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[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks….." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already…." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy." ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage", ">\n\nIs that full blown makeup he’s wearing?" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage", ">\n\nIs that full blown makeup he’s wearing?", ">\n\nWho does his makeup? It’s fabulous!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage", ">\n\nIs that full blown makeup he’s wearing?", ">\n\nWho does his makeup? It’s fabulous!", ">\n\nSeeing his name everywhere keeps reminding me of Jane the Virgin and “ The Passions of Santos”" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage", ">\n\nIs that full blown makeup he’s wearing?", ">\n\nWho does his makeup? It’s fabulous!", ">\n\nSeeing his name everywhere keeps reminding me of Jane the Virgin and “ The Passions of Santos”", ">\n\nIs it still wrong for men to wear makeup in public? Or has that been normalized. Cause if not… holy hell. Otherwise, go George!!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage", ">\n\nIs that full blown makeup he’s wearing?", ">\n\nWho does his makeup? It’s fabulous!", ">\n\nSeeing his name everywhere keeps reminding me of Jane the Virgin and “ The Passions of Santos”", ">\n\nIs it still wrong for men to wear makeup in public? Or has that been normalized. Cause if not… holy hell. Otherwise, go George!!", ">\n\nwho the fuck cares about this asshole, i want to see dems impeach the republican speaker each week, only one is needed!" ]

[ "That’s no way to treat a man who signed the Declaration of Independence.", ">\n\non the moon", ">\n\nWith COVID", ">\n\nBut it was needed so that all vaccines could be made from his blood.", ">\n\nWhich is also a map.", ">\n\nTo El Dorado.", ">\n\nAnd the fountain of youth.", ">\n\nWhere JFK Jr (still) lives.", ">\n\nThis should be a no-brainer. It shows how brazenly depraved the GQP has become.", ">\n\nExactly. If they were going to do something they would have weeks ago.", ">\n\nIt's kind of wild to think this guy's lies make Herschel Walker's lies look innocent in comparison.", ">\n\nThe difference being that it’s not too much of a stretch to believe that Walker actually thought everything he said was the truth.", ">\n\nI mean pathological liars do believe what they’re saying is some form of truth", ">\n\nCorrect. As a result, people in general become exhausted with them and stop correcting them because it’s so obvious they’re lying and it’s tiresome. This allows a pathological liar to make even more absurd claims because they believe they are getting away with it.", ">\n\nWhat pressure?\n\nIn his most extensive comments on the Santos controversy yet, Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters on Wednesday that the New York Republican “will continue to serve,” noting that voters elected him to be their representative. The newly minted leader also said Santos is “innocent until proven guilty” — a notion that was echoed by other GOP lawmakers. \n\nFrom the article itself. \nThe GOP protects their own, even rapists and pedophiles whilst the Dem's actively throw their own out at the mere hint. \nAlways makes me laugh when people try to claim \"Both sides\".", ">\n\nWhy are you just ignoring the article's coverage of all the Republicans calling on him to resign? That's the pressure they're talking about, obviously.", ">\n\nLip service", ">\n\nYuuuuuuup.\nThis information about him has been out for weeks. It comes out this week that someone from his campaign staff pretended to be from McCarthy's team, drifting some wealthy donor out of their money. And only now is when his own party starts to call for his resignation. Unfortunately McCarthy needs his vote so badly, he won't even entertain the idea of removing him.\nThese people stand for nothing.", ">\n\nPeople seem to be misunderstanding the timing. The investigation into Santos came out on December 19. You're already practically in the holidays. Then came the Speaker fight. The call to resign would have gotten drowned out.\nThis week is the best time to call for his resignation because it's the #1 story. It won't get drowned out. And the Republican Steering Committee is deciding committee assignments now. You can even see the meticulous timing in what day they chose to do this, not on Monday because Monday is a travel day for members. Everyone who has anything to do with Congress knows to stay away from Mondays and Fridays if they want to get anything done.", ">\n\nThis tracks. I hadn't thought to criticize the state representatives for not calling him out and now I don't really have a reason to criticize them.\nI doubt I agree with their politics, but at least I can respect them for calling on Santos to resign, as any politician should. I would even respect McCarthy a tiny bit if he called on him to resign. But, McCarthy doesn't give a damn about anything but power, so, yea.", ">\n\nCaucus leaders like McCarthy have to be judicious. They really need to limit their calls to what they can actually affect with their power because, when Santos ignores the call of the Speaker to resign, it would just strengthen Santos and weaken McCarthy", ">\n\nChecking r/Conservative paints a pretty clear picture of what the right-wing thinks.\nWhile there's plenty of people there who feel like Santos is bad news the prevailing stance is that as long as he votes along party lines they should keep him until they can primary and replace him with another Republican.\nThe GOP propaganda is working. Their voters believe the Democrats are destroying the USA and will accept anything as long as it prevents the Democrats gaining more power.", ">\n\n\nThe GOP propaganda is working.\n\nOn susceptible, weak-minded people who fear the other, absolutely it's working.\nOn everyone else, no.\nThese people are loud, but they ARE a minority in this country. We've proven they can be beaten (easily I might add) when they're actually taken to task over the shit they say.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t say easily. Herschel Walker only lost by a < 3% margin. And in large sparsely populated areas, where most of the congressional power comes from, they are often the local majority and it’s a huge uphill battle. They only need to pick slightly more believable liars to win.", ">\n\nTheir craven need for power will ensure they do nothing about this piece of shit.\nKeep him there imo. He’ll do far more damage to the GOP that way", ">\n\nThe guy lied about being gay, lied about being Jewish, lied about his political history, and even went as far as to lie about his own mother dying on 9 freakin' 11.\nThat right there should've ended his career, but hey, at least he's not a stinkin' lib amirite ya'll?\nYou know damn well when he got caught and explained himself, he thought he was the most clever person in history... smug bastard.", ">\n\nHey hey hey, he said he was “Jew-ish,” not Jewish. \nAnyone who fell for that shouldn’t be allowed to vote.", ">\n\nLet me take a wild guess what's going to happen..\n\n\nThe GOP will condemn Santos publicly so they can look like they're doing the right thing.\n\n\nThey'll do nothing because they need a rubber stamp for their policies.\n\n\nSantos gets reelected in 2024.", ">\n\nHe won the 2024 election already, he said so himself.", ">\n\nI heard he ran for President and won in 2028", ">\n\nDoes he have lip filler or is it me", ">\n\nNope, looks like he's had too much filler and seems to be wearing a lot of foundation.", ">\n\nIf Santos goes to jail, Trump could end up in the slammer as well.\nThey have to draw aline.", ">\n\nPerhaps, but if they don't want to set an American precedent by jailing a crooked politician, they could extradite Santos to Brazil. Nowhere to extradite Trump so they give him a thumbs up and stick their heads in holes that may or may not be holes in the sand, and/or each other's assholes.", ">\n\nSeriously, what pressure? \nIt's not like anything will happen to any of the House GOP if they don't punish Santos.", ">\n\nThe founder of lip collagen injections will not be happy.", ">\n\nEven his face looks like a fraud", ">\n\nI cannot stand looking at his face", ">\n\nThe failure to punish Santos would make the GOP look much weaker than many sports organizations that punished people who lied about their resumes/backgrounds. John Spano landed in prison for being a fraudster when he tried to buy the NY Islanders. The Blue Jays and Notre Dame football both fired Tim Johnson and George O’Leary after the two organizations realized they lied about their pasts.", ">\n\n\nlook much weaker\n\nThey don't give a fuck how weak they \"look.\" It's the number of votes they get to keep away from Democrats.", ">\n\nI wonder what shade of lipstick he’s wearing 🤔", ">\n\nPunish? That’s a strange choice of words. If you get caught stealing, then giving the rightful owner back what you stole is not “punishment.” Punishment is a separate matter where you are fined or incarcerated, but returning the stolen car to its owner is NOT punishment. Whether he is punished is a legal matter to be decided elsewhere. The voters of his district are made whole by removing him from congress today by whatever means necessary, and that has absolutely zero to do with punishing him. He admits he is in possession of something he stole through actions that he admitted were fraudulent, and we’re saying that the GOP ought to force the return of the stolen thing.\nWords matter and for some reason we are uncomfortable saying that “making something right by fixing it” and “then also being punished for it” are two separate things. I feel like there is often a very deliberate tendency to conflate the two.", ">\n\nReally good post.\nPast that I'll just note that he was not the one elected, a fictional character he portrayed was the one elected. And that's a dangerous precedent, if expulsion is not the appropriate remedy then how does our society discourage such behavior?", ">\n\nPeople are focused on what an embarrassment to himself and rupublicans he is but I think his election demonstrates what a complete failure the competing candidate was, what a complete failure the new york democratic party was (that's where the house was lost) and what a complete failure the media was in vetting clients. Everybody involved should be ashamed for their actions or lack of actions in creating this situation.\nThe people who voted for him were lied to by Santos, misinformed by his opponent who didn't talk about it, misinformed by the media who didn't cover it and its a shame because many of them would not have voted for this liar had they only known the truth about his lack of qualifications.\nThe House GOP will not do anything about him because a) they don't really care about lies and b) the numbers are too close to let them pretend they care about lies", ">\n\nHas there been a more spineless speaker than Kevin McCarthy? Dem leadership holds their members to such a high standard, while there seems to be no limit to what the GOP will allow.", ">\n\nIf any of us lied that hard on our resumes we’d be fired. I’d like at least that standard for members of Congress.", ">\n\nWith McCarthy set to continue his perpetual cowardice, I’m just thankful this isn’t a Senate seat and is “only” a two-year term.", ">\n\nThey won't and we all know it.\nThis is the same game played by the media and we all know they won't do anything.", ">\n\nNo actually there is no pressure and it's not mounting. Would be nice, but it's not.", ">\n\nWhat a shining example of a Republican!", ">\n\nAre you kidding they are probably high-fiving him in private and calling him a hero", ">\n\nSantos is another R vote over the Dems' minority. He's not getting punished.", ">\n\nLook this way ,,, don’t look that way !!! \nHe was funded through dark money and ended up in his position to get elected by buying it. He sent money to down ballot races. Nassau county GOP loved the money that was coming in. \nNow that the spotlight is focused on his campaign finances the county officials that took that cash are gonna act like they were “ blind sided “ by this “ con man “ who lied about being Jew-ish “ \nTrust me people ... if there is ever an old boys corrupt political machine , it is Nassau county. Doesn’t matter if democrat or republican , scandal after scandal. Always a shit show. \nThe craven press conference yesterday made me puke in my mouth a little bit. They know their goose is cooked ... yet AGAIN !! So they are getting in front of this with a huge media campaign to make sure voters and residents focus on their “ patsy “ \nA gay Spanish so called conservative politician ... the perfect patsy. No die hard WASP is going to give two shits if the GOP drives a fleet of buses over Santos. In fact ... they will volunteer to push him in the street. \nThis is no defense of Santos .. the man is a lying idiot and they knew it. \nThey are all responsible for this dumpster fire.", ">\n\nHahah, we expect the “gop” to take responsibility for something? Hahahah", ">\n\nNothing about the GOP shocks me, so it wouldn’t be shocking if they didn’t consider this saga to be embarrassing and a black eye to the party.", ">\n\nHere’s a thought - how about the ACTUAL POLICE arrest him because he’s a criminal?", ">\n\nSantos is a test for the GOP. Do they have any morals, values, or character? Or are they rotten to the core, corrupt beyond repair? I think we all know the answer.", ">\n\nIs there no recall process that his constituents can vote on?", ">\n\nI'm just being petty but he has fish lips", ">\n\nHe invented lipstick", ">\n\nHe looks like a villain in a Bond movie, the discount kind.", ">\n\nNY District is livid. I can't think of anyone who has pissed off and united voters and nonvoters against them in less time.", ">\n\nI’d be fired from my job and could be fined/sued if it became known that I lied about having a degree and the rest of my resume history.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup? And are his lips fake? No shame to men who do wear makeup but his looks blended weird", ">\n\nI’ve been trying to figure that out myself… he looks “off” but I can’t put my finger on what it is. He’s just a walking uncanny valley.", ">\n\nOk thank you!!! I’m like pretty sure his lips are done and his skin is almost too one toned to not be foundation. Like his skin has texture but not discoloration", ">\n\n\"Bad dog! Take this committee assignments as a punishment.\"", ">\n\nHe looks like Antonio Banderas as Armand in that photo", ">\n\nOkay, time to bring out Hunter’s laptop again. They will all be easily distracted.", ">\n\nPot Kettle Trump Santos....", ">\n\nWeird how much makeup this dude is wearing, I guess it's just part of the deception.", ">\n\nThey’ll go after ~~Rep.~~ ~~Sen.~~ ~~government employee~~ private citizen Hunter Biden, first. /s", ">\n\nNot gonna happen. They desperately need his vote. To be sure, he is a common idiot. Unable to understand even the most simple things in life. But, he is also a savant grifter. He will wrangle his way into the seat that the republicans desperately need. Hitler himself would not be kicked out of that seat. And that is the sad state of the republican party.", ">\n\nI blame the voters", ">\n\nHilarious. He is the model for future GQP candidates. He has even surpassed Trump on showing just how stupid their voters are.", ">\n\nExpungement would be the appropriate punishment in my opinion.", ">\n\nIt’s so stupid to expect that the House GOP will take meaningful action against a member with such a slim majority. Such an idle wish", ">\n\nPunish him, by having him fight Santos.", ">\n\nHey what he meant was his mom WOULD have died in 9-11 if he had not been there to catch her fall, with one hand, that fateful day. Easy to see how that could get confusing!", ">\n\nJust like his party he has no ethical principles whatsoever. Lies without feeling anything and doesn’t care.", ">\n\nArt Vandelay !", ">\n\nThe GOP is not going to do anything. It seems being a republican, you can do anything you want and not get any kind of punishment", ">\n\nNo. The GOP feel no pressure. They’ve achieved full self-una-were-ness.", ">\n\npunishment implies he's made some error and needs to make amends to the body.\nThat is not the case. He does not belong in that body at all. he must be expelled.\nThe voters voted for a fictional person. The man they elected is not this man. He does not belong there.", ">\n\nThe man is a total fraud and has no place the US Congress.", ">\n\nBecause it’s making them look bad. When it starts making the GOP look bad. Like a former wheel chair guy who talked about: “orgies and Coke parties” with pictures that were not photoshopped. The GOP turned on him ASAP.", ">\n\nPunish? Try remove.", ">\n\nI find it odd how the gop, after such abysmal midterms, doesnt step back and take a look at how they are doung biz and ask why their constituency is leaving the party or voting dem. Absolutely no self-awareness", ">\n\nHe looks like such a little prick.", ">\n\nThey're conflicted. Whenever you're supposed to punish someone for obvious misconduct, they feel tempted to make them the next Presidential nominee or leader of their party instead.", ">\n\nThis guy can vacate McCarthy’s Speaker chair with a single motion at anytime, and the only way to get out of such a mess would be for one of the never-Kevin’s to vote for Kevin.\nNothing will be done, he’ll be normalized by this GOP.", ">\n\nDamn this man has some DSL for real", ">\n\nLip filler. So gross!", ">\n\nI don’t know why people think pressure and shame matter to people who are shameless to begin with. Barring him going to jail or being extradited, they won’t even take up the matter, let alone do anything about it.", ">\n\nI never noticed how much filler and make up he uses until this pic.", ">\n\nThis is hilarious. Why would they do that? The standards have been set.", ">\n\nI’m so sick of the defense “I was elected…” A fictional person was elected.", ">\n\nWhy’s my dude wearing lipstick?", ">\n\nMcCarthy needs the vote but I wonder if this guy cracks…..", ">\n\nThey won’t punish someone who fits in with them lol", ">\n\nPlot twist in 2 weeks he’ll just lie and say he was punished already….", ">\n\nHis lips look like they could explode from the lies or his plastic surgeon.", ">\n\nIdk about y’all but if my boss backed me up like the speaker I’d be more down to ride for him.", ">\n\nI have a hard enough time trusting women w lip filler.", ">\n\nGeorge Santos? Piful!\nRepubs are too interested in Hunter Biden's penis on his laptop to be interested in Santos, or inflation, or national security, or anything trivial like that.\nRight Repubs?", ">\n\nThe one thing he doesn’t have to lie about on his resume is having super pouty lips.", ">\n\nIt is highly likely that we are stuck with this class of idiots for the next two years. Unless this dude gets prosecuted and put in prison, he’s there for the rest of the term.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nThat they need pressure to get rid of him, says all we need to know about the republican party.", ">\n\nHow is he still employed? He lied about virtually everything in his life, including education, work experience, religion etc. Any other job in the world and he’s be fired, or even charged for fraud.", ">\n\nI totally trust the Republicans will do the right thing. Don't they always?", ">\n\nPunish? Oust!", ">\n\nhe has lip injections", ">\n\nHey guys I'm from the future or something.\nNothing ever gets done, just a slap on the old wrist verbally.", ">\n\nPunish him?! Doug, kick him off the tour!", ">\n\nThat’s like asking them to punish Putin. Oh wait…", ">\n\nDid he get lip injections?", ">\n\nIs that lipstick ?", ">\n\nStarting to sound like they hired another scape goat!", ">\n\nPunish? Fuck that. Throw this shitbag OUT.", ">\n\nThey won’t punish him; they secretly admire him. He and Jan 6 insurrectionists are Republican goals.", ">\n\nThe reaction to him is pure entertainment.", ">\n\nGirlie, if you’re going to paint, don’t forget your ears!", ">\n\nThis clown shot his lips full of botox, didn’t he?", ">\n\nBro got lip fillers?", ">\n\nI think he got into a fight with a Dyson.", ">\n\nHe’s Pinocchio, but his lips gets bigger instead of nose.", ">\n\nHis makeup and lip fillers look great.", ">\n\n+1", ">\n\nI love that after all the crimes and basic lack of morality shown by the GOP the one thing that finally broke the camels back....the one thing that they will absolutely not allow....is lying on your resume.", ">\n\nIs he wearing makeup?", ">\n\nHe’s wearing a literal mask to hide his true identity.", ">\n\nSmart!", ">\n\nLike they punished Trump for trying to overthrow Democracy?", ">\n\nThis is what republicans stand for.", ">\n\nFake news. This is to make it sound like there’s a debate to hold someone accountable. They’ll back him 100%", ">\n\nDude looks like a duck", ">\n\nWalks like a duck, talks like a duck, claims to be an elephant.", ">\n\nHe looks like he wears makeup as Trump does", ">\n\nPunish? Kick his ass out of office", ">\n\nWhat pressure? The gop never give into holding their own accountable", ">\n\nThey want the GOP to punish Santos for lying…isn’t this comical consider all the other liars that make up the GOP!", ">\n\nThat foundation… good god man.", ">\n\nIf they were smart, they’d kick him out, and demonstrate that they’re willing to make the hard decisions.", ">\n\nHow is the kind of fucking fraud even legal. That’s the real question. The idea that we have to wait for the gop or anyone to do anything about this is fucking terrifying. No one knows this guy and he’s receiving national security clearances, he’s a national security threat at the moment.", ">\n\nIs that lip filler. This motherfucker has LIP FILLER", ">\n\nI’m glad someone else sees it too.", ">\n\nI understand why the GOP doesn’t want to throw him out, every vote counts in a tight majority. But, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee. Just let him sit in the back and vote the party line for the next 2 years", ">\n\n\nBut, I’d make sure he doesn’t sit on a single committee\n\nThat's already a done deal for \"top committees\". But they haven't ruled out \"panels.\"\nI think the real revelation will come once they uncover the source of that $705,000. He does not want to divulge it, which makes him automatically guilty in the eyes of many. My guess is that once that source is revealed, which I expect to be a chocking event, we might see a near-unanimous expulsion of this guy.", ">\n\nHow much makeup is this idiot wearing here?", ">\n\nSantos should resign as soon as Elizabeth Warren resigns for falsely claiming to be of Native American heritage", ">\n\nIs that full blown makeup he’s wearing?", ">\n\nWho does his makeup? It’s fabulous!", ">\n\nSeeing his name everywhere keeps reminding me of Jane the Virgin and “ The Passions of Santos”", ">\n\nIs it still wrong for men to wear makeup in public? Or has that been normalized. Cause if not… holy hell. Otherwise, go George!!", ">\n\nwho the fuck cares about this asshole, i want to see dems impeach the republican speaker each week, only one is needed!", ">\n\nthe next note will say:\nBut after we investigated the situation we have decided no action is required." ]

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[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\"." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it.", ">\n\nExactly this. If you want to kill someone because they did something God doesn't like, then why not let God deal with them? He might be able to do worse if he is really mad." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it.", ">\n\nExactly this. If you want to kill someone because they did something God doesn't like, then why not let God deal with them? He might be able to do worse if he is really mad.", ">\n\nOnly long enough for the din to lower. Then ….it’s on again." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it.", ">\n\nExactly this. If you want to kill someone because they did something God doesn't like, then why not let God deal with them? He might be able to do worse if he is really mad.", ">\n\nOnly long enough for the din to lower. Then ….it’s on again.", ">\n\nI just seen this in the world news. I heard they both were tortured for a long time, then they were given documents they had to sign that said they were guilty." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it.", ">\n\nExactly this. If you want to kill someone because they did something God doesn't like, then why not let God deal with them? He might be able to do worse if he is really mad.", ">\n\nOnly long enough for the din to lower. Then ….it’s on again.", ">\n\nI just seen this in the world news. I heard they both were tortured for a long time, then they were given documents they had to sign that said they were guilty.", ">\n\nThe people need weapons." ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it.", ">\n\nExactly this. If you want to kill someone because they did something God doesn't like, then why not let God deal with them? He might be able to do worse if he is really mad.", ">\n\nOnly long enough for the din to lower. Then ….it’s on again.", ">\n\nI just seen this in the world news. I heard they both were tortured for a long time, then they were given documents they had to sign that said they were guilty.", ">\n\nThe people need weapons.", ">\n\nSo the people in power can stay in power for a few more hours" ]

[ "after holding only one hearing, on the charge of \"waging war against God.\"\n\nMan, that is such a bullshit charge", ">\n\nDid God show up in the courtroom to speak on their behalf of this story?", ">\n\nThe father of the 22 year old karate champion that the regime champion recently went to the judge and begged him to change his decision as his son was innocent. The judge just responded with “Are you asking me to overturn gods judgement?!”\nThey went ahead and hanged him along with a 39 year volunteer martial arts coach who taught poor kids.\nI don’t think there are words in the English language for me to describe my hatred for the Iranian regime.", ">\n\nThey will eventually fall, and then their precious god is gonna do jack shit to save them. Clock is ticking on them.\nOr so we can hope", ">\n\nMight have to wait until whatever the Muslim version of judgement day is", ">\n\nIt may not be much, but if the people can force them to change a decision, that means there's blood in the water. It shows the regime is not all powerful and protests and riots and civil action works.", ">\n\nThis is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 76%. (I'm a bot)\n\n\nThe Supreme Court of the Islamic Republic of Iran has stayed the execution of a convicted 19-year-old protester, local media report, after his supporters held a rally outside the prison where he was being held.\n\"The execution of Mohammad Baroghani, who was arrested and sentenced to death during the recent protests, has been stayed,\" the semiofficial Mehr news agency reported on January 11.\nThe protest movement was met with a bloody crackdown by security forces in which more than 500 people have been killed and over 18,000 arrested, according to activists.\n\n\nExtended Summary | FAQ | Feedback | Top keywords: protest^#1 death^#2 execution^#3 people^#4 Iran^#5", ">\n\n\"stayed\" as in deferred? The people need to take action against all known leaders and henchmen . The morality police have raped and killed, at will for too many years. They deserve the drop floors, not the protesters.", ">\n\nI'd piss down the open throat of whatever fucked God is cool with this shit.", ">\n\nA golden god..?\n^sorry", ">\n\nThat's one out of, what, thousands now? \nI sincerely hope every single one of the backwards savages who run Iran die of colon cancer.", ">\n\nThe Iranian regime seems so very determined to murder their own people. It is appalling.", ">\n\nWhat does he “stayed a protest” mean?", ">\n\nThe execution has been put on hold", ">\n\nThey should just call it \"suspended\". \"Stayed\" sounds like training a dog.", ">\n\nI am kinda disgusted with myself that I seem immune to all this at this point", ">\n\nI think the word you're looking for is \"numb\".", ">\n\nOr “desensitized”", ">\n\nI'm glad the execution was stayed. \nNow, free him. \nIf God has an issue, let God take care of it.", ">\n\nExactly this. If you want to kill someone because they did something God doesn't like, then why not let God deal with them? He might be able to do worse if he is really mad.", ">\n\nOnly long enough for the din to lower. Then ….it’s on again.", ">\n\nI just seen this in the world news. I heard they both were tortured for a long time, then they were given documents they had to sign that said they were guilty.", ">\n\nThe people need weapons.", ">\n\nSo the people in power can stay in power for a few more hours", ">\n\nAll of these stories coming out of Iran are so sad. I wish that people didn't have to die for change." ]

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[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!" ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?" ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not" ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not", ">\n\nNothing's illegal if the \"justice\" system decides they like your particular brand of evil." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not", ">\n\nNothing's illegal if the \"justice\" system decides they like your particular brand of evil.", ">\n\nExactly. Laws only exist as they are enforced. The shit on paper is worthless." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not", ">\n\nNothing's illegal if the \"justice\" system decides they like your particular brand of evil.", ">\n\nExactly. Laws only exist as they are enforced. The shit on paper is worthless.", ">\n\nDo we have the name of the person who intentionally moved the camera to protect their coworkers from murder charges?" ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not", ">\n\nNothing's illegal if the \"justice\" system decides they like your particular brand of evil.", ">\n\nExactly. Laws only exist as they are enforced. The shit on paper is worthless.", ">\n\nDo we have the name of the person who intentionally moved the camera to protect their coworkers from murder charges?", ">\n\nWe do know they are still employed by the hospital. Apparently that's not a fireable offense! \nI would not be surprised to hear those 3 guards were raping people in comas in the hospital. That guard was quick to move the camera, they've done it before." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not", ">\n\nNothing's illegal if the \"justice\" system decides they like your particular brand of evil.", ">\n\nExactly. Laws only exist as they are enforced. The shit on paper is worthless.", ">\n\nDo we have the name of the person who intentionally moved the camera to protect their coworkers from murder charges?", ">\n\nWe do know they are still employed by the hospital. Apparently that's not a fireable offense! \nI would not be surprised to hear those 3 guards were raping people in comas in the hospital. That guard was quick to move the camera, they've done it before.", ">\n\nWow, this is messed up. How does a family not get even with these criminals when their justice system refuses to look at the evidence? This is State protected murder." ]

[ "Thrown out for not enough evidence. Video evidence would have shown the act, but a guard admitted to turning the security camera to face the other way right before the event happened. Guard still has his job.\nWow.", ">\n\nan absolute disgrace. There was no reason for them to restrain her, they started the confrontation. They murdered her and got away with it and no one cares. No one cares, no one is even attempting to do anything.\nTo anyone reading: It is going to happen to you or someone you care about and no one will care then either. If that doesn't scare you, we are very different people.", ">\n\nI wouldn’t have lied if I had known there was video that shows I was lying!", ">\n\nThat’s the most damning evidence against them IMO.", ">\n\n\"Later on, Mr. Hutley began sobbing and admitted he had not been truthful in the report, saying 'I'm sorry. I would have never said the things I said in there if I knew there was a video,'\"\nHow...is openly commiting perjury not illegal?", ">\n\nThe worst part is that the judge didn’t even want a trial, let alone being guilty or not", ">\n\nNothing's illegal if the \"justice\" system decides they like your particular brand of evil.", ">\n\nExactly. Laws only exist as they are enforced. The shit on paper is worthless.", ">\n\nDo we have the name of the person who intentionally moved the camera to protect their coworkers from murder charges?", ">\n\nWe do know they are still employed by the hospital. Apparently that's not a fireable offense! \nI would not be surprised to hear those 3 guards were raping people in comas in the hospital. That guard was quick to move the camera, they've done it before.", ">\n\nWow, this is messed up. How does a family not get even with these criminals when their justice system refuses to look at the evidence? This is State protected murder.", ">\n\nThe justice system did look at the evidence and decided there wasn't enough to warrant going to trial for the charges given." ]