, my friend, is blowin' in the wind.

Agh!

lyin' in the wind, surely.

I was so much Devolder then; I'm younger than that now

^ I'm pretty proud of that one tbh

I don’t blame you, the pickings are rich.

“twink Kissinger vibe” is hilariously uncanny, can’t stop myself from (partly) stealing it

Santos is my Congressperson. I voted for one of the more progressive candidates because Zimmerman seemed like a total DNC hack.

thanks PBKR

Sorry :(

Otoh, I don't think Santos will finish his term.

Thread title is already a Bob Dylan pun in the heart

Santos in the Heart

"You hurt the ones that I love best
And cover up the truth with lies.
One day you'll be in the ditch
Flies buzzin' around your eyes--
Blood on your saddle."

https://i.redd.it/v0uk3kknpdz41.jpg

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

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

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

- 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

in a way i'm gonna miss Santos

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 "

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

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

ha ha Santos' staff must be thinking about how to scrub this job from their resumes

SCOOP: George Santos told some potential donors he was a producer on the Broadway Spider-Man Musical. Turns out, that wasn't the case.https://t.co/3DeXL4vf63

— Laura Davison (@laurapdavison) February 3, 2023

this guy is incredible

Turn off the dark

he'll get a reality show & a book deal out of all this

omg i finally realized who he really looks like - tobey maguire

he didn't produce Spider-Man, he was IN it.

but why would you take credit for a notorious failure, goddammit he is so bad at being insane it's practically genius

"hey, remember that space shuttle that blew up?" *snaps suspenders* "yeah, that was me. make yr checks out to devolder holdings, inc"

or fuck, wait, maybe that's the point. "government is bad, put me in and i'll destroy that rascally government once and for all!" and the oligarchs are like finally, someone who gets it

i heard it was george santos' idea to automatically put the U2 album on everyone's phone. that's how he met bono and got the spiderman production gig

what that’s crazy he wrote that album and performed every instrument

yeah, his performances were powerful on that album

Santos / Devolder ‘24
Even Better Than The Real Thing

even ignoring everything else about this guy...the crewneck sweater under the suit is such an odd look.

Santos bloody santos

Did I disappoint you
Or leave a bad taste in your mouth

We're George, but we're not the same

https://www.thedailybeast.com/is-george-santos-now-trying-to-hide-his-spotify

This article, reporting on digging through George's sad Spotify playlists that he transparently denies are his, may be the low point in my compulsion to click on any news story involving George Santos. Still maybe the most entertaining hot mess in politics since Rob Ford.

https://img.thedailybeast.com/image/upload/c_crop,d_placeholder_euli9k,h_2118,w_3177,x_0,y_0/dpr_1.5/c_limit,w_690/fl_lossy,q_auto/GettyImages-1454458322_lyw4h2